The conference was held on November 8, 2024, at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN RTD), and was presented by Csaba Kerepesi and Eszter Szatmári, researchers of the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory, coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI.

Csaba Kerepesi talked about the application and functioning of ageing clocks for biological age estimation, pointing out that such estimation can be done not only by tissue sampling (e.g. blood), but also by artificial intelligence, even from photos.

He has already presented biological age estimation based on facial images on several occasions, including at the Researchers’ Night, where the application, which is still under development, could be tested. The PhotoAge app, developed in collaboration with researchers Iván Fejes and Bence Király, uses a smartphone camera to take a portrait of the subject, and then the algorithm estimates the biological age of the person based on this portrait - which is not necessarily the same as chronological age.

Eszter Szatmári’s presentation was about the effects of biological age and sport. Zsolt Radák (Hungarian University of Sports Science - TF), she investigated whether the active life expectancy of subjects aged between 50 and 70 years influences their biological ageing. The results showed that the answer was yes, and a positive one: after six months of active and regular exercise, the biological ageing of the participants in the experiment slowed down significantly.