Death sucks. Let's fight it.
Five days with the founders, scientists, and investors most serious about ending aging — the people who become your collaborators and cofounders.
Hands-on sessions and talks that take you to the frontier and up to speed on the real bottlenecks in longevity biotech.
Direct, candid time with experienced founders, scientists, and operators leading frontier workshops and building in the field.
It's all covered: three family-style meals a day, plus a room — private or shared (two per room), each with its own private bathroom.
Group fitness, hiking, and downtime in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains at 3,300 feet. Fresh air, big views, real rest.
A focus on starting high-impact ventures — companies, FROs, and ARPA-style moonshots that actually move the field.
The attendees and workshop leads confirmed for the eighth cohort — founders, scientists, and operators from across the field. Click any face for a short bio and links to their work.
+Co-Founder, Synthego
+CEO, Kind Bio
+Co-Founder & COO, BioAge Labs
+GP & Chief Investment Officer, LongGame
+Head of Neural Systems Cryopreservation, 21CM
+Author & Investor
+PhD Candidate, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
+VP of Research, LEV Foundation
+Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
+Coordinator, Longevity Education Hub
+Co-Founder & CSO, Dragonase
+Co-Founder & CEO, Open Longevity
+Unobio - AI for Biopharma
+Bioengineer, General Cybernetics
+AI for Science, Topos Bio
+Senior Computational Scientist, Cellular Intelligence
+Head of Strategy, LBF
+Head of Operations, LBF
+Co-Executive Director, LBF
+Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder, LBF
Replacing aged tissues and organs outright — engineered organs, bodyoids, progressive brain replacement, and whole-body replacement.
Cryopreservation, organ banking, and brain preservation to stop the clock and buy time.
Gene editing, synthetic biology, and the tools to rebuild biology at scale.
Foundation models and large-scale data generation, plus ML for aging clocks and target discovery — accelerating the whole pipeline.
Perched at 3,300 feet atop Pompey's Knob, Wildacres sits on more than 1,200 acres of mountain land near Mt. Mitchell and the Blue Ridge Parkway — quiet, simple beauty and sweeping ridgeline views. The kind of place where deep work and real relationships happen. Visit wildacres.org →
A working schedule for four nights at Wildacres: technical workshops, keynotes, focused discussion sessions, movement, meals, and evening socials with the LBF8 community.
Draft schedule for review. Session names, exact rooms, and workshop lead assignments are tentative and may change as availability and workshop fit are finalized.
