The fastest way to find the right biohacking conference in 2026 is to filter, not search.
Most search results bury the signal under SEO roundups recycling the same five events.
Below you’ll find 9 events worth considering for 2026.
Flagship summits, niche retreats, and a Stockholm longevity invitational.
Each has dates, location, and a direct registration link.
I’m Nick Urban, School of Biohacking Instructor and host of the Outliyr Podcast.
I keep this list current and prune cards as conferences rebrand or shut down.
Three from the original list went out of business. Three rebranded. That’s all reflected here.
9 biohacking events worth attending in 2026: 3 European flagships, 4 US in-person summits, 1 longevity invitational, 1 immersive retreat.
Ticket prices span three orders of magnitude: free virtual passes at some summits, $200 to $500 regional events, $500 to $1,500 flagship summits, $2,000 to $5,000+ VIP and CME tiers.
Three of the original 2024-listed conferences (KetoCon, Biohackers Summit, Biohacking Conference) rebranded for 2026. Another three (Paleo f(x), Metabolic Health Summit, Biohack The World) are dormant or defunct.
May (BEYOND, Austin) and November (HOLOLIFE Amsterdam + Hack Your Health Tampa) are the densest months. June covers two longevity-leaning events (Super Human Stockholm + Biohackers World NYC).
For first-time attendees: start with a regional event or invitational virtual summit before committing to an international flagship. Smaller settings build relationships and let you ask speakers questions directly.
Which Biohacking Conferences Are Worth Attending in 2026?
Nine events are confirmed for 2026.
Each made the list because it draws practitioners, researchers, or self-experimenters who push the field forward.
Not because it pays the most or markets the loudest.
The shortlist groups by intent:
- Largest flagship summits with the strongest vendor floors: Health Optimisation Summit (London, September), BEYOND (Austin, May), HOLOLIFE Summit (Amsterdam, November), Hack Your Health (Tampa, November).
- Longevity-leaning invitationals and East Coast events: Super Human Summit (Stockholm, June, invite-only), Biohackers World (NYC, June).
- Smaller, more intimate experiences: Mindvalley A-Fest (members-only, exotic location), Primalhacker Italy Retreat (under 30 people).
- Rotating regional events: Biohacking Congress (Miami, Austin, Los Angeles).
Only attending one event in 2026? Pick the largest flagship in your home region.
The vendor floor alone usually pays for the ticket in saved purchase mistakes.
How I Rate Biohacking Events
I weigh speaker quality, attendee experience, educational depth, and networking opportunities.
The best events also offer attendee-exclusive pricing on health technologies.
That alone can make the trip worth it beyond the content.
Your ideal conference depends on what you want.
Cutting-edge research. Hands-on demos. Or community connections.
Filter the list above by what you actually need.
What Counts as a Biohacking Conference vs. a Longevity Event?
The labels overlap. The rooms feel different.
A biohacking conference centers self-experimenters, consumer-grade devices, and protocols you can try this week.
A longevity conference leans academic. Think peer-reviewed aging research.
Or clinical: anti-aging practitioners with CME requirements.
Health optimization and functional medicine overlap most with the longevity-clinical events.
The shortest test: look at the speaker list.
If most speakers are MDs and PhDs presenting peer-reviewed work, you’re at a longevity-science event.
If most speakers are practitioners and product founders demoing devices, you’re at a biohacking conference.
Overview of Top Biohacking, Longevity, Health Optimization Events in 2026
You can check out the app I built for the latest biohacking, health optimization, and longevity summits.
Or, see the curated list below.
Prices vary significantly depending on how early you act, the ticket tier, and your circumstances (student, doctor, etc).
What Are the Best Biohacking Summits in 2026?
All 9 cards below were verified in May 2026 against the events’ official sites.
URLs, dates, and image artwork are current.
Cards for the original list that rebranded or shut down are reflected with their current names and links.
Health Optimisation Summit
Tim Gray’s flagship runs September 11 to 13, 2026 at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.
The vendor floor is the largest in Europe. Past lineups have featured Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, Chris Williamson, and Max Lugavere.
A USA edition is also in the works, absorbing the Paleo Revival branding.
BEYOND (formerly Biohacking Conference)
Dave Asprey rebranded his Biohacking Conference to BEYOND for 2026.
The event runs May 27 to 29 at the Fairmont Austin. Confirmed speakers include Asprey, Jay Shetty, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, and Jim Kwik.
Expect 100+ speakers and the same vendor-heavy floor the Upgrade Labs flagship is known for.
HOLOLIFE Summit (formerly Biohackers Summit)
The European edition of the original Biohackers Summit rebranded to HOLOLIFE.
The 2026 event runs November 14 to 15 in Amsterdam, theme ‘A Life Beyond a Lifetime.’
Same organizing team that built the original Helsinki summit; the brand is broader than the biohacker core now.
Hack Your Health (formerly KetoCon)
KetoCon rebranded to Hack Your Health in 2024 to broaden beyond ketosis.
The 2026 event runs November 13 to 15 at the Tampa Convention Center.
Strong for clinicians and lay attendees both, with deep talks on metabolic health, fasting, and performance nutrition.
Super Human Summit
Stockholm’s invitation-only longevity flagship, June 13 to 14, 2026.
Confirmed speakers include Bryan Johnson, Dr. David Sinclair, Dave Asprey, Aubrey de Grey, and Joe Betts-LaCroix.
Organized by the Super Human Network. Not the same as the now-defunct Superhuman Health Summit, despite the similar name.
Biohackers World
NYC’s June 27 to 28, 2026 event at the InterContinental Barclay.
Organized by Mick Safron’s Biohackers World, focused on hands-on device demos and East Coast biohacker community.
Not to be confused with David Choi’s Biohack The World, which is presently dormant.
Biohacking Congress
Smaller and more intimate than the flagship summits, with the largest panelist-to-attendee ratio of any event on this list.
Multiple events per year, historically in Miami, Austin, and Los Angeles.
Check the events page for current 2026 dates and venues, since they update the schedule quarterly.
Mindvalley A-Fest
Members-only, application-required event held in exotic locations (recent venues include Ibiza, Bali, and Colombia).
Next event runs October 9 to 11, 2026; the venue is typically announced late.
Steep price ($4,500+) covers meals, lodging, and full programming. More festival than conference.
Primalhacker Italy Retreat
Thaddeus and Tomorrow’s annual ancestral-biohacking retreat, October 12 to 16, 2026 in Piedmont, Italy.
Group size stays under 30 for an intimate, transformational experience.
Focus on spirituality, yoga, shamanic breathwork, cold and sauna contrast, grounding, and sunrise to sunset light.
How Much Do Biohacking Conferences Cost?
Ticket prices span three orders of magnitude in 2026. The price tier tells you who’s in the room and how the speakers are filtered.
- Free to $50: local meetups, university symposia, and virtual general-admission tiers.
- $200 to $500: regional 1- to 2-day summits.
- $500 to $1,500: flagship multi-day events at standard pricing (Health Optimisation Summit, BEYOND, Hack Your Health, HOLOLIFE).
- $1,500 to $5,000: clinician CME tiers and premium-access passes (often includes recordings, mastermind dinners, hands-on workshops).
- $5,000+: VIP packages and invite-only events (Mindvalley A-Fest sits here; Super Human Summit is invitation-only with no public price).
Hidden costs (travel, lodging, meals) usually equal or double the ticket price.
That gap matters most for international flagships in expensive cities.
A $400 ticket in your home city often beats a $1,200 ticket plus $1,800 of travel.
What Should You Expect at a Biohacking Conference?
The format is consistent across the major events.
Keynote talks in the main hall. Breakout sessions in side rooms.
A vendor floor where most of the interesting stuff happens.
Plan to spend at least half your time on the floor.
Test devices. Talk to founders.
The talks are recorded. The hands-on time is not.
Independent testing is a regular feature at the better events.
I asked Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling about it during our Outliyr Podcast conversation (Episode 73). From the audio:
“At the biohacking conference last year we actually had a professional there from Bio-Well and they used the Bio-Well to do before and after testing, and yeah they found some great results as well.”
Expect early mornings. Cold plunge, breathwork, or sauna sessions run before the day starts.
Expect late nights. The after-hours dinners are often where the deals and friendships happen.
Expect a high density of supplement and gadget sampling.
Pack a notebook, your own water bottle, and recovery time for the day after.
What About Longevity-Science and Clinician Conferences?
The 9 events above are biohacking-focused: self-experimenters, consumer device founders, and biohacker practitioners.
The events below are the most-cited longevity-science and clinician conferences for 2026.
Worth knowing about even if they’re outside the biohacking core.
- ARDD 2026 (Aging Research and Drug Discovery) (Copenhagen, late summer). The leading academic longevity-science meeting; draws researchers from the Buck Institute, Harvard, and the Copenhagen aging hubs.
- A4M LongevityFest (World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine) (Las Vegas, December). The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine’s clinician-focused finale of the year. CME credits for licensed practitioners.
- SLEEP 2026 (APSS Annual Meeting) (Baltimore, June). The largest peer-reviewed sleep-medicine meeting in the world.
- HLTH USA (Las Vegas, November). The largest health-tech conference in North America. Operator and investor-heavy.
- Eudaemonia Summit (West Palm Beach, November). Integrative medicine, regenerative therapies, conscious leadership.
Are Virtual Biohacking Summits Worth Attending?
The talks travel well to virtual. The vendor floor, hallway conversations, and after-hours dinners do not.
If your goal is information, hybrid works. If your goal is community, hands-on testing, or networking, in-person is meaningfully different.
For ongoing community between events, online biohacking groups and biohacking Facebook groups keep the conversations going year-round.
Many speakers at these summits are among the top biohacking influencers in the world.
Following their work between events keeps the learning momentum going.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about biohacking conferences, costs, and which event fits your goals.
Are virtual or hybrid biohacking summits worth it compared to in-person?
The talks travel well; the vendor floor and networking don’t.
If your goal is information, virtual works. If your goal is community, hands-on device testing, or making deals, in-person is meaningfully different.
Do I need to be a clinician to attend a biohacking conference?
No. The major biohacking conferences (Health Optimisation Summit, BEYOND, HOLOLIFE) are designed for consumers and self-experimenters.
Functional-medicine and longevity-clinical events (IFM, A4M) are designed for licensed practitioners and assume you can interpret labs.
How far ahead should I book a biohacking conference?
Early-bird pricing typically saves 30 to 40 percent and closes 60 to 90 days before the event.
Hotel blocks for the flagships sell out 2 to 3 months ahead, especially for events in smaller cities (Austin, Stockholm, Copenhagen).
Which biohacking conferences offer CME or CEU credit?
The conferences in this article are consumer and biohacker-focused; most don’t offer CME.
For CME credit specifically, look at the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) Annual Conference.
Or A4M LongevityFest. Or SLEEP (APSS Annual Meeting).
Which biohacking conference is best for first-time attendees?
For the lowest cost: a regional 1- to 2-day event in or near your home city.
For maximum exposure: Health Optimisation Summit (London or USA) or BEYOND (Austin). The vendor floor alone is worth the trip.
Pick Your 2026 Biohacking Conference in 3 Filters
Start with the live database above.
Apply two filters: your category (biohacking, longevity, metabolic, or functional medicine) and your travel radius.
That narrows 9+ down to a handful. Add the price filter if budget is binding.
If the shortlist still has more than three candidates, pull the speaker lists.
Whichever event has the highest density of speakers you haven’t already heard wins.
If budget allows only one in 2026, pick the in-person flagship closest to home.
Hands-on time with a $5,000 device you were thinking of buying is worth the conference fee. Even if you skip every talk.
If this guide helped you map your 2026 conference calendar, share it with a friend who’s been on the fence about going.
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