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Highlights from NextMed Health 2023

NextMed Health 2025

NextMed Health is a unique interdisciplinary program & community dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the arrival of a new, human-centric, technology-enabled future of health and medicine. NextMed Health is the evolution of Exponential Medicine, and is chaired by Dr. Daniel Kraft, bringing together a global cross-disciplinary mix of leading health(care) and biomedical innovators.

When: March 30 - April 2, 2025*

*Starts 1pm on Sunday, March 30th, ends 12 noon on Wednesday, April 2nd.

Where: The Hotel del Coronado, San Diego

WHO: 600+ cross-disciplinary Innovators, leaders & collaborators from 25+ Countries

Faculty: 60+ World-class faculty from across the technology, Healthcare & Innovation continuum

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

INNOVATION LAB: cutting edge STARTUPS & ORGs featured in our innovation LAb (apply Here)

PHOTOS & TAKEAWAYS FROM NEXTMED HEALTH 2023

NextMed Health Session Topics INCLUDE:

  • Hear from leading experts and get to speed with accelerating and converging technologies, inlcluding 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…. and what’s coming next.

  • The cutting edge of AI, and Augmented Intelligence, Big Data, and What’s Next in GenAI, and 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.


  • We are 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 potentially stop and reverse aging.

    Regenerative Medicine: How we can we validate emerging modalities and scale them to impact across the planet?

  • We’re at the $100 genome today, on our way to $10 genomes, and similar lower cost access to a widening array of ‘Ones: From proteome, microbiome, exposome, to sociome and beyond.

    How can we leverage the integration of this data into clinical workflows, and actionable insights for personalized drug development, diagnostics and therapy?

  • — mRNA to personalized cancer vaccines

    — Reimagining Regulation & Clinical Trials

    —AI and Drug Discovery

  • 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 for brain and 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

    Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI): The frontiers of neural engineering.

  • The MEDiverse: Haptics to Avatars, Extending care to the home, clinic and globe

    Medical Extended Reality, to Virtual Therapeutics across care, to MedEd are all being enabled by increasingly powerful tools.

    How can we further leverage them across the healthcare continuum?

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

    AR/VR/Mixed Reality enhanced surgical training and interventions

  • Who and how do we select the next generation of clinicians, and how do we train them and continue to educate?

    What should CME look like in the Future?

    How can GenAI enhance learning and upskill clinicians and caregivers of all types

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

    Democratizing Technology for Global Health: how are digital biomarkers, AI, and new forms of vaccine development taking us?

    Pandemic Lessons & Prevention: Covid was a catalyst, what shifted, persists and is needed next as we deal with threats from H1N! to mPox, and an ‘Infodemic’ threatening public health.

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

  • Implementation: 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

  • 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


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

    Innovation Lab: Meet 60 leading-edge startups, with many competing for a MEDy Award, with winners featured on the MainStage.

  • NextMed Health features artists, musician, magicians and storytellers, to help foster the sparks of human imagination and spirit of collaboration and inspiration.

Want to help shape the future? Partner with NextMed Health and enhance your visibility with a global community of leading clinicians, health systems, pharma, investors, startups and beyond.