Call for Papers
Call For Presentations, Papers, Panels & Speakers
Share your research and innovation at MIRACE 2027 — Kuala Lumpur, 24–25 March 2027.
The Malaysian Institute of Retirement Management (MIRM) is thrilled to announce the Call for Research and Innovation 2027! This initiative aims to foster actionable knowledge, scalable innovations, and collaborative research that directly address emerging ageing challenges across ASEAN and the rest of the world.
MIRM invites you to submit a proposal to present your recent research work at the MIRACE 2027 Annual Conference and Exhibition. This conference is a prestigious event organized to provide an excellent international platform for academics, researchers, managers, industrial participants, and students to share their research findings with global experts.
All full paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research depth, accuracy, and relevance with the theme of the conference.
The Prestigious International Retirement & Aging Conference, Exhibition (MIRACE 2027) and the tribute event for Senior Care Awards in Malaysia (MASCA 2026) in conjunction with World International Day of Older Persons on 1st October 2027 as adopted by United Nations along with Visit Malaysia Year 2026/2027 is jointly organised by MALAYSIAN INSTITUTE OF RETIREMENT MANAGEMENT (MIRM) in collaboration with KOPERASI PESARA PESARA MALAYSIA BERHAD (KPPMB).
This event is a fantastic opportunity to share your best practices, regulatory guidelines, implementation successes and proven project solutions to a broad range of senior care professionals serving and representing the silver economy industry.
Conference Themes and Topics
Important Key Dates & Deadlines
- Final proposals due
- 5:00 pm, 23 November 2026
- Abstract submission deadline
- 16 October 2026
- Notification of acceptance
- 30 October 2026
- Presenter registration deadline
- 30 November 2026
- Conference dates
- 24–25 March 2027 (2 days)
The MIRACE 2027 Conference is seeking submissions related to the topics below. Other related tracks will also be considered. Key topics regarding senior work, employment, and smart living revolve around active ageing — optimizing health, participation, and security as people age, while fostering a rewired career approach beyond traditional retirement.
Key trends include AI integration in the workplace, flexible work arrangements, and smart home technology to support independent living. The theme emphasizes a shift from living longer to living better through career longevity, technological empowerment, and a sense of belonging.
Special Focus and Themes
The MIRACE 2027 Conference and Exhibition invites contributors to consider how demographic change is reshaping elders’ social contracts, care systems, labour markets, and expectations of wellbeing across the life course. Aging populations, changing pension and employment structures, and evolving family arrangements are driving societies to rethink responsibility, dignity, and security across generations.
The prevalence of chronic illness and rising demand for long-term care reinforce the need for integrated, ethical, and person-centred care infrastructures. The conference seeks submissions around Retirement, Aging, Smart Senior Living, and Gerontology in a changing world.
MIRACE 2027 Conference Themes for Paper Submission
The theme “RETIREMENT MATTERS! RETHINKING AGEING, WORK AND ELDERS SMART LIVING IN A CHANGING WORLD” addresses challenges and opportunities in aging populations, workforce shifts, technological advancement, and new approaches to senior care.
It creates a comparative and multidisciplinary space across borders of nation, culture, discipline, and profession. We encourage mixed methodologies that combine theory and practice between and across disciplines.
MIRACE 2027 programme formats include keynote addresses, plenary and featured sessions, futurist talks, interactive panel discussions, invited guest speakers, interviews, and fast-paced 10-minute ignite presentations concluding the two-day conference.
The forum gathers insights from theory and policy, identifies challenges, and advances best-practice outlooks for global contemporary issues. The conference themes can stand alone and also complement, contrast, or engage in dialogue with one another.
Submission Streams
- Rethinking Retirement & Work: Moving beyond traditional retirement to flexible and engaging longer work lives, including phased retirement, anti-ageism, lifelong learning, and portfolio living.
- Smart Living Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Leveraging AI, smart technologies, and innovation to support aging-in-place, quality of life, inclusion, ethics, and care.
- Financial Security and Policy for the Ageing: Exploring pensions, savings, financial literacy, social protection, and policy frameworks for independent and dignified aging.
- Ageing with Dignity: Promoting autonomy, compassion, dementia-friendly communities, social inclusion, and ethical end-of-life planning.
- Aging and Gerontology Built Environment: Advancing age-friendly housing, transport, and public spaces that improve safety, mobility, and quality of life.
- Senior Health Wellness & Longevity Systems: Focusing on healthy lifespan, preventive medicine, biomarkers, nutrition, emotional wellness, and social belonging.
- Entrepreneurship / Silver Economy: Supporting products, services, and businesses for adults 50+, including silver entrepreneurship and inclusive economic participation.
Special Focus Topic Examples
- Redefining Retirement
- Phased Retirement
- AI in Aging Research
- Big Data Aging Studies
- Technology for Active Aging
- Financial Security Policy
- Intergenerational Collaboration
- Age-Friendly Communities
- End-of-Life Ethics
- Built Environment & Mobility
- Palliative Care & Longevity
- Anti-Aging Therapies
- Nutrition & Longevity
- Cognitive Health
- Mental Health in Aging
- Silver Economy Entrepreneurship