Longevity medicine has transitioned from conjecture to operational infrastructure within six years. The expansion metrics are striking: clinic proliferation now outpaces qualified practitioners; patient demand has shifted from speculative to sustained; major health systems have launched institutional programming.
But here's what nobody talks about: most physicians building longevity practices are doing it alone. You have demand. You lack operational frameworks. You don't know which practitioners are actually succeeding at scale. You're isolated from the networks that are setting the standards your patients will eventually expect.
The Cannes longevitydocs Summit directly addresses this gap. A three-day convocation of 200+ physicians ad 40+ speakers across 20+ countries, gather to engage directly with others building infrastructure, access the operational blueprints that work, participate in standard-setting, and join the network reshaping medicine at institutional scale.
This is an investment in your future. Here are ten reasons why you must be in the room.
The 10 Reasons WHY YOU MUST ATTEND LONGEVITYDOCS CANNES 2026
1. Access to a VETTED Global Network of Practitioner-Leaders
250+ of the world's leading longevity physicians, researchers, investors, and innovators in one room. Referrals, partnerships, and collaborations that change careers.
Are you building a longevity practice in isolation? Unsure of who's succeeding, who's failing, or the frameworks actually work at scale? The Summit assembles the community actively constructing longevity infrastructure. These are the practitioners determining evidence-based longevity care standards, the ones making decisions that define the field.
Three days of sustained exposure in the most intentional setting whether through formal sessions, connection oriented meals, informal conversations on the beach or at our gala and awards ceremony, give you direct access to the network. Few professional convocations concentrate this density of field-defining practitioners in one place for this long.
"As physicians, we know the challenge of staying connected and informed, building a successful clinic, and fighting a system resistant to change. It doesn't have to be that way. Imagine a place where doctors are understood, supported, and empowered." Dr. David Luu, Founder
2. Operational Architecture DEEP-DIVE
Longevity clinic development requires fundamentally distinct operational structures from conventional medical practices. Revenue models, staffing patterns, technology infrastructure, and patient acquisition strategies diverge substantially across implementation approaches. Digital versus facility-based platforms present differential cost structures and scaling dynamics. Health system integration differs markedly from independent practice structures.
The "Build Your Longevity Practice" sessions feature practitioners—Ali Watson, Mohit Joshipura, Melissa Loseke—who have deployed diverse models at operational scale. They'll walk you through their frameworks: what worked, what failed, where they scaled, where they hit walls. These are the operational tradeoffs that independent trial-and-error would require years to establish. You can compress a decade of learning into three days.
We have an entire agenda dedicated to the business of longevity medicine.
3. Cutting EDGE SCIENCE
Access research that won't be published for another 2 years. Our speakers share unpublished data, emerging protocols, and clinical insights.
4. ParticipatE in Certification Standard Development
Standards are being written right now. The practitioners in this room are determining what longevity medicine practice should look like clinically, operationally, educationally. If you're not in the conversation, you're adopting standards someone else built.
longevitydocs is architecting formal certification standards for longevity medicine practice. Unlike academic credentialing exercises, these standards establish the benchmarks that will define field expectations. Summit participation positions you as a standard-setter, not a standard-adopter. Early involvement in standards architecture determines who shapes the governance structure of this emerging discipline.
You can build your practice in isolation and adapt later when standards crystallize. Or you can be part of building them right now.
5. Financial and Economic Framework Clarification
You don't know if your practice will be profitable. Break-even patient loads? Margin structures? Cost scaling dynamics? Profitability thresholds? None of this is systematically documented in medical literature. You're operating on instinct and incomplete data.
The "Know Your Numbers" sessions with Felix Olale and Jijoe Joseph provide empirical analysis of functioning longevity practice economics. Real numbers. Real models. Real tradeoffs. This clarity prevents years of financial inefficiency during practice development, years you don't have if you're competing against practitioners who already know their numbers.
6. Institutional Analysis
Your independent practice exists in a vacuum. Meanwhile, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, and Sheba Medical Center are building institutional longevity medicine programs with resources, data infrastructure, and organizational authority you don't have. Eventually, patients will expect what these institutions define as standard. You'll be playing catch-up.
Leading health systems have initiated institutional longevity medicine programming. Their approaches to patient assessment, biomarker selection, intervention protocols, and outcomes measurement establish institutional templates for practice development. Understanding these frameworks clarifies best practices for clinic-scale implementation and provides operational benchmarks for practice evaluation.
Sara Bonnes, Evelyne Bischop, and Zahi Fayad shape institutional strategy at Mayo Clinic, Sheba Medical Center, and Mount Sinai respectively. At the Summit, they'll explain how institutional resources, organizational constraints, and decision-making processes differ from independent practice contexts — so you can position your clinic against institutional standards before they become field expectations.
7. Physician Leadership Development
You're a good clinician so you know that field expansion requires physicians capable of organizational leadership, strategic communication, and institutional scaling. Right now, the most visible longevity physicians are building authority through media, speaking, and thought leadership. You're not competing on clinical knowledge anymore, you're competing on who can lead.
The "Doctors in the Followers Era" sessions examine physician leadership dynamics within attention-based media environments. Tania Elliott, Darshan Shah, Guénolé Addor, and Thomas Paloschi address authority construction, professional communication strategy, and influence architecture for physicians building significant practices. They'll show you how leadership looks different now and how to build it without sacrificing clinical credibility.
8. CAREER DEFINING roi
Capital is flowing into longevity infrastructure. Whether you're scaling a practice, closing a deal, or finding your next co-founder; leave with the connections and insights that move the needle. Board seats and advisory positions are opening across emerging health companies. If you are in the rooms where these opportunities surface, you gain access to deal formation that could reshape your practice or create new ones.
Summit investor participation and structured networking facilitate deal formation. The "Leadership On the Beach" lunch creates organic settings where investment discussions emerge naturally rather than through formal pitch mechanics. You're there to be discovered by investors who are looking for practitioners like you.
9. Institutional Leadership Engagement
You may not understand how institutional leaders think. Their constraints, their decision-making processes, their resource allocation might feel foreign to you. Yet institutional players are reshaping the longevity medicine landscape. If you can't speak their language, you run a risk of being marginalised as the field professionalises.
On June 10 at our session: Confessions of a longevity doctor, Yurth and Keller close the clinical day with two decades of truth: The foundation interventions that consistently move outcomes, and the protocols that promised more than they delivered.
10. THE AWARDS AND GALA EQUAL YOUR Participation in a Movement-Level Community
A black-tie evening at the Carlton Hotel. Red carpet. The longevitydocs.™ Awards ceremony honoring the physicians, researchers, and innovators defining the field. The night everyone talks about. You're building a longevity practice, and by joining us, you're part of building the longevity movement.
Explore CANNES
THE OFF SUMMIT STAGE CANNES Experience
Cannes in June is incomparable: the Croisette, the old port, the Riviera light. Come restored. Leave transformed. Hit the reset button here:
The longevitydocs Run Club
Early mornings along La Croisette. A steady pace, salt air, the Mediterranean coming into focus. The Run Club is how the day begins. Movement before conversation. Clarity before complexity.
Beach Fireside Chats
Conversations happen on sand. Mediterranean light, the sound of water, the kind of openness that changes what people say and how deeply it lands.
CLD Graduation Ceremony
Our Certified longevitydocs (CLD) cohort walks across the gala stage. This is the moment longevity medicine is celebrated.
The VIP Dinner
Curated engagement creates intimate contexts for sustained strategic discussion. The kind of conversation that only happens when the right people gather and have time to let it unfold.
The Blacktie Gala
200+ physicians, one room, one moment. This is what a momentum looks like when it gathers.
Le Suquet Old Town
Dinner in Cannes' old quarter. Cobblestones, harbor views, candlelight. The kind of setting where conversation deepens and lingers.
Marché Forville at 8 AM
8 AM at the market to experience see what the region grows, what's in season, what matters. A conversation with the landscape, think flowers, oysters, cheese. The most honest meal of the trip.
Boat to Île Sainte-Marguerite
Twenty minutes off the coast. The monastery, the Mediterranean, the silence.
Beach Lunch at Plage Macé or La Môme
The Riviera version of a working lunch.
Sunset Drive to Cap d'Antibes
Twenty minutes from Cannes, lighthouse at the tip, golden hour over the Med
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FAQ
What is the cost to attend longevitydocs cannes?
From $1,200 - $5,000 with Speaker & VIP and Gala dinner add-ons from $350-$450.
Can I attend if I am not yet building a longevity practice?
Yes. Cannes is designed for physicians at all stages. Whether you are exploring longevity medicine, currently building, or already operating a practice, the content is relevant.
What is the schedule like?
Sessions run from 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM, with breaks for meals and movement. You can choose which sessions to attend based on your interests.
WHO ATTENDS LONGEVITYDOCS CANNES?
The Longevity Docs Cannes Summit is designed for physicians, healthcare professionals, and clinic owners who are shaping the future of medicine — alongside health tech investors committed to advancing the longevity space.
About Dr. David Luu Dr. David Luu, MD, is the Founder of longevitydocs™. He is a trained pediatric cardiac surgeon, longevity tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist who helps physicians, organizations, and leaders build the global infrastructure of longevity medicine. About longevitydocs™ longevitydocs™ is the world's leading longevity physician community. Over 1,000 physicians across 50+ countries united by one conviction: every doctor should be a longevity doctor. We build the infrastructure, education, and community physicians need to make longevity medicine their default practice.
10 Reasons to Attend longevitydocs.™ Cannes 2026 Summit
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10 Reasons To Attend longevitydocs Cannes 2026
The window to shape longevity medicine is now. Three days in June. 200+ physicians. One movement.
Longevity medicine has transitioned from conjecture to operational infrastructure within six years. The expansion metrics are striking: clinic proliferation now outpaces qualified practitioners; patient demand has shifted from speculative to sustained; major health systems have launched institutional programming.
But here's what nobody talks about: most physicians building longevity practices are doing it alone. You have demand. You lack operational frameworks. You don't know which practitioners are actually succeeding at scale. You're isolated from the networks that are setting the standards your patients will eventually expect.
The Cannes longevitydocs Summit directly addresses this gap. A three-day convocation of 200+ physicians ad 40+ speakers across 20+ countries, gather to engage directly with others building infrastructure, access the operational blueprints that work, participate in standard-setting, and join the network reshaping medicine at institutional scale.
This is an investment in your future. Here are ten reasons why you must be in the room.
The 10 Reasons WHY YOU MUST ATTEND LONGEVITYDOCS CANNES 2026
1. Access to a VETTED Global Network of Practitioner-Leaders
250+ of the world's leading longevity physicians, researchers, investors, and innovators in one room. Referrals, partnerships, and collaborations that change careers.
Are you building a longevity practice in isolation? Unsure of who's succeeding, who's failing, or the frameworks actually work at scale? The Summit assembles the community actively constructing longevity infrastructure. These are the practitioners determining evidence-based longevity care standards, the ones making decisions that define the field.
Three days of sustained exposure in the most intentional setting whether through formal sessions, connection oriented meals, informal conversations on the beach or at our gala and awards ceremony, give you direct access to the network. Few professional convocations concentrate this density of field-defining practitioners in one place for this long.
2. Operational Architecture DEEP-DIVE
Longevity clinic development requires fundamentally distinct operational structures from conventional medical practices. Revenue models, staffing patterns, technology infrastructure, and patient acquisition strategies diverge substantially across implementation approaches. Digital versus facility-based platforms present differential cost structures and scaling dynamics. Health system integration differs markedly from independent practice structures.
The "Build Your Longevity Practice" sessions feature practitioners—Ali Watson, Mohit Joshipura, Melissa Loseke—who have deployed diverse models at operational scale. They'll walk you through their frameworks: what worked, what failed, where they scaled, where they hit walls. These are the operational tradeoffs that independent trial-and-error would require years to establish. You can compress a decade of learning into three days.
We have an entire agenda dedicated to the business of longevity medicine.
3. Cutting EDGE SCIENCE
Access research that won't be published for another 2 years. Our speakers share unpublished data, emerging protocols, and clinical insights.
4. ParticipatE in Certification Standard Development
Standards are being written right now. The practitioners in this room are determining what longevity medicine practice should look like clinically, operationally, educationally. If you're not in the conversation, you're adopting standards someone else built.
longevitydocs is architecting formal certification standards for longevity medicine practice. Unlike academic credentialing exercises, these standards establish the benchmarks that will define field expectations. Summit participation positions you as a standard-setter, not a standard-adopter. Early involvement in standards architecture determines who shapes the governance structure of this emerging discipline.
You can build your practice in isolation and adapt later when standards crystallize. Or you can be part of building them right now.
5. Financial and Economic Framework Clarification
You don't know if your practice will be profitable. Break-even patient loads? Margin structures? Cost scaling dynamics? Profitability thresholds? None of this is systematically documented in medical literature. You're operating on instinct and incomplete data.
The "Know Your Numbers" sessions with Felix Olale and Jijoe Joseph provide empirical analysis of functioning longevity practice economics. Real numbers. Real models. Real tradeoffs. This clarity prevents years of financial inefficiency during practice development, years you don't have if you're competing against practitioners who already know their numbers.
6. Institutional Analysis
Your independent practice exists in a vacuum. Meanwhile, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, and Sheba Medical Center are building institutional longevity medicine programs with resources, data infrastructure, and organizational authority you don't have. Eventually, patients will expect what these institutions define as standard. You'll be playing catch-up.
Leading health systems have initiated institutional longevity medicine programming. Their approaches to patient assessment, biomarker selection, intervention protocols, and outcomes measurement establish institutional templates for practice development. Understanding these frameworks clarifies best practices for clinic-scale implementation and provides operational benchmarks for practice evaluation.
Sara Bonnes, Evelyne Bischop, and Zahi Fayad shape institutional strategy at Mayo Clinic, Sheba Medical Center, and Mount Sinai respectively. At the Summit, they'll explain how institutional resources, organizational constraints, and decision-making processes differ from independent practice contexts — so you can position your clinic against institutional standards before they become field expectations.
7. Physician Leadership Development
You're a good clinician so you know that field expansion requires physicians capable of organizational leadership, strategic communication, and institutional scaling. Right now, the most visible longevity physicians are building authority through media, speaking, and thought leadership. You're not competing on clinical knowledge anymore, you're competing on who can lead.
The "Doctors in the Followers Era" sessions examine physician leadership dynamics within attention-based media environments. Tania Elliott, Darshan Shah, Guénolé Addor, and Thomas Paloschi address authority construction, professional communication strategy, and influence architecture for physicians building significant practices. They'll show you how leadership looks different now and how to build it without sacrificing clinical credibility.
8. CAREER DEFINING roi
Capital is flowing into longevity infrastructure. Whether you're scaling a practice, closing a deal, or finding your next co-founder; leave with the connections and insights that move the needle. Board seats and advisory positions are opening across emerging health companies. If you are in the rooms where these opportunities surface, you gain access to deal formation that could reshape your practice or create new ones.
Summit investor participation and structured networking facilitate deal formation. The "Leadership On the Beach" lunch creates organic settings where investment discussions emerge naturally rather than through formal pitch mechanics. You're there to be discovered by investors who are looking for practitioners like you.
9. Institutional Leadership Engagement
You may not understand how institutional leaders think. Their constraints, their decision-making processes, their resource allocation might feel foreign to you. Yet institutional players are reshaping the longevity medicine landscape. If you can't speak their language, you run a risk of being marginalised as the field professionalises.
On June 10 at our session: Confessions of a longevity doctor, Yurth and Keller close the clinical day with two decades of truth: The foundation interventions that consistently move outcomes, and the protocols that promised more than they delivered.
10. THE AWARDS AND GALA EQUAL YOUR Participation in a Movement-Level Community
A black-tie evening at the Carlton Hotel. Red carpet. The longevitydocs.™ Awards ceremony honoring the physicians, researchers, and innovators defining the field. The night everyone talks about. You're building a longevity practice, and by joining us, you're part of building the longevity movement.
Explore CANNES
THE OFF SUMMIT STAGE CANNES Experience
Cannes in June is incomparable: the Croisette, the old port, the Riviera light. Come restored. Leave transformed. Hit the reset button here:
The longevitydocs Run Club
Early mornings along La Croisette. A steady pace, salt air, the Mediterranean coming into focus. The Run Club is how the day begins. Movement before conversation. Clarity before complexity.
Beach Fireside Chats
Conversations happen on sand. Mediterranean light, the sound of water, the kind of openness that changes what people say and how deeply it lands.
CLD Graduation Ceremony
Our Certified longevitydocs (CLD) cohort walks across the gala stage. This is the moment longevity medicine is celebrated.
The VIP Dinner
Curated engagement creates intimate contexts for sustained strategic discussion. The kind of conversation that only happens when the right people gather and have time to let it unfold.
The Blacktie Gala
200+ physicians, one room, one moment. This is what a momentum looks like when it gathers.
Le Suquet Old Town
Dinner in Cannes' old quarter. Cobblestones, harbor views, candlelight. The kind of setting where conversation deepens and lingers.
Marché Forville at 8 AM
8 AM at the market to experience see what the region grows, what's in season, what matters. A conversation with the landscape, think flowers, oysters, cheese. The most honest meal of the trip.
Boat to Île Sainte-Marguerite
Twenty minutes off the coast. The monastery, the Mediterranean, the silence.
Beach Lunch at Plage Macé or La Môme
The Riviera version of a working lunch.
Sunset Drive to Cap d'Antibes
Twenty minutes from Cannes, lighthouse at the tip, golden hour over the Med
FAQ
What is the cost to attend longevitydocs cannes?
From $1,200 - $5,000 with Speaker & VIP and Gala dinner add-ons from $350-$450.
Can I attend if I am not yet building a longevity practice?
Yes. Cannes is designed for physicians at all stages. Whether you are exploring longevity medicine, currently building, or already operating a practice, the content is relevant.
What is the schedule like?
Sessions run from 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM, with breaks for meals and movement. You can choose which sessions to attend based on your interests.
WHO ATTENDS LONGEVITYDOCS CANNES?
The Longevity Docs Cannes Summit is designed for physicians, healthcare professionals, and clinic owners who are shaping the future of medicine — alongside health tech investors committed to advancing the longevity space.
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