AI as aCatalyst.
When capital, conviction, and community share a room, the next breakthrough begins.
This May, MIT, Stanford, and Threshold Ventures are building that room in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Two days with founders, investors, clinicians, researchers, and community leaders, all working on what better health innovation actually looks like.
Over two days in San Francisco, we will challenge the status quo of entrepreneurship, question whose values drive innovation, and rethink how health innovation actually gets built, beyond Silicon Valley’s echo chamber.
Two days. Two venues.
One mission.
Rebuild the Blueprint
Investors, founders, researchers, clinicians, and community leaders, in the same room in downtown Palo Alto. Teams will prototype new funding models, pressure-test ideas with investors live in the room, and walk out with a blueprint for building better companies.
- 9:30 AMPanel
Reimagining Startups & Entrepreneurship
- 10:45 AMWorkshop
Reimagining Startups & Entrepreneurship
- 1:00 PMPanel
Whose values get funded?
- 1:45 PMWorkshop
The Moral Vulnerability Audit: Stress-Testing Startup Ideas for Unintended Harm
- 4:00 PMSession
Reverse Shark Tank
Open the Black Box
The AI systems being built right now will shape healthcare for billions, and almost nobody outside a handful of labs is asking the hard questions. You will be. Teams will take apart real AI research, stress-test LLMs across languages, and prototype the guardrails that don’t yet exist.
- 9:30 AMPanel
What skills do we need to teach students in the age of AI?
- 10:45 AMWorkshop
The Art of Healing: Creativity as Medicine
- 1:00 PMPanel
How do we take control of the AI narrative from the tech companies?
- 1:45 PMWorkshop
LLM-athon
- 4:00 PMWorkshop
Health AI Systems Thinking for Community (HASTC)
Attend one day or both. Each offers a unique experience.
This gathering is for every voice that deserves to shape the future.
- Founders building startups with purpose.
- Investors reimagining how capital flows.
- Researchers in AI, health, and data science.
- Clinicians shaping care at the front lines.
- Students from every kind of campus.
- Community leaders with perspectives that shape better futures.
- Changemakers who believe great tech should outlast the hype cycle.
The people behind the gathering.
Leo Anthony Celi
MIT · Harvard Medical School
Rahul Gorijavolu
Johns Hopkins University · MIT
Leslie Espinoza Campomanes
Anatomage · Stanford University
Mena Ramos
Global Ultrasound Institute · MIT Critical Data
Boya Zhang
MIT · Université de Genève
Khushboo Teotia
UC Berkeley
Rodrigo Gameiro
Harvard Medical School · MIT
Bhav Jain
Stanford University School of Medicine
Thomas Sounack
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Kaushik Madapati
UC Berkeley
Ricardo Kleinlein
Harvard Medical School · Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Qingpeng Kong
UC Berkeley
Freddie Seba
Innovation Hub Advisors · UIC
Monique de Villa
UCSF Neuroscape · University of San Francisco
Priyanka Bodagala
UCSF · University of San Francisco
Dhanashree Nerkar
HarmonyIQ Fertility
Marcus Detry
Top Tier Capital Partners · Cornell Johnson