About AgeTech Labs.
AgeTech Labs is the shared brain for senior living technology—tools, community, and best practices built by someone who lives this work every day.
We don't sell consulting. We build resources everyone can use.
Built by an Operator
AgeTech Labs is founded and led by Phil Vlach, who leads technology at Schlegel Villages, one of Ontario's leading senior living operators with 18+ communities across retirement and long-term care.
This isn't theory. It's tested in real operations, shaped by real constraints, and built for what actually works.
Free Tools
Scout Spotlight
Technology validation tool built on real operator experiences. Available 24/7 to help operators evaluate pilots and vendors assess product-market fit. Not a consulting replacement—an intelligence platform that enables independent decision-making.
AgeTech Intel
Market intelligence trained on 65+ curated documents covering aging demographics, opportunities, and technology trends. Your shortcut from outsider to informed participant in the aging innovation space.
Ideas We Share
We turn complex ideas into practical guidance through speaking, writing, and events.
The Layercake Framework — A simpler way to think about senior living technology architecture. Three layers: unified experience, composable services, standardized data.
BYOB: Bring Your Own Bot — How personal AI companions will change senior living operations.
The 100-Year Life — Aging is Canada's innovation opportunity, not a crisis.
More Human, Not Less — Technology should create space for what matters most.
Use them, adapt them, build on them.
Community
AgeTech Connect Toronto
Bi-monthly events bringing together 50+ operators, vendors, researchers, and investors. Real conversations, not sales pitches.
Phil Vlach
Phil leads technology at Schlegel Villages, which co-founded the Research Institute for Aging with University of Waterloo and Conestoga College—giving him a front-row seat to real-world aging innovation research.
He also founded AgeTech Toronto, bringing 50+ operators, vendors, researchers, and investors together bi-monthly to share what's working.
Phil speaks regularly at industry conferences and events.