Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026: innovating to live longer and better

We are living longer and want to do so with greater independence, health, and well-being. This shift is creating new needs and opening up opportunities for innovation in areas ranging from health and care to nutrition, technology, and the home. On October 14 and 15, the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026 will bring together various stakeholders from this ecosystem in Donostia-San Sebastián to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly long-lived society. Santalucía Impulsa will participate as a sponsor in this new edition. 

Living longer is one of our society's greatest achievements. But increased longevity also raises an increasingly relevant question: how do we manage to live more years with well-being, independence, and quality of life?

Answering this requires looking far beyond age. Longevity is transforming needs related to health, care, housing, protection, and social relationships, posing new challenges for individuals, companies, and institutions alike.

This conversation will be the focus of the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026, organized by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and ADINBERRI. Under the theme "The wave of living longer and better," the event will bring together companies, startups, technology centers, social and healthcare entities, public administrations, and professionals linked to longevity at the Kursaal in Donostia-San Sebastián on October 14 and 15.

Santalucía Impulsa will be present as a sponsor of this edition, forming part of an ecosystem that seeks to connect innovation, technology, knowledge, business, and care around the challenges posed by an increasingly long-lived society.

An increasingly long-lived society

Longevity is progressively transforming the structure of our society. According to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute, life expectancy in Spain reached 84.01 years in 2024, nearly five years more than in the year 2000. This evolution helps us understand why living longer—and, above all, how to do it better—has become an increasingly relevant issue.

But talking about longevity means going beyond how long we live. As our lives extend, it also becomes important how we want to live those years and what we need to do so with greater well-being and independence.

Health and prevention are part of that conversation, but so are care, housing, social relationships, savings, and planning for the different stages of our lives. Longevity is thus beginning to be understood from a much broader perspective and as a matter that accompanies us throughout our entire life journey.

The challenges to be addressed at the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026

How do we adapt our care models to a society that lives longer? What role can prevention play? How can we support people's independence for longer?

These are some of the questions that will be present at the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026, whose program focuses on the need to address longevity from different and complementary perspectives.

One of the major areas of conversation will be the evolution toward more comprehensive care models capable of connecting health, prevention, care, and well-being. This perspective responds to an increasingly evident reality: the needs of a long-lived society can hardly be addressed from a single discipline.

This cross-disciplinary vision will also be present through areas such as nutrition, technology, and housing. Different sectors that share the same challenge: finding new ways to help people maintain their quality of life and independence for longer.

That is precisely where one of the main values of events like Adinberri lies: bringing together different perspectives and knowledge around a common challenge.

Innovating to meet new needs

A longer life also creates different needs and transforms others we were already familiar with. And wherever new challenges appear, there is also room to seek new solutions.

Companies, startups, research centers, institutions, and professionals are exploring responses ranging from health and prevention technologies to new care models, tools that promote independence at home, and proposals aimed at maintaining an active and connected life.

In this context, innovation means understanding how people's needs evolve and finding new ways to address them. Startups are playing an especially interesting role in this process, with solutions that explore new ways of approaching independence, care, socialization, and well-being, as shown by some of the startups reinventing how we experience longevity that we have analyzed at Santalucía Impulsa.

Collaboration between these projects, established companies, institutions, and knowledge centers allows for the connection of different capabilities and accelerates the development of solutions that address real-world problems. It is precisely this ecosystem logic that makes longevity an especially interesting field for innovation.

A longer life transforms very different needs

One of the keys to understanding longevity is that its effects extend far beyond the healthcare sector. Living for more years also changes our relationship with housing, technology, care, work, and finances.

The home, for example, may need to evolve to promote independence; technology can facilitate health monitoring, communication, or certain daily tasks; and care services must adapt to different situations and levels of autonomy. Our economic perspective also changes: a longer life makes it more important to plan ahead for stages like retirement, keeping in mind that personal needs and circumstances can evolve over decades.

This diversity helps explain why longevity is mobilizing such different sectors and why the Adinberri program itself connects fields like health, nutrition, technology, and housing. The answers will hardly be found in a single product or service, but rather in the ability to adapt different solutions to increasingly long and diverse lives.

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Designing today how we want to live tomorrow

Longevity poses challenges related to health, care, independence, and the sustainability of our care models, but it also opens up the possibility of rethinking how we want to live for longer.

Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026 will be an opportunity to bring together different perspectives around this challenge and continue exploring how knowledge, innovation, and collaboration can contribute to finding new answers.

Frequently asked questions about Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026

What is the Adinberri Longevity Forum?

It is a meeting organized by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa and ADINBERRI that brings together companies, startups, technology centers, social and health entities, public administrations, and professionals linked to longevity to reflect on the challenges and opportunities of a society that is living longer and longer.

When and where is the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026 being held?

On October 14 and 15, 2026, at the Kursaal in Donostia-San Sebastián, under the theme "The wave of living longer and better."

What topics will be covered at the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026?

The program focuses on the evolution toward more comprehensive care models that connect health, prevention, care, and well-being, and addresses longevity from complementary fields such as nutrition, technology, and housing, with the goal of promoting independence and quality of life for longer.

What is the life expectancy in Spain?

According to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute, life expectancy in Spain reached 84.01 years in 2024, nearly five years higher than in the year 2000.

What is the role of Santalucía Impulsa in the Adinberri Longevity Forum 2026?

Santalucía Impulsa is participating as a sponsor for this edition, becoming part of an ecosystem that connects innovation, technology, knowledge, business, and care around the challenges of longevity—a field in which it has already analyzed the startups that are reinventing how we live longer lives.

At Santalucía Impulsa, we will be present at this edition to share our perspective on a future where living longer also invites us to think about how we can live better.