MedCity CONVERGE gets underway Tuesday in Philadelphia and attendees will walk away from the two-day conference with a better understanding of the biggest opportunities in healthcare: from a status-check on Apple’s value to the industry to next steps for precision medicine to a series of sessions dedicated to making entrepreneurs from all sectors smarter.
Keynotes include the likes of Alberto Gutierrez, from the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and Daniel J. Hilferty, the CEO of Independence Blue Cross.
Most important, though, the conference covers all the bases for issues that cut across healthcare: from corporate venture capital to cutting-edge analytics to the latest experiments with managing workplace wellness.
We’ve also arranged for those who aren’t here to still experience key parts of the conference.
MedCity CONVERGE has always been a place where you get the most accurate picture of where healthcare innovation is going because we gather the doers: people taking part in those innovations right now. We cover issues that cut across the silos: convergence topics and challenges done in a way where you will go back to your startup, venture fund, hospital, pharma company and so on and make strategic changes right now.
Nearly the entire MedCity News team will be in Philadelphia blogging the conference and the coverage will stretch from Tuesday through the rest of the week. Some items you’ll be able to watch for yourself:
- One-on-one interviews with three of the most promising startups from the CONVERGE Startup Showcase: WindGap Medical, Conceivable and Tal Medical
- The full keynotes from Gutierrez, Hilfery, Patrick FitzGerald from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Kathleen McGroddy Goetz from IBM Watson Health
- Elevator pitches recorded at MedCity CONVERGE from each member of the Startup Showcase
Also, please interact with us via the hashtag #mcconverge. We’ll pull questions from the stream – even if you’re not in the room – to ask our speakers.
There’s still time to attend CONVERGE in person – the event is best experienced in real time. But the conference mission is to help empower healthcare innovators, so we hope you experience it one way or another.
Here are some of the other speakers on the agenda:
- Nebeyou Abebe, Sodexo North America
- Ashish Atreja, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Michael P. Chuisano, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
- Dr. Wen Dombrowski, North Shore LIJ Health System
- Glenn S. Gerhard, Temple University School of Medicine
- Susan Hertzberg, Boston Heart Diagnostics
- Rudy Mazzocchi, ELENZA
- Timmeko Moore Love, Mayo Clinic Ventures
- Marti Nyman, UnitedHealthcare
- Maryam Saleh, MATTER
- John Uribe, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Michael Yang, Comcast Ventures
- Carolyne Zimmermann, dRx Capital
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