Livelong Women's Health Summit™
Agenda
A two-day, evidence-first summit for women building clarity, confidence, and independence in their health decisions as they age.
Friday, MAR 26
Arrive, settle in, and connect with women approaching aging with clarity.
The foundation to keep you strong, mobile, and independent for decades.
- Dr. Vonda Wright — Orthopedic surgeon and expert in musculoskeletal aging, mobility, and strength
What if your most meaningful years are still ahead of you? Jane Fonda reflects on reinvention, resilience, activism, purpose, and why aging can become a source of freedom rather than limitation.
- Jane Fonda — Actor, activist, and cultural figure redefining aging and vitality.
Available to VIP ticket holders only.
Take a break and move your body.
- Dance Church
For decades, aging was considered inevitable. Today, scientists are uncovering the cellular mechanisms that drive aging itself—and opening the door to interventions that may help us live healthier for longer.
How ovaries age, what that means across decades, and why this knowledge matters whether you’re planning a family or planning for your seventies.
What happens systemically when estrogen declines: cognitive shifts, cardiovascular changes, metabolic adaptations. Understanding the transition clarifies your options.
Building, beauty, starting over, and aging with power. Your most defining chapter doesn't have to be your first one.
Your questions, their expertise.
An evening for connection and conversation with experts and peers.
Available to VIP ticket holders.
saturday, MAR 27
Connect with exhibitors and other attendees before the day's sessions begin.
A high-energy bodyweight workout led by a world-class trainer.
Functional Resistance Training. Weight Training. Cardio. Why this formula is the ultimate recipe for long-term wellness, resilience, and healthy aging for women.
- Dr. Jessica Shepherd, MD — OB-GYN focused on comprehensive women’s health across the lifespan.
Sponsored by PVOLVE
A meditation to start the day grounded. No experience necessary, just bring yourself and an open mind.
Specific steps, habits, and interventions that move the needle for women at midlife and beyond. You'll leave with a concrete plan, not just inspiration.
- Dr. Sara Szal, MD — Harvard-trained physician, NY Times bestselling author of Younger, and the #1 longevity voice on Substack, now focused on the emerging science of female longevity.
GLP-1s have exploded in popularity, but the science on side effects like hair loss and fertility is still catching up. A panel spanning dermatology, fertility, and endocrinology unpacks the current evidence on weight, hair, hormones, and metabolic health, and how to navigate these medications with clarity, not hype.
From using AI to program cancer cells to destroy themselves to an entirely new (no compression!) mammogram method, women’s health innovation is all around us.
How integrative and functional medicine are rewriting the rules for what women can expect from their doctors, in midlife and beyond.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, yet many risk factors are preventable. Learn the lifestyle habits, screenings, and medical advances that can help protect your heart, and what every woman should know long before symptoms appear.
Take a break and move your body.
High-achieving women are exceptionally good at performing while absorbing enormous psychological cost. This session names what that costs, clinically, professionally, and legally, and reframes mental health not as a personal failing but as a critical and structural workplace issue. It also surfaces the heaviness of invisible labor and mental load, and how they can lead to burnout.
Most gut health advice is built on research done in men, but women's microbiomes are biologically distinct and shift with estrogen and the "estrobolome" at every life stage. Dr. Karan Rajan walks through the female gut across the lifespan, and why knowing what's normal at each stage is key to catching what isn't.
From blood tests that detect disease years before symptoms appear to emerging therapies that may slow progression, experts explain how Alzheimer's care is changing, and what these breakthroughs mean for women today.
Cancer care is changing rapidly. Learn how to reduce your risk, understand today's screening recommendations, and separate fact from fiction so you can make informed decisions with confidence.
What eight hours of daily screen time is doing to your health and the simple protocol to undo it.
- Manoush Zomorodi, host of NPR's TED Radio Hour
A 2-hour dedicated workshop for physicians and healthcare professionals. Earn an additional (2) hours of CE credit. Add-on ticket required.
Time for nourishment, informal conversation, and exploration.
Small-group conversations with experts and peers. Find your demographic table or topic table — and feel free to move between sessions.
Table Topics:
- The Screenings, Tests, and Wearables That Are Worth the Investment
- Perimenopause: What’s Happening Before Menopause
- Why Your Hair is Changing and What Actually Helps
- Endometriosis: Why It Takes So Long to Diagnose
- GLP-1s and What You Need to Know
- Nutrition Strategies to Optimize Metabolism & Extend Healthspan
- Window of Opportunity for Hormone Therapy
- What the Science Actually Says About Supplements
- Personalized Genetics & Precision Medicine
- Women’s Health & Cancer: Your Biggest Questions, Answered
- Mental Health at Every Stage of Life
- What Your Wearable is Actually Telling You
- Your Menopause Questions Answered
- Sexual Health After 40
- Personalized Medicine: How to Turn Your Health Data Into a Plan that Works
- Chronic Disease Prevention
- Building Financial Wellness in a Changing World
- Post-Menopause Aging Strategies
- Autoimmune Diseases & Inflammation
- Building Muscle and Mobility That Lasts
- Oral Health & Healthy Aging
- What Your Skin Needs at Every Age
- The Paperwork That Protects You: Healthcare Proxies and Wills
- Mapping Your Career Power Curve
- Caring for Aging Parents Without Losing Yourself
- Why You Wake Up at 3 A.M.—and What Actually Helps
- Pelvic Floor Health Without Embarrassment
From continuous glucose monitors to DEXA scans, how to interpret your own health data and decide what’s worth tracking.
Choose the sessions that matter most to you.
- Grand Ballroom: The Power of Muscles: Why strength protects independence, metabolism, and mobility as women age.
- Trianon Ballroom: When Should I Consider Hormone Therapy?
- Mercury Ballroom: Inflammation Is Aging — Here's Where It Starts
- Grand Ballroom: Reframing Women's Longevity Through Pelvic Health, Hormones, and Tissue Regeneration
- Trianon Ballroom: The Ozempic Era: What GLP-1 medications mean for women's metabolic health. Benefits, risks, trade-offs, and long-term considerations.
- Mercury Ballroom: Caring for Women at Elevated Risk: How cancer risk, survivorship, and medical history reshape women's health decisions across the lifespan.
- Grand Ballroom: Hair and Hormones: What Women Need to Know to Optimize Them
- Trianon Ballroom: Before It Becomes Cancer: The Science of Early Detection and Precision Prevention
- Mercury Ballroom: Sleep Is Not Optional: The Biology of Rest, Recovery & Longevity
Living longer means planning differently. A look at how women's health milestones intersect with financial security.
- Dr. Kim Henderson, MD, JD — Physician and Head of Health and Wellness Education at Morgan Stanley, helping women treat their health with the same rigor they bring to their financial lives.
Moderated by Lisa Zengel, Morgan Stanley
Sponsored by Morgan Stanley
The role of self-compassion in shaping attention, behavior, and long-term emotional resilience.
- Dr. Sasha Hamdani, MD — Psychiatrist focused on mental health and emotional regulation
- Dr. Serena Chen, PhD — Social psychologist studying self-compassion and how it influences identity, relationships, and emotional resilience
Women's health has been chronically underfunded — and that's exactly what makes it one of the most compelling investment opportunities today. Portfolia CEO Trish Costello breaks down how Women's Health Fund IV is backing breakthrough companies and how you can invest alongside the most active investor community in the space.
- Trish Costello — Founder and CEO of Portfolia, the venture fund investing in innovations that advance women's health and longevity.
Sponsored by Portfolia
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