Festival
HealthSpan Festival is a curated, cross-sector event that unites healthcare providers, payers, and innovators to address the growing demand on health systems from longer lives. The two-day gathering in Valencia features a rigorous conference program alongside immersive wellness activities, structured networking, and curated connections designed to drive collaboration on extending healthy years and transforming healthcare delivery.
- Events
- Healthcare Technology
Funding
Founders
Product
Problem
Longer life expectancy is placing unprecedented demand on healthcare systems, yet most events separate prevention from healthcare delivery, fragmenting the sectors that need to collaborate. Providers and payers struggle to adapt to this shift while innovators lack a shared space to align with the buyers and policymakers shaping the future of health.
Solution
HealthSpan Festival brings together the providers, payers, and solution builders adapting to longer lives into one commercial marketplace focused on two transformations: extending healthy years and transforming healthcare for longer lives. The event is structured across two dedicated stages—one exploring biological research, therapeutics, diagnostics, and connected health, and another covering digital care and chronic-health management. Beyond the conference format, the festival integrates immersive activities including movement sessions, diagnostics demonstrations, personal care experiences, founder showcases, and structured networking through the HealthSpan Exchange program. The attendee cohort is curated and reviewed to protect seniority and cross-sector quality, ensuring meaningful conversations and long-term collaboration among decision-makers.
Target Audience
Primary attendees are senior decision-makers including healthcare providers and hospital leaders, health insurers and public payers, pharma and biotech R&D teams, diagnostics and MedTech innovators, longevity-focused investors, policymakers, and management consultants across Europe.
Features
- Two dedicated stages: "Extend Healthy Years" and "Transform Healthcare for Longer Lives" covering prevention, diagnostics, digital care, and chronic-health management
- Curated attendee cohort with application review to ensure seniority and cross-sector representation across healthcare, policy, capital, and research
- HealthSpan Exchange program offering pre-scheduled 1:1 introductions, facilitated roundtables, and targeted networking
- Immersive activities including sunrise yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, biological age testing, body scans, brain training, wearable demonstrations, massage therapy, infrared pods, and healthy cooking workshops
- Founder hot-seat interviews, startup showcases, and live discussions with operators
- Structured social events including cocktails, live music, private VIP experiences, and an after party
- Annual gathering design with a returning cohort to deepen relationships and advance conversations over time