| Thursday November 10: Optional tour 1 North of Madrid
09.00 Departure Point at 9:00am in front of Restaurante Uval, Plaza República Argentina
13.00 Typical Spanish lunch with multiple Mediterranean menus and wines in historic Segovia restaurant
18.00 Return to Madrid
19.00 Optional quick free tour of El Prado (see The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch)
20.00 Optional group dinner
Friday November 11: Optional tour 2 South of Madrid
09.00 Departure Point at 9:00am in front of Restaurante Uval, Plaza República Argentina
13.00 Typical Spanish lunch with multiple Mediterranean menus and wines in historic Toledo restaurant.
18.00 Return to Madrid
19.00 Optional quick free tour of the Reina Sofia Museum (see Guernica by Picasso)
20.00 Optional group dinner
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Saturday November 12: First day of BFR training – Instituto Europeo: Calle de Joaquín Costa, 16, 28002, Madrid
09.30 Reception with coffee: People who flew this morning may arrive shortly before 10.00am
10.00 Official opening welcome presentation: Jose Cordeiro and Angel Niño Quesada
10.15 Introductory Panel: Ramón Tamames, Javier Cremades, Pedro Guillén, Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More
11.15 Scientific, Moral and Legal Biostasis 1: Jordi Sandalinas, David Pearce, Carlos Rodríguez Sau
12.00 Scientific, Moral and Legal Biostasis 2: David Wood, Paul Spiegel, Ignacio Vivanco
12.30 An Introduction to Human Cryopreservation and Biostasis First Response (BFR): Aschwin de Wolf
13.00 Indoors very basic BFR demonstration on a dummy: Aschwin de Wolf and Jacob Hoekstra (basic ice bath, Q&A)
14.30 Lunch and networking (1.5h): Arturo Delfines, Plaza de la República Argentina, 8, 28002 Madrid
16.00 Outdoors presentation: Jacob Hoekstra, advanced Biostasis Sciences ambulance from Amsterdam
16.45 Indoors display and demonstration on SST equipment: Jacob Hoekstra
17.45 Biostasis experts research panel: Natasha Vita-More, Ramón Risco, Aschwin de Wolf, Emil Kendziorra
19.00 First day closing remarks: Jose Cordeiro
20.00 Optional group dinner
Sunday November 13: Second day of BFR training – Instituto Europeo: Calle de Joaquín Costa, 16, 28002, Madrid
(starts with all equipment spread across multiple training tables, across the room)
09.30 Reception, coffee
10.00 Second day welcome: Manuel de la Peña and Fernando Herrero Acebes
10.15 Overview of the practical training topics by Aschwin de Wolf and Jacob Hoekstra
10.30 All participants spread in 3-5 hands-on training groups, across tables with different equipment (every 45 minutes the groups rotate among the tables)
13.30 Lunch and networking (1.5h): Arturo Delfines, Plaza de la República Argentina, 8, 28002 Madrid
15.00 Presentation by Aschwin de Wolf: Human Cryoprotection SST Technologies: A Historical Perspective
15.30 Presentation by Daniel Barranco and Ramon Risco: Cryoprotection R&D in Spain
16.00 Presentation by Ben Best: Brain preservation – Today’s approaches and their effectiveness
16.40 Presentation by Jordi Xicoy and Spanish funeral service compan?
17.00 Coffee break
17.30 Country developments panel: Sergio Tarrero, Taya Maki, Danila Medvedev, Peter Xing and others
18.30 Next steps and discussion: Selected speakers
19.00 Second day closing remarks: Jose Cordeiro
20.00 Optional group dinner |
