BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
Why gene screening for insurance will be allowed to prevent fraud against life insurance companies.
Over the counter gene testing kits create life insurance risks for underwriters, because personal and private gene test results are not available to the insurer when assessing life insurance premiums.
The risk is that widespread requirements for gene tests by insurers could meant that people with certain genes are unable to get life or health cover, which in turn may impact things like eligibility for mortgages.
Read more: Gene Tests for Insurance – Ethical and Legal Issues
Future Health Care and Pharma Keynote Speaker
Scientific research into ageing. Can we stop getting old?
Pharmaceutical company anti-ageing products. Market research into anti-aging. Longevity trends and why life expectancy will be a major issue for banks, pension companies and insurance companies.
Demographic trends and length of life, and health care trends. Relationship between wealth and life expectancy. Why government actuarial life tables are incorrect. Impact on retirement age, ageism, discrimination against older workers.
Read more: Ageing: How to stop getting old: impact on society as people live one or two or three decades longer than today - Future Health Care Trends Keynote