Welcome to Future of Wellness

Future of Wellness was initially launched online at EMERGE 2020 and represented by an intense program that covered a broad spectrum of topics: mental wellbeing, longevity, yoga, and meditation, mindfulness. Speakers and wellbeing enthusiasts from different parts of the world indicated the future of wellness as a unique collaboration of creativity, mindfulness, and technology. The fast-paced technology development has a significant impact on each industry and wellbeing is not inception.

The Future of Wellness track was curated by Eddie Stern — a renowned yoga teacher and wellbeing enthusiast from New York in collaboration with the Future of Wellness conference founders. The track was built to deliver to the audience the authentic spirit of creativity and inspiration. The track's agenda highlighted the importance of wellbeing for the wellness community and its technological transformation in the future.

Eddie Stern is an Ashtanga yoga teacher with more than 30 years of experience, who lives in New York, USA. He is an advocate of a science-based approach to wellness, co-founder of The Breathing App, bestselling author, and a moderator of international conferences on mindfulness and wellbeing. At EMERGE 2020 conference, Eddie Stern has being moderated a talk with the conference celebrity guest — Deepak Chopra. Deepak Chopra had delivered a speech about the importance of consciousness and what is the role of technology in that.

The beginning of the conference was highlighted by morning meditation with Nicho Plowman. The meditation was broadcasted online and easily accessed by any member of the conference from anywhere they were. Nicho is a Vedic Meditation Teacher, a co-founder of one of the most popular mediation app Insight Timer. During live mediation, Nicho mentioned the importance of balance between consciousness and commercial considerations to build such a global platform as Insight Timer.

Future of Wellness track was honoured to have Daniel Kraft in the role of a speaker at EMERGE 2020. He covered the topics of digital health, biomedicine, and the technological impact on medicine development. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University. He is also a founder of Exponential Medicine. Daniel had attended 5 TED and MedTED conferences, where he talked about the future of medicine and health within the technological revolution.

Another conference highlight with the talk done by Eliza Vinokurova straight from her home office in Riga, Latvia. Eliza covered various biohacking and neuroscience techniques to speed up the productivity. She explained how the brain works and shared a few examples of neuroscience experiments. Afterwards, Eliza revealed the latest researches results regarding the benefits of meditation practices, mindfulness, and biohacking tools.

The Future of Wellness track was happy to have Akash Mehta as a speaker. Akash is a millennial entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30, UNICEF Guardian, collaborator to Deepak Chopra Foundation and a co-founder at Fable and Mane. He shared his thoughts about mindful technology and conscious social branding.

Valery Sharipov the founder of MALIVAR directly from Moscow, Russia has shown how virtual humans can be customized for fashion, marketing, and wellness purposes. Malivar’s famous digital human Aliona Pole convinced everybody that there is nothing impossible and technology can create a whole new world.

The conference audience also had a chance to listen and discuss the future of online yoga and fitness. Misha Lyalin, the Chairman and CEO at Zeptolab and investor in Zenia had expressed his futurologist viewpoint on the use of technology for global wellbeing products over the discussion with Eddie Stern. Vladimir Bataev — an international independent expert in disruptive innovation was invited to moderate the panel.

Stacey Bendet has introduced audience to the matter of the creative community. Stacey is CEO & Creative Director at Alice+Olivia. She explained why Creatively was launched as a unique job platform where brands as well as creative and talented job seekers can find each other. Her talk has finalized the Future of Wellness track's program and together with Eddie Stern, they summed up the significance of yoga, activism, sustainability, and fashion in our hectic times.

If you are interested in what you just read, we have awesome news for you! Soon we will launch our first online wellbeing conference. Mark your calendars — 13−14 November 2020. Stay tuned with us!