Get the whole room moving.
Serial founder who reached a billion people. Now building the prediction layer for human health.
ALAB annual event, Żnin, Poland — May 2026

The showreel
Ninety seconds of what a room looks like when Pete is on stage.
The reel is being cut from footage of the ALAB keynote in Żnin, Web Summit Lisbon and Turn Around Aging in Munich. Until it lands, the two full talks below do the job.
Signature talks
Five talks, one argument: we are measuring the wrong things, too late.
Each runs as a keynote, a fireside or a panel. Tell me the audience and I will tell you which one fits.
Health
The future of health is prediction
Health
The future of health is prediction
Medicine is built to react. It waits for the event, then treats it. Pete makes the case that the decisive shift of the next decade is measurement moving upstream — from diagnosing disease to predicting it, years earlier, from data people already generate. He shows what changes for a health system when risk becomes visible before the symptom.
Longevity
Can we crack the code of aging?
Longevity
Can we crack the code of aging?
Pete's most-requested keynote, delivered in Munich and Berlin. Aging is the largest risk factor for almost every disease that will kill you, and it is the one nobody treats. He separates what the science can now genuinely do from what the longevity industry sells, and leaves an audience with a sober, energising answer.
AI
More from less: why health AI has to be built differently
AI
More from less: why health AI has to be built differently
Consumer AI is built on effectively infinite data. Health AI is not, and never will be — the data is scarce, expensive, regulated and personal. Pete argues that this constraint is a design advantage, not a handicap, and shows what a model built for it looks like when it reaches a peer-reviewed journal and a national laboratory.
Aging
Are we cheating death because we are afraid to die?
Aging
Are we cheating death because we are afraid to die?
The keynote Maddyness called one of the most captivating they have hosted. Pete turns the longevity question around: the interesting problem is not whether we can extend life, but what our scramble to do so reveals about how we think about death. Part science, part philosophy, and the talk that tends to start the longest conversations.
Leadership
Behaviour change at a billion scale
Leadership
Behaviour change at a billion scale
Before health, Pete built consumer platforms that reached over a billion people — WAYN, Badoo, AnchorFree. All three succeeded at the thing health technology consistently fails at: getting people to actually do something. This talk takes what worked at that scale and applies it to the hardest behaviour-change problem there is.
Why Pete
Scale, science and stage — in one speaker.
01 — Scale
A billion people
Co-founded WAYN, the travel social network with 22 million members, sold to the lastminute.com Group. Founding team at Badoo, which became the world's largest dating platform. COO at AnchorFree as it grew to 900 million users.
02 — Science
Peer reviewed, not pitched
Co-founder and CEO of Humanity, whose biological age model is peer reviewed, published in Communications Biology, and running inside national laboratories.
03 — Stage
Booked, and booked again
Keynotes at Web Summit's main health stage, the Maddy Keynote, Turn Around Aging and Life Summit. 32 confirmed appearances since 2020 — and organisers who ask him back.
What organisers say
The people who book speakers for a living.
“Peter Ward's session was one of the highlights of our event. His ability to captivate an audience, spark meaningful interactions, and inspire action is unmatched.”
LEAP 2025, Riyadh
“Peter has this rare gift of knowing exactly what a space needs, whether that's humour, insight, or a powerful moment of reflection.”
ICE gatherings / ICE Summit
“Peter has a rare gift for engaging audiences on a deeply intellectual, emotional, and even spiritual level.”
Davos (Polish Business Hub panel 2025; health breakfast 2026)
“Peter Ward delivered one of the most captivating keynotes we've ever hosted at Maddyness. His talk was thought-provoking, deeply engaging, and masterfully delivered.”
Maddy Keynote 2023
“Peter delivered the keynote at one of our most important events, attended by several hundred guests, including ALAB's senior leadership and many of our key customers. He gave a truly inspiring talk that captivated the room, showing what is possible when biological age becomes accessible to everyone while bringing to life the progress we have made together as partners. Peter is a natural on stage, and we look forward to welcoming him back to speak at our next major event.”
ALAB annual event, Żnin, 18 May 2026
“Peter joined our HealthTechX panel on the future of AI in healthcare and was one of the standout voices of the discussion. He cuts through the hype without losing the optimism and gave the audience a taste of what the future looks like.”
HealthTechX, London (Putney), 5 Nov 2025
“Peter's keynote was one of the highlights of Turn Around Aging. He stood in front of a room of scientists and clinicians and gave them a way of thinking about aging they hadn't heard put that way before. He also got everyone in the conference to connect, which is no mean feat at such a conference!”
Turn Around Aging Conference (TAAC), Munich, 24 Apr 2026
“We brought Peter onto our Precision Intervention panel a few days before our conference, and he lifted the session with his energy, expertise, and insight. He was a pleasure to work with, and the kind of speaker you can call upon at the last minute safe in the knowledge the audience will be better for it.”
The Longevity Show 2026, Tobacco Dock London, 27 Jun 2026
The record
32 appearances, 7 years, 13 cities.
Coming up
- Warsaw Longevity Forum 2026 Programme Council member + speaker Warsaw
2026
- ICE Summit 2026 Host / curator / speaker London
- The Longevity Show 2026 Panel London (Tobacco Dock)
- Super Human Summit 2026 Panel moderator Stockholm
- Life Summit 2026 Keynote Berlin
- ALAB annual event Speech to ~500 guests Żnin, Poland
- Turn Around Aging Conference (TAAC) 2026 Keynote Munich
- Davos 2026 – Frontiers @ Science House Speaker + co-host, healthspan roundtable breakfast Davos
- Davos 2026 – A Global Blueprint for Longevity Panel Davos
- Davos 2026 – Unlocking the Great Health Productivity Reset Breakfast session Davos
- Davos 2026 – House of Connection Summit Gathering Host / speaker Davos
2025
- Full Stack Founder AI Bootcamp Speaker / contributor London
- Web Summit 2025 Keynote, main Health stage, 12:10pm Lisbon
- HealthTechX Panel London (Putney)
- Leaders in Health Chair / speaker London
- HLTH USA 2025 Attended Las Vegas
- THE FIX Festival 2025 Sole festival curator (Longevity Tent) + panel lead + Power of Human Connection session Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire
- Health Optimisation Summit 2025 Startup pitch London
- LEAP 2025 Panel + panel moderation + fireside Riyadh
- Davos 2025 – Longevity Panel @ Polish Business Hub Panel Davos
- ICE Boards & Governance Panel Curator / chair London
- Women in Tech Warsaw Talk Warsaw
2024
- Web Summit 2024 Lisbon
- Slush 2024 Helsinki
- HLTH USA 2024 5-minute session Las Vegas
- Sifted Summit Host, Longevity Roundtable London
- Boots Presentation
- New Scientist Emerging Technologies Summit Solo presentation, 11:40–12:00 London
2023
- CogX AI & DeepTech Summit 2023 London
- Maddy Keynote 2023 Keynote
2021
- CogX Festival 2021 – the Death Panel Panel London / online
- WIRED Health / EY Startup Showcase Startup showcase London / online
2020
- GIANT Health 2020 Panel host (3 sessions) Online
- Tartu Talk Estonia
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