Claude Impact Lab Longevity · Santiago 2026
The Health & Longevity edition of Anthropic’s global program, with Caja La Araucana. After the FinTech edition, Chile builds again on a national problem: the health waiting lists.
Chile’s system is designed to treat the sick, not to produce longevity.
About 2.4 million people are on the public system’s waiting lists. Between 330,000 and 350,000 are waiting for surgery. The average wait exceeds 400 days for a specialist appointment and 500 days for surgery — with cases of 3 and 4 years. Waiting hits hardest on lower incomes, older adults and the regions: a structural inequity AI can start closing today.
The wait that worsens
In cancer, waiting turns treatable stages into metastatic ones. The same diagnosis, months apart, is a different disease and a different prognosis.
The invisible chronic patient
In cardiovascular, ophthalmological and trauma conditions, prolonged waiting produces avoidable disability — people losing autonomy while standing in line.
The line is not neutral
Those who can pay resolve through the private system. Those who cannot, wait. The waiting list concentrates lower incomes, older adults and the regions.
The country cost
Caja La Araucana alone pays on the order of a billion pesos a year in medical leave subsidies. Every day of waiting avoided is direct, measurable return for the country.
“Even those who get treated don’t always understand that the goal is not just to be cured: it is to live more years with autonomy. Chile is missing the longevity paradigm.
Medicine exists. Longevity for everyone doesn’t.
Claude Impact Lab is the global program by Anthropic — the company behind Claude — to solve real citizen problems using frontier AI. It is not a conference or a panel: it is an impact laboratory where functional solutions get built. In this edition, Bendita IA operates it with Caja La Araucana, which brings the national problem, anonymized health data, the venue and the institutional network. The goal: ~200 on-site builders in ~50 teams, 12 teams pitching and 3 winners — one per track.
An impact laboratory. Not another event.
Impact Lab
Two short, structured day sessions — August 5 and 6, no overnight — at Parque La Florida: expert talks, delivery checkpoints, live mentoring and evaluation with public rubrics and leaderboard. Multidisciplinary teams — each with at least one health professional and one developer or AI expert — build on anonymized health data with Claude as the main engine, API credits for participants and Bendi, the platform’s evaluation agent.
Three-pillar table
Government, private health sector and civil society at the same table: mentors, judges, data owners and potential adopters. Not a discussion panel — the mechanism for winning prototypes to enter real adoption evaluation with Caja La Araucana.
One challenge. Three lines of impact.
Every team works on the same challenge — longevity for everyone in Chile — choosing one of three tracks based on where they want to act in the health chain.
Prevention
How do we keep people from ever entering the waiting list?
The best waiting list is the one that never starts. Smart screening, early detection, health literacy and chronic self-care. Agents that refer before it becomes urgent and tools that extend the reach of health professionals.
SURA powers this track as its longevity core. These resources help your team align the solution with SURA’s approach — SURA may sponsor the winning team of this track.
Decompression
2.4 million are waiting. How do we get people out of the line?
Clinical triage by real risk — not by arrival order. Matching demand with available system capacity, public and private. Longitudinal support for patients while they wait, so the line doesn’t make them worse.
Continuity & Precision Medicine
The patient was treated. Now what?
Living more years and living them better. Chronic post-care follow-up, precision medicine and autonomy in aging. The most longevity-pure track: the work that has no system today.
Three allies. One national problem.
The data doesn’t come from the internet: it comes from the institutions that generate it, always anonymized and aggregated. Teams don’t look for problems — problems arrive from those who live them.
Caja La Araucana — Lead collaborator
Brings the national problem, anonymized health data, the venue (Parque La Florida) and the institutional network. Winning solutions can enter real adoption evaluation.
Anthropic — Global program + technology
Claude as the main engine, API credits, swag and presence on the jury — through the Community Ambassador Program. The Longevity Impact Lab is part of Anthropic’s global program.
Bendita IA — End-to-end operation
The community connecting AI with real impact in Latin America runs the call, the platform, the mentors, the jury and production — the same model proven in the FinTech edition.
2.4 million people are waiting for a bridge the system alone couldn’t build. This Lab builds it.
Government, private health sector and civil society, sitting down to build — not debate — solutions for the waiting lists with artificial intelligence.
Chile has hospitals, specialists, insurers and health regulation. What it doesn’t have is the last mile: the bridge between the system’s capacity and the 2.4 million people waiting. A neighbor waits over 400 days for a specialist appointment. An oncology patient watches the disease advance while the line advances. An older adult loses autonomy waiting for hip surgery. The problem is not the absence of medicine — it is the absence of connection between available medicine and the people who need it. This Impact Lab convenes the three actors that need to be at the same table to solve it: those who run the system, those who build the technology, and those who live the wait.
Three pillars. One objective: solutions that reach the patient.
Government and public institutions
How does innovation connect with the public health system?
Health services, social security and productive development: the technical teams that manage waiting lists, medical leave and system data. Their role at the table is operational — validating that solutions are adoptable from the first prototype. Names are announced when applications open.
Private sector and health providers
How does a prototype become a pilot inside a real health network?
Compensation funds, clinics, insurers and health foundations bring mentors with clinical and management judgment, real use cases and the post-Lab adoption pathway. Caja La Araucana leads as main collaborator.
Civil society — builders and health professionals
Who builds the solutions?
~200 on-site builders in ~50 committee-approved teams: AI Builders, Vibecoders and health professionals working in mixed teams. Every team has at least one clinical profile — because a health solution without clinical judgment is not a solution.
This does not work if someone is missing from the table.
Public health institutions
You manage the waiting lists and the system’s data. Your technical participation — with anonymized data and validation from the first prototype — is what lets solutions scale to real public policy.
Private providers, clinics and insurers
You serve millions of people and know the system’s idle capacity. This is the space to co-build the match between health demand and supply. Not as CSR: as health infrastructure.
Health professionals
Doctors, nursing, physiotherapy, clinical management and public health. Every Lab team needs at least one clinical profile. You bring the real problem and the connection to the patient — without you, there is no solution.
Health startups and SMEs
You understand the user the system can’t reach: the waiting patient, the caregiver, the family. Your last-mile perspective is not complementary — it is central.
Builders and engineers
~200 AI Builders and Vibecoders who will turn anonymized health data into tools that extend clinical reach. With Claude Code, MCPs connected to curated datasets and Anthropic API credits per participant.
What starts here does not end on August 6.
AI Health Sandbox
The post-Lab pathway to accelerate winning teams with Caja La Araucana: extended Claude API access, specialized mentoring and an evaluation route toward real adoption — including possible pilots in the health network.
AI tools with Chilean clinical judgment
Solutions built with local context, plain language and clinical guardrails: they assist and extend the reach of health professionals — they never deliver autonomous diagnosis or medical indication.
A regional reference case
The Longevity edition aims to leave behind a replicable collaboration model between global program, institutional collaborator and builder community — a reference case for Anthropic in Latin America.
This lab exists because someone connected the pieces that were already there.
Felipe Pacheco — Claude Community Ambassador Chile. Selected by Anthropic as the only Claude ambassador in Chile within a program present in 9 countries. After designing and operating the first Claude Impact Lab edition in Chile (FinTech: 899 applicants, 48 teams, 3 winners), Felipe built the alliance with Caja La Araucana to bring the same model to the country’s most urgent health challenge: waiting lists and longevity. Founder of Poweredia and Bendita IA, he leads Chile’s most active AI activation ecosystem: workshops with over 4,500 attendees, labs with real impact, and a community of builders that creates solutions — not just consumes them.
The line doesn’t wait. The table is already set.
The Health & Longevity edition of the Claude Impact Lab aims to prove that AI can bring longevity closer to those who today only know the wait.
Health services, social security, municipalities
Clinics, insurers, compensation funds, health foundations
Clinicians, applied-AI experts, academics
AI Builders and Vibecoders — ~200 on-site spots