Agenda

Danielle D. Duplin, President, FreeWind Productions, is an award-winning public speaking coach and strategic event curator, and innovation catalyst. Danielle combines her unique background in software engineering, executive leadership, and ideas theater to help clients inform, inspire, and influence their audiences. Previously, Danielle served as co-founder of TEDxBoston, an inaugural producer for HUBweek, and Vice President, Innovation and Technology at Fidelity Investments for 26+ years.
 
Danielle currently serves as an advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank Working Cities Challenge, and a mentor for startups in MassChallenge and the FinTech Sandbox. Danielle’s latest venture is co-founder and Global Launch Director of AGENCY: Worldwide Innovation for Living Longer and Aging Better.
 

Stephen Johnston MBA is a co-founder of Aging2.0 a global innovation platform for aging and senior care, founder of Fordcastle, an innovation consultancy and a member of the Future Agenda, the world’s largest open foresight initiative. Stephen serves on the board of Music and Memory a New York 501c3 nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life for older people, He is co-author of Growth Champions (Wiley, 2012), a book about sustainable corporate growth. He has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
 

Han was born 83 years ago in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Han was also a caregiver for his wife with dementia for 5 years, with whom he has been very happily married for 50 years and with whom he had two children who now also have two children. Han's experience as a caregiver was very trying, and he realized that 80% of the long-term care in Europe is provided by informal caregivers and that almost 20% are overloaded in the Netherlands. This experience was one of the reasons for starting his Silver Starters project "Are You Okay Today" and taking the Silver Starter course in the first place. Han has a lot of hobbies and does a lot of sports to stay vital. Before founding his start-up, Han worked at IBM for 31 years in research and development.

Daria Myers is a recognized leader in the beauty industry with 30+ years experience across all category disciplines. With a renowned track record at the Estee Lauder Companies, she has founded, developed and managed multiple brands and divisions with direct oversight of strategy development, marketing, creative, merchandising, product and packaging development, finance, supply chain, retail channel formats and innovation.
Daria is recognized as an industry expert in the area of natural and organic products as well as in sustainability and corporate responsibility. She is co- founder of Origins Natural Resources, considered the most disruptive and innovative beauty brand of the 1990’s, setting precedents that changed the beauty industry. Origins was a pioneer in the concepts of inner/outer wellness, natural essential oils, sustainable packaging and environmentally sound principles, and remains a brand that is globally relevant and robust today. It was also the first true omni channel beauty brand with distribution across department stores, retail stores, infomercial, spas, online, and pharmacies.
As Origins brand President, she grew Origins distribution to 150+ free-standing retail stores globally, and re-engineered the brand for pharmacy distribution in Europe. She created a licensing partnership with renowned integrative health expert Dr. Andrew Weil, resulting in a significantly incremental “sub brand” within Origins that thrives today. As interim President of Aveda, Daria integrated the brand into the Estee Lauder Companies post acquisition, helped to commercialize their wellness mission and values, to expand opportunities to a growing target market. She oversaw all product development, creative, marketing and communications efforts.
In her last role at the Estee Lauder Companies, she established the first ever internal venture division, with a mission to identify up and coming indie beauty brands, recommending strategic acquisitions. Once acquired, her team helped to grow the companies to scale to enable integration into the larger corporation. In this role, she worked on all aspects of due diligence pre-acquisition, and then worked closely with founders as global advisor,with special emphasis on marketing, creative, product development and regulatory.
Daria has been a keynote speaker at global summits, including Intercosmetics in Paris, Centifolia Congresse in Grasse, the Organic Summit in Boulder, the Natural Beauty Summit in New York and the Wharton Women’s Leadership Forum in Philadelphia. She has also hosted special programs at TED conferences in San Francisco and Vancouver on the topic of Beauty & Aging.

Melissa Gong Mitchell is Executive Director of the Global Coalition on Aging, the leading business voice on aging policy and strategy. She also serves as Managing Director at High Lantern Group, a strategic communications consulting firm. GCOA uniquely brings together global corporations across industry sectors to promote good public policy and market-based solutions centered on healthy and active aging.  In her role, Melissa is responsible for the operations and management of the coalition, internal and external communication strategies, and member and stakeholder outreach and development, including fostering relationships and aligning partners across industry, academia, the NGO community, advocacy organizations, governments and global institutions. Melissa has spoken around the world about the opportunities of the aging mega-trend and the role of business in leveraging aging for economic growth. She has served as a member of the Professions Working Group that advises the Age-friendly New York City Commission and as a member of the Benefit Committee of the Skin Cancer Foundation.