The Digest for Health Transformers & Changemakers
The future of healthcare will be AI-powered and deeply human, and it gets built when the right people are in the same room. Over the next few months, the StartUp Health community is gathering in person and online to tackle the questions that matter most: how AI is accelerating research, how founders earn trust inside major health systems, and what happens when prevention, longevity, and new business models converge.
Nov 16 | Boston
Alzheimer’s is one of the defining Health Moonshots of our time, and AI is changing how quickly we can move from early detection to diagnosis, care delivery, data discovery, and drug development. Co-hosted by the AD Data Initiative, StartUp Health, the Clinical Trial Recruitment Lab at the USC Schaeffer Center, and the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation’s Diagnostics Accelerator (ADDF DxA), this half-day program brings the full research ecosystem together.
StartUp Health co-founder Unity Stoakes will moderate a funders’ panel, where leaders from across philanthropy will discuss what comes next for AI tools in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research.
Nov 15-18 | Las Vegas
StartUp Health is bringing our video team to HLTH to capture stories of progress from the StartUp Health community and the broader health innovation ecosystem. From founders scaling care to clinicians and leaders reimagining the system, we’re sitting down with the people building what’s next and sharing their work with our global audience.
We have a handful of interview packages left. Each includes a professionally produced video conversation spread across the StartUp Health media ecosystem. If you’re advancing a health moonshot and want to share your story with the world, we’d love to hear from you.
Jan 12 | San Francisco
During JPM Healthcare Week, StartUp Health will convene a strategically curated room of founders, investors, clinicians, scientists, and technology leaders building the next generation of Health Moonshots. The conversation: what happens when AI, prevention, longevity, trusted clinical judgment, and new business models converge.
Last January, the iconic First Citizens Innovation Center was standing-room only. During the evening’s events, Vinod Khosla joined Unity Stoakes for a fireside chat and reminded us that “the most important currency we have in healthcare is trust.”
Space is limited. Members receive priority access.
Through late January, StartUp Health community members get exclusive access to candid sessions with the leaders that founders most want to learn from.
Health system innovators from NYU Langone Health and Mount Sinai Health will share what it takes to move AI from pilot to permanent infrastructure. Lisa Wu of Norwest Venture Partners and Alyssa Jaffee of 7wire Ventures will break down what they look for in founders and markets before writing a check, and Tom Osborne, MD, of Microsoft Federal and Stanford will discuss how to bring new technology into healthcare in a way that actually reaches patients. We’ll also host an AI Operations Demo Day, a monthly brand and storytelling session, and an invite-only Health Tech Founders Dinner in New York City, sponsored by Ramp.
“StartUp Health Fireside Chats are an opportunity to not only engage and learn from influential members of the healthcare community but to also expose your startup and product to healthcare providers and investors. During Dr. Toyin Ajayi's fireside chat I had the opportunity to introduce BioticsAI and ask a question relevant to our technology. As a result of being able to directly engage with Dr. Ajayi, a healthcare provider with a venture arm heard my question and reached out to me as both an interested investor and customer! Another great example of how StartUp Health provides us with new and unique opportunities to grow our business,” says Robhy Bustami, CEO & Co-founder of BioticsAI.
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