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October 2010 Program
Friday, October 8, 2010
7:30-8:30 PM Registration
7:30-10:00 PM Schmoozing in Lobby Lounge; wear your badge so fellow attendees can find you.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
8:00 AM
Registration (breakfast on your own)
9:00 AM
Chairman’s Intro: Taking Personal Action to Slow Aging
Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute
Chairman, Personalized Life Extension 2010
9:25 AM
Measuring & Changing the State of Your Body
Larry Smarr, California Institute For Telecommunications and
Information Technology, A UCSD/UCI Partnership
10:00 AM
Keynote—Meaning From Numbers: The Quantified Self
Esther Dyson, Director, 23andme; Investor, Health 2.0 Startups
10:30 AM
Break
11:00 AM
Heart Rate Variability for Ubiquitous Quantification of Health and Wellness
Ramesh Rao, Professor, UCSD; Director, UCSD Division Of Calit2
11:20 AM
Keynote—Death: From Fact to Problem
Peter Thiel; President, Clarium; Co-Founder, Paypal;
Managing Partner, Founders Fund; Chairman, Thiel Foundation
11:50 AM
Finding A Life Extension Doctor
Sonia Arrison, Author & Policy Analyst On Radical Human Longevity
12:05 AM
Choosing Your Anti-Aging Advisors & Specialists
All-Speaker Discussion
12:15 PM
Topic-Based Lunch Discussions (Optional Event)
Or Lunch On Your Own
1:45 PM
Panel—Monitoring Your Body: Blood Testing & Beyond
2:15 PM
Longevity Supplements Via Evolutionary Genomics
Gregory Benford, Chairman, Genescient; Physics Professor; Awardwinning SF Author and Ben Goertzel, CTO Genescient
2:45 PM
A Diet for Health and Longevity. How Do We Get There?
Bruce Ames, Senior Scientist, CHORI; Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley; Founder, Juvenon; Inventor, Ames Test
3:15 PM
Break
3:45 PM
Selecting Supplements Using Integrative Biochemistry: Focus on the Aging Eye
Sheldon Hendler; Author, Physicians Desk Reference for Nutritional Supplements;
Clinical Professor, UCSD; Editor, Medicinal Food
4:15 PM
Panel—Designing Your Nutritional Supplement Plan
4:50 PM
Immediate Prospects for Indefinite Human Lifespans
Michael Rose, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC, Irvine & Genescient, LLC
5:30 PM
Session Ends
6:00 PM
Speaker & Sponsor Reception (Optional Event)
Sun., October 10, 2010 8:00 AM
Registration (breakfast on your own)
8:30 AM
How and Why to Influence Your Stem Cells, Stanislav Luban, UCSD Bioengineering Dept.
8:40 AM
What’s A Beautiful Mind, Anyway? Quantification and Optimization of Cognitive Functions, Yoni Donner. Stanford University, Cognitive hacker
9:00 AM
DNA Testing: Living Longer Via Personal Genomics
Melanie Swan, Principal, MS Futures Group; Hedge Fund Manager, and
Raymond McCauley, CTO & Founder, Exponential Biosciences
9:30 AM
Breakthrough Longevity Technologies: Stem Cells & More
Terry Grossman, MD; Founder, Grossman Wellness Center; Longevity physician & author
10:15 AM
Break
10:45 AM
How To Preserve Your Telomeres
Laura Briggs, Vice President R&D, Sierra Sciences
11:15 AM
Intermittent Fasting: Theory & Practice
Patri Friedman, Executive Director, Seasteading Institute; Health Hacker
11:30 AM
Panel—Exercise And Eating: The Inescapable Role Of
Moving Our Bodies & Controlling What Goes In Our Mouths
12:15 PM
Topic-Based Lunch Discussions (Optional Event)
Or Lunch On Your Own
1:45 PM
How to Analyze And Improve Your Sleep
Matt Bell, Entrepreneur, Health Hacker
2:00 PM
Stress Reduction Through Meditation And Yoga: Applying The Latest Research For Benefits Today
Kelly McGonigal, Health Psychologist, Stanford University
2:30 PM
Panel: Brain Health, Training & Enhancement
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Life Extension by Brute Force (and other means)
Greg Fahy, VP And CSO At 21st Century Medicine & Owner, Intervene Biomedical
4:00 PM
Interview: Testing, Supplements & Brain Protection
Steve Fowkes, CEO, Nanopolymer Systems; Former Director, Cognitive
Enhancement Research Institute
4:30 PM
Group Q&A With All Speakers Present
Chairman’s Wrap-Up
5:00 PM
Conference Ends
8:30 AM
8:40 AM