Silver Longevity Business Association - SLBA

09/02/2026

We spent the day doing something simple but important. 💙

Karen visited senior centres across Edmonton to personally invite older adults to SilverTech Summit 2.0.

Because if we are talking about longer lives, better services, new ideas and what should be built next, seniors need to be in the room.

A huge thank you to every centre that welcomed us and every person who stopped to chat, ask a question or pick up a poster.

And if we did not make it to your centre that day, this invitation is for you too. 💬

📅 October 2, 2026
📍 WE Seniors, Edmonton
🎟️ Seniors attend FREE

Build With Us, Not for Us.

Share this with a senior who should be there.

08/25/2026

The momentum is building!

08/25/2026

✨ SilverTech 2.0 is built around a simple idea: the people affected by innovation should have a voice in shaping it.

That means bringing older adults, innovators, businesses, researchers and community leaders into the same room.

Not simply to present solutions.

To question them.

To test them.

To challenge them.

To improve them. 💬

Because a product can be technically impressive and still miss the mark if the person it was designed for does not trust it, understand it or want to use it.

💡 Better solutions come from better conversations.

And better conversations happen when lived experience is treated as expertise.

📅 October 2, 2026

📍 Westend Seniors Activity Centre, Edmonton

🎟️ Join us for SilverTech Summit 2.0
Early Bird Pricing Ends --- Aug 31, 2026. Grab your ticket now: https://silvertechsummit.ca/tickets

Build With Us, Not for Us!

08/19/2026

When we hear longevity, healthcare is often the first place our minds go. 🩺

And yes, health matters.

But longer lives change far more than what happens in a clinic.

🏠 How people live

💼 How they work

✈️ How they travel

💳 How they spend

📱 How they use technology

🤝 How they connect with community

That is why the longevity economy is not one sector sitting off to the side.

It is a shift moving across the whole economy.

💡 The better question for businesses is not:

**“Do we work in longevity?”**

It is:

“How will longer lives change the people we serve, employ and build for?”

That is the conversation SLBA wants more industries to be part of.

Because longer lives are not only a healthcare issue.

They are a business, community and design reality.

08/17/2026

08/17/2026

Helping often starts with good intentions.

A family member steps in.

A service gets simplified.

A tool is designed to make life easier.

But there is a line worth noticing.

👉 When does helping become deciding for someone?

Choice matters.

Voice matters.

Agency matters.

Especially when we are designing services, technology and systems for longer lives.

SLBA keeps coming back to this question because better solutions are rarely built by assumption alone.

They get better when lived experience is part of the process.

💬 Did we build this with the person, or did we simply decide what was best for them?

That question also sits at the heart of the conversations we are creating through SilverTech Summit 2.0.

08/13/2026

🗣️ A longer life should leave room for more voice, not less.

Aging out loud can mean speaking up about what matters, continuing to contribute, and taking part in the decisions that shape our lives and communities.

🤝 This is central to why SLBA exists.

It is also a belief we are carrying into SilverTech 2.0: Build with us, not for us.

💬 What does aging out loud look like in your life or work?

08/10/2026

🎙️ Turn up the volume. SilverTech 2.0 has hit the airwaves!

Our message is now reaching listeners across Edmonton on 880 CHED, and we are having a little fun hearing SilverTech out in the community.

Because conversations about longer lives, better choices, and technology that works for people belong in the wider community.

💙 A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Haidong Liang and Westend Seniors Activity Centre for generously gifting this 880 CHED radio spot to SilverTech and helping us bring this conversation to more people.

🔊 Turn up the sound and listen to the spot.

📅 October 2, 2026
📍 Westend Seniors Activity Centre

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