25 Best Longevity Conferences and Events for 2026

Update 2/17/2026: This post has been updated since we originally published it in August 2020 and last updated it in February 2024. Several new best longevity conferences have been added and many which are no longer happening have been removed.

Usually, when you approach a random stranger and immediately begin talking about things like DNA methylation rates and NAD+ precursors, you’re lucky if all you get is a weird look.

(Ask me how I know—I’m great fun at bars.)

The sad truth is that the topic of radical human life extension just hasn’t penetrated the public consciousness in a meaningful way (yet!).

But there are places where the budding biogerontologist (or even the curious layperson) can start conversations with, “What’s your favorite method for inducing senescent cell autophagy?” and not be politely shown the door.

And these places are called longevity conferences!

Yes, and these marvelous anti-aging events exist, not only on the internet, but out in the real world. So you can leave the harsh white light of the lab, or the dark confines of your basement, and interact with actual, flesh-and-blood people who, just like you, want to end the scourge of aging within our lifetimes.

I’ve put together a list of the top longevity conferences (including both in-person and online life-extension events) so you can finally see if that senolytics joke you’ve been practicing in the mirror for the last three months actually lands.

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Best Longevity Conferences and Events for 2026

These top longevity conferences were selected using a couple criteria. To be included in this list, the event must:

• Have a primary purpose of increasing the healthy lifespan of human beings.
• Take place in 2026
• Have at least three sessions devoted to presenting new research on human life extension, longevity therapies, and/or rejuvenation interventions.
• Have the majority of talks presented in English.

I organized the below  list of top life extension conferences by date.

A quick note on the difference between longevity conferences and aging conferences: 

And here are the top longevity events for 2026 organized into a handy shareable infographic (so please share!). Click on the image to make it bigger.

1. J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

• Date: January 12-15, 2026
• Location: San Francisco, USA
• Cost: Varies

Investment giant J.P. Morgan has been running these annual healthcare events for 44 years now. While not wholly a longevity conference, the JPM healthcare week brings together 500+ companies and 8,000+ attendees to talk about the future of healthcare, with many prominent longevity topics included.

Though the event is technically invite-only, some of the biggest draws are the dozens (if not hundreds) of “side events” scheduled to coincide with, but organized outside of, the main JPM conference. These include many longevity options like the “Longevity Biotech JPM Event” by The Longevity Investor Network and Lifespan Research Institute, as well as the “Silicon Valley Applied Longevity Translation Symposium and Retreat” hosted at Stanford, and “Longevity: The Next Drug Category After GLP-1” hosted at the Frontier Tower.

2. Longevity Investors Lunch

• Date: January 20, 2026
• Location: Davos, Switzerland
• Cost: TBD

A smaller version of the full Longevity Investors Conference (listed below), this application only, single day event is nonetheless a great networking opportunity for entrepreneurs, investors and academics.

Speakers include well known longevity business people and investors like Evelyne Bischof from Insilico, and Peter Fedichev of GERO.

3. Foresight Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026

• Date: February 6-8, 2026
• Location: Old San Juan, USA
• Cost: $800 USD

The Foresight Institute has been supporting frontier science, including longevity science, with grants, events, and fellowships since it was founded in 1986. Their annual Vision Weekends bring together “researchers, builders, and accelerationists” with a focus on “neurotechnology, biotechnology, and other transformative fields.”

This year’s event features tracks including “Longevity, Rejuvenation & Cryonics,” and has longevity speakers like Adam Gries, founder of Vitalism (which hosts the Vitalist Bay life extension event lower down on this list), and Dylan Livingston of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives.

4. Unlock Healthy Longevity Conference

• Date: February 26-27, 2026
• Location: Singapore (virtual options available)
• Cost: $650 SGD

Done in conjunction with the National University of Singapore’s Academy for Healthy Longevity, this unique event claims to be the first and only longevity conference dedicated entirely to the role supplements can play in human life extension.

Speakers and presentations include heavy hitters like Professors Andrea Maier and Hans Meij. Past speakers have included Brian Kennedy, Nir Barzilai, and David Sinclair (author of Lifespan: Why We Age— and Why We Don’t Have To) talking about supplements like AKG, NMN, and fisetin. An optional “Intensive Course” provides a certification and CME credits for attendees interested in learning about longevity medicine and gerotherapeutics in a more rigorous academic manner.

5. Longevity Innovation Forum (Longevity Global)

• Date: March 11-12, 2026
• Location: San Diego, USA
• Cost: $299 USD

For this inaugural longevity event Longevity Global, also host to an annual Longevity Summit at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging (which we haven’t added here yet as no 2026 dates have been shared) is hoping to bring together “the builders of the longevity revolution” to accelerate longevity innovation.

Speakers include Steve Horvath of biological age clock fame, friend-of-the-blog and longevity investor Karl Pfleger of Agingbiotech.info, several members of longevity culture-focused JellyfishDAO, with talks covering everything from longevity clinical trials, to regenerative medicine, and the root causes of aging.

6. Longevity India RISE Conference

• Date: March TBD, 2026
• Location: Bengaluru, India
• Cost: ₹5,000

This three‑day conference pulls together aging researchers and practitioners, past speakers have included people like David Furman (Buck Institute), Matt Kaeberlein (Optispan/Dog Aging Project), Brian Kennedy (NUS), Satchidananda Panda (of time‑restricted eating fame), and Vishwa Deep Dixit (Yale).

Talks focus on deep dives into biomarkers and diagnostics, drug discovery and repurposing for aging, and the use of machine learning and multi‑omics data.

7. A4M Spring Anti-Aging Congress 

• Date: April 10-12, 2026
• Location: West Palm Beach, USA
• Cost: $895 USD

This longevity meeting is aimed primarily at healthcare professionals like functional medicine doctors, or those working in longevity clinics, who are looking for evidence‑based lectures, case studies, and implementation guidance rather than high‑level basic science talks.

Presenters include clinicians and researchers such as Andrew Heyman, Kent Holtorf, and Pamela Smith, who talk on topics like microbiome and aging in women, cardiometabolic optimization, and practical hormone replacement. Other sessions cover sleep and stress interventions, and the use of lab testing and longevity biomarkers to individualize treatment plans. 

8. SynBioBeta

• Date: May 4-7, 2026
• Location: San José, USA
• Cost: $1,995 USD

This three‑day longevity event is focused on AI‑enabled “programmable biology,” with tracks spanning AIxBIO, human health and longevity, food and sustainability, and large‑scale biomanufacturing. 

Example sessions include a panel on “Programmable Molecules: AI and the Rise of Context‑Aware Therapeutics” and talks on “Reconstructing the Body: Can Biological Replacement Reverse Aging?” For longevity‑minded attendees, it’s less about one more NAD+ talk and more about seeing how genome‑scale editing, cultured tissues, and AI‑driven design might feed the next generation of healthspan‑extending tools.

9. Global Longevity Med Summit

• Date: May 9-10, 2026
• Location: London, UK
• Cost: €450

Aimed primarily at practicing physicians and clinics, the Longevity Med Summit covers all kinds of longevity medicine.

The program focuses on how to implement longevity medicine at scale, with sessions on cellular and regenerative therapies, advanced diagnostics, digital health, and preventive models that sit inside real clinics, wellness platforms, hospitality, and real‑estate projects. Speakers span physicians, healthcare executives, technologists, and investors.

10. Vitalist Bay

• Date: May 14-17, 2026
• Location: Berkeley, USA
• Cost: $799 USD

2026’s Vitalist Bay is the second such life extension event run by the folks at the Vitalism Foundation, a non-profit aiming to defeat death. While the first Vitalist Bay in 2025 was an eight-week longevity popup city where attendees lived together at the rationalist Lighthaven campus in Berkeley, this year the event has been pared down to a more traditional four-day conference.

The program mixes keynotes and small‑room discussions on aging biology, AI‑driven health, and practical longevity protocols with instructor‑led movement and recovery sessions, like pilates and Krav Maga. On‑site diagnostics are also a core feature: attendees can get blood panels, DEXA scans, and try continuous glucose monitoring to see how their biomarkers respond to different behaviors.

11. Milan Longevity Summit

• Date: May 20-23, 2026
• Location: Milan, Italy (virtual options available)
• Cost: €450

This four‑day “One Health” longevity meeting links human longevity with planetary and economic health, emphasizing themes like democratizing longevity science, cross‑sector innovation, and policy for healthier, longer‑lived societies. 

Speakers for 2026 have not yet been announced, but previous iterations included talks like “insights from the Blue Zones,” and sessions with renowned life extension scientists and influencers like Nir Barzilai and David Sinclair.

While the inaugural version of the Summit in 2024 was free to the public with advance registration (and two weeks long), this year’s life extension event seems to be a more traditional conference model with tickets for the full four days running about €450.

12. American Aging Association (AGE) Annual Meeting 2026

• Date: June 2-5, 2026
• Location: Provo, USA
• Cost: $750 USD

For all you longevity academics, the AGE meeting is a research‑heavy conference aimed squarely at biogerontologists, geroscientists, and trainees rather than supplement shoppers.

Talks include topics like “Causes and Consequences of Immune Aging” and panels on “Bridging Discovery and Application: The Longevity Biotech Landscape.” Past speakers have included luminaries like Judith Campisi of the Buck Institute and Daniel Promislow of the Dog Aging Project.

13. Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference

• Date: June 14-19, 2026
• Location: Newry, USA
• Cost: $985 USD

Chaired by the famous Steve Horvath of Horvath’s Epigenetic Clock, this aging research event is aimed primarily at “established and junior scientists” in the longevity sciences field.

This conference is likely to touch on some of the most exciting research and breakthroughs in aging, rejuvenation therapies, and other longevity interventions. Though its target audience and the technical nature of talks may mean it’s more for advanced life-extension enthusiasts.

14. Longevity Summit Dublin

• Date: June 24-26, 2026
• Location: Dublin, Ireland
• Cost: €395

Based at Trinity College in Dublin, this anti-aging event is pitched as a collaborative space for scientists, clinicians, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to share data and stress‑test ideas, rather than a consumer‑oriented longevity or biohacking expo.

Confirmed speakers so far include Steve Horvath, Andrea Maier (National University of Singapore), Emma Teeling (University College Dublin), and Rozalyn Anderson, all known for work on aging clocks, geroscience, and comparative or caloric‑restriction biology. Planned topic areas span geroscience, biomarkers, personalized health, AI in health, policy and regulation, and investment,

15. A4LI H-SPAN Summit D.C.

• Date: June 21-July 1, 2026
• Location: Washington, DC, USA
• Cost: $750 USD

Want to influence the American government to take longevity more seriously? This policy-focused longevity summit is for you! The three day event wraps up with a full day Capitol Hill “fly‑in” with a congressional briefing and coordinated meetings with lawmakers.

Prior to that, talks include updates on longevity‑focused drug discovery and technologies and panels and keynotes on policy, from top longevity experts like David Sinclair, Matt Kaeberlein, and Irina Conboy. On the government side, speakers include representatives from ARPA-H, Jim O’Neill from HHS, and several congressmen.

*Bonus*: A Longevity Advice Retreat in August!

We’re in the planning stages for a small (10-20 person) longevity retreat August 6-9, and we’d love to have you join us!

We’ve already secured a beautiful venue in the Colorado mountains with full gym, sauna, access to amazing hiking trails, and views, and are working on a final programming schedule.

Initial ideas include:

• Daily longevity tea and morning light ritual to reset circadian clocks
• Included biomarker testing 
• Consultations with longevity doctors and experts to build your personalized longevity plan
• Daily workouts and Zone 2 hikes together
• Community meals focused on research-backed, healthy, quality ingredients
• Presentations and discussion sessions with leading researchers and scientists
• Sauna sessions
• Science-backed nighttime ritual to aid sleeping
• A longevity goody bag with tests, tools, and products from top longevity companies

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16. Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD)

• Date: August 23-28, 2026
• Location: Copenhagen, Denmark (virtual options available)
• Cost: $899 USD

Chaired by longevity heavy hitters like Alex Zhavoronkov of Insilico Medicine, ARDD is one of the largest conferences in the life-extension space. Over 2,200 people routinely attend the event and the conference organizers boast attendees from 120 different countries.

Speakers for 2026 include prominent researchers from institutes like the Max Planck Institute of Biology and Aging, as well as longevity influencers like scientist and biological age test creator Steve Horvath.

17. 2060 Longevity Forum

• Date: September 2-3, 2026
• Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
• Cost: $1,990 USD

This year’s Longevity Forum gathers investors, longevity entrepreneurs, scientists, and policymakers to discuss the investment case for anti‑aging biotech. 

Speakers include big names like Aubrey de Grey, Brian Kennedy, and Liz Parrish, plus longevity book author Andrew Steele (who wrote popular the longevity book Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old), and friend-of-the-blog (and Longevity Economics Institute founder) Alexey Strygin.

The program and talks emphasize the projected $367 billion USD longevity market, with sessions on AI‑driven drug discovery, cryonics, regenerative medicine, and investment opportunities from billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. It’s aimed at builders and funders rather than pure researchers.

18. RAADfest Annual Conference: Revolution Against Aging and Death

• Date: September 4-6, 2026
• Location: Scottsdale, USA (virtual options available)
• Cost: $547

RAADfest is one of the most prominent US-based longevity conferences. It’s usually held in Las Vegas, though has moved to Scottsdale this year, and is organized by The Coalition for Radical Life Extension. 

If you’re an anti-aging activist and want to be star-struck, RAADfest is the place to be. This conference really attracts the heavy hitters in the longevity science space, from Liz Parrish of BioViva, to Aubrey de Grey of SENS, and Ray Kurzweil of Google (and The Singularity is Near fame) along with dozens more.

RAADfest’s presentations tend to feature cutting-edge yet layman-accessible research. With 1,000+ attendees, it’s one of the top anti-aging events by its scale alone. Over 70 life-extension and longevity companies also show up to present their wares to those curious about what the market has to offer doctors, researchers, and consumers.

The 2026 event promises a focus on “what’s now, what’s new, and what works” in longevity protocols, with an expanded exhibit hall for therapies, diagnostics, and biohacking products, plus more networking and “fest” activities.

19. British Society for Research on Aging Annual Scientific Meeting (BSRA ASM)

• Date: September 9-11, 2026
• Location: Oxford, UK
• Cost: TBD

Held at St Antony’s College in Oxford, this the UK’s flagship basic aging research conference, talks, elevated oral sessions, and posters on topics like autophagy, neurodegeneration, mitochondrial function, and geroprotectors. 

Confirmed speakers include Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine), John Hardy (University College London), Dag Aarsland (King’s College London), Anne Schaefer (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing), Gerald Shadel (Salk Institute), and Guang‑hui Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences). It’s aimed at researchers and trainees interested in mechanistic aging biology, with a conference dinner and a “Healthy Ageing Fun Run” to round out the event.

20. Health Optimisation Summit

• Date: September 12-13, 2026
• Location: London, UK
• Cost: £175

A two‑day consumer event blending biohacking, wellness, and functional medicine, the health summit includes keynote stages, breakout sessions, and an exhibitor village featuring over 100 brands. 

Speakers from past events have included biohackers like Ben Greenfield and practitioners covering breathwork, nutrition, longevity, fitness, and preventative medicine, with workshops on acroyoga, movement, and immersive experiences. The program emphasizes practical tools and gadgets like PEMF, IVs, saunas, ice baths, and clean supplements, plus networking for 4,000 attendees including entrepreneurs, executives, and influencers.

21. Longevity Investors Conference

• Date: September 14-17, 2026
• Location: Gstaad, Switzerland
• Cost: 6,500 CHF

As we mentioned in our discussion of the ethics of life extension, the market for anti-aging interventions is a massive one, potentially encompassing every single person on the planet. While this will work to increase access and drive costs down for longevity therapies, it also presents an incredible opportunity to make money by serving such a vast market.

That’s where the Longevity Investors Conference comes in. With speakers ranging from prominent scientists like David Sinclair and Aubrey de Grey, to entrepreneurs and investors like billionaire Jim Mellon of Juvenescence, to VCs and fund directors like Alexandra Bause of Apollo Health Ventures, this four-day conference is a crash-course in investment opportunities and fundraising vehicles for longevity.

22. CSHL Mechanisms of Aging

• Date: September 22-26, 2026
• Location: Cold Spring Harbor, USA
• Cost: $1,240 USD

A selective longevity research conference for investigators studying the genetic and molecular regulation of cellular and organismic aging, the CSHL meeting is aimed at accomplished researchers and trainees interested in mechanistic aging biology rather than clinical or commercial applications.

The program features eight oral sessions with invited speakers and abstract‑selected talks covering topics like gene function in aging pathways, proteostasis, epigenetics, and interventions that modulate lifespan and healthspan, plus two poster sessions. The longevity meeting emphasizes unpublished work and extended discussions in a residential format, with financial aid available for students and postdocs submitting strong abstracts.

23. Cell Symposia: Hallmarks of aging

• Date: October 4-6, 2026
• Location: Seville, Spain
• Cost: €865

Another academic longevity event, this one is led by sometime anti-aging research journal Cell and examines the molecular hallmarks of aging through sessions on metabolism and aging, diseases of aging, gerotechnology, and gerotherapeutics. 

Keynote speaker Luigi Ferrucci (NIA) leads a lineup that includes Ana Maria Cuervo (“Autophagy and Aging”), Vishwa Deep Dixit, Manuel Serrano, Tony Wyss‑Coray, and Catherine Kaczorowski, with talks on topics like metabolic reprogramming, neurodegeneration, and emerging therapeutics.

24. Biomarkers of Aging Consortium

• Date: October TBD, 2026
• Location: Boston, USA
• Cost: $690 USD

We expect the Biomarkers of Aging Consortium Annual Conference 2026 to follow the format of their 2025 Boston meeting, which brought together leading academic and industry scientists for two days of talks on aging biomarkers, translational challenges, clinical validation, and regulatory pathways. Though full details on the 2026 program aren’t yet available, it’s likely to be a worthwhile event for geroscience researchers and others interested in actually measuring how we age.

25. A4M LongevityFest

• Date: December 11-13, 2026
• Location: Las Vegas, USA
• Cost: $1,995 USD

Run by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine this event has been running for a few years now. Like A4M’s Spring Anti-Aging Congress mentioned above, it covers precision medicine, regenerative therapies, cognitive health, and hormone optimization, but adds more exhibitor time for labs, devices, and wellness brands.

While the program and speakers haven’t yet been finalized for this year, past years’ LongevityFests have featured people like Blue Zones author Dan Buettner, and researchers presenting on things like telomeres and methylene blue.

Full list of 120+ Longevity Events for 2026

There are a TON of longevity events that didn’t make our top list this year, which says more about the growing popularity of longevity than it does about the quality of the events we couldn’t include.

However, just for you, we put together the full list of 120+ longevity conferences happening in 2026 and you can get it sent straight to your email below!

Which longevity conferences did we miss?

Is your favorite life extension event not on this list? Did you attend one of these events and want to share your story? Let us know in the comments!

Are you planning to attend any of these? We’d love to connect in-person if so!

(Or just share your favorite senolytics-based jokes. We think the world would be better with more of them.)

Denisa Lepadatu

I work in longevity biotech, focused on understanding and delaying biological aging from first principles. My path into the field began in high school through transhumanist literature and led me to study cell biology and biochemistry in Germany, alongside aging research internships in Switzerland. I co-founded LongX, a global initiative lowering barriers to entry into longevity, and later worked across venture capital and science communication in the field. More recently, I’ve explored new coordination models for longevity research through alternative science institutions, funding experiments, and programs hosted in pop-up cities worldwide. LinkedIn.