International Longevity Policy and Governance Summit

Living longer, healthier and productively for global prosperity

Longevity International UK is proud to be launching the world’s first international, cross-border, cross-sector summit on International Longevity Policy and Governance as part of Longevity Forum’s Longevity Week 2019, bringing together world-leading policy experts, representatives of government bodies, departments, healthcare and finance ministries, executives of healthcare and financial corporations to discuss, network and collaborate on initiatives to promote international longevity development.

This half-day conference will look at the international response to harnessing the opportunities of an ageing demographic, and what lessons can be learned and shared across countries from a policy perspective – taking a whole society, cross sector, pan-government approach. There is a great diversity of responses by nations and regions to the global demographic shift. Longevity development efforts being executed by different government bodies in different countries will be the focus. Key lessons learned from Japan, Singapore, the Nordics, USA and UK will be discussed. We are also expecting high-profile representatives of the embassies of the top-5 longevity-progressive countries to be in attendance.

The opportunities for key industries will be discussed: wellness & health, housing, education, transport, food, pensions, entertainment and telecoms. Re-imagining home, towns, mobility and connectivity are all key themes. The role of business and a new ‘social contract’ with society will be explored. Members from the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity will be invited to present key findings from the consultation underway for the National Strategy for five extra years of healthy life expectancy by 2035 while closing the social gap.

The agenda is as follows:

9:00 - 9:15: Opening Address

Tina Woods and Eric Kihlstrom, Longevity International UK

9:15 - 10.00: The State of Play of Healthy Longevity in the UK. Panel discussion

Panel discussion on key questions:

• What is the purpose of the APPG and what are its objectives? What has been achieved to date?
• Why does longevity need to take its place alongside Brexit and Climate Change as key priorities for government and society?
• How can the UK lead the world in healthy longevity?

Panellists

• Chair: Tina Woods, Longevity International UK, Secretariat for All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
• Lord Geoff Filkin CBE, Strategic Advisory Board Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
• Dr Charles Alessi, Public Health Consultant, Public Health England, Chief Clinical Officer, HIMSS (International), Advisory Board, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
• Stephen Johnston, Co-Founder, Aging 2.0, Advisory Board, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
• John Godfrey, Corporate Affairs Director, Legal & General, Advisory Board, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity

10.00 - 10.15: International comparisons - Findings from Analytic Report Global Longevity Policy and Governance Landscape Overview. 50 Countries Big Data Comparative Analysis of Longevity Progressiveness

• Dmitry Kaminskiy, Aging Analytics Agency. Special analytical case study that uses big data analytics to provide tangible benchmarking of 50 nations’ levels of Healthy Longevity and their gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, and to formulate practical country-specific policy recommendations on how to optimize their National Healthy Longevity.

10:15 - 10:45: The Japanese Experience

Key question: How has Japan tackled the challenges of the ageing demographic and developed opportunities for living longer better?

• Professor, Kenji Shibuya, Institute for Population Health, Kings College London. Former Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo; Formerly with World Health Organization (WHO) as Chief of Health Policy, and currently serving as Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the WHO
• Mr Otani Soshi, Deputy Director, Healthcare Industries Division, METI, Japan

10:45 - 11:15: The USA Experience

Key question: How has the USA tackled the challenges of the ageing demographic and developed opportunities for living longer better?

• Ms Julia Randell-Khan, Consulting Fellow, New Map of Life, Center on Longevity, Stanford University
• Mr Mike Mansfield, Global Coalition on Aging, Aegon Center for Longevity and Retirement

11:15 - 11:30: Coffee Break

11:30 – 11:45: The Israeli experience

Key question: How does Israel’s policy towards innovation create a unique environment to support the longevity industry?

• Samuel Cronin, PhD, Healthcare Innovation Manager, UK Israel Tech Hub | British Embassy Israel

12:00 - 12:30: Mission-Driven Innovation & New Social Contract with Business

Panel discussion on key questions:

• What is the role of business in creating healthy work environments to increase productivity?
• How can we incentivise business to invest in products to benefit healthy life expectancy ((create health or avoid damaging health) and minimise health inequalities? Could this be a source of competitive advantage?
• How can business tackle ageism and support older workers?
• How we create a longevity industry that delivers the longevity dividend for all? Can we create a local ecosystem and marketplace to develop and scale market-led solutions for healthy longevity

Panellists

• Chair: John Godfrey, Corporate Affairs Director, Legal & General
• Dmitry Kaminskiy, Founder, Longevity.Capital
• Sergey Young, Founder, Longevity Vision Fund
• Yvonne Sonsino, Global Co-Leader, Next Stage, Mercer

12:30 - 13:00: International Panel Discussion: What Can We Learn from Each Other?

Chair: Eric Kihlstrom, Longevity International UK, Secretariat for APPG for Longevity

All speakers previous sessions invited on panel

13:00 - 13:05: Feedback and Close

• Tina Woods, Longevity International UK, Secretariat for All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity

13:05 - 13:30: Lunch and Networking

Attendees include top executives of Insurance companies, Banks, Pharma and Technology Corporations, representatives of international organisations, embassies, and leading media.

International Longevity Policy and Governance Summit is organised by Longevity International UK, hosted by Aging Research at King’s (ARK) and AI Longevity Consortium at King’s College London, and is supported by Biogerontology Research Foundation.