The Next Health Era: AI, Life Sciences, Fertility and Longevity
Session Overview
The Next Health Era: AI, Life Sciences, Fertility and Longevity
Health is entering a new era, shaped by rapid advances in AI, fundamental shifts in life sciences innovation, and profound demographic change. AI is pushing care beyond hospital walls, supporting overstretched workforces and expanding access in communities and homes. At the same time, AI is compressing discovery and development timelines across the life sciences, challenging long-standing business models, while declining fertility rates and ageing populations are forcing health systems to rethink how they support wellbeing across the full life course.
This session brings together three focused conversations that examine how these forces are transforming health systems, industries, and patient experiences. The panels explore how AI-enabled care models are extending reach and capacity, how AI is reshaping innovation and value creation in the life sciences, and how health systems must adapt to support people from fertility through longevity. Together, they highlight where technology, investment, and policy choices made today will define the next era of health delivery, innovation, and population wellbeing.
Closing remarks will be delivered by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO)
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AI-Enabled Care: Expanding Access, Extending Reach
Health systems worldwide are facing acute workforce shortages and growing demand that cannot be met through traditional, facility-based models of care alone. AI-enabled tools are increasingly being deployed to support clinicians, streamline workflows, and extend care into community and home-based settings. This session will examine how digital health and AI are reshaping care delivery by augmenting the health workforce and expanding access beyond conventional clinical environments. Panelists will discuss where these tools are already delivering impact, what infrastructure and governance are required to scale them responsibly, and how they can help close persistent capacity gaps across health systems.
Host / Speakers
Laura Herman — Partner, Global Lead Responsible Business Practice Dalberg Advisors
Dr. Alex Ng — President Tencent
AI Innovation in the Life Sciences: Powering the Next Wave of Breakthroughs
AI is already reshaping the life sciences in concrete, practical ways, while also challenging the traditional business models that have long governed R&D productivity, workforce structures, and commercialization. This panel will focus on four critical use cases that are defining the next chapter of innovation and forcing firms to rethink how value is created and captured.
First, the discussion will explore how AI is accelerating discovery and R&D—enabling faster target identification, smarter experimentation, and shorter development cycles, with significant implications for R&D economics and portfolio strategy. Second, panelists will examine how AI is changing how work gets done across life sciences organizations, from scientists to commercial teams, and what it takes to redesign roles, incentives, and operating models so people are empowered by these tools.
The conversation will then turn outward to patients and consumers, examining how AI is enabling more personalized, responsive, and accessible engagement across the care journey, and how this shifts traditional approaches to market access, differentiation, and value propositions. Finally, the panel will confront a central challenge: how to scale these innovations without reinforcing existing inequities, ensuring that AI-enabled business models advance equity, access, and trust rather than leaving people behind.
Host / Speakers
Bianca Anghelina — Founder and CEO AILY LABS
Shez Partovi — CIO Philips
Siddhartha Goyal — Co-Funder & CEO Nivi
Bettina Hein — Chairwoman juli/Common Humanity
Lily Chhatwal — Principal, Health Practice Global Co-Lead Dalberg Advisors
From Fertility to Longevity: Health Systems for the Full Life Course
Declining fertility rates and rapidly ageing populations are reshaping demographic profiles across both high- and middle-income countries, with profound implications for economic sustainability, workforce participation, and health system design. Health systems are increasingly required to support wellbeing across the full life course — from fertility and reproductive health to healthy ageing and longevity — yet remain largely organized around episodic, siloed care. This session will examine how health systems must adapt to these demographic realities, including changes in service delivery, financing, workforce planning, and data-driven decision-making. Panelists will discuss where innovation, investment, and policy alignment are most needed to support equitable access, population health, and quality of life across longer lifespans.
Host / Speakers
Andrea Syrtash — Founder and Editor-in-Chief Pregnantish
Maxim Kholin — Co-Founder Gero
Rohini Nilekani — Chairperson Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
Dr. Randi Goldman — Attending Physician at Northwell Health Fertility and Program Director of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship Northwell Health
Elena Mendez-Escobar — Global Chief Transformation Officer IVI RMA Global
Julian Issa — Founder & Host The Beyond Tomorrow Podcast
Health@Davos
Where health innovation meets system implementation to improve patient outcomes.
Now in its fourth year, Health@Davos has become one of the most prominent convenings outside the formal Davos programme, bringing together senior leaders from government, global health institutions, philanthropy, industry, and frontline organisations. Led by Dalberg and unDavos, the event provides a trusted space for practical discussion on building resilient and equitable health systems during a period of global change.
This year's programme focuses on the shifting global health landscape, the future of health financing, and why health must be understood as a core driver of economic growth. Health@Davos is part of a week-long collaboration with the Health Equity Lounge (HEAL), extending the conversation across multiple sessions and formats throughout Davos Week.