

Nina Hartley Talk: Sexual Integrity: The North Star of Personal Growth and Healing

How can one be a sexual professional, healer, educator and entertainer while maintaining healthful boundaries? How can one be present to others and not become overwhelmed by their depthless need and suffering? How can one keep finding the energy to keep on this path despite all of the roadblocks?



Nina Hartley is a sexual pioneer and pleasure advocate as she discusses how she remains as committed to, and energized by, sex, sexuality and sexual expression thirty years into her career. Aubrey De Grey Talk: Title Aubrey De Grey is an English author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is perhaps best known for his view that human beings could, in theory, live to lifespans far in excess of that which any authenticated cases have lived to today. De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can thwart the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a tissue-repair strategy intended to rejuvenate the human body and allow an indefinite lifespan. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage. Maggie Mayhem Talk: Pinko Commie Porno Queers: How "Trade Shoots" are changing porn production. This talk is a down and dirty economic analysis of porn production focusing on the emerging model of independent porn producers cross collaborating and negotiating their way to more sustainable and sex positive porn. When it comes to our porn, what does sustainability and fair trade business practices look like? What changes when performers make the move from independent contractors to independent producers? How do all of these impact sex scene negotiation and the images we consume? Come and find out what happens when "pinko commie porno queers" collaborate together to make movies and change sexual worlds. Panel: What does it mean to be Kinky? Miss Maggie Mayhem is a sex hacker, writer, performer, and global human rights activist from Oakland, CA. She and her partner spend their free time engineering human arousal and orgasm monitoring devices and software, doing global disaster relief work, and making their own porn. You can find out more about Maggie at her blog, MissMaggieMayhem.com or the nearest place serving a proper bourbon. George Thomas Whitesides Talk: Title George Thomas Whitesides is CEO and President of Virgin Galactic, a firm developing commercial space vehicles. He was previously Chief of Staff of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a position to which he was named after serving on the NASA transition team for the Obama Administration. Loretta Whitesides Talk: Title Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides - With degrees in biology from Caltech and Stanford, Loretta has traveled with NASA to Haughton Crater in the Canadian Arctic to study plants in extreme environments, lectured at the International Space University and traveled two miles down to the bottom of the ocean with 'Avatar' director James Cameron to be in his 3D IMAX documentary 'Aliens of the Deep'. She currently serves as a Flight Director for ZERO-G, the weightless parabolic flight company and a consultant to the Virgin Oceanic deep sea diving project. Loretta, along with her husband George, is also the co-creator of Yuri's Night, an annual worldwide space celebration of space observed around April 12th in over 500 cities on all 7 continents. Loretta is passionate about inspiring the public with what is possible in space. Jaan Tallinn Talk: Title Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian programmer widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer engines of Kazaa and Skype. In addition to his activities at Skype, he is partner and cofounder of the development company called Bluemoon.



Jaan is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on P2P technologies and is often credited for helping to establish Estonia’s global reputation for world class software and engineering talent. As a result of Kazaa and Skype, he currently holds the world’s record for the largest number of software downloads at almost 500 million.



In 1989, he helped create Kosmonaut, the first Estonian computer game to be published outside his country. In 1996, he graduated from the University of Tartu with a BSc in Theoretical Physics. His thesis involved travelling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.

Doug Jones - XCOR Talk: Title Doug Jones is a co-founder of XCOR where he handles test design and analysis of test results for the company’s liquid rocket engine development as well as assisting in the development and operation of rocket engine test apparatus. At XCOR Doug is known as the Rocket Whisperer for his innate ability to detect minute anomalies in a propulsion system. Before joining XCOR, Doug was responsible for sizing the fluid injector elements in Rotary Rocket Company’s (RRC) rocket engine design. At RRC he coordinated the assembly, testing, and inspection of 5,000 lbf kerosene/LOX engines, as well as playing the leading role in interpreting test data to improve the designs. Prior to RRC, Doug designed, built, and tested a 400 lb thrust nitrous oxide/propane engine, its test facility, and a 300,000 cubic foot balloon system for Vela Technology. He is also experienced in analog and digital circuit design, and data acquisition systems. Doug flew multiple times as flight test engineer in the X-Racer. Erin Rapacki Talk: Title Erin Rapacki is a product storyteller with robotics experience across academia, entrepreneurship, and industry from both the Boston and Silicon Valley hotspots. Erin takes a vested interested in finding ways to catalyze the robotics market by creating community and cooperation between companies and thought leaders. She currently works at Adept Technology, Inc as the Product Marketing Manager for Mobile Robots, a product line of autonomous robots used for moving goods around production facilities, and is excited about instigating the exploration of new services business models that are now made viable with the availability small self-driving robotic platforms. Graham Hill Talk: Title Graham Hill isa twice TEDster, now BILder and a founder of TreeHugger, the $10,000 dollar blog. That he started, in 2004, at the age of 34 because he wanted to provide a comprehensive site motivated by the positive side of sustainablity. He is a Designpreneur and grew the site into one central hub for sustainability. He has his hands in the shareable lifestyle which has made contributions to the ThinBike concept like the Strida and especially the Life Editted concept He currently focuses on sustainable archetecture and has, managing his ceramic greek cup business and developing sustainable prototypes. Graham loves to travel and sports Divia Melwani Talk: Title Divia Melwani is a computer programmer turned entrepreneur and explorer of the human mind. She's tried reprogramming her mind with spaced repetition software, Internal Family Systems therapy, and rationality and can explain what she's learned doing it. She will be talking about using empathy to correct cognitive errors. Max More Talk: Max will give a fresh perspective on cryonics as a bridge to an indefinitely extended life. Dr. Max More is an internationally acclaimed strategic philosopher widely recognized for his thinking on the philosophical and cultural implications of emerging technologies. Max’s contributions include founding the philosophy of transhumanism, authoring the transhumanist philosophy of extropy, and co-founding Extropy Institute, an organization crucial in building the transhumanist movement since 1990. At the start of 2011, he became President and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organization. Over the past two decades, Max has been concerned that our escalating technological capabilities are racing far ahead of our standard ways of thinking about future possibilities. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach drawing on philosophy, economics, cognitive and social psychology, and management theory, Max developed a distinctive approach known as the “Proactionary Principle”—a tool for making smarter decisions about advanced technologies by minimizing the dangers of progress and maximizing the benefits.

Julia Galef Talk: How Rationality Can Save the World Julia Galef, based in New York, is a frequent speakers and columnist on rationalist topics. She serves on the board of directors of the New York City Skeptics and operates a bi-weekly podcast 'Rationally Speaking' along with Massimo Pigliucci. She has moderated panel discussions at conferences such as The Amazing Meeting, Skepticon, and the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism, and gives frequent public lectures to organizations including the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Student Alliance. Julia received her B.A. in statistics from Columbia in 2005, and after graduating spent several years as a research assistant for social science professors at Columbia, Harvard and MIT, including a year writing case studies on international economics for Harvard Business School.