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Networking Breakfast at the hotel

Welcome to LIC 2026!

Welcome address from Daniel Koetser

Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Natalie Coles, and Dr. Tobias Reichmuth examine why supercentenarians could unlock the next wave of longevity breakthroughs. Investors will hear why funding supercentenarian research might yield outsized returns in both health impact and economic opportunity.

This session doesn't debate the science of longevity — it debates the delivery of it. Four practitioners who represent four genuinely different philosophies on how aging should be treated: rigorous academic geroscience that targets aging as a disease, elite concierge medicine that wraps science in extreme personalization, experimental regenerative medicine that operates at the frontier of what's proven, and academic hospital longevity medicine that bridges research and clinical practice.

For investors, the question is not which model is most scientifically compelling. It's which model is scalable, fundable, and defensible — and where the overlaps create the most interesting opportunities.

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Plenty of companies are built for the next funding round. Far fewer are built to still be leading the field thirty years from now. This session asks the harder, less fashionable question: what does it actually take to build a longevity enterprise that stays standing, stays scientifically credible, and keeps leading — decade after decade, not just cycle after cycle?
Four people who sit at different points of the build-and-fund lifecycle — early-stage investing, growth-stage strategy, science-to-product translation, and the operating reality of running a longevity company at scale today — talk candidly about what "sustainable" really means in an industry that moves between hype cycles every eighteen months.

Topics TBC

A private sunset reception, a three-minute stroll from Le Grand Bellevue. The MANSARD rooftop opens to panoramic views of Gstaad and the Promenade - an elegant setting for high-value conversations before dinner.