LifeSpan Summit Málaga 2026 to Bring WHO, WEF and Global Leaders Together Around Proven Longevity Solutions

Senior leaders from multilateral institutions, governments and business will gather in Málaga from October 14–16 for LifeSpan Summit Málaga 2026, a three-day meeting built around a practical objective: identify longevity solutions that are already working, understand what makes them effective, and accelerate their path to greater scale and impact.

Presented by GIA Longevity, the Summit brings together a mix of decision-makers rarely assembled in the same room around longevity: public institutions, international organizations, business leaders, researchers and social innovators. Its distinctive proposition is not simply the caliber of the speakers, but the opportunity to connect proven solutions with policy and market influence, then use that collective expertise to help shape an action plan for further impact.

Five pillars for a longer-life economy

The program is structured around five interconnected pillars: HealthSpan, WealthSpan, WorkSpan, CareSpan and ThriveSpan. Together, they frame longevity across the full life course — from prevention and healthy ageing to financial resilience, longer working lives, care, wellbeing and participation.

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Across the three days, those pillars will be explored through practical examples in prevention and brain health, pensions and longevity risk, age-inclusive work, lifelong learning, care delivery, digital inclusion, accessible technology, the longevity consumer and multigenerational communities. The emphasis is on models already delivering results, what makes them work, and what is needed to expand their reach.

A global opening line-up

WHO will be represented in the opening keynote program by Ritu Sadana, Head of the WHO Secretariat. The opening sessions will also bring together Haleh Nazeri, Lead, Longevity Economy at the World Economic Forum; Teresa Rodo, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Healthcare Operations and Member of the Executive Committee at Merck Group; George Vradenburg, Chairman of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative; Roxana Widmer-Iliescu, Head of Digital Inclusion Service at ITU; Jasim Alhamrani, Director, GCC Executive Bureau; Maria Teresa Sancho Castiello, Director of IMSERSO, Government of Spain; Amal Abou Rafeh, Chief of the Programme on Ageing Section at UN DESA; Marco La Marca, Member of Cabinet at the European Commission; and Dr. Ebru Canan-Sokullu, Deputy Director, Division for People and Social Development and Deputy Head of the CIFAL Global Network at UNITAR.

Later in the opening day, Fiona Stewart, Global Lead, Aging & Pensions at the World Bank, and Shruti Singh, Head of Ageing & Employment Policies at the OECD, will join the conversation on aligning longevity policy with economic prosperity. Beyond these headline participants, the wider program brings together business, research and social-innovation voices across the five pillars.

What is already working — and how to scale it

LifeSpan Summit Málaga 2026 is built around business, policy and social solutions that are already operating in the real world. Sessions such as “Prevention and Healthy Aging: The Models That Are Scaling,” “Funding Longer Lives,” “Solving the Care Workforce Gap,” and “Human First Approach to Digital Inclusion & Accessible Technology” are designed to examine what is working now, where the evidence is strongest, and how successful approaches can move across markets, systems and communities.

That practical orientation is central to GIA Longevity’s approach. Rather than stopping at identifying the challenges of ageing, the Summit is designed to connect leaders with the capacity to act — across government, multilateral institutions, business and civil society — so that proven ideas can be accelerated through partnerships, investment, policy and implementation.

From proven models to collective action

The final day is structured as an Action Day, with co-creation working sessions across HealthSpan, WealthSpan, WorkSpan, CareSpan and ThriveSpan, followed by readouts, a “Next Decade” finale and a closing call to action. The ambition is to use the concentration of expertise in Málaga to co-create a collective action plan: identifying where collaboration can unlock further impact and what concrete steps can carry the work beyond the Summit itself.

The Summit’s collaboration ecosystem includes GIA Longevity, the City of Málaga, ProAge, Ashoka, the Learning Economy Foundation, the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative, Entrepreneur Middle East, Frances West & Co and G3ICT. Uber, Publicis Sapient, Merck and Burra Group are Event Partners, while KEXCO International is the event organizer. LifeSpan Summit Málaga 2026 takes place October 14–16, 2026 in Málaga, Spain. Registration and program information are available at www.lifespan-summit.com. The program remains subject to change.