Hello BIL attendees,

Christine Peterson from the The Foresight Institute and founder of the Personalized Life Extension Conference has very kindly offered $100 discount to BILders that want to attend their conference. All BIL participants are cordially invited to extend their lives by attending the 2012 Personalized Life Extension Conference!

When: March 31, 2012 – April 1st, 2012

Please use the “BIL” discount code, or the following link, to get your $100 BIL discount: http://lifeext.eventbrite.com/?discount=BIL

Impressive results in anti-aging research mean that one day we may greatly
extend human lifespan — but most of these treatments won’t be widely
available for many years.

Fortunately, steady advances are being made on what each of us can do
NOW to slow the aging process to a minimum, and to delay or prevent the
diseases of aging.

Life extension news comes out almost daily — faster than any one of us
can evaluate it. Let’s join forces at this 2nd Personalized Life Extension
Conference and determine how to take personal action.

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The Singularity Summit is a Kindred Conference to the BIL Conference due to its similar focus, attendees, and powerful speakers.

Upgrade Your Brain

What will happen when and if greater-than-human intelligence is created, either by enhancing the human brain or building an artificial intelligence? Already, technological advances pave the way for further technological advances at an ever-accelerating rate; if intelligence itself could be brought to engineer still greater intelligence in a strong positive feedback loop, the consequences (for better or for worse) would be unimaginable. Author and computer scientist Vernor Vinge called such an event a “Singularity,” alluding to a breakdown in our model of the future, much as how ordinary physical assumptions fail to hold at the center of a black hole.

This August 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, experts in fields including animal intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfacing, tissue regeneration, computational neurobiology, augmented reality, and more, will share their latest research and explore its implications for the future of humanity in this era of explosive scientific and technological growth, at this preeminent conference on the topic, the Singularity Summit.

Speakers at the 2010 Summit include:

* Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of The Singularity is Near
* James Randi, scientific skeptic, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
* Dr. Irene Pepperberg, renowned animal cognition scientist
* Dr. Allan Snyder, director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney
* Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, neuroscientist who created mice with enhanced memory and spatial learning
* Dr. Steve Mann, augmented reality pioneer, “the world’s first cyborg”
* Dr. Ellen Heber-Katz, who studies the genetics and molecular biology of healing

Reserve your spot today at www.singularitysummit.com

• Press Release: http://www.singularitysummit.com/media
• Banners – you can download them here: http://www.singularitysummit.com/media/banners
• 4 by 6 postcards – will forward from another email (not at home right now:)). I can also mail them to your address to distribute in person. Can you send me your address and I will have them shipped to it soon.
• Regarding discounts, you can learn more about them here: https://www.singularitysummit.com/registration/ Also, if you can put together a group of 10 or more, we can come up with good discounts. Last year, we did x% off for x number of people (if you have 20 people, they will get 20% off in addition to other discounts, for instance)

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At the end of July will be a gathering similar to BIL in Berkeley called the Open Science Summit.

This summer, scientists, hackers, students, patients, and activists will convene to discuss the future of our science/technology paradigm. Topics include: Synthetic Biology, Gene Patents, Open Data, Open Access, Microfinance for Science, DIY science, DIY Biology, Alternative Funding for Science, Open Source Drugs, Patent Pools, Open Health/Medicine, Patient Advocacy for Innovation

Ready for a rapid, radical reboot of the global innovation system for a truly free and open 21st century knowledge economy? Join us at the first Open Science Summit, an attempt to gather all stakeholders who want to liberate our scientific and technological commons to enable an new era of decentralized, distributed innovation to solve humanity’s greatest challenges.

Sign up at EventBrite

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BIL: Santa Cruz 2010 will be on Saturday, May 1st, on the beautiful UC Santa Cruz campus. Our theme is a simple little goal,Innovative Solutions to Global Inequality. We humbly request your brain in order to save the world; together, we are a mad genius. Yours Truly,

-Nick Ernst, BIL:SC Organizer

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It’s been about 6 months since we’ve launched the new BIL Conference site to showcase the videos from past BILs.

Here’s the list of the ten most popular talks by traffic:

1. The Story of TOMS Shoes by Blake Mycoski (founder of TOMS)
2. Your Religion is False by Joel Grus
3. How To Do Cool Things Around the World by Alex Lightman
4. Teaching Kids to Code with Kodu by Lynn Langit
5. Open Source Architecture: From TED Prize to Reality by Cameron Sinclair
6. Rethinking the Modern GUI by Jayson Elliot
7. What’s Funny about the Interwebs by Ben Huh (CEO of I Can Has Cheezburger)
8. University of the Future by Alexandros Pagidas
9. Deep Learning for Artificial Intelligence by Joseph Turian
10. Demo: Brainwave Controlled iPhone App by Eric Gradman

If you enjoyed the talks, try and make it out to BIL 2010.

You can also subscribe to the Video RSS feed to get notified of the newest videos. We’re currently posting videos from BIL 2009 and BIL:PIL 2009.

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BIL PIL, the healthcare unconference occuring after TEDMED, starts tomorrow in San Diego. If you’re in the area, make sure you sign up on Eventbrite and then show up at 9am to San Diego State University.

If you aren’t able to make it, we’ll be live streaming the talks here: BIL PIL Live Stream

We’re also announcing BIL PIL 2010 will be in San Diego AND Boston next year. If you’d like to stay in the loop, go sign up at BIL PIL 2010.

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Over the past two years, BIL has grown rapidly. Many people have asked for BIL to be closer to them, and some have gone ahead and done it.

We’d like to shift the BIL site from focusing on just one BIL to supporting and encouraging all BILs, and make the ideas shared at those BILs more accessible.

I hope you like it, and please share with us any suggestions you have.

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