Longevity Month: ML biomarkers of aging and Life Extension startups

October is the International Longevity Month, a campaign we've been organizing worldwide since 2013. This traditional campaign has combined the activities of many organizations and individual activists working to promote research, development and application for healthy longevity around the world. (more info at http://longevityalliance.org/?q=organizing-longevity-month-campaign-october )

In this Bucharest meetup dedicated to Longevity Month:

• Anton Kulaga, bioinformatician and co-founder of International Longevity Alliance, will talk about longevity activism, biomarkers of aging and Machine Learning methods used to infer them
• Laurence Ion, tech entrepreneur and longevity advocate, will talk about the Rejuvenation Biotechnology industry, longevity startups, and VC funding

A primer as to why anti-aging biotech is the most important thing to work on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8

Also recommend Nick Bostrom's original Fable of the Dragon Tyrant: http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-fable-of-the-dragon-tyrant