The Digital Legacy Conference at PHPCI 2026
This year’s Digital Legacy Conference will focus on Digital Legacy and its importance within public health campaigning and policy.
Programme theme
This year’s theme is: The Digital Legacy Academy ‘Public Health, Digital Legacy’
This year’s conference will be part conference and part workshop. The objective is for each attendee to leave and setup their their own public health, digital legacy campaigns. The Digital Legacy Association will support the development of attenee’s policy and practice for the following six months.
Programme overview
We will introduce the feild of digital assets and digital legacy from the lens of the geneal public and public health, palliative care professionals. Examples of professional and public health interventions will be explored, analysed and celebrated, Those attending will reflect and document their own digital lives using a ‘Digital & Social Media Will booklet (provided to all for free). This exercise will act as a springboard and provide a basic level of ‘lived experience’ in the context of planning for one’s digital life. Roleplay will take place using the (open access) Digital & Social Media Will Booklet. This will help attendees embed digital legacy conversations into their own practice, advance care planning conversations, bereavement support etc.
Public health professionals and policy makers who are not patient-facing will be able to utilise this exercise when developing campaigns and policies suitable for the patients and communities they serve.
Outcomes
‘Public Health, Digital Legacy’ will conclude with attendees mapping out ideas for their own, future digital legacy, public health campaigns. These will be tailored to the needs of their local health ecosystems and relevant for the cultures and communities they serve.
Collectively we will discuss the feasibility of campaigns and discuss overcoming barriers (work placed, mental barriers, financial etc). Through discussion and collaboration barriers will be lowered with the intention of them being acted upon.
Those who attend the ‘Public Health, Digital Legacy workshop will be provided with virtual support over the course of six months from the Digital Legacy Association whilst developing their public health, digital legacy interventions.
Part of Public Health Palliative Care Conference 2026
The Digital Legacy Conference 2026 will be a Digital Legacy Academy and form part of the Public Health Palliative Care International Conference in Taiwan. All those who attend will graduate and be awarded with a Digital Legacy Academy Certificate from the Digital Legacy Association. We look forward to seeing you there
Why this is important
Society is spending an increasingly large amount of their lives online. Our personal photos, videos and items of both a sentimental and monetary value are often locked behind password protected devices and online accounts. It is therefore becoming increasingly important that we make plans for our digital life before we die. Health, social care and palliative care professionals need to adapt practice, policies and procedures to better support society with this ever-increasingly important area.
Professor Mark Taubert speaking at The Digital Legacy Conference (part of EAPC, Berlin)
Societal Change
Compassionate, person centred care now needs to be delivered to society both in person and through technological platforms. Societal needs are changing and it’s the responsibility of professionals to learn, adapt practice and up skill when it is relevant to do so.
Who is the Digital Legacy Conference 2026 for?
The Digital Legacy Conference is for those involved in public health, care planning, policy, social care, healthcare, palliative care and academia.
About The Digital Legacy Conference
The Digital Legacy Conference is a not for profit conference organised by the Digital Legacy Association. It has previously taken place in London, Online (during COVID-19), Rotterdam, New York, Bern and Berlin.
*If you are not attending PHPCI and you would like to attend, get in touch.
The Digital Legacy Association
The Digital Legacy Association The Digital Legacy Conference is organised by the Digital Legacy Association. The Digital Legacy Association is a global organisation dedicated to raising standards and developing best practices in areas relating to digital assets planning and digital legacy safeguarding.
About Public Health Palliative Care
PHPCI Aims
- To promote the philosophy, values, concepts and methods of health promotion into palliative care services everywhere.
To support members in their educational and practice needs to meet their goal of health promoting palliative care. - To provide a regular forum in our conferences (every 2 years) for the exchange of practice wisdom in public health approaches to palliative care.
- To encourage and foster research and evaluation of health promoting palliative care.
- To encourage palliative care to foster professional links and knowledge exchange between colleagues in public health, community health and development, health policy, health education, and health promotion, and end of life care.
- To provide a global forum for communication to members involved in this common endeavour.
- To support, network and mentor students in their efforts to further develop and evaluate this approach to end of life care.
- To colloborate effectively with all organisations that represent people effected by death, dying, loss and care.
PHPCI 2026 speakers
The Digital Legacy Conference 2026 will take place as part of PHPCI 2026. A selection of speakers from PHPCI 2026 addressing other areas relating to Public Health Palliative Care can be found below…
