2023 (eng)aging! Conference & Technology fairPress Release
June 18, 2023, Prague

The sixth edition of the international conference on population aging called eng(aging)!
will take place in Prague and be streamed online on June 19-20, 2023. The event will beattended by many world-renowned experts including the Deputy Director of theInternational Institute on Ageing at the United Nations-Malta, Rosette Farrugia-Bonello,
the founder and president of On-Medio and SilverEco.org, Jérôme Pigniez, Director of
the Centre for research into the older workforce and lecturer at the University ofLeicester School of Business, Professor Matt Flynn, and Michal Halperin Ben Zvi, anexpert on the usability, engagement and adoption of digital products and services byolder adults.
The 2023 edition of the Conference will discuss two topics: the potential of the silver economy
to benefit all generations; and how to build capacity to manage crises and their impact on older
persons' lives. In the context of the continuing demographic transition of our population towards
aging, it is important to develop political, social, and technological innovations that support
older persons to pursue healthy and active aging and to be involved as agents of positivechange in all areas of societal life.
Older persons are now significant players in the economy and their role will get even bigger inupcoming years as population aging will continue. Silver economy, defined as the market thatis being developed around the needs of an aging population, is becoming increasingly
important and presents new business opportunities. Older persons also make a significant
economic and societal contribution by staying active longer and sharing their knowledge andexperience. Both their professional experience and purchasing power contribute to economic
growth and development. Promoting health and activity in older age and a more age-friendly
society is key to making the silver economy a potential for all generations.
Due to population aging around the world, older persons now constitute a significant proportionof those at risk during various crises. The focus of the next conference will be capacity building
to manage crises and their impact on lives of older persons, effective protection of older
persons and their inclusion in anti-crisis measures during pandemics, natural disasters, wars,
economic crises (inflation, unemployment, energy crisis, etc.). The recent experience of theCovid-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine shows that similar crises can seriously
threaten the social security, social and health care systems and opportunities for healthy andactive aging, and lead to social exclusion and loneliness, loss of employment and personal
independence, risk of poverty and other negative consequences for older persons. Better
preparedness to manage these crises require more decisive actions at all levels - individual,societal, including national public policies, and international cooperation, by revising thecurrent framework of policy on aging.
Special panels with the participation of experts from the Visegrad countries (V4), Ukraine,Georgia, Moldova, and Germany will be dedicated to current demographic outlook andpromoting healthy and active aging, harnessing the potential of the silver economy for allgenerations, or preparedness for managing crises and their impact on the lives of older people.
There will be a practical workshop focusing on work ability and age management (in Czech).
During the workshop the organizers will present the sixth “Age Management ExcellenceAward“ to a company with an exemplary approach to age management, i.e. managing people
with regard to age on the basis of the concept of work ability. Nominees in 2023 are Centrum
Kašpar, Domov pro seniory Černá Hora & Zámek Břežany, Masarykova univerzita, andMěstská část Praha 18.
At the Technology Fair, which is associated event of the conference, more than 12
technological products and innovations focused on older persons and their specific needs will
be presented.
The conference, which takes place under the auspices of Marian Jurečka, Minister of Labourand Social Affairs, is co-organized by the Active Aging Centre and the KEYNOTE company.
The partners of the conference are the International Visegrad Fund, Czech-German Future
Fund, JTI, and Česká spořitelna.
The full program as well as the list of speakers can be found here. Here you will find theregistration form.
The working language of the conference is English.
Contact for journalists and accreditation: Martin Špáta, tel. 608 153 456, spata@keynote.cz

About the project
The 6th international conference is organized in the frame of the long-term (eng)aging! The project, which focuses on fostering ofsociety-wide debate about the accelerating demographic change and population aging. The project aims to stimulate aconstructive discussion about these trends and to look for ways to make use of them for the benefit of society. The 2023 edition
will be held physically and will be streamed online.