Improvements in health technologies are increasing our average life expectancy tremendously. Kris, a medical doctor with a passion for health and food, will address how better health and longevity will greatly impact our society. How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution impact our health, mind, and bodies? Which new biotechnologies will transform medicine and our lifespans? How can we prepare for and seize on the opportunities in this new Biotech Age? Dr. Verburgh will address new paradigm shifts in health and longevity, and discusses the promises and perils of the new biotech revolution; and how it could impact each individual and society as a whole.

Keynote topics

1. Future of Health: biotechnology, AI, Robotics, genomics, IoT & Ethics
2. Aging & Longevity: new therapies to expand life span & the impact on society
3. Brain Health & Productivity: mental energy & food, creativity & intelligence, psychology
4. Future of Food: longevity diets, new foods & new farming

Biography

Kris Verburgh (Future of Health) is a medical doctor and author researching aging and longevity. He is an expert on the future of medicine and biotechnology. He studies how new technologies will disrupt medicine, health(care) and our lifespan, which trends and paradigm shifts in the medical field are happening, and the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on our bodies and brains. As a researcher at the Free University Brussels, he studies how and why we age and how these insights can be used to improve health. He researches how new biotechnologies can address aging and improve longevity.

He is a researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) and a member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group, which studies how complexity, creativity, and intelligence can arise in nature, our body and mind.

At the age of 16, Kris became the youngest author of a science book in Europe. At age 25, he had written 3 science books. He gives talks on new developments and paradigm shifts in medicine, neuroscience, healthcare and aging.