Health Span Track @ #SCSNA2025

The Health Span track at Smart Cities Summit North America brings together researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and investors to explore how cities can enable longer, healthier lives.

This track will make the case for Health Span as a SMART objective for cities - shifting from prolonging life with 'reactive sick-care' model, to holistic systems based approach with Healthy Living as the focus.

Many first world cities are facing a Healthcare crisis with an aging population demographic and Health Span gap - the paradox is that while we are living longer, more of those years are spent in poor health.

The Health Span Program highlights include:

• “Designing Cities for Health Span: Applying Regenerative Thinking to Health Span Outcomes” with Mark Messow and Caroline Clarinval, PhD
• “Investing in Health Span Outcomes: Current Friction and Novel Approaches” with Steve Carnevale

The Healthspan Program highlights include “Designing Cities for Health Span: Applying Regenerative Thinking to Health Span Outcomes” with Mark Messow and Caroline Clarinval, PhD, and “Investing in Health Span Outcomes: Current Friction and Novel Approaches” with Steve Carnevale. The “Health Systems Game Changer” series, featuring Fiona Banister, Indu Navar and Thomas Bryson. These game changers will share real world efforts to democratize patient access, and accelerate innovation, and overall community Health value creation derived by embracing convergent systems design.

The agenda also features panels on mental health as an under-recognized but critical component of Health Span, led by Fiona Banister and Steve Carnevale. Enabling the future strategies is of course requiring embrace of technologies like AI, machine learning, simulation & modeling. Dr. El Messiry, Peter Chun, Dr. Dimitri Dejonghe will bring practitioners insights on how to these technologies can be embraced to improve health span outcomes. Together, these discussions offer actionable insights for aligning policy, technology, and investment toward measurable improvements in public health.