Women in Tech Regatta Seattle 2025

Aging is the most universal human experience—and the greatest risk factor for nearly every chronic disease. What if we could treat aging itself, not just its consequences? In this talk, we’ll journey into the rapidly evolving world of longevity biotech, where scientists are reprogramming cells, purging senescent damage, repurposing drugs and engineering metabolism to bend biology’s most ancient curve: the passage of time. We’ll explore how modern tools—from metabolic modeling to AI to epigenetic clocks—are transforming biological aging from an inevitability into a potentially modifiable variable. Along the way, we’ll confront big questions: What happens to society when healthspan outpaces age? Will only the billionaires get to live longer? And what does it mean—for medicine, for policy, for meaning itself—when science begins to edit the aging process?