July 13, 2015

Happening Today: The 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Today is the day! The White House Conference on Aging starts at 10 am ET. You can watch the entire day live on the White House website. 

Please join the national conversation by sending us questions and pictures on Twitter and Facebook using #WHCOA. You can also participate via the White House Facebook event. 

Below is the agenda for today’s event. 

White House Conference on Aging Agenda

Welcome

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public EngagementIntroduced by Bernard Nash

Caregiving in America Panel

Moderator: David Hyde Pierce, Actor

Secretary Robert A. McDonald, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations

Harry Leider, Walgreens

Frank Fernandez, BluePlus, BCBS Minnesota Foundation

Britnee Fergins, Caregiver

Video Highlights

Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Remarks

President Barack Obama

Introduced by Vickie Elisa

Planning for Financial Security at Every Age Panel

Moderator: Secretary Tom Perez, U.S. Department of Labor

Jean Chatzky, AARP Financial Ambassador

Vickie Elisa, Mothers’ Voices Georgia 

Robin Diamonte, United Technologies Corporation 

Andy Sieg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Remarks

Nora Super, Executive Director of the 2015 White House Conference on Aging

Remarks

Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council

Armchair Conversation: Innovations in Aging

DJ Patil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Joe Coughlin, MIT AgeLab

Anita Roth, Airbnb

Seth Sternberg, Honor

Lightning Talk: Disrupting Aging

Jo Ann Jenkins, AARP

Introduced by Nora Super

Armchair Conversation: Nutrition and Aging

Secretary Tom Vilsack, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ellie Hollander, Meals on Wheels America

The Power of Intergenerational Connections and Healthy Aging Panel

Moderator: Michael Smith, WebMD

Diana Nyad, Professional Athlete

Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General

Mayor Matt Hayek, Iowa City, IA

Kevin Washington, YMCA

Fernando Torres-Gil, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Lightning Talk: Care for All

Mary Kay Henry, SEIU

Introduced by Molita Cunningham

Empowering All Generations: Elder Justice in the Twenty-First Century Panel

Introduction: Director Richard Cordray, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Moderator: Kathy Greenlee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Elizabeth Loewy, Eversafe.com

Lynne Person, Office of the D.C. LTC Ombudsman 

James Baker, International Association of Chiefs of Police

Scott Dueser, First Financial Bank

Armchair Conversation: Universal Design

Stephanie Santoso, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Tim Brown, IDEO

Barbara Beskind, IDEO

Technology and the Future of Aging Panel

Moderator:  Jeff Zients, National Economic Council

Susannah Fox, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Rachel Holt, Uber

Tom Parkinson, Peapod LLC

Charles Wallace, Michigan Technological University

Larry Raffone, Financial Engines

Donna Levin, Care.com

Closing Remarks

Secretary Tom Perez, U.S. Department of Labor

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