Day One: Monday, November 6th
Session 1 - Setting the Stage
1:00 PM
Topic
Faculty
Conference Opening
Will Weisman Executive Director, Conferences, Singularity University
Catalyzing the Future of Healthcare
Daniel Kraft, MD Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University and Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
Session 2 - Intro to Exponentials Part 1
1:45 PM
Topic
Faculty
Artificial Intelligence
Neil Jacobstein Chair of Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Singularity University
Robotics
Catherine Mohr, MD Vice President of Strategy, Intuitive Surgical
Healthcare IT and Blockchain
John Mattison, MD Chief Medical Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
3D Printing
A. Dara Dotz Principle Designer and Co-Founder, Field Ready
Recharge + Explore the Innovation Lab3:25 PM - 4:00 PM
Session 3 - Intro to Exponentials Part 2
4:00 PM
Topic
Faculty
Digital Biology
Raymond McCauley Chair, Digital Biology & Founding Faculty, Singularity University
Longevity & Human Performance
Vonda Wright, MD Orthopaedic Surgeon, UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
Big Data
John S. Brownstein, Ph.D. Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital & Professor, Harvard Medical School
AR / VR
John Werner Vice President, Meta, Augmented Reality Technology
Exponential Entrepreneurship
Naveen Jain Founder & CEO, Viome
Session 4 - Empowered Patients, Collaborations, Disparities
5:30 PM
Topic
Faculty
Music & Medicine
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Soprano, Double-Lung Transplant Recipient
Convergence: Patient, Surgeon and Roboticist
Catherine Mohr, MD Vice President of Strategy, Intuitive Surgical, Larry Smarr, PhD Director, Calit2 at UC San Diego and Sonia Ramamoorthy MD, FACS, FASCRS Professor of Surgery Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery Vice- Chair of Surgical Quality Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego Health System
Disparities & Determinants
Lee M. Sanders, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford and Josh Lee Principal, Deloitte Monitor
Gloria Wilder, MD, MPH CEO, Core Health & VP, Innovation and Preventive Health, Centene Corporation
Keynote: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci
6:50 PM
Michael J. Gelb Pioneer in Creative Thinking and Innovation Leadership
Dinner Under the Stars7:30 PM
Collaboration + Innovation Games
(Carousel Room)
9:00 PM
S’mores + Gadget Bar
(Sun Deck)
9:00 PM
Day Two: Tuesday, November 7th
Morning Activities: Yoga / Meditation / Beach RunBreakfast in the Healthcare Innovation Lab7:00 AM
Session 5 - 'Omics to Action
8:30 AM
Faculty
Moira Gunn, PhD Host, NPR’s Biotech Nation
Larry Smarr, PhD Professor, UCSD and Director, Calit2
Rob Knight, PhD Professor, Pediatrics and Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, San Diego
Iya Khalil, PhD Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder, GNS Healthcare
Helen Messier Chief Medical Officer, Viome Inc
Session 6 - Digital, Mobile, Connected Health
9:40 AM
Faculty
Daniel Kraft, MD Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University and Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
Jeroen Tas Executive Vice President, Philips
Amir Lerman, MD Faculty, Mayo Clinic
Jeffrey Brewer CEO, Bigfoot Biomedical
Recharge + Explore the Innovation Lab10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Session 7 - From AI to Intelligence Augmentation
11:00 AM
Faculty
Mark Michalski Executive Director, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science
Eyal Gura, MBA Co-Founder and Chairmanm, Zebra Medical Vision Ltd
Session 8 - Software as a Medical Device: FDA Innovation
11:40 AM
Bakul Patel, MBA Associate Director of Digital Health, Food and Drug Administration/Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Asif Dhar Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Session 9 - How the Age Wave Will Transform Health, Longevity and Medicine
11:55 AM
Faculty
Ken Dychtwald, PhD Founder and CEO, AgeWave
Lunch on the Lawn with Faculty Discussion Tables12:45 PM
Session 10 - Catalyzing the Future
3:00 PM
A peak at the future, Technology Demos
Faculty
Carin Watson EVP Learning & Innovation, Interim VP of Marketing, Singularity University
Session 11 - Regenerative Medicine & Human 2.0
3:25 PM
Faculty
Robert Hariri, MD, PhD CEO & Founder, Celularity
Roman Reed President, Roman Reed Foundation Patient Advocate
Hans Keirstead, PhD Stem Cell Biologist, Candidate for US Congress
Kevin R. Stone, MD Orthopaedic Surgeon, The Stone Clinic
David Ewing Duncan Co-founder & CEO, Arc
Jamie Metzl Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council & Author, Genesis Code
Recharge + Explore the Innovation Lab5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Session 12 - Reimagining Cancer
5:30 PM
Faculty
Daniel Kraft, MD Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University and Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
Stephen Hunt, MD, PhD Interventional Radiologist, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Bonyhadi Head of Research, Academic Affairs, Juno Therapeutics, Inc.
Shoshana Ungerleider, MD Founder, End Well Project
Richard Wender, MD Chief Cancer Control Officer, American Cancer Society
Steven Eisenberg, MD Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, Workup
CANCER XPRIZE UPDATE
Shawna Butler, RN, MBA Partnerships, Singularity University
Keynote: Creating Abundance
7:15 PM
Peter Diamandis, MD Founder, XPRIZE, Singularity University
Dinner Under the Stars7:30 PM
xMed UnConference9:00 PM
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Day Three: Wednesday, November 8th
Morning Activities: Yoga / Meditation / Beach RunBreakfast in the Healthcare Innovation Lab7:00 AM
Session 13 - Future of the Brain and Neuroscience
8:30 AM
Faculty
Divya Chander, MD PhD Anesthesiologist/Neuroscientist, Stanford University
Jordan Amadio, MD MBA Co-Founder/Partner, NeuroLaunch & Resident Physician in Neurosurgery, Emory University
Yan Fossat Principal Investigator, Labs for Klick Health & Alec Melkonian Entrepreneur in Residence, Klick Health
Kate Rosenbluth, PhD CEO, Cala Health
Session 14 - Advocacy, Media and Medicine
9:35 AM
Faculty
Jennifer Brea CEO/Founder, Shella Films
Andy Kogelnik, MD, PhD Director, Open Medicine Institute
Jeffrey D. Rediger, MD, MDiv Faculty, Harvard Medical School Medical Director, McLean Southeast Hospital Adult Psychiatric Program
Recharge + Explore the Innovation Lab10:25 - 10:50 AM
Session 15 - AR/VR & Envisioneering the Future of Healthcare
10:50 AM
Faculty
Brennan Spiegel, MD VR in Healthcare Pioneer Director, Health Services Research in Academic Affairs and Clinical Transformation at Cedars-Sinai
Shafi Ahmed, PhD, FRCS Co-founder, Virtual Medics & Medical Realities
Rafael Grossmann, MD FACS General, Trauma, Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon
Nadine Hachach-Haram NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow & Founder, Proxime
Session 16 - Innovation & Collaboration at the Global Scale
12:00 PM
Faculty
Lucien Engelen Founding Director of REshape Center, Radboud University Medical Center / SUNL
xMed Scrubs Photo Shoot on the Beach
12:35 PM
Lunch on the Lawn with Faculty Led Discussion Tables12:50 PM
Session 17 - Transforming Mental Health & Wellness
3:05 PM
Faculty
Shanon Jaccard, MBA CEO & Co-Founder, Ballast Health
Brad Burge Director of Strategic Communications, MAPS
Nichol Bradford Co-Founder & Executive Director, Transformative Tech Lab
Jamie Wheal Executive Director, Flow Genome Project
Will Henshall Founder & CEO, [email protected] (Neuroscience Music Productivity Tools)
Session 18 - Future of Clinical Practice
4:05 PM
Faculty
Jordan Shlain, MD Founder, Private Medical & Founder/Chairman, HealthLoop
Leslie Saxon, MD Founder & Executive Director, USC Center for Body Computing
Steven Steinhubl, MD Director, Digital Medicine, Scripps Translational Science Institute
Session 19 - Reinventing Pharma
5:10 PM
Faculty
Milind Kamkolkar Global Head, Next Gen Analytics
Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD Co-founder & CEO, Insilico Medicine
Recharge + Explore the Innovation Lab6:00 - 6:35 PM
Session 20 - Next Gen Innovators
6:35 PM
Faculty
Michael Seres Patient Voice/Ambassador for the NHS Founder, 11Health
Jack Kreindler, MD Founder & Director, The Centre for Health and Human Performance
MEDy Award Winner Presentation7:00 PM
Beach Celebration / Bonfire / Drum Circle7:30 PM
Silent Disco 10:00 PM
Day Four: Thursday, November 9th
Morning Activities: Yoga / Meditation / Beach RunBreakfast on the Garden Patio7:00 AM
Session 21 - Forecasting the Future: Q&A FireSide with Ray Kurzweil
8:30 AM
Faculty
Ray Kurzweil Co-founder & Chancellor, Singularity University
Session 22 - The Future is Closer Than You Think
9:15 AM
Session 23 - Hacking Healthcare
9:30 AM
Faculty
Darshak Sanghavi, MD Chief Medical Officer, OptumLabs
Anna Young Co-Founder & Health Maker at Pop Up Labs
David Metcalf, PhD Researcher for the Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida & President, Moving Knowledge
Chad Ruffin, MD Ear surgeon/Research Fellow at Indiana University, Cochlear implant recipient, CEO of RuffLab Technologies
Stretch & Connect10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Session 24 - Globalizing and Democratizing Healthcare
10:55 AM
Faculty
Ralph Simon, FRSA Chairman & CEO, Mobilium Global Limited
Marc Koska Inventor of the the K1 syringe
Nico Preston Data Scientist & Disease Ecologist, Boston, MA
Session 25 - Lessons on Translation / Moving the Needle
11:40 AM
Faculty
Brian Forde Former Technology Advisor to the White House & Congressional Candidate
Alan Greene, MD, FAAP Founder, DrGreen.com Lead, Private Medical
Margaret Laws CEO, HopeLab
John Nosta Digital Health Maven, NostaLab
Session 26 - Future Forward: Innovation/Impact at Scale
12:35 PM
Faculty
Rasu Shrestha, MD, MBA Chief Innovation Officer, UPMC Executive Vice President, UPMC Enterprises
Onwards: Taking Exponential Steps
12:55 PM
Faculty
Daniel Kraft, MD Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University and Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine
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