Sunday 14th July

18:00 Meet & Greet/Icebreaker - The Somers Town Coffee House Pub, 60 Chalton St, NW1 1HS

Monday 15th July

9:00 Introduction

9:30 Tony Prave: The Neoproterozoic Dalradian Supergroup

10:15 Elias Rugen: The Garbh Eileach Formation and Earth’s descent into the Cryogenian

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Anthony Spencer: The Port Askaig Formation and seafloor geology in the Firth of Lorn

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Graham Shields: A Template for pre-Cryogenian time

14:00 Ying Zhou: A Cryogenian Subcommission update

14:15 Coffee Break

14:30 Heda Agic: Life through the Tonian-Cryogenian transition

15:00 Ross Anderson: Targeting exceptional preservation for crown eukaryotes in Tonian strata

15:30 Break out groups - What are the science goals of a potential drilling project?

16:30 Break out group round up

19:00 Dinner - The Jeremy Bentham Room, University College London

Tuesday 16th July

9:30 Introduction

10:00 Aivo Lepland: FAR-DEEP and GOE-DEEP: Lessons learnt from past and future deep time drilling projects

10:45 Coffee Break

11:00 Carol Dehler: The Upper Tonian and Lower Cryogenian of the Western US

12:00 Jarred Lloyd: The Tonian-Cryogenian interval in Australia and its ICDP potential

12:30 Jeremy Everest: Mission specific platform implementation & research with IODP

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Break out groups - drilling logistics & writing the foundations of a proposal

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Break out group round up and concluding remarks

18:30 Dinner - Chutneys, 124 Drummond St, NW1 2PA