Professor Nic Palmarini leads the UK’s National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA), co-founded the Edelman Longevity Lab, serves as CEO of Voice® Italia, and is affiliated with the Harvard Meta Lab. His extensive experience includes roles at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and as Head of AI for Healthy Aging at IBM Research in Cambridge, USA. He previously directed the Human Centric Innovation Centre in Paris and served as IBM Smart City Subject Matter Expert. With expertise in social and political studies, he specializes in bridging academic and industrial research to advance healthy longevity initiatives.

His pioneering programs include “Living Safer” for caregivers, the Internet of Caring Things, and the City of Longevity, which received the first Dubai Future Foundation Foresight Award. As co-founder of Talent Garden’s Innovation School, he helped establish Europe’s largest innovation hub. Currently a Professor of Practice at Newcastle University, he has authored five books, including the 2019 bestseller *Immortals: Economy for Longevity*. A TEDx speaker and co-curator of the Milano Triennale’s Exhibition on Healthy Longevity, he also serves on multiple boards, including MIRA, GIMI, and the Humane Technology Lab.