Global Wellness Summit 2025
Tracy Lee, President + Founder, has just returned from an energizing few days at the 19th annual Global Wellness Summit. We’re inspired by the conversations and ideas shaping the future of wellness and grateful to be part of an industry where learning, collaboration, and personal growth are integral to the work.
Explore Tracy’s key takeaways and the trends shaping what’s next…
#1 Breaking Down Silos
The Summit demonstrated how medicine, biotech, hospitality, traditional wellness, tech, and real estate are finally converging to shape a more integrated future of well-being.
#2 Where Medicine Meets Wellness
From gene editing and AI-driven precision medicine to epigenetics and advanced biomarker science, the agenda made clear that longevity is becoming a truly interdisciplinary pursuit.
#3 Holistic Wisdom Still Leads
The timeless pillars are still central to sustaining a long, vibrant life: spirituality, community, movement, nutrition, breathwork, and meditation.
#4 UAE As a Longevity Testbed
The UAE stood out for its national ambition: aligning policy, infrastructure, and proactive prevention to become a global model for longevity-forward living.
#5 Evidence Over Hype
There was a strong commitment to collaboration rooted in research and data, and science, setting a more rigorous foundation for the longevity space.
#6 Pulse on The Global Wellness Economy
The GWI’s new Global Wellness Economy Monitor offered a meaningful snapshot of all 11 sectors, underscoring how expansive and interconnected the ecosystem has become. Now valued at 6.8 Trillion!
#7 Longevity: The Concept of the Moment
While longevity dominated the conversation, the industry is still actively shaping what it means across cultures, markets, and modalities.
#8 Healthspan Over Lifespan
The real momentum is around staying capable, energized, and resilient longer; not simply increasing the number of years lived.
#8 Tech + Tradition
The future is clearly hybrid: precision diagnostics, wearables, and AI paired with the grounding practices of recovery, breath, nature, and mindset.
#9 Science Is Finally Catching Up
Advances in epigenetics, biomarker analysis, and personalized protocols are giving credibility and structure to what used to be conceptual conversations.
#10 Well-being As a Cultural Value
Perhaps the biggest shift: wellness is becoming a societal expectation, shaping how we live, travel, work, and build community.