Edmonton, Alberta
SilverTech Summit — Bridging Innovation and Longevity
Bridging Innovation and Longevity
A senior-centred summit where older adults, entrepreneurs, researchers, developers, service providers, and community leaders come together to shape practical solutions for aging well — from healthcare and home support to connection, recreation, and everyday life.
Build with us, not for us.
About the Summit
Strengthening Edmonton's aging innovation ecosystem.
SilverTech Summit is a community-based aging innovation event that creates a shared space where older adults, entrepreneurs, service providers, researchers, nonprofits and community partners can connect, learn, and build practical solutions for aging well — together.
October 2, 2026
One-day summit · Fall 2026
Edmonton, AB
Westend Seniors Activity Centre
200+ attendees
Seniors, innovators, professionals
Hosted by
The Silver Longevity Business Association.
Silver Longevity Business Association brings together businesses, professionals, innovators, and community partners who support aging adults and their families across Alberta.
SLBA is built on relationships. It is a place where trusted connections grow, referrals flow naturally, ideas are shared openly, and conversations turn into collaborations.
SilverTech Summit is SLBA's signature annual event — a public gathering where that relationship-based community comes together with older adults, researchers, entrepreneurs, service providers, and innovators to shape practical solutions for aging well.
- A relationship-first community across Alberta
- Trusted connections, referrals and collaborations
- Businesses, professionals and community partners
- Focused on aging adults and their families
Why It Matters
The best solutions come from listening first.
Too often, ideas for aging are designed without enough input from the people who will actually use them. SilverTech Summit changes that by putting older adults in the conversation early — as advisors, testers, storytellers, and decision-makers.
From healthcare and home support to recreation, connection, safety, and everyday life, the best solutions come from listening first.
1M+
Alberta seniors projected by 2035
$8T
Projected global longevity economy revenues by 2030
96%
of older Canadians want to live independently as long as possible
3 in 5
adults 50+ say technology is not designed with their age in mind
Who Should Attend
If aging touches your work — or your life — you belong here.
Older adults & family caregivers
Bring your lived experience, questions, hopes, concerns, and voice.
Entrepreneurs & innovators
Listen, test assumptions, gather feedback, and build with the people your ideas are meant to serve.
Healthcare, housing & home support
Connect with practical ideas and partners supporting aging in place, care, safety, and independence.
Researchers & post-secondary partners
Bring research closer to community needs, lived experience, and real-world implementation.
Nonprofits & community organizations
Share what is working, find collaborators, and strengthen support for older adults and families.
Government & system leaders
Hear directly from older adults and community partners to better align programs, policy, and funding with real needs.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Partner with us to support aging well.
SilverTech Summit sponsors help create a meaningful space where older adults, entrepreneurs, researchers, service providers, nonprofits, and community partners can come together to shape practical solutions for aging well.
Sponsorship goes beyond logo placement. It supports senior participation, community access, practical innovation, and stronger connections across Edmonton's aging and innovation ecosystem.
CommittedPlatinum Venue & Community Partner
WE Seniors — Westend Seniors Activity Centre
A key community partnership supporting the Summit through venue, hosting support, event infrastructure, community connection, and senior-centred leadership.
WE Seniors is helping create the welcoming, accessible environment where older adults, innovators, service providers, researchers, and community partners can come together to shape practical solutions for aging well.
Leadership opportunity · By conversation
Our highest-level community partnership for an organization that wants to be visibly connected to senior-centred innovation, ecosystem building, and community impact.
Leadership opportunity · By conversation
A prominent presenting partnership helping anchor the Summit experience and support broad participation from seniors, partners, and innovators.
$2,500
A strong visibility opportunity for organizations supporting practical innovation, collaboration, and solutions that help older adults age well.
$1,500
A custom sponsorship opportunity connected to networking, refreshment breaks, and meaningful informal conversation throughout the Summit.
$1,000
An accessible sponsorship level for organizations that want to support aging well, community connection, and the seniors-serving ecosystem.
$500
A community-level sponsorship for smaller businesses, nonprofits, solo professionals, and local partners who want to show their support for senior-centred innovation, community connection, and aging well. Designed for organizations that want to be visible as part of the Summit community while helping support accessible participation for older adults.
Custom Sponsorship Opportunities
- Tech Leaders of Tomorrow Sponsor
- Program / Printing Sponsor
- Welcome Reception Sponsor
- Summer Mixer Sponsor
- In-kind and community partnership options
Leadership sponsorships and in-kind partnerships may be tailored to reflect community contribution, venue support, ecosystem alignment, and unique sponsor goals.
Not sure where your organization fits? Tell us a little about your goals and we'll help identify the right opportunity.
Program in Development
Building on last year's momentum.
The SilverTech Summit program is currently being developed with community partners, older adults, innovators, service providers, and ecosystem leaders.
This year, we want to include updates from some of last year's participants, presenters, vendors, and innovation partners — sharing what has happened since the first Summit, what moved forward, what they learned, and how community connection helped shape the next step.
Rather than creating a traditional conference agenda first and inviting seniors in later, we are shaping the day around meaningful participation, practical demonstrations, community learning, and real conversation.
Program elements may include
- Updates from last year's participants and innovation projects
- Senior-led conversations
- Innovation and service showcases
- Practical demonstrations
- Community partner discussions
- Research and aging innovation insights
- Opportunities for older adults to share feedback
- Networking between seniors, entrepreneurs, service providers, researchers, nonprofits, and funders
Full program details will be announced as speakers, partners, sponsors, and sessions are confirmed.
For Seniors & Community
Your voice belongs in the future of aging.
SilverTech Summit is designed to include older adults as active participants in the conversation about aging well. We want to hear what feels useful, what feels realistic, what feels respectful — and what is missing.
Whether you are an older adult, family caregiver, community member, or someone supporting aging parents or grandparents, your lived experience matters.
At the Summit, seniors and community members may have opportunities to:
- Attend community-focused sessions
- Ask questions directly to innovators and service providers
- Share feedback on ideas, programs, and technologies
- Take part in senior-led conversations
- Help shape what aging well looks like in real life
We are working to make the event welcoming, accessible, and meaningful for older adults and caregivers.
A note for older adults & caregivers
You don't have to be "techy" to belong here.
SilverTech Summit is not just for people who love technology. It is for older adults, family caregivers, and community members who want to have a say in what gets built, offered, funded, and improved for aging well.
You may come with curiosity, concerns, lived experience, questions, or ideas. All of that belongs here.
Whether the topic is health, housing, transportation, home support, recreation, safety, connection, caregiving, or everyday life, your perspective helps others understand what actually matters.
What seniors and caregivers can expect:
- A welcoming community setting
- Plain-language conversations
- Opportunities to ask questions
- Practical demonstrations and ideas
- A chance to share what feels useful, realistic, or missing
- Time to connect with people who care about aging well
- No technology expertise required
For Innovators & Exhibitors
Get closer to the people you're building for.
The Summit may include guided feedback opportunities, small-group conversations, and senior input sessions that connect innovators, service providers, and exhibitors directly with older adults and community members. Specific formats will be confirmed as the program develops.
Showcase Booth
Exhibitor space to share your product, service, or program with seniors, community partners, and ecosystem leaders attending the Summit.
Senior Feedback Conversation
A guided opportunity to hear directly from older adults and community members about your idea, service, product, or program. Format and timing will be confirmed as the program is developed.
Demo & Conversation Moments
Possible short demonstration or conversation slots woven into the day. Format, length, and structure to be confirmed.
Participation options are being shaped alongside seniors, community partners, and ecosystem leaders. Reach out early to help shape what works for your team.
Contact · Get Involved
Let's build it together.
Tell us how you'd like to be part of SilverTech Summit 2.0. We respond to every message — typically within two business days.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Build with us, not for us.