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Pete Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Humanity, the longevity AI platform working to add one billion healthy years to humanity. He previously built consumer platforms that reached over a billion people, at WAYN, Badoo and AnchorFree. He speaks on health, longevity, AI and the future of aging.

Pete Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Humanity, the longevity AI platform working to add one billion healthy years to humanity. Humanity's biological age model is peer reviewed, published in Communications Biology, and running inside national laboratories.

He came to health from consumer technology. He co-founded WAYN, the travel social network with 22 million members, sold to the lastminute.com Group; was on the founding team at Badoo, which became the world's largest dating platform; and was COO at AnchorFree as it grew to 900 million users. Those platforms reached over a billion people between them.

He has delivered keynotes and panels at Web Summit, Davos, LEAP, HLTH, the Maddy Keynote and New Scientist, and curates gatherings of his own.

Pete Ward is the co-founder and CEO of Humanity, the longevity AI platform working to add one billion healthy years to humanity.

Humanity's work rests on measurement rather than promises. Its biological age model is peer reviewed and published in Communications Biology, a Nature Portfolio journal, and it runs today inside national laboratories — turning a routine blood test into a read on how fast someone is actually aging, and on what would change it.

Pete came to health from consumer technology, and from a personal loss: his father died of a stroke, the kind of event that is usually described as sudden and is almost never sudden at all. The question that has occupied him since is why medicine still waits.

Before Humanity he spent two decades building platforms at scale. He co-founded WAYN, the travel social network with 22 million members, sold to the lastminute.com Group. He was on the founding team at Badoo, which became the world's largest dating platform. He was COO at AnchorFree as it grew to 900 million users. Together those platforms reached over a billion people — an education in the one problem health technology has never solved, which is getting people to act.

He is a co-founder and board director of ICE, the International Collective of Entrepreneurs, now 500 members strong; served three years as a non-executive director of Ocean Bottle; and is a member of Founders Pledge, having committed 10% of his equity proceeds to social causes. He began his career at Accenture.

On stage, Pete has keynoted Web Summit's main health stage in Lisbon, the Maddy Keynote, the Turn Around Aging Conference in Munich and Life Summit in Berlin; spoken at Davos, LEAP in Riyadh, HLTH in Las Vegas, Slush in Helsinki, New Scientist's Emerging Technologies Summit and Women in Tech in Warsaw; and curated the longevity programme at THE FIX festival. He sits on the Programme Council of the Warsaw Longevity Forum.

Organisers tend to book him twice. What they describe afterwards is a room that moved — energy, argument, and several hundred people who leave talking to each other.

“Our next speaker has built platforms that reached more than a billion people — WAYN, Badoo, AnchorFree. He now runs Humanity, whose biological age model is peer reviewed and live in national laboratories, and whose stated goal is to add one billion healthy years to human life. He is here to tell us why medicine still waits. Please welcome Pete Ward.”