An immortalist, a Hollywood actor and a psychonaut walk into a conference. The non-punchline is that this conference is organized by a biohacker who quit working at NASA and then went on to inject himself with jellyfish DNA, then CRISPR, and then was investigated for practicing medicine without a license. These interesting individuals are part of the backdrop for Biohack The Planet, an annual event by biohacking company The Odin – which will be happening in Las Vegas.

This year’s speakers include Dr. Aubrey de Grey – the Chief Science Officer at SENS Research Foundation – who believes that the first person to live to 1000 years old has already been born, David Hewlett – known for playing Dr. Rodney McKay in the Stargate franchise, and Hamilton Morris – the host of Viceland’s psychonaut docuseries ‘Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia,’ who will be giving a self-taught guide to chemistry.

Other guest speakers at the event who are experts in their fields will be part of an engaging lineup that will cover a wide range of topics like cybernetic implants and aging as a disease, bio-cuisine and cultivating marijuana, biohacking Hollywood and science communication, bioart and bioactivism, bioeconomies and venture capital in biotechnology. Among this wonderfully eclectic lineup of speakers will be biohacker Anastasia Synn, the cyborg-magician who led a successful campaign in April to stop attempts by legislators to make voluntary microchipping of humans illegal.

In a year that saw the demise of the Bodyhacking Convention, a once popular biohacking event popularly known as BdyHax, BiohackThePlanet is on its fourth straight year and continues to show potential to become the top biohacking event in North America. Josiah Zayner, the founder and CEO of The Odin, promises fun, science, philosophy, drinks, and hopefully no ethics talks.

BiohackThePlanet 2019 will be a two day event happening on August the 31st and September the 1st.