MOTIVATION | As people around the world live and work longer, how can we reimagine opportunities that leverage their unique skills and knowledge?  

CONCEPT | Share policy and practical perspectives from people representing industrialized and industrializing countries about ideas and programs that train and position older people for successful encore careers.

EXECUTION | Debra Whitman, Chief Public Policy Officer of AARP moderates panel with Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM, Phyllis Kandie, Cabinet Secretary, Kenya Ministry of East African Community, Labour, and Social Protection, and Marc Freedman, founder and CEO, Encore.org

BACKSTAGE | This session surprised me. Watching it play out, I realized that the panelists were challenging and changing my own perceptions about what it means to contribute to society later in life. Consider me a reformed agist!