Agenda

Emily Allen serves as the Director of Thought Leadership and Advocacy at Honor/Home Instead.  Home Instead is the world’s leading provider of relationship-based home care services that empower people to age at home with dignity and respect. Home Instead has more than 1,200 locations around the globe and provided more than 100 million hours of care to older adults and families last year alone. Their mission is to change the face of aging around the world. In August 2021, Home Instead was acquired by Honor Technology, creating the marriage of high-tech and high-touch to revolutionize how we care for older adults around the globe.
 
Emily is a member of Home Instead’s Leadership Team, as well as a member of its Advocacy Leadership Team, which is dedicated to advocating for aging adults and their loved ones, ensuring a quality care experience, helping transform healthcare delivery, and shaping aging and home care policy and the world.  She also is a leader around Home Instead’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
 
Emily serves on the International Franchise Association’s Diversity Advisory Board, is one of Home Instead’s representatives to the Global Coalition on Aging, and regularly represents Home Instead at global events and speaking engagements.
 
Before joining Home Instead, Emily worked as an Associate Attorney at a national law firm, where she represented clients in a variety of corporate, real estate, tax credit, health care, litigation and transactional matters. Emily received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education and Teaching from the University of Nebraska Omaha and her JD from Creighton University.
 
Finally, Emily serves on various non-profit committees and guilds within her local community. 

Kazumi Nishikawa is Director, Healthcare Industries Division, of METI (Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) of Japan. He is a member of Global Future Council for Human Enhancement and Longevity, WEF. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Nishikawa held various positions in METI over a period of 23 years, including Director for Trade Strategy to cover trade strategy and global growth strategy of Japan, Executive Director of JETRO Singapore/Special Advisor to the Minister's Secretariat of METI to cover Asian economic integration, Director for Policy Planning in the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau to coordinate the Growth Strategy of “Abenomics” Policy, Principle Deputy Director of Minister’s Secretariat, WTO negotiator, and Deputy Director for SME Finance. He has also worked in the Defense Ministry and Cabinet Office. Mr Nishikawa holds a law degree from the University of Tokyo, an LLM from Northwestern University School of Law, and an LLM for International Study from Georgetown University Law Center. He had qualification as an Attorney at Law in New York state, USA.

Keren is the Creator of TheGerontechnologist.com, a website that covers the global age tech ecosystem.
In 2019, she was named one of the most influential people in aging by Next Avenue. Keren is a public speaker and an advisor for age tech startups, investors in the longevity economy, care providers and organizations who work on innovation in aging.
Keren was the first employee at Intuition Robotics, the startup behind ElliQ, the world’s first social robot designed with and for older adults, and co-founder & VP of Product at Sensi.Ai, a startup that developed the first and only audio-AI solution for remote care monitoring.
She holds an M.A. in Gerontology

Globally experienced, energetic, results driven leader with exceptional organizational, communication, and analytical skills. Focus and experience in Healthcare industry, leading efforts in New Business Development, transformational change, program management, analytics, information technology and multidisciplinary programs.

Nick Wilson track record in creating, implementing and leading teams and solutions to transform Life Science companies, whether through new commercial approaches with customers, new business development, or enhanced internal business process management. Proven ability to guide teams through complex situations accompanied by strong business understanding across the European and United States healthcare environment.

Responsible for leading Accenture's Life Science go-to-market and analytics efforts in the Northeast USA and delivering high value to clients leveraging analytics across their business.

Philip is a CEO and founder of Origin Care Group  an age/ med tech company.  Origin Care Group developed award winning ACORN Age Friendly smart tablet and solutions to support organisations digitally engage patients and clients.
With over 26+ years of global technology expertise Philip was co-founder and CCO of Openet, a global telecommunications software provider and one of Ireland’s largest software companies. He established Openet as a global leader in telecommunication software. Now focussing his skills on the Age tech market to develop patient centric digital health and wellbeing solutions.
Philip holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer applications from DCU. He also holds a number of senior Board Advisor positions with Software and Telecommunications, Information systems and Health Care solution companies.