Business of Longevity Summit - Hong Kong 2017 | The Economist Events | 27 October 2017 | JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Central, Hong Kong

The Business of Longevity Summit will bring together the leading minds from governments, the private sector, health care, academia and think-tanks to discuss and debate how to help Asian countries make the transition to older societies that are still healthy and productive.

2017 Speakers:

James Peyer
Managing Partner, Apollo Ventures

Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan
Associate professor of sociology, Singapore Management University

Paul Yip
Chair professor of population health and director, centre for suicide research and prevention, The University of Hong Kong

Klaus Beck
Country representative, United Nations Population Fund

Michael West
Founder and chief executive, AgeX Therapeutics

Geannie Cho
Chief operating officer, LINA (Cigna Korea)

Jetn Sirathranont
Chair, Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development and chair, National Legislative Assembly's Public Health Committee, Thailand

Lam Ching-choi
Chairman, Elderly Commission and chief executive officer, Haven of Hope Christian Service

John Piggott
Director, scientia professor of economics and director, ARC centre of excellence in population ageing research, University of New South Wales

Jim Mellon
Founder, Burnbrae and author of Juvenescence

Janice Chia
Managing director, Ageing Asia

Penny Wan
Regional vice-president and general manager, JAPAC, Amgen

Robert Burr
Managing director, head of life and health, reinsurance client markets Asia, Swiss Re

Yuzaburo Ueda
Director, Global Marketing Planning Center, J-Concept range, appliance products, Panasonic

William Hall
Chief executive, Ipsos Healthcare Japan

Mandy Saloman
Co-founder and chief executive, Mentia

Shih-Chung Jessy Kang
Professor, department of civil engineering, National Taiwan University

Kimberly O’Loughlin
Senior vice president and general manager, home monitoring, population health, connected care and health informatics, Philips

Mun Yew Wong
Chief executive, Asia Genomics

Rosaline Koo
Founder and chief executive officer, CXA Group

Ryan Yeung
Chief executive officer, Happy-Retired

Ponce Samaniego
Youth specialist, Asian Development Bank

Richard Kim
Managing director, Urban Youth Academy

Chair – Helen Joyce
International Editor, The Economist

Simon Cox
Emerging markets editor, The Economist

Charles Goddard
Editorial director, Asia-Pacific, The Economist Intelligence Unit

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