June 27-29, 2023 • Columbia University

Background & Vision

Following a successful, virtual HITLAB Innovators Summit of summer 2022, and our first hybrid HITLAB Innovators Summit, we bring you a full 3-day in-person Summit once again. This will be held at the Columbia University (Lerner Hall) in New York City.

Here is what to expect:

  • Panel interviews and keynote addresses by digital health leaders
  • Opportunity to network at the post-event networking cocktail reception
  • Presentations from some of the leading disruptive digital solutions in the healthcare ecosystem
  • Best in class exhibitors of digital health solutions, innovators & leading organizations
  • Other networking opportunities virtually and in person throughout the three days

Tickets

Virtual Attendance

(Online Only)

$99

Post Event Networking

           

$100

Balcony Ticket

For one day only

$499

Info for Day 1-3 @ Columbia

Innovators Summit

Alfred Lerner Hall

2920 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

Speakers

President

Manager, Data Science

CEO & Co-founder

Chief Compliance Officer

Chief Medical Officer

Chairman & CEO

Vice President, Tech Services

Vice Dean of Education

Co-Founder & CEO

Vice President, Digital Health Regulatory Affairs

Former Sanofi Exec

Operations Officer, Health, Nutrition, & Population, Global Practice

Founder & Managing Partner

VP of Life Sciences and Healthcare

CEO & Co-founder

Managing Partner

Technology Specialist

Vice President, Digital Health Regulatory Affairs

Senior Director, Digital Health & Imaging

CEO & Founder, TeleVU

Teresa Fishburne

Vice President, Strategic Consulting

Director of Product, MSK Direct | Strategy and Innovation

Co-founder & COO, Elektra Health

Senior Clinical Research Program Manager

President

CEO & Founder

VP, Digital Health Strategy

Director Digital Health Partnerships

President, U.S. Business Unit

CEO & Co-founder

Head of North America Regulatory

Head of Digital Sciences & Translational Imaging

Medical Director

VP, Digital Health Strategy

Chair Global Health & Purpose

Regional Health Administrator

Glaubinger Professor of Business

VP, Product and Startup Engagement

Founding Partner

Executive Vice President

Program Director Merck Digital Sciences Studio

CEO & Co-founder

CEO & Co-founder

Founder & CEO

Senior Executive Fellow / Entrepreneurial physician executive, Pre-seed Investor, Startup Advisor, Mentor

President

Chief Information Officer

Sr. Director, Digital Transformation & Innovation

Vice President, Digital Health and Analytics, InCircle

VP, Network Strategy & Operations

Manager, Data Science

Advisor, Digital Transformation, Health & Life Sciences

Director, Startup Banking - Early Stage Life Science

CEO & Founder, TeleVU

Chief Commercial Officer

VP / Managing Director

CEO, University Hospital

Global Medical Partner, Digital Health & Devices

SVP, Demand Generation and Sales Enablement

Vice President, Strategy and Operations,

Regional Health Administrator

Digital Health Editor

Editor-in-Chief, Patient Care coordinator

Agenda

Introduction & Day 3 Keynote

Dr. Jason Lazar, Vice Dean of Education at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

SohoMD: Looking at the Right Data to Better Diagnose and Treat Psychiatric Patient

TED TALK

Jacques Jospitre, CEO, SohoMD

Virtual Oncology: The Frontier of Digital Health

TED TALK

Cole Manship, Director of Product, MSK Direct | Strategy and Innovation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Health Tech Adoption Barriers and Blockchain

Solo Presentation

Rama Rao, CEO & Co-founder, Bloqcube

Care Tech: AgeTech care transformation

Solo presentation

Kyoko Tokuda, Operations Officer, Health, Nutrition, & Population, the World Bank

Data Management and Documentation in Clinical Trials

panel chat

Joanne Watters, Managing Director, IMC
Hira Shrestha, Senior Clinical Research Program Manager, McCance Center for Brain Health at MGH

Citizen Science for Public Health

solo presentation

Srishti Gupta, Researcher, Penn State University

Networking & Break

Innovator Showcase

Gabriella Francis, CEO, Squegg
Shailja Dixit, CEO, Curio
Marc Aafjes, CEO, Deliberate.AI
Ryan De’Larami, CEO, TeleVU

Partnering for Joint Success in Digital Health

fireside chat

James Fischer, Partner, DLA Piper
Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

The Importance of Partnerships in Delivering Hyper Personalized Health Experiences Across Multiple Conditions & Life Episodes

panel chat

Laurent van Leberghe, Digital Health Investor, Sanofi veteran
Dr. Omar Manajwala, Chief Medical Officer, Dario Health
Jannine Versi, Co-founder & COO, Elektra Health

Track sponsored by Dario Health

Track sponsored by Dario Health

Evolution of Data Science in Data Management

panel presentation

Chrysanthi Dori, VP of Tech Services, Medidata
Teresa Fishburne, Vice President, Professional Services, Strategy & Transformation, Medidata

Lunch

LifeSci NYC: Supporting Continued and Equitable Growth of the New York City Life Sciences Ecosystem

solo presentation

Kyle Kaniecki, VP of Life Sciences and Healthcare at NYC EDC

Health Equity & Diversity in Pharmaceuticals

solo presentation

Melissa Lore, Chief Compliance Officer, FFF Enterprises

Medicaid - The Next Wave of Value-based Care

fireside chat

Brenton Fargnoli, Managing Partner, AlleyCorp Healthcare
Cesar Herrera, Co-founder & CEO, Yuvo Health

Health Futures: AI, ML, & Beyond

panel chat

Bethany Hills, Partner, DLA Piper
Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo, CEO & Co-Founder, ProcellaRX

Networking & Break

Health Futures: AI, ML, & Beyond

panel presentation

Kris Narayan, Chairman & CEO, MediKarma

Cardiovascular Disease Moonshot: Predicting CVD with Digital Health

TED Talk

James Chen, CEO & Founder, ViviScout

Market Trends

keynote presentation

Saul Richter, Founder & Managing Partner, RittenHouse Ventures

How to effectively navigate FDA with an AI/ML algorithm

Fireside chat

Nikki Batista, Vice President, Digital Health Regulatory Affairs, MCRA
Rebecca Jones, VP of Clinical Research at Imagen Technologies
Alex Cadotte, Senior Director, Digital Health & Imaging, MCRA

Track sponsored by MCRA

Microsoft Accelerator Program

Keynote

Mark Michelet, Technology Specialist, Microsoft

Summit Closing Keynote

Keynote

Dr. Jason Lazar, Vice Dean of Education at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Next Horizon: frontier investing in the health care and life sciences industries

keynote

Prem Tumkosit, Managing Director, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

Emerging Trends in Digital Health

keynote

Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Initiative Fund

AI Disruptions In Search: Transformation of the Digital Information Experience and Implications for Healthcare

solo presentation

Julia Walsh, CEO, Brand Medicine International

Accelerating Innovation in Digital Health

keynote

Olivier Rabenschlag, Founding Partner, Chapter 3 Capital

Embracing the Digital Health Revolution: Unlocking the Potential of Accessible Care

fireside chat

Sabrina Runbek, Co-founder, of PulsePoint Solutions
April Smith-Hirak, Regional Health Administrator, Region 2, HHS

Medical Extended Reality

Fireside chat

Dr. Mark Zhang, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Amit Rana, Senior Executive Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School / Pre-seed Investor, Startup Advisor, Mentor

Leveraging AI to Prepare Now for The Future of Prescription Digital Therapeutics

keynote presentation

David Klein, CEO & co-founder, Click Therapeutics

Networking & Break

Womens Health Tech - Innovator Showcase

Inara Lalani, Fem Therapeutics
Teo Tijerina, Hera Diagnostics
Sigi Marmostein, Baby Live Advice

The Importance of Value-Based Care

keynote

Scott Kornhauser, Executive Vice President, KlearTrust

Women's Health Tech Hour: AI & the Influence on Women's Health

Pooja Majmudar, Director, Startup Banking, Sillicon Valley Bank

Inara Lalani, Fem Therapeutics

Laura Yecies, CEO, Bone Health

Anastasiia Timon, Founder & CEO, Blooming Eve

What’s Needed for Sustainable Adoption of Digital Health

FIRESIDE CHAT

Meg Baron, VP, Digital Health Strategy, AMA
Stan Kachnowski, Chair, HITLAB

Lunch

Designing for Inclusivity in a Digital World

solo presentation

Julie Kim, President, U.S. Business Unit, Takeda

Journey of a Health Tech Company

presentation

Peter Niemi, CEO, RecoveryPlus.health

The Pathway Innovators Need to Follow in order to Thrive

keynote presentation

Gil Bashe, Chair Global Health and Purpose, FINN Partners

Digital Biomarkers as patient centric endpoints – the Pfizer experience

keynote presentation

Tim McCarthy, Head of Digital Sciences & Translational Imaging, Pfizer

Networking & Break

Connected Health Devices

keynote presentation

Lori Turkington, Associate Director Global Market Access, Tandem Diabetes Care

Connected Health Devices: How They Are Shaping the Future

keynote presentation

Gabriella Francis, CEO, Squegg

Best Practices and Potential Biases in Leveraging Chat GPT for Medical Innovation

TED Presentation

Dr. Olivier Toubia, Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School

Merck Digital Health Studio

ted presentation

Ahmet- Hamdi Cavusoglu, Program Director, Merck Digital Sciences Studio

Connecting Innovation and Creativity For An Infinite Mindset, From a Regulatory Business Partner

ted presentation

Zina Manji, Global Fellow, HITLAB / Head of Regulatory Affairs, Ellume

The Sustainable Success in Digital Health

Norah Xiao, Director Digital Health Partnerships, AstraZeneca

Introduction to HITLAB's 2023 June Summit

Intro Speech

John Hammitt, Executive Director, HITLAB

The Promise & Potential of Digital Health

KEYNOTE

Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Initiative Fund

Deploying the “tech” in Health-tech

Panel Discussion

Pooja Majmudar, Director, Start up Banking, Silicon Valley Bank
Eugenio Zuccarelli, Manager, Data Science, CVS Health
Jon Hahn, Chief Information Officer, FFF Enterprises

Supply Chain - Where digital and supply chain meet?

Keynote

Joe Volpe, VICE President, Merck Global Health Fund

INCIRCLE: AI Driven Transparency & Consistency in the Prior Authorization Process

Keynote Presentation

Dr. Todd Levine, Vice President, Digital Health and Analytics, InCircle

The Art of a Digital Investment Deal

Panel Discussion

Ian Goldstein, Partner, Fenwick & West
Joe Volpe, VICE President, Merck Global Health Fund
Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Initiative Fund

How Hexoskin is Partcipating in Clinical Research

Keynote

Pierre-Alexandre Fournier, Co-founder & CEO, Hexoskin

Clinical Research in a Post-Pandemic World

Presentation

Yitzy David, Patient Care Coordinator, Jersey City Medical Center

Networking & Break

Breakthrough Challenge Pitches

Presentations

Marrisa Fayer, CEO, Deeplook Medical
Isaac Cano, CEO, Health Circuit
Julia Komissarchik, CEO, Glendor
Anuj Patel, CEO, Motto Health
Amy Li, CEO & Founder, Dance 4 Healing

Lunch

Disparities in Digital Health

TED Talk

Dr. David Berger, CEO, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring, Hospital at Home

PANEL DISCUSSION

Ryan De’Larami, CEO & Founder, TeleVU
Divya Yerraguntla, SVP, Demand Generation and Sales Enablement, Syneos Health

How Maven Clinic is Improving Health Outcomes with Telehealth & Virtual Care

Keynote Presentation

Jamie Meyerson, VP, Network Strategy & Operations, Maven Clinic

Journey to Personalized Healthcare: What Does this Look like in 2023?

Keynote Presentation

Amy West, Sr. Director, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Novo Nordisk

Networking & Break

Funding the Startup Ecosystem in NYC

PANEL DISCUSSION

Gabriel Perna, Digital Health Editor at Modern Healthcare
Michael Norsen, Principal – Head, of Alexandria LaunchLabs at Columbia

Bill Taranto, President, Merck Global Health Initiative Fund

The role of the consumer/participant in the future digital health and personalized care

VIRTUAL KEYNOTE

Dr. Sachin Shah, Global Medical Partner, Digital Health & Devices, Haleon

The Next Big Disruption in DH

Panel discussion

Bishen Singh, Advisor, Digital Transformation, Microsoft
Jason Macalear, Chief Commerical Officer, Transcarent
Francisco Primero Narvaez, Director, Axon Health
Pooja Majmudar, Director, Startup Banking – Early Stage Life Science, Silicone Valley Bank

Remote Patient Monitoring – a Close Up Provider Static View

Keynote Presentation

Ziggy Arfeen, VP, HSS Health
 

About the Event

Panel interviews & keynote addresses

Highlighting digital health leaders across the world.

Virtual networking sessions offered

including several digital cocktail hours

Virtual exhibit hall of digital health solutions​

including several digital cocktail hours

Exclusive workshops throughout the day

to facilitate conversations in our community​

Scholarships

For Students

Are you a highschool, college, or (post) graduate student? Future digital health innovator? Apply to receive complimentary ticket.

Sponsor 100 NYC students and also receive exclusive signage and promotion of your brand

For Executives

Are you a Research Life Science Executive? Apply to receive a complimentary VIP ticket to attend

You Will Learn

  • How technology can bring more diversity from racial & socioeconomic perspective into clinical trials
  • Which current & future trends in digital health are worth investing in
  • How to build a community for extended reality
  • How to provide better quality of care related to coronary & cardiovascular health
  • How to promote health equity in the digital health world
  • How to bridge the digital divide
  • How to use machine learning for logo design
  • What the impact of pharmaceutical innovation is doing on cancer mortality
  • How to improve healthcare for older adults

"You get to network with a lot of interesting people coming from all over the world, bringing new ways of thinking about problem solving to the table"

—Amy West

Senior Director, Digital Transformation & Innovation
Novo Nordisk