Agenda Live for Xconomy Healthcare Summit Oct. 15–Get Your Invite

The Healthcare Summit

Quick question: What is so important to Americans that the U.S. Congress is willing to shut the government down over it?

The answer (as if you didn’t know already): healthcare.

Here at Xconomy, we have long been tired of the political spin doctoring that surrounds healthcare. So we set out to convene a very exclusive, invitation-only summit to focus on this crucial subject and get answers from an array of real doctors, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, insurers, and others who actually know what they are talking about.

Called From Precision Medicine to Precision Management, our summit will take place in a bit less than three weeks, on Tuesday, Oct. 15. The agenda for the day, now available here, features a star-studded speaker lineup running the gamut from Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp on the science end to FitnessKeeper Founder Jason Jacobs and his apps on the consumer side. It includes leading investors like Mark Levin of Third Rock Ventures and Juan Enriquez of Excel Medical Ventures; economics expert Bill Sahlman of Harvard Business School; local leaders like Joe Kvedar from Partners Healthcare and Dennis Ausiello from Massachusetts General Hospital—and a group of out of town experts including David Callender, president of the University of Texas Medical Branch, SeeChange Health CEO Martin Watson and Healthbox director Jill Seidman.

There are so many great speakers, with topics ranging from big data to population medicine to mobile health to new patient-doctor relationships, it is best to just check out the agenda. We only have a limited number of spaces available at this point, but we’d like to encourage entrepreneurs, technologists, executives, and investors to request an invitation.

We can promise you a day of deep insight in a spectacular setting, as we have rented out the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, for this event. Even the reception the night before is in a cool spot: Johnson & Johnson’s new Innovation Center in Kendall square.

We hope you can make it—so, again, request that invitation. And if you are not in one of the categories above, please ask us about sponsorship packages.

We hope to see you on October 15.

Author: Robert Buderi

Bob is Xconomy's founder and chairman. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor, he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative. Bob is the author of four books about technology and innovation. Naval Innovation for the 21st Century (2013) is a post-Cold War account of the Office of Naval Research. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.