Tarrytown 2010

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TUESDAY 27 July 2010

TIME TITLE

10:00 - 2:00

Registration

2:00

MEETING BEGINS

2:00 - 2:35

Welcome, Overview, Stage-Setters

2:35 - 3:50

GROUNDING OUR CONCERN: Why do we really care about technologies that can radically transform human biology?

4:05 - 5:20

SOCIETY AND POLITICS: In what ways does the advent of new human biotechnologies, and the need to adopt new policies, challenge conventional social and political worldviews and alignments?

5:20 - 6:00

Free time; pre-dinner refreshments

6:00 - 6:45

INTERGENERATIONAL CHALLENGES: How do different generations experience and engage the new human biotechnologies?

6:45

Dinner

WEDNESDAY 28 July 2010

TIME TITLE

7:30 - 9:00

Breakfast

9:00 - 9:40

Welcome, Reflections, Discussion

9:40 - 10:20

POLICY AND STRATEGY: What policies will ultimately be needed? What do we focus on in the near and middle term? What challenges and opportunities do we face?

10:30 - 12:00

Policy and Strategy: Breakout sessions

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30

Working Sessions 1

2:45 - 4:15

Working Sessions 2

4:15 - 6:15

Open time

6:15 - 7:45

Dinner and Dinner reflections

8:00

Special preview! Excerpts from the forthcoming Genomania: The Century of the Gene

THURSDAY 29 July 2010

TIME TITLE

7:00 - 8:45

Breakfast

8:45 - 10:15

Working Sessions 3

10:15 - 11:30

Open time

11:30 - 12:45

Concluding Session: Reports, plans, reflections

12:45

MEETING ENDS

12:45 - 1:30

Lunch (to-go lunches available)