SCHEDULE FOR 2014 END DEATH CRYONICS CONVENTION (October 12, 2014 version)
"As long as we still have to die someday, the MAIN reason for living now should be to kill death." David Pizer
This is the place to learn the latest in Cryonics, Transhumanism, A. I., and EXTREME measures taking place now to end
death for humans as soon as possible. This is also the place for YOU to present your ideas at the Sunday Morning Round
Circle discussions.
THURSDAY EVENING Nov 6
For early arrivals:. If you are at the Riverside Resort on Thursday between 5 pm and 9 pm, come by the Starview Room
and register early and meet some other attendees and make new friends. This will be a very informal get together on
Thursday afternoon and evening as a lot of people check into the Riverside Resort on Thursday evening so as to be
ready Friday morning.
NOTE: ALL MEALS ARE IN THE STARVIEW ROOM AND ARE FOR CRYONICISTS AND THEIR GUESTS ONLY AND AT SPECIAL
LOW RATES.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7
8:00 am Starview room opens at 8 am and registration starts at 8am (if already pre-registered, pick up your badges,
meet others and visit the exhibition area. ) You are invited to come early and meet others and socialize.
8:30 am to 9:15 am BREAKFAST BUFFET is served for cryonicists in the Starview Room.
9:30 am WELCOME MESSAGE, ORIENTATION AND QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE.
10:00 am CAIRN IDUN: Director of the 'Asset Preservation Group; The Young Cryonicists Gathering – Teens & Twenties;
SWIVEL (Singles Week In Vegas for Extended Life); and Adoa (Automatic Dial-Out Alert) Pulse Monitor.
Title of presentation: OPTIMIZATION: WHAT YOU CAN DO TO OPTIMIZE YOUR CHANCES OF AN OPTIMAL CRYOPRESERVATION: T-3 – TIME, TEMPERATURE AND TECHNIQUE.
10:30 am DAVID KEKICH: President and CEO of the Maximum Life Foundation.
Title of presentation: DUCK THE DEWAR: A different kind of life-extension strategy.
11:00 am CHANA PHAEDRA:. (President of Advanced Neural Biosciences, Inc.)
Title of presentation: NEW RESEARCH AT ADVANCED NEURAL BIOSCIENCES, INC. Topics include long-term cold ischemia,
the effect of stabilization medications on cryopreservation, and whole brain cryopreservation.
11:30 am Jake McCurdy CRYONICS MOVIE PRESENTATION
NOON: Buffet lunch for cryoncists and their guests in Starview Room: (eat with and meet the speakers in person, and
other attendees, make new friends, visit the exhibition area).
1;00 PM JASON XU Community organizer for Terasem Silicon Valley. He has spent the past two years exploring all
eight major world religions and being a passionate advocate for Transhumanism.
Title of presentation: My experience as Terasem Center Coordinator at Florida, transhumanist as a salvation theology,
as well an overview of spiritual Transhumanism thought such as the writings of Tipler and Sri Aurobindo.
1:30 PETER VOSS Founder and CEO of Adaptive A.I. Inc
Title of presentation: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE: What is the current state of AI research? What
approaches are likely to achieve human-level thinking? By when? What are some of the risks and benefits? WHAT ARE
POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR CRYONICISTS?
2:00 pm Lincoln Cannon ( Cofounder and President of the Mormon Transhumanist Association)
Title of presentation: MORMON TRANSHUMANISM: Learn how the doctrine of one of America's fastest growing
churches is compatible with the goals of Transhumanism.
2:30 NATASHA VITA-MORE, PhD: Pioneering transhumanist and full professor at the University of Advancing
Technology, Tempe Arizona.
Title of presentation: THE MEMORY PROJECT: A TALK ABOUT DR. VITA-MORE'S RECENT RESEARCH.
3:00 Break
3:30 JOE KOWALSKY Director of the Cryonics Institute
Title of presentation: MAKE IT SO: Improving cryonics communications with the public.
4:00 BEN BEST Former CEO of the Cryonics Institute
VITAL SIGNS ALARM FOR CRYONICISTS: Sudden unattended death is one of the worst things that can happen to a
cryoncist to compromise getting a good suspension. Learn how to take advantage of the increasingly affordable
technologies which monitor your vital signs and send out alarms when you are in danger of imminent cardiac arrest.
4:30 MARK VOELKER PhD. Former Director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation.
Why Funding your suspension only with life insurance may not be the best option, and what your other options are.
5:00 Long Break for socializing, bar opens at 5:00,
6:00 to 7:00 Buffet Dinner Party (Bar is open)
7:00 pm DAVID PIZER President the Society for Venturism. Retired V.P. Treasurer and 11 year Director of the Alcor Life
Extension Foundation.
Title of presentation: WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR CRYONIC SUSPENSION
7:30 AARON DRAKE Medical Response Director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Title of presentation: PROGRESS IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF HYPOTHERMIA COULD MAKE THE MEDICAL
COMMUNITY MORE RECEPTIVE TO THE PRACTICE OF CRYONICS.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8
8:00 am Starview room opens at 8 am and late registration starts at 8 am Visit the exhibition area, meet other
cryonicists, Transhumanists.
8:30 am to 9:15 am buffet Breakfast is available in the Starview Room.
9:30 am R. MICHAEL PERRY PhD Alcor Patient Caretaker, Alcor Treasurer, Vice President of the Venturist Organization.
Title of presentation: RELIGION AND THE SCIENTIFIC QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY
10:00 am RUDI HOFFMAN Specialist in cryonics funding through life insurance
Title of presentation: Cryonics Funding in an inflationary Universe. The Affordable Immortalist Returns: Learn how
affordable a cryonics suspension can be by using life insurance as the funding mechanism.
10:30 am NEAL VANDEREE Officiator at the Church of Perpetual Life
Title of presentation: A Church for TRANSHUMANISTS: The Church of Perpetual Life.
11:0 0 am Jordan Sparks: Founder of Oregon Cryonics, a new cryonics company.
Title of presentation: A REGIONAL APPROACH TO CRYONICS
11:30 am John Harden CRYONICS MOVIE PRESENTATION
Noon to 1:00 Buffet lunch (eat, meet speakers and other attendees, make new friends, visit the exhibition area).
1:00 PM MARIA KONOVALENKO
Title of presentation: GENE ENGINEERING IS THE MOST POWERFUL EXISTING TOOL FOR LIFE EXTENSION. Mutations in
certain genes result in up to 10-fold increase in nematode lifespan and up to 2-fold increase in a mouse life
expectancy. GENE THERAPY represents a unique tool to transfer achievements of gene engineering into medicine. We
propose developing a gene therapy that will radically extend lifespan.
1:30 Catherine Baldwin Chief Operating Officer of Suspended Animation
Title of presentation: FUTURE CARE OF CRYONICS PATIENTS. An update on current "field stabilization" care and
discussion of on future directions of this kind of care for cryonics patients.
3:00 Mark Plus ........................................Secretary of the Society for Venturism
Title of presentation: DEATH AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! How Robert Ettinger predicted Transhumanism.
3:30 BREAK
4:00 David A. Ettinger. Son of Robert Ettinger, the founder of the cryonics movement).
Title of presentation: A LIFE IN CRYONICS: Learn what it was liketo grow up in the home where the father was the
founder of cryonics and one of the early, visionary Transhumanists.
5:00 to 6:00 Long break for socializing, talk in person to David Ettinger, bar opens at 5:00,
6:00 to 7:30 Buffet Dinner Party
7:30 Greg Fahy PhD
Title of presentation: A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION OF CRYONICS – The Fate of the Brain in Situ Under Ideal and
Nonideal Clinical Conditions.
8:30 Don Laughlin Film makers and audience question and interviews Mr. Laughlin on stage.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9
8:00 am Starview room opens time for socialization and visiting the exhibition area.
8:30 to 9:15 am buffet breakfast
9:15 Round circle discussion with input by all the attendees on how to make future conventions better and discussion
by all the attendees on how to make cryonics better, for instance: how to get more members to sign up for cryonics and
how to improve things in general. Bring and share your ideas as each attendee will have a chance to present ideas to
the group.
We intend to adjourn by 11:15 am and the convention will then be over.
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TO REGISTER for the convention: GO TO venturist.info
Note: ALL OUR MEALS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR REASONABLE PRICES IN OUR OWN STARVIEW ROOM. breakfast,
lunch, dinner, and evening cocktail hours = we have our own special no-smoking, giant room which holds everything,
the auditorium, the eating area, the exhibition area, rest rooms, the registration area and the socializing area.
Note: During the whole convention, there are table spaces available (free to every attendee), for each attendee to
bring relevant information to display to the group, offer handouts, sell related items, sell books and life extension art
work. There is no charge for free exhibition space.
SPECIAL THURSDAY EVENT IN LAS VEGAS: For those traveling to Laughlin through Vegas, there will be an open house
at the new cryonics underground house. You've got to see some unbelievable pictures of this place = just google the
search words: "famous underground house in Las Vegas." For info about the tour email Mark Voelker at
[email protected] for more details.