Agenda

Malik Afegbua is a Nigerian born and based contemporary Artist, Virtual reality curator and Film Director (Cinema / Television). The Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of Surrey, London is the Lead Visioner and Chief Executive Officer of Slickcity Media, a full-fledged innovative media production company with expertise across the entire media value chain including film/tv production, documentaries, VR, films, commercials, corporate videos, visual marketing, media technology, and publishing.

Malik is a Culture Architect who strongly believes in harnessing the enormous power of storytelling to shift mindsets and evoke emotions regardless of the medium of expression. Influenced by global culture and the endless possibilities that technological advancements offer, Malik brings masterpieces to life by combining different mediums to tell stories utilizing virtual reality, and blurring the lines of what reality as we know it now is.

Malik is the CEO of production company Slickcity Media that also runs a tech arm that services the extended reality industry. Malik was recently named by Meta as one of the next XR creators of Africa.

Amal Abou Rafeh is Chief of Programme on Ageing Unit at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York. She serves on the Secretariat of the General Assembly's Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Titchfield City Group on Ageing-related Statistics and Age-disaggregated Data. 
 
Amal joined the United Nations in 2001, working in the areas of social policy, sustainable development, and demography, and served on the Secretariats of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002) and the High-level Meeting on Youth (2011). She held positions in Beirut and New York. Before joining the United Nations, Amal lectured and taught on analysis of social and demographic data. 

Meri Frischman is a native New Yorker. At fifty, she became a Fitness and Wellness Professional coaching the woman 50+ at one of the leading NYC facilities where she accrued an impressive list of successful entrepreneurial clients.

Every decade has brought something new and the 60’s and now 70’s are no exception. From 2017 to the present, Meri has been the Founder of the Lifestyle Brand The Pro-Age Woman, championing the movement of aging with positivity, curiosity and relevance. 

A year and a half ago, she created and published The Pro-Age Woman lifestyle eMagazine for today’s real woman 50 and beyond. Meri believes that through representation and inclusion the actualization of this population of women will organically dispel the “old” inaccurate perceptions of women and aging.

The latest addition to The Pro-Age Woman is a membership community with the goal of creating connection, collaboration and community while fighting against sexist ageism. 
 

 

Charlie oversees the commercial digital product portfolio for the Digital Health organization at Eli Lilly and Company. In this role, he is responsible for leading digital health solutions from ideation through delivery and managing teams to deliver clinically-relevant, high-quality and engaging solutions to support the people who need it most. As part of these efforts, Charlie partners with researchers, clinicians, marketers, developers and external innovators to help find the right digital solutions for patients suffering across a number of disease areas.
 
During his more than 30 years at Lilly, Charlie has been a software leader focused on delivering digital innovations in pharmaceutical drug development across many therapeutic areas. A bulk of that was in leadership roles in Medicines Development IT where he led the harmonization, integration and automation of clinical information management and data flow.  He also had senior leadership roles in our global infrastructure organization enabling digital platform solutions and employee enablement across our enterprise. 
 
Charlie earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Analysis from Miami University.