Vitalia Forever - Maximum Life Extension Summit 2025
FULL POPUP CITY EVENT DETAILS
Mark your calendars for January 6 to March 3, 2025, and join us in our Vitalia Roatan Hub—a tropical paradise island where the last gathering attracted 500+ people, including Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant, Patri Friedman, Aubrey de Grey, and Bryan Johnson.
Vitalia is located in the most exciting place in the world to accelerate frontier tech, Próspera ZEDE. In this pop-up city, you can find and collaborate with like-minded peers and learn from tech luminaries – while living in a vibrant community in a tropical paradise.
ℹ️ Full info here: vitalia.city/vitalia-forever2025
You need a Vitalia Access Pass to attend - Apply to purchase or renew (prices increase Oct 1, 2024): https://app.vitalia.city/apply
LONGEVITY BIOTECH THEME WEEK
This January 13 - 19 2025, the science, technology and business of longevity biotech is the key focus.
This event will delve into the groundbreaking advancements in longevity and rejuvenation biotechnology. This innovative and evolving domain focuses on enhancing human health and extending life by directly addressing the fundamental sources of diseases through aging intervention.
Programming
January 13 - 14: Arrival & Social Events
January 15 - 16: Self-Organised Events (add your own events to the decentralised calendar https://vitalia.sola.day/event/vitalia/schedule)
January 17 - 18: Maximum Life Extension Summit
January 19: Company Showcases & Pitches
Maximum Life Extension Summit
Speakers
Prof. Jay Olshansky is Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Chief Scientist at Lapetus Solutions, Inc. The focus of his research to date has been on estimates of the upper limits to human longevity, exploring the health and public policy implications associated with individual and population aging, forecasts of the size, survival, and age structure of the population, pursuit of the scientific means to slow aging in people (The Longevity Dividend).
Vadim Gladyshev is a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is known for his research on aging as well as for characterization of the full set of human selenoproteins.
Sebastian Brunemeier is a biotech VC and company builder focused on longevity & regenerative medicine. CEO of ImmuneAGE Bio, General Partner at Healthspan Capital, co-founder and CIO of Cambrian Biopharma, Founder & COO of Samsara Therapeutics. Geroscientist by training (Oxford/Scripps PhD dropout as Clarendon Scholar, MSc in Molecular Neuro & Biotech Business Management).
Jack Scannell is CEO of Etheros Pharmaceuticals which is developing fullerene-based chemistry in a range of neuroprotective and longevity applications. He coined the term “Eroom’s Law” to contrast the exponential decline in biopharmaceutical R&D productivity between 1950 and 2010 with the more familiar Moore’s Law, which described the exponential increase in computing power over a similar period.
Aubrey de Grey is the Founder of the LEV Foundation, author of Ending Aging, and the world’s most prominent proponent of rejuvenation biotech.
Andrew Steele is a scientist and author of Ageless: The new science of getting older without getting old, a book about the biology of ageing (and how we can use science to turn back the clock).
Anthony Schwartz, CEO of Artan Bio, head of BD at Primera Therapeutics.
Dr. Alex Plesa, Scientist I - Healthy Aging at the Wyss Institute at Harvard.
Dr. CoCo Headley, Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Cardiovascular Institute, known for his research focusing on aging-associated mitochondrial dysfunction and immunity.
Dr. Elena Sergeeva, associate at Wyss Institute at Harvard University, 2024 Foresight Fellow in the field of Longevity Biotech.
Eric Brimen, Chairman and CEO of NeWay Capital LLC’s subsidiary Honduras Próspera LLC.
Ivan Morgunov, founder of Longaevus Technologies.
Dr. Jonathan Gootenberg, co-PI of the Abudayyeh-Gootenberg, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and an Investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Kris Borer, CTO, CISO at MetLife Legal Plans.
Leo Ferreira, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina and the Hollings Cancer Center.
Dr. Max Unfried, longevity scientist at the esteemed Center for Healthy Longevity at the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Omar Abuddayyeh, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham’s Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, and faculty member with the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. He previously was a McGovern Fellow at MIT.
Dr. Ralf Spindler, Head of Neural Systems Cryopreservation at 21st Century Medicine.
Dr. Shahaf Peleg, Group leader at FBN and co-founder of Luminova Biotech.
Dr. Terence Kealey, professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. Adjunct Scholar at Cato Institute.
How do I attend?
Register for the pop-up city through this Luma invite
Buy/renew your Access Pass here: https://app.vitalia.city/apply
If selected, you will receive housing options inside the pop-up city
Book your stay.
You can join our announcements channel anytime to receive direct updates: t.me/+G6O2KIBa2-kxZDE5
Benefits of registering early (before December 1, 2024):
Highly preferred admissions process
Preference for selecting housing options
The $500 (instead of $1.000) Vitalia Access Pass
We hope to welcome you soon in the eternal city!
Apply for a Fellowship ($1000 discount on accommodation or free); while we give fellowships to a variety of people we’d like to involve, we give preference to startup founders & scientists.