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How and When Will Deep Tech Increase the Longevity of Humans?

Who wants to live healthier and longer lives? Recent advancements in visual technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will increase human longevity. Solutions ranging from analyzing health records, blood results, physiological test scores, body scans, biotechnologies, and even genetic tests will be a game-changer in longevity healthcare.

Whether you are looking to “optimize your performance” – be that physical or cognitive performance – or interested to learn about longevity medicine able to push the limits of the human lifespan – this panel covers that and more!

You will hear insights from:

Michael Geer, Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity. The consumer subscription service enables users to find out what actions they can take to slow their aging process and thus reduce the risk of disease by tracking key aging biomarkers.

Kristen Fortney, CEO & Co-Founder at BioAge, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of treatments to extend healthy lifespan by targeting the molecular causes of aging.

Daniel Kraft, Founder of NextMed Health and Digital.Health – an interdisciplinary community & platform dedicated to catalyzing & accelerating the arrival of a human-centric, technology-enabled, democratized health age.

Dr. Jack Kreindler, Co-Founder of Certific. Jack is a physician entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in extreme challenges, human performance science and extending health span through physiological super-adaptation.



LDV Capital invests in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis.

It’s been almost a decade since we started organizing our Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering of people in the visual tech sector. Earlier this year, we welcomed top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs at our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit to discuss cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions to improve the world we live in. About a thousand people tuned in from all around the world to listen to expert speakers from DeepMind, Mural, Snap, BioAge, Synthesia, Salesforce, Harvard Medical School, Insight Partners, Useful Sensors, Conviction, Niels Bohr Institute, Air Street Capital, Uizard, Pano, Humanity, Northeastern University, Seedcamp, Forbes, and more.


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Here’s what our panelists said about their experience:

The LDV Vision Summit is an important event on the international investor stage showcasing leading researchers and entrepreneurs focused on the next wave of innovation related to how visual tech is the future of healthcare, automation and AI. It was a privilege to be asked by LDV to moderate a panel with an esteemed group of pioneers in the healthy-longevity space to discuss how visual tech & AI will increase the healthspan of humans and the nuanced challenges we face to get there.” - Dr. Jack Kreindler, Co-Founder of Certific

I had a lot of fun on the LDV Vision Summit longevity panel discussing how advances at the leading edge of AI and visual technology will extend human healthspan. Enabling people to live longer, healthier lives is one of healthcare’s biggest challenges — and to help rapidly translate AI’s potential into real-world impact in the clinic, it’s crucial that we continue to foster conversations like these at the interface of biotech, tech, and scientific innovation.” - Kristen Fortney, CEO & co-founder at BioAge

"Each year LDV’s Vision Summit is the most exciting and thought-provoking event in the visual tech community where experts unveil cutting-edge technologies across years before they’re a hot topic! It was truly an honor being a part of this year’s panel on how advancements in AI & ML will bring innovative technologies that deliver human longevity to the masses!" - Michael Geer, Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity

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