WHAT’s NOW, NEAR, NExt & NEEDED

Highlights from NextMed Health 2023

NextMed Health 2025

When: March 30 - April 2, 2025*

*Starts 1pm on Dec 10th, ends 12 noon Dec 13th.

**Date Change from Dec 10-13th, 2024 due to unscheduled Hotel Del Coronado construction

Where: The Hotel del Coronado, San Diego

WHO: 600+ cross-disciplinary Innovators, leaders & collaborators from 20+ Countries

Faculty: World-class faculty from across the technology, & Healthcare continuum

HOW: MAINSTAGE SESSIONs, DEEP-DIVE WORKSHoPS, HANDs ON DEMOS, BEACHSIDE BONDING

STARTUPS: cutting edge featured in our innovation LAb

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Learn More: Overview Deck
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    Main Stage Sessions

    Open your mind with talks from world-class innovators, clinicians, biotechnologists, and innovators from across healthcare, technology, industry, and the arts.

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    Innovation Lab + MEDy Awards

    Get hands-on with 60 innovative startups, from early-stage to established companies sharing cutting-edge ideas. 20 early-stage startups compete for MEDy Awards, with winners sharing their innovations onstage.

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    Deep Dive Workshops

    Interactive, collaborative 90-minute workshops on the afternoons of Day 2 and 3, engaging with NextMed faculty & fellow participants for in-depth discussions, ideation and cross-fertilization.

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    Morning activities to engage the mind, body & spirit

    Experience beachside yoga and meditation, run with Navy SEALs, or participate in art & music workshops and more…

  • Evening Activities

    Learn magic tricks, how to juggle, mediation practices and much more during our evening activities…

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    Music, Art & Magic

    The human spirit, creative sparks, and surprising interludes…

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    The Silent Disco

    Pick your channel, and mix it up with the community!

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    Beach dinners, drums, and bonfires...

    The closing dinner on the beach, with old and new friends

PHOTOS & TAKEAWAYS FROM NEXTMED HEALTH 2023

NextMed Health Session Topics INCLUDE:

  • Getting up to speed with the latest on AI, Robotics, Biotech, Healthcare IT, , 3D Printing, IoT, 'Omics, Synthetic Biology, Digital Health. Quantum Computing, Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Big Data, and beyond….

  • The cutting edge of Augmented Intelligence, Big Data, and What’s Next in GenAI, Multimodal Healthcare:

    The Crowd-Sourcing of Healthcare: From Big to Small data, informing hyper-local, precision health and medicine

    From Big Data to Insights to Actionability: Leveraging the explosion of data and narrowing the gap to information and translation to bedside & webside.

    How AI is reshaping radiology, pathology, dermatology to patient safety

    Digital Twin 2.0: At the super-convergence of big data, AI, multi-omics, and true precision health and wellness.


  • Lessons & Learnings in translating technology & innovation to Impact, from clinics to healthcare systems

    — Can Healthcare reach the 4th Industrial Age? Barriers, Opportunities, and Scars in Scaling Disruption.

    — The Evolution of Healthcare Systems: The platform play, and a learning, interconnected care paradigms

    — Global Lessons in Innovation: Diverse, international perspectives and cross-fertilization

  • — Hospital to Home’Spital: The shift in where and how care is being delivered with remote patient monitoring.

    — Diagnostics on the Exponential: From digital biomarkers to labs on your smartphone, what’s needed and what’s next?

    — Workflow & Virtualized Care: Connecting the dots, data, insights, incentives & workflow for the digital age.

  • Emerging approaches from digital mental health

    Precision psychiatry. & neurology: Imaging, genomics, and the frontiers of proactive diagnostics and intervention

    Psychedelics and the frontier: of the brain, mind, and neuroscience

  • Healthy Communities: From the ‘Digital Determinants’ to Social Determinants of Health. The power of connection.

    #PatientsIncluded / #NursesIncluded/#CareGivers Included: Upskilling and enabling the entire ecosystem


  • Who do we select and how do we train them and continue to educate?

  • Medical Extended Reality, to Virtual Therapeutics across care, to MedEd

    The MED’Averse: Haptics to Avatars, Extending care to the home, clinic and globe


  • On the cusp of a healthspan revolution.

    Separating Hype from Hope: What you can do now to extend healthspan at the individual & community level, and what's coming to stop and reverse aging.

  • — mRNA to personalized cancer vaccines

    — Reimagining Regulation & Clinical Trials

    —AI and Drug Discovery

  • Human Health, Public & Global Health are increasingly intertwined.

    Democratizing Technology for Global Health

    Pandemic Lessons & Prevention: Covid was a catalyst, what shifted, persists and is needed next

    Let Food Be Thy Medicine: From microbiome to metabolome, the emerging science around diet and nutrition

  • From ‘Co-Bot’s’ to increasingly autonomous systems

    The Future of Intervention: Robotic surgery, to AI & AR enhanced procedures

  • The evolution of the open-sourced, decentralized web intersecting with the ‘Med’averse, Blockchain, DAOs

  • How are leading investors envisioning and shaping what next? Emerging funding models & incentives.

    Innovation Lab: Meet 60 leading-edge startups, some competing for a MEDy Award, and featured MainStage.

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