Following a successful inaugural event in London, The Longevity Show will bring its science-led healthspan agenda to the US in 2027.
For two days at Tobacco Dock in London, more than 3,000 visitors – researchers, physicians, entrepreneurs and a genuinely curious public – moved between diagnostics and AI, women’s health, movement and preventive medicine. The inaugural Longevity Show had set itself a deceptively simple brief: to demonstrate that longevity is no longer a conversation reserved for scientists, investors and specialist clinicians. On the evidence of the crowd, it may have succeeded.
That conversation is now set to cross the Atlantic. Following the success of the London launch, organisers have confirmed that The Longevity Show will make its US debut in New York in May 2027, expanding its mission to connect the latest advances in longevity science with both the public and the businesses helping shape the emerging longevity economy.
Longevity.Technology: For those of us who have spent years reporting on longevity science, one of the more striking moments over the two days at Tobacco Dock was not necessarily what was happening on stage, but what was happening between sessions. Conversations about biomarkers, preventive medicine, AI, nutrition and women’s health spilled into the corridors and exhibition floor, with founders, physicians, researchers and curious members of the public exchanging ideas with an ease that would have felt improbable only a few years ago. Longevity has often been criticised for existing in silos – academic, clinical, commercial, consumer – yet The Longevity Show suggested those walls are beginning to come down. That matters – because accessibility without rigor is just wellness marketing with better speakers. What was encouraging about the inaugural show was that audiences appeared less interested in miracle cures than in mechanisms, less swayed by evangelism than by evidence. The challenge, as The Longevity Show heads to New York in 2027, is not to make the event bigger. It’s to keep making the conversation better.
Building a broader conversation
The London event drew more than 160 speakers and over 100 exhibiting brands – diagnostics, fitness, nutrition, recovery technologies, healthcare innovation – across two days that rarely stayed in a single lane. Alongside the consumer exhibition, the Scaling Health and Longevity business conference gave founders, investors and healthcare leaders something rather more focused: a dedicated forum for examining the commercial opportunities emerging from longevity science, without crowding out the public conversation happening one floor away.
“Building The Longevity Show from scratch has been one of the highlights in my 26 years in events,” said Carolyn Dawson OBE, CEO of Founders Forum Group and Tech Nation, and Co-Founder of The Longevity Show. “I’ve never experienced energy like the 3,000+ people who poured into Tobacco Dock for two days of learning how to live healthier, longer, better lives.”
For co-founder Phil Newman, CEO of Longevity.Technology, the ambition was always to create an event that could engage both consumers and industry without compromising on scientific credibility.
“We set out to bring expert knowledge from leading longevity experts to two new audiences: the general public, and businesses looking to integrate this emerging theme into their products and services,” he said. “We achieved that in London, beyond our expectations. Now we’re going to do the same in New York in May 2027.”
The next chapter
New York not only makes sense, it was inevitable. The longevity sector has long since outgrown any single geography; advances in diagnostics, personalized health and preventive medicine are reshaping clinical practice and consumer expectation on both sides of the Atlantic – and the audiences asking the sharpest questions are no longer confined to specialist conferences. The ambition – credible science, accessible to everyone – was always going to travel.
The Longevity Show New York will take place 21–22 May at Javits Center, New York. Registration of interest will be open soon.
