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CENTURY SUMMIT


The 2020 Century Summit, which was held virtually on December 9th, 10th, 14th and 15th, brought together top leaders in business, media, policy and research to discuss the implications of the 100-year life. Convened in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity, the Century Summit offered leaders an opportunity to present new visions on how society can restructure work, reorganize cities, enhance lifelong learning, create new financial security and promote greater health and vitality in the new age of longevity.

Featured Speakers


The Agenda


December 9th: Rethinking Longevity in the Age of Pandemics

  • A Conversation with Senator Bob Casey (D-PA, Senate Committee on Aging)

  • Extending the Second Half of Life

  • Health Care and the Lessons of the Pandemic

  • Longevity and Equity: Who will Live Longer and Better?

December 10th: Longevity & the New Map of Life

  • A Conversation on the New Map of Life

  • Reinventing the University for Lifelong Learning

  • Reinventing the Second Half of Life

  • Reinventing the Family Unit: Caregiving, Housing, and Health

December 14th: Funding the 100-Year Life

  • A Conversation with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

  • Reinventing the American Retirement System in an Era of Change

  • Innovation and Longevity

  • Unretiring: The New Rules of the Second Half of Life

December 15th: Longevity Next

  • A Conversation with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC, Senate Committee on Aging)

  • The View from First Base

  • Planning the 50-year Career

  • Culture and Aging

*Recordings of each session can be found below

The Century Summit


December 9th: Rethinking Longevity in the Age of Pandemics

9:00 – 9:30am: Conversation with Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Senate Special Committee on Aging

  • Senator Bob Casey and Ken Stern, Chair of the Longevity Project, discuss how America should take care of its elderly population.

 
 

9:30 – 10:00am: Extending the Second Half of Life

  • The panelists reflect on the importance of shifting from treating disease to preventing disease, barriers to the preventative care model, the ethics of a 100-year life, and changes needed in our healthcare system.

  • Kris Rebillot (moderator)

  • Thomas Rando

  • Eric Verdin

 
 

10:00 – 11:00am: Health Care and the Lessons of the Pandemic

  • A discussion of the impact of culture, leadership, and the medical and healthcare systems on public health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Julie Rovner (moderator)

  • Axel Börsch-Supan

  • Steve Cole

  • Victor Dzau

  • Jack Rowe

 
 

11:00am – 12:00pm: Longevity and Equity: Who will Live Longer and Better?

  • The panelists address the need for interdisciplinary teams to tackle issues around inequity in longevity, and discuss policies to address health equity as we rebuild after the pandemic.

  • Lisa Berkman (moderator)

  • Jean Accius

  • Mark Cullen

  • Jason Resendes

 
 

December 10th: Longevity and the New Map of Life

9:00 – 9:20am: Conversation with Laura Carstensen and Sasha Johfre on the New Map of Life

  • Laura Carstensen and Sasha Johfre deliver an update on the Stanford Center on Longevity's effort to envision a society that supports people to live secure and high-quality lives for a century or more.

 
 

9:20 – 10:10am: Reinventing the University for Lifelong Learning

  • The panelists discuss how education in the United States can be reimagined for lifelong learning so that all adult learners can have affordable and high-quality opportunities to increase skills and stay competitive in the job market.

  • Ilana Horwitz (moderator)

  • Michael Collins

  • Ryan Lufkin

  • Phil Regier

  • Mitchell Stevens

 
 

10:10 – 11:00am: Reinventing the Second Half of Life

  • As more Americans reach 65 in good health, how can we reimagine our lives so that we can continue to contribute to family and community?

  • Martha Deevy (moderator)

  • Marc Freedman

  • Scott Frisch

  • Abby Miller Levy

 
 

11:00am – 12:00pm: Reinventing the Family Unit: Caregiving, Housing, and Health

  • The panelists discuss the question: As people live longer and families stretch over three, four or even five living generations, how do we rethink where we live, how we learn, and how we care for each other?

  • Ina Jaffe (moderator)

  • David Hayes-Bautista

  • Sarah Rosen Wartell

  • Isabel Sawhill

 
 

December 14th: Funding the 100-year life

9:00 – 9:20am: A Conversation with Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)

  • A conversation with a senior Democratic senator on the state of the American retirement system.

 
 

9:20 – 10:10am: Reinventing the American Retirement System in an Era of Change

  • The panelists discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the American retirement system in light of greater longevity and the challenges of the pandemic.

  • Gopi Shah Goda (moderator)

  • Andrew Biggs

  • Rich Johnson

  • Sri Reddy

 
 

10:00 – 11:00am: Innovation and Longevity

  • A conversation on how forward-looking business managers and entrepreneurs should consider the older population in their strategies, in product and service design, in managing their work force and even in their own careers.

  • Susan Golden (moderator)

  • Rob Chess

  • Paul Irving

  • Maria Thomas

 
 

11:00am – 12:00pm: Unretiring: The New Rules of the Second Half of Life

  • With longer life has come more varied (and challenging) options around the second half of life: continued work, new careers, volunteering, going back to school, caregiving or even a "traditional" retirement. The panelists discuss the changing options for our later years and offer ideas and advice for charting a new map of life.

  • Rich Eisenberg (moderator)

  • Michael Liersch

  • Andrew J. Scott

  • Yvonne Sonsino

 
 

December 15th: Longevity Next

9:00 – 9:20am: A Conversation with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Senate Special Committee on Aging

  • A wide-ranging conversation with a senior Republican senator on Covid-19, funding longer life, and workforce development.

 
 

9:20 – 10:00am: The View from First Base

  • This panel of young professionals and influencers in aging discuss the importance of building connections between the different generations, as well as how to fight ageism and ensure longer, healthier lives for all Americans.

  • Laura Carstensen- moderator, Director, Stanford Center on Longevity

  • Charlotte Japp- Founder, CIRKEL

  • Aaron Smith- Co-Founder, Savi

  • Brianna Stubbs- Lead Translational Scientist, The Buck Institute

 
 

10:00 – 11:00am: Planning the 50-year Career

  • The panelists tackle the role of learning, re-skilling and workforce development in the 50-year career, as well as the presence of ageism and cultural assumptions in the workplace.

  • Michael Lopez (moderator)

  • Chip Conley

  • Frank Dooley

  • Johnna Torsone

 
 

11:00am – 12:00pm: Culture and Aging

  • A conversation on ageism in Hollywood and the broader American culture and ideas on how to address it.

  • Cinny Kennard (moderator)

  • F. Murray Abraham

  • Lisa Banes

  • Carol Hymowitz

  • Stacy Smith