IFA Global Café
What is the Global Café?
At the IFA, we believe in the power of dialogue to drive meaningful change. The Global Café Series is our monthly virtual convening—an open and welcoming space where leaders, practitioners, and thinkers from across sectors and regions come together to exchange insights, challenge perspectives, and explore solutions to the most pressing issues in healthy ageing and longevity.
Through open dialogue, the Global Café brings together diverse voices from policy, research, civil society, and industry to explore emerging trends and real-world challenges shaping ageing societies. It is a space for shared learning and collective thinking, where global perspectives meet practical insight, and where ideas spark collaboration and help influence policy and practice.
Recorded Global Café sessions are available exclusively to IFA members.
Upcoming Global Café Series
The International Federation on Ageing (IFA) is pleased to launch a new Global Café series, Longevity Around the World: Regional Conversations on Becoming Longevity-Ready.
Bringing together IFA Regional Directors, members, and regional experts, the series will explore how different societies are preparing for longer lives and what regional experiences can contribute to global discussions on healthy ageing, longevity, and development beyond 2030. Through regional perspectives and cross-sector dialogue, the series will examine the opportunities, challenges, and innovations shaping longevity-ready societies around the world.
Each session will be followed by an exclusive 30-minute networking opportunity for IFA Members. The series will continue throughout 2026 and 2027, highlighting regions across the globe.
The first three conversations in the series will feature:
Preparing for Longer Lives in South-East Asia
17 September 2026 | Completed
The first conversation in IFA’s Longevity Around the World series explored what becoming longevity-ready means in South-East Asia, including how families, communities, systems and services can adapt to support longer, healthier lives.
Speakers: Dr Prakash Tyagi and Professor Philip O’Keefe
UPCOMING CONVERSATIONS
→ Session 2 — Europe — Register
→ Session 3 — Oceania — Register
Recorded Global Café sessions are available exclusively to IFA members.
Session 2 | Europe
Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives in Europe
22 October 2026
8:00 a.m. ET | 12:00 p.m. UTC | 2:00 p.m. CEST
What does becoming longevity-ready look like across Europe?
As populations live longer, systems designed for different demographic realities are being asked to evolve. This conversation will explore how Europe can adapt health and social-care systems, strengthen workforce resilience and long-term care, support formal and informal carers, and advance prevention and healthy ageing across the life course.
The discussion will also consider how rights, solidarity, personal choice and public responsibility can be balanced — and how longevity can be positioned as a social, economic and societal opportunity.
Speakers:
Ms. Siobhan Casey and Ms. Adelina Comas-Herrera
REGISTER FOR SESSION 2 HERE
Longevity-Ready Communities Across Oceania
11 November 2026 (Americas) / 12 November 2026 (Asia and Oceania)
8:00 p.m. ET | 01:00 a.m. UTC | 2:00 a.m. CET | 12:00 p.m. AEDT
What does becoming longevity-ready look like across Oceania?
Across a region characterized by diverse cultures, communities and geographies, preparing for longer lives requires approaches that respond to different needs and experiences.
This conversation will explore culturally appropriate care and living environments, sustainable health and support systems, workforce readiness, innovation and technology, age-friendly communities, and opportunities for healthy ageing, participation and social connection. It will also consider the experiences of Indigenous communities and the needs of rural, remote, island and geographically dispersed populations.
Speakers:
Mr. Tom Symondson and Dr. Veremo Muria
REGISTER FOR SESSION 3 HERE
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