Digital Technologies for Healthy Longevity and Prevention

The annual Ageing Research at King's (ARK) Longevity Week (hybrid) event this year was organised in partnership with the Longevity Forum and the British Embassy in Beijing - Department of Business and Trade (DBT) team. We were also pleased to host a delegation from China exploring UK academic collaborations and industry partnerships in longevity, healthy ageing and preventive medicine.

Teams recordings (YouTube) are linked in the individual talk titles below 

Programme

14.00  Arrival - Tea / Coffee

14.20  Welcome and Introduction

Richard Siow - ARK Director, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London

Jean Wang - Head of MedTech, Life Science & Healthcare, British Embassy in Beijing

14.30  HealthTech for Brain Health - from NHS Clinics to Global Industry Engagement

Dag Aarsland - Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Director, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

14.50  UK-China Collaboration in the Silver Economy: Industrial Innovation and Strategic Planning for an Ageing Society

Yifan Yang - Vice President, National Interdisciplinary Institute on Ageing, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China and Deputy Director, Technical Committee for Standardization of Health-Preserving Products and Services, China Certification & Accreditation Association

15.10  Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technologies for Metabolic Health

Corbin Griffen - Senior Clinical Scientist, Dexcom UK

15.30  BrainTech Innovation Ecosystem Powered by Safe Ethical and Compliant AI

Svitlana Surodina - ARK Entrepreneur in Residence, Researcher in Human Centred Computing, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, KCL and Co-Founder, Opora Health and Skein, UK

15.50  Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supported Care and Empowerment

Lei Lu - Assistant Professor in Health Data Science and AI, Department of AI in Preventive Medicine, School of Life Course & Population Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, KCL - EMBRACE

16.10  Closing Remarks - Richard Siow and Jean Wang

16.20  Networking

We are grateful for support from our event partners: Department of Business and Trade, European Society of Preventive Medicine, Longevity Science Foundation, Opora Health and Dexcom