Co-founder and CEO of Humanity, building the prediction layer for human health.
ALAB annual event, Żnin, Poland — May 2026
The showreel
Sixty seconds across five stages — from the Health Summit stage at Web Summit Lisbon to a circle in the snow at Davos.
Web Summit · Maddy Keynote · THE FIX · GP Bullhound · Davos
Signature talks
A standard blood panel — the one your clinic already runs — carries far more about how fast you are aging, and what would change it, than medicine currently asks of it. Every talk comes at that from a different side.
Each runs as a keynote, a fireside, a panel or an opening session. Tell me the audience and I will tell you which one fits.
Health
Medicine is built to react. It waits for the event, then treats it. Peter 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
Peter'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
Consumer AI is built on effectively infinite data. Health AI is not, and never will be — the data is scarce, expensive, regulated and personal. Peter 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
The keynote Maddyness called one of the most captivating they have hosted. Peter 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
Before health, Peter co-founded WAYN, the largest travel social network of its time. Between them, he and his Humanity co-founder Michael Geer have built consumer platforms that reached over a billion people — and all of them 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 behavior-change problem there is.
Connection
Not a talk so much as something that happens to a room. Peter opens a conference by getting several hundred strangers to actually meet each other, then makes the case that connection is a health intervention with evidence behind it, not a nice-to-have. Delivered in the snow above Davos, as a ceremony under the trees in Marbella, and as the opening of the Holistika Health Festival in Sopot.
A hundred and twenty people, in the snow, before a single slide.
Human connection session · Davos · January 2026Beyond the keynote
Keynotes are most of the work, but not all of it. Conference programmes, broadcasters and panels book him on the same handful of questions.
Broadcast and media
Peter takes the same argument onto air as onto a stage, and is comfortable doing it live and unscripted.
An eight-minute live interview on biological age — what we can do to live longer and stay healthy, how AI works biological age out, and which blood markers matter. Alongside Prof. Marek Postuła of the Medical University of Warsaw.
“Nieśmiertelność jest możliwa? Jesteśmy w stanie oszukać nasze genetyczne przeznaczenie” — Is immortality possible? We are able to cheat our genetic destiny.
A long-form conversation on biological age and preventative health with one of Poland's best-known television and radio health broadcasters.
More Polish coverage — the VIVA! MODA feature and two trade pieces — is listed in the catalogue rather than here.
Sometimes the room is a tent, and everyone is close enough to interrupt.
THE FIX Festival · Harwell · September 2025Why Pete
01 — Scale
Co-founded WAYN, the largest travel social network of its time, acquired by the lastminute.com Group. Between them, Peter and his Humanity co-founder Michael Geer have built consumer platforms that reached over a billion people.
02 — Science
Co-founder and CEO of Humanity, whose biological age model is peer reviewed, published in Communications Biology, and running inside national laboratories.
03 — Stage
Keynotes at Web Summit's main health stage, the Maddy Keynote, Turn Around Aging and Life Summit. 39 confirmed appearances since 2020 — and organizers who ask him back.
This is the bit that matters — the thirty seconds after you stop talking.
THE FIX Festival · Harwell · September 2025Organizers, hosts and the people who book
“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.”
“Peter has this rare gift of knowing exactly what a space needs, whether that's humour, insight, or a powerful moment of reflection.”
“Peter has a rare gift for engaging audiences on a deeply intellectual, emotional, and even spiritual level.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“Your human connection session was wonderful, really very special. I got so much great feedback on that.”
The record
The catalogue below is the recent part of it — the ones with a date, a city and a photograph against them.
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