This 90-minute opening panel launches the virtual learning series on healthy aging with HIV through a thoughtful and forward-looking conversation with frontline peer advocates and service providers. Panelists will speak candidly about what they are seeing in real time, where current approaches are falling short, and what is needed to better support people aging with HIV. The discussion will explore practical strategies for strengthening community engagement, activating peer networks, fostering intergenerational connection, and navigating the emotional realities of peer-based work. With time for deeper dialogue and audience engagement, this session creates space to connect lived experience with professional insight. Together, panelists and participants will reflect on what is working, what must shift, and how to move toward a more responsive and sustainable approach to HIV and aging services and advocacy.