At the convergence
of ideas,technology,
people &community
Join us for NextMed Health 2025: The future of health and medicine is being built at the interface of diverse fields and the convergence of accelerating technologies. Blend this with new mindsets, community, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and you have NextMed Health — a one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary community that aims to expedite the advent of a human-centric, technology-enhanced Health Age. We inspire participants to engage with the most exciting and important new ideas and innovators and empower them to build a better future.
To enhance the NOW, Learn about the NEAR, and the “HOW TO” on Creating What’s NEXT.
NextMed Health builds on the success of the Exponential Medicine program, which has been spearheaded by Dr. Daniel Kraft. It brings together a diverse group of healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, academics, investors, patients, and public health experts to tackle significant challenges in healthcare. This community aims to address a broad range of healthcare issues, including precision wellness, next-generation diagnosis, and treatment, as well as global and public health.
NextMed Health is not a typical conference; it is a community and platform for healthcare innovation. It unites thought leaders and disruptors from different fields, breaking down barriers and silos in healthcare innovation across the technology, care, and biomedical continuum. The event features a combination of physical and virtual gatherings, thought-provoking content, and curation, all tied together by an exceptional, diverse, and engaged community of pioneers, icons, and up-and-coming stars.
Our signature blend of exponential thinking, insight sharing, and high-dimension interactions spark relationships, research, business concepts, and collaborations that can transform one’s practice, research endeavor, organization, industry, and planet.
Participants
NextMed Health attracts action-oriented, smart, mission-driven leaders focused on exponential technologies and their potential to reshape and democratize healthcare. 42 Countries & 500 organizations were represented in our last programs
To provide the highest dimension of interaction, attendance is by application and invitation and is limited to 600 industry shapers making strong contributions in their fields.
The takeaways include new insights, mindsets, relationships, and collaborations that can transform one’s practice, business, research endeavor, industry, and organization.
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from across the biomedical and technology spectrum looking to understand global trends, disruptive technologies, and opportunities to dramatically improve health and outcomes.
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… looking to develop novel solutions and improve current approaches to address unmet needs.
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who appreciate the competitive, regulatory, and organizational realities of tech breakthroughs and the importance of leading their organization within disruptive environments.
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who want a cutting-edge vantage point from which to impact how health is created, delivered, and experienced.
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looking to sharpen their vision of the (near) future, and the path to get there.
Meet the NextMed.Health Team
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Daniel Kraft MD
FOUNDER + CHAIR
Daniel is a Harvard & Stanford trained physician-scientist who lives at the interface of healthcare, technology & innovation. He founded, chaired and curated Exponential Medicine for a decade before evolving it to NextMed Health. He is an Aspen Institute Health Innovation Fellow and Kaufman fellow. Following medical school at Stanford, & Medicine/Peds training at the MGH, he completed fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation. He is heavily involved as an innovator & investor in digital health and medtech, and has given 4 TEDTalks focused on the future of health & biomedicine.
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Shawna Butler RN MBA
DIRECTOR
Shawna, a nurse & economist is a Trendspotter. Rapport builder. Health Tech Catalyst. Combining clinical acumen, health economics, and technology to catalyze cross-sector collaboration that democratizes and delivers better health, experiences, and outcomes, she brings sharp wit, (un)common sense and empathy-driven design to projects worth doing. Her talent is scanning the horizon for game-changing patterns and identifying + connecting the clever optimists provoking them. Shawna is the host of the ‘See You Now’ podcast.
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Ricky Mehra
PARTNERSHIPS & INNOVATION LAB LEAD
Ricky is Founder & General Partner of Continuum Health Ventures. He was an academic scientist, analyst, and strategy consultant to the medtech/pharma sector, entrepreneur, and now VC. He previously founded Q2 Metrics, acquired by IQVIA. He is the Founder and General Partner of Continuum Health Ventures, a Seed/A focused fund that invests in the democratization of the future of medicine, with a focus on digital health and longevity startups.
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E2K Events x Entertainment
EVENT DESIGN
e2k brings creative design, state-of-the-art technology, and people who care to every project.
They transform events into experiences, shows into magical moments, and "clients" into "partners." They see events as a vehicle to bring inspiring visions to life, promote personal transformation, and catalyze powerful communities.
The NextMed Health Vanguard
Incredible clinicians, academics, entrepreneurs, technologists, and thought leaders from across the healthcare and biomedical ecosystem, the arts, and beyond. They help guide the NextMed Health content, community, and connections.