Innovators Summit - Fall 2025 Agenda - Symposium #2 - Day 3 (RCH)

Day 3: Symposium #2 – Radio City Hall

How Startups and Strategic Investment Are Powering the Next Wave of Healthcare Innovation

9:30 AM

Digital Data for Patient-Focused Endpoint Development

Explore early-stage strategies that drive traction, customer validation, and operational efficiency in health-focused startups.

Sue Zelt, Endpoint Specialist Director, Argenx

10:00 AM

Translating Biotech Innovation into Strategic Impact

Tactics for navigating regulatory, cultural, and payer differences when expanding into new domestic and global health markets.

Amelia Newbury, Founder & CEO, Kaleidocent

10:35 AM

Networking BREAK

11:00 AM

The Capital Shift: Emerging Trends in Digital Health and MedTech Funding

A data-driven look at how investment is evolving—what sectors are heating up, who’s writing the checks, and what startups need to know.

Don Jones, Chair, Cardiff Ocean Group

11:30 AM

Inside the Mind of the Investor: How AI changes what VCs want in Health Innovation Today

An interactive Q&A exploring the dynamic between investors and health tech founders—how strategic capital, traction, and timing come together to accelerate real-world impact.

Saul Richter, Founder, Rittenhouse VC

Abhilasha Ramasamy, Executive Director and Head, HEOR Evidence Strategy and Synthesis, Novo Nordisk

12:00 PM

From Pitch to Partnership: Aligning Capital with Vision in Health Innovation

Unpack how pharmacies are leveraging robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning, and cloud orchestration to build intelligent, self-operating systems for faster, more accurate dispensing.

12:30 PM

LUNCH

1:30 PM

Innovation in Action: Live Demos from High-Growth Startups

Watch emerging health and life science startups showcase their technologies, platforms, and real-world traction.

Timothy H Dwight, Executive Director Health Plan Sales, Tegria

2:15 PM

Strategic Customer Education in Digital Health

Explore ecosystems, accelerators, advisory models, and founder wellbeing strategies that help innovators thrive.

Manasi Shukla, Founder and Lead Consultant, Safrela

2:30 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

3:00 PM

Building Digital Health Solutions in a Legacy System

Understand how startups can generate clinical, economic, and operational evidence to drive adoption, investment, and regulatory wins.

Travis Rush, CEO & co-founder, Reperio Health

3:30 PM

It Takes a Village: Co-Creating Solutions Across Payers, Providers, and Startups

Real-world models where startups, corporates, clinicians, and patients co-design and co-deploy health innovations that stick.

Dr. Stavros Zanos, Associate professor at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research of Northwell Health and heads the Translational Neurophysiology Laboratory.