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Longevity science, tech, and policy lightning talks!

Hosted by Dan Elton
Registration
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About Event

​Anyone working on or researching longevity science, tech, or policy is welcome to speak!

​Schedule:

​6:30 - 7:00 room setup (come early to hang out)
7:00 - event kick off - each person gives a 10-15 minute talk + Q&A
~8 - 9 - networking and socializing

​Sponsored by the Metascience Observatory and Mind First Foundation.

​If you are interested in speaking, contact Dan Elton by emailing dan @ metascienceobservatory dot org.

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​Confirmed speakers so far:

​Gennady Stolyarov II is an actuary and essayist who serves as Chair of The United States Transhumanist Party. He regularly produces YouTube Videos and runs weekly "Virtual Enlightenment Salons" discussing life extension, politics, philosophy, and related subjects. In 2013 he published Death is Wrong, an ambitious children’s book on life extension.

​Preston Estep, PhD is Founder and Chief Scientist of the Radvac project, an innovative biosecurity nonprofit based on Waltham, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University, where he was advised by George Church. Dr. Estep has been a co-founder and advisor to many startup companies and nonprofits across the frontiers of genetics, longevity, and AI.

​Dan Elton, PhD is founder of the Metascience Observatory, a non-profit focused on improving rigor and reproducibility in science. The Metascience Observatory is developing tooling for enabling AI to audit the data, calculations, and images of scientific papers at scale. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics in 2016 from Stony Brook University and was a staff scientist at NIH for four years, focusing on AI applications in medical imaging, healthcare, and genetics.

Location
Cambridge Community Center
5 Callender St, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Hosted By
7 Going