Boston, MA (Oct. 16, 2024) \u2013 Manulife is pleased to announce the winners of the Prospering in Longevity Challenge<\/a>, through UpLink, the World Economic Forum\u2019s open innovation platform, and the Forum\u2019s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems. Together, Manulife and the Forum have chosen ten winning global start-ups that have innovative approaches to preventative health care and strengthening financial wellness over longer lives.<\/p>\n The winners of the Prospering in Longevity Challenge are:<\/p>\n By 2050, the global population over 65 is expected to double to 1.6 billion, bringing significant health and wealth challenges for our planet. Manulife partnered with the World Economic Forum and UpLink on this challenge because of a shared sense of urgency to find accessible solutions to help people worldwide live longer, healthier, and better lives.<\/p>\n Manulife President and CEO Roy Gori<\/span> will share more details about the winners today at the Longer. Healthier. Better<\/i>. Longevity Symposium in Boston<\/span>, which was hosted for the first time in 2023. The winning startups will each receive C$50,000<\/span> in prize money alongside access to UpLink\u2019s Innovation Ecosystem. The ecosystem is a network of innovators, investors, experts, and partner organizations that can help them make a deeper impact.<\/p>\n \u201cThe world urgently needs solutions to address the longevity crisis. People are living longer, but not necessarily healthier lives. Many people cannot fund these extra years within the existing social and financial system,\u201d said Sarah Chapman<\/span>, Global Chief Sustainability Officer for Manulife. \u201cThe winners of this challenge are leveraging technology to create innovative solutions to these issues. Now more than ever, we need strategic collaboration like this to help people live longer, healthier, better lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the multi-year partnership between Manulife and UpLink was announced at the Forum\u2019s Annual Meeting in Davos<\/span> and the Prospering in Longevity Challenge is the first of three innovation challenges designed to help shape the future of, and investment in, the longevity economy.\u202fNew thematic focus areas will be picked for the next two challenges in 2025 and 2026.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough the multi-year partnership with Manulife and the World Economic Forum\u2019s Longevity Economy Initiative,\u202fUpLink\u202fis accelerating longevity innovation to empower people from all backgrounds to lead healthier, more financially resilient and fulfilling lives,\u201d said John\u202fDutton, Head of\u202fUpLink, World Economic Forum. \u201cThe first of three innovation challenges, Prospering in Longevity, attracted innovative solutions from around the world, with a focus on preventative healthcare and financial resilience across generations. We look forward to continuing our work with Manulife to source and scale start-ups in the longevity space, promoting resilient and prosperous lives for individuals, communities, and society as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n Learn more about the UpLink Innovation Challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n To learn more about Manulife\u2019s Impact Agenda, and to track progress against its goals, visit manulife.com\/impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n Manulife Financial Corporation (TSX\/NYSE\/PSE: MFC, SEHK: 945)<\/em> is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada<\/span>, we provide financial advice and insurance, operating as Manulife across Canada<\/span>, Asia<\/span>, and Europe<\/span>, and primarily as John Hancock<\/span> in the United States<\/span>. Through Manulife Investment Management, the global brand for our Global Wealth and Asset Management segment, we serve individuals, institutions, and retirement plan members worldwide. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. We trade as \u2018MFC\u2019 on the Toronto<\/span>, New York<\/span>, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under \u2018945\u2019 in Hong Kong<\/span>. For more information, visit www.manulife.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n UpLink is the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, designed to unlock an \u2018entrepreneur revolution\u2019 for people and planet by supporting start-ups with innovative solutions for the world\u2019s most pressing issues, as outlined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<\/p>\n Launched at the World Economic Forum\u2019s 2020 Annual Meeting in Davos<\/span> in partnership with Deloitte and Salesforce, UpLink builds bridges between entrepreneurs and the investors, experts and partners who can help scale their ventures. UpLink crowdsources new innovations through a competition framework known as innovation challenges. UpLink has now run more than 43 challenges and identified over 350 entrepreneurs with innovative solutions across critical SDG areas including health, food, freshwater, ocean, plastics, education, climate and more.\/ For more information, visit uplink.weforum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. For more information, visit www.weforum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Manulife Financial Corporation<\/i><\/p>\n Tags: Manulife<\/a>, World Economic Forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manulife gives half a million dollars in prize money to challenge winners to help accelerate their mission to enable people to live healthier, more prosperous lives Boston, MA (Oct. 16, 2024) \u2013 Manulife is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
About Manulife<\/b><\/h4>\n
About UpLink<\/b><\/h4>\n
About the World Economic Forum<\/b><\/h4>\n