The Global Wellness Summit is slated to be held from October 31 to November 3 in Tel Aviv in Israel
For its upcoming annual summit, slated to be held from October 31 to November 3 in Tel Aviv in Israel, the Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has announced the names of the first set of its keynote speakers. The 16th annual gathering of one of leading conferences focusing on the USD 4.4 trillion business of wellness will be held at Hilton hotel in Tel Aviv.
In a press statement, GWS says that every Summit on conference will have a packed, three-day agenda, that will feature dozens of experts from around the world focused on exploring the future of wellness. ‘‘The line-up of high-profile speakers announced today underscores the diversity of sectors and brilliant minds within the ever-expanding wellness economy,’’ says the press release.
The statement goes on to add that the attendees of the business conference will hear from founders of pioneering digital health and wellness companies, global leaders in travel and hospitality, academics from the world’s top universities, and the start-ups and scientists reinventing everything from the future of food to new longevity approaches.
The keynote speakers for the conference will include Levi Shapiro, founder of mHealth, Israel’s largest community of health-tech innovators; Aradhana Khowala, chairwoman of the Advisory Board for Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Project, the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism project; Michelle Williams, dean of the faculty at the Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health; and Rick Stollmeyer, founder of the nearly USD 2 billion wellness experience platform, Mindbody.
Other speakers representing innovations in wellness industry, both in Israel and globally, will be announced in coming weeks, says the statement. Topics will include the future of women’s health and femtech, wellness travel and spa, and wellness real estate, as well as new intersections between the entertainment industry and wellness and the rising role of spirituality and faith.
“Since the GWS launched 16 years ago, many conferences on targeted wellness markets have appeared: in digital health, food, fitness, spa and travel. But the Summit is the only conference that brings together the most creative entrepreneurs and serious thinkers from across the wide world of wellness and preventative health,” says Nancy Davis, GWS chief creative officer and executive director.
“We want to open people’s minds beyond their industry ‘bubble’–to create new, unexpected collisions, conversations and collaborations–between extraordinary people working in so many wellness arenas. Wellness will look radically different post-pandemic, and will be all about new intersections between healthcare, tech, and once-siloed markets. The 2022 agenda is a giant global puzzle featuring international delegates, world-renowned speakers, the Start-Up Nation of Israel, our esteemed co-chairs, and the magic we make together. This Summit will most certainly deliver on the theme: Open Minds. Open Hearts. Open for Business,” adds Davis.
