WHAT’s NOW, NEAR, NExt & NEEDED

NextMed Health 2025 SESSION TOPICS

The Super Convergence of Technology is enabling new opportunities to re-imagine health and medicine, while augmenting the human in the loop. Some of the core elements that will be explored at NextMed Health by our faculty, on the mainstage, breakout sessions and in our Innovation Lab.

  • Exponential Technologies Update: The latest on AI, Big Data, Genomics, Synthetic Biology, AR/VR & Spatial Computing, Robotics, 3D Printing, Digital Health & beyond

  • AI & GPT Infused Health & BioMedicine: The bleeding edge & future applications

  • Intervention Reimagined: From the O.R. to the Rural Clinic, blending digital & virtual to enable care

  • Future of Pharma: At the convergence of AI, precision health & novel therapeutics

  • Hospital to Home: Changing how and where care happens, from remote patient monitoring to home Dx

  • Re-Imagining Public Health: In the age of ioT, Home Diagnostics, Big Data

  • Catalyzing Healthspan: On the cusp of a longevity revolution and ‘high performance aging’

  • Mental Health & Wellness: New approaches to optimizing

  • Humans in the Loop + Caring for the Caregivers: How can we upskill humans while improving the caregiver experience

  • Brain-Mind-Body: Neuroscience on the frontier

  • From DNA Read to Write: Designer biology and Synthetic Biology are on the cusp of major impact

  • Where Technology meets Policy: Tech & policy changes who does what, when & where

  • Psychedelics as Medicine: A 40 year journey to FDA approvals for mental health

  • Art as Medicine: Experiential, creative arts & human & heart centered care

  • Planetary Health: Global Health = Human Health. Novel approaches to sustainability.

  • Future of the Healthcare Workforce

  • And much more…

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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

NextMed Health 2025

Will be March 30 - ApRIL 2, 2025

NextMed 2023

Program + Agenda

NEXTMED HEALTH 2023 PROGRAM

NextMed Health Session Topics:

  • Getting up to speed with the latest on AI, Robotics, Healthcare IT, Blockchain, 3D Printing, IoT, 'Omics, Synthetic Biology, Quantum Computing, Gene Editing, Regenerative Medicine, Biotech, Web3, and beyond….

  • 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

    — 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.

  • The cutting edge of Augmented Intelligence, Big Data, and What’s Next

    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.


  • 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 longevity revolution.

    Separating Hype from Hope: What you can do now to extend healthspan at the patient & community level

  • — 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.