Program

The Intersection of Longevity Science & Applied Medical AI

The theme of this year's gathering is The Intersection of Longevity Science & Applied Medical AI. The format is intimate by design. Salon-style conversations. Single topics held up to the light from every angle. And, because the DOC community carries some of the sharpest minds in the field, every member has a seat at the table, not just a seat in the room

Focal Points

Applied Medical AI
Where Intelligence Improves Care — and Where it Must be Constrained

Longevity Breakthroughs
What's Ready for the Clinic Now — and What Isn't

Prevention in Practice
Measuring, Moving, and Getting Ahead of Disease

 

Living Room Lab

To enhance the DOC experience, an interactive testing suite will let our community measure, monitor, and gain insight into their longevity and health using advanced, scientifically validated tools.

Fellows Program

In partnership with Buck Institute, the DOC Fellows program ensures the inclusion of diverse scientific, academic, and entrepreneurial perspectives from emerging voices in medicine, science, business and culture.

DOC 2026 sessions

Wednesday, October 21, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Check in, pick up your credentials, and orient yourself around the property.
 
 
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
The Living Room Lab and Skin Lab are onsite interactive testing suites encouraging our community to measure, monitor, and gain insight into their longevity and health using the latest, scientifically validated tools.
 
 
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Cutting through the hype on women's health tech to ask two questions: would I buy it, and would I invest in it?
 
 
What hundreds of thousands of real workouts reveal about why strength training drives healthspan.

John Battelle, DOC

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Meet the DOC community and hear from DOC's founders.
 
 
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
It's the fundamental question driving everything: Have we built a healthcare system that is so broken, it's not worth fixing?

Jordan Shlain M.D., Private Medical

 
9:30 PM - 10:30 PM
 
 
 
Thursday, October 22, 2026
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Start your day right with a healthy breakfast and optional wellness activities.
 
 
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
The Living Room Lab and Skin Lab are onsite interactive testing suites encouraging our community to measure, monitor, and gain insight into their longevity and health using the latest, scientifically validated tools.
 
 
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
An ecosystem for turning trusted longevity science into the standard of care.
 
 
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
DOC Faculty update the community on work they presented over the past two years.

Jordan Shlain M.D., Private Medical

 
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
A Report-Out From the Top Research Labs
 
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
See What You're About to Experience in The Living Room Lab
 
 
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
The Living Room Lab and Skin Lab are onsite interactive testing suites encouraging our community to measure, monitor, and gain insight into their longevity and health using the latest, scientifically validated tools.
 
 
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM
The gut is one of the body's most misunderstood organs and one of its most influential. This session traces gut health across a lifespan, from prenatal factors and early-life events to the modifiable choices that shape long-term wellbeing.
 
 
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Beyond the Hype: The Clinical Reality of Peptides and GLP-1s
 
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM
See What You're About to Experience in The Living Room Lab
 
 
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Join DOC Faculty for intimate table talks over lunch which will be recorded and summarized by AI
 
 
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
More Than Skin Deep: The Leading Edge of Beauty and Anti-Aging Science
 
 
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Where will ARPA-H place its billion-dollar bets?
 
 
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
How continuous wearable data could become the new front door to primary care.
 
A conversation with Cellular Intelligence Co-Founder & CEO Micha Breakstone, Ph.D., on the hidden language and logic of cells. Cellular Intelligence is building a universal foundation model for cell signaling in tandem with a Phase 2 ready therapeutic.

John Battelle, DOC

How ARPA-H backs the high-risk bets that can shift paradigms in therapeutics and care delivery.
 
 
The regulatory and reimbursement paths that could make preventive therapies investable.
 
 
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
The diligence questions investors and founders must answer in AI-era healthcare.

John Battelle, DOC

What regenerative biology reveals about the future of skin health and treatment.
 
 
Charting the innovation landscape for emerging treatments and evolving market segments.
 
 
Why glucose matters far beyond diabetes, and what it reveals about how you feel and function.
 
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
 
 
 
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Sit in with the DOC House Band
 
 
Friday, October 23, 2026
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Start your day right with a healthy breakfast and optional wellness activities.
 
 
8:15 AM - 9:15 AM
Five scientists separate what's proven from what's promising and what's just marketing.
 

Cellitas, Clostrabio, Nutrafol, One Bio, and Timeline

Lessons on trust and staying power from nearly two centuries at America's oldest drugstore.
 
 
How measuring physical performance becomes a core tool of proactive longevity care.

John Battelle, DOC

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
CRISPR changed the game. ABEs are doing it again, with significant ethical and medical implications.
 
 
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
For clinicians and patients, a no BS view of real tools that matter now.
 
 
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
You couldn't be at every session — but our AI was!
 
 
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
One of the Valley's most connected investors on what he's seeing.
 
 
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
How your genes predict your future health.
 
 
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Debrief and celebrate another successful DOC gathering.