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Forthcoming Events
Explore the World Dementia Council’s forthcoming programme of virtual and in-person events. These meetings bring together leaders from research, clinical practice, public health, industry, and advocacy to share insight and experience. The schedule includes global Summits, regional roundtables, thematic dialogues, and expert workshops. Read more about what is planned in the months ahead.
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2026 WDC Summits
Over the course of 2026, the World Dementia Council will host a series of major summits, bringing together leaders from research, clinical practice, public health and advocacy. These include the 2026 WDC Summit in London to be held in October, and the WDC China Summit in Guangzhou in November. The meetings will explore how scientific progress in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment can be translated into real-world practice.
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Advocacy Events
The World Dementia Council hosts advocacy roundtables and workshops with advocates, policymakers, and community leaders. These sessions explore how public understanding of dementia is changing, and how advocacy can help drive access to diagnosis and treatment, deliver brain health interventions, and enable innovation. Participants share experience from different countries and movements, identifying practical ways to shape public and political awareness.
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Brain Health Events
Follow the link to see upcoming and past World Dementia Council events showcasing work on brain health across the globe. These gatherings bring together leaders, researchers, advocates and policymakers to share knowledge and drive action. Click through to explore how each event contributes to advancing understanding and implementation of brain health initiatives.
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Innovation Events
The World Dementia Council convenes innovation dialogues, roundtables, and workshops with scientific leaders, industry partners, policymakers, and practitioners. These sessions examine how innovation is driving advances in science and public policy. Participants share experience from different systems and sectors, identifying what enables innovation to move from discovery to real-world delivery — and where policy, infrastructure, or investment environments need to evolve to support responsible and equitable implementation.
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Events: Dementia in India
The World Dementia Council hosts virtual and in-person dialogues and workshops with advocates, policymakers, and community leaders. These sessions explore lessons from diagnosis and treatments, brain health implementation and moving from science to public health system delivery. National and international participants share experience from different countries and professions.
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Past Events
Read more about World Dementia Council events that have taken place around the world in person and virtually in previous years. These include in-person WDC summits taking place in the UK and Japan, dementia side events at the G7 health ministers meeting and side events at international conferences. The Council also hosted a series of dialogues on different aspects of dementia policy, including clinical trials, the development of biomarkers and treatments, data sharing, technology and care, among other topics.
The World Dementia Council brings together global policymakers and leaders in dementia to explore solutions to new and emerging challenges facing people living with dementia. The Council works to promote a shared understanding about the challenge facing the field and how to make progress. The first treatments mark a significant shift for the field.
For the first time Alzheimer's disease is treatable. Even if the impact of treatments is limited and are only available in only a few countries, this signals the direction of travel for the field. Over the years ahead there will be more treatments, for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, and to both manage symptoms and to modify the course of the disease. These will be easier and cheaper to deliver and bring greater benefits for patients and caregivers. At the same time understanding about how to prevent disease is increasing. As science advances prevention, diagnosis and treatment, the public policy challenge becomes implementing them in health systems. And implementing them in a way that doesn't increase national, or global, inequity.
Treatments will not remove the need for care and support. Whether that is for the person with dementia or their caregiver, this is a huge area of unmet need. Formal and informal care, in both impact and cost, is fundamental to the lived experience of dementia today. Whether through health and social care systems, funding, or technology, it is possible to deliver interventions that have impact.
The Council is exploring these through virtual and in-person events. Along with the annual WDC Summit taking place in London, the Council is hosting virtual and in-person events looking at the impact of dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Council is also hosting a series of virtual dialogues for global experts to understand the impact of treatments and explore how progress can be accelerated. Read more about forthcoming events taking place around the world in-person and virtually below.