Longevity by Design: AI, Data and Healthy Ageing

Johannes Walter

IU University of Applied Sciences

Friday, 27 February 2026

at 11.00 am

Nexa Center for Internet & Society
Politecnico di Torino, via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1st floor)

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Virtual classroom: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent

An aging society is forcing healthcare systems to undergo fundamental change: away from selective care and toward continuous, preventive, and data-based care. In this presentation, I will show how artificial intelligence can support healthy aging—through early risk detection, better prevention, and support for clinical decisions, with responsibility and final decisions remaining with humans.

Using concrete examples, we will discuss what is already realistically feasible today and where obstacles still exist in practice.

Finally, we will highlight the most important prerequisites for a sustainable impact: evidence and evaluation, interoperability, data protection and governance, integration into workflows, and clear structures for responsibility and accountability.

Biography

Johannes Walter is a researcher and consultant at the intersection of business, AI governance, and innovation. His research combines regulatory design (e.g., AI regulatory sandboxes and EU AI law), technology assessment, and policy analysis. He investigates how technology affects productivity, society, labor markets, and institutional change, and how data-driven systems can be responsibly implemented and sustainably scaled in regulated environments. He works with organizations in regulated environments such as healthcare, social services, industry, and the public sector.