Rise of the Healthy Machines 2017 - #RISE2017

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Stakeholder, Student and startup discount tickets available

Sponsor tables available - all a the above link.

Rise of the Health Machines 2017

Half Day Mini Conference

Tweetup: #RISE2017

Machine learning, Machines to measure our motion and tell us the exercise more, Machines to watch over us, Machines to keep our employees healthy, Machines to help us remember to take our meds, Machines to watch for the next pandemic, Machines to measure care quality, Machines to help doctors between and during visits give better care and the list goes on and on. Healthy Machines are reinventing healthcare as we speak, making us healthier individually and as a people.

The H2NYC / MedStartr Rise of the Healthy Machines Series events continues in 2017 with a half day conference to drill down into the circuits and systems as well as highlight some of the best new companies in the space.

Get free tickets, discounts and see the new event page and updated write up here: https://rise2017.splashthat.com/ (https://rise2017.splashthat.com/)

Thanks to the generosity of our newest sponsor, Price Waterhouse Coopers, as well as DataArt and McCarter & English we will host 7 hours of networking and engaging discussions around the hottest topics in healthcare enabled with digital innovations including Pop Health, AI in Medicine, Big Data solutions, wearables and apps for healthy living.

Tickets are Free for the first ten Patient leaders, $20 for Startups and Students, $50 for stakeholders, and $75 for everyone else thanks to our outstanding sponsors!

As always, we love to help great new ideas get out to market faster, so if you have a great digital health idea, prototype, startup or know someone who does:

Apply to Get On Stage and Win the Rise of the Healthy Machines Challenge (http://www.medstartr.com/pages/rise2017)

Do you have an idea that will use digital technology to help people live longer, healthier lives? Then we want to enable, encourage, and invest in you. With over $300,000 in funding and prizes available, we look forward to finding and funding some of the best new ideas in digital health.

Please apply to get on stage by clicking here and filling out the application. (Note, this creates a crowdfunding project that will help your idea reach millions of people faster and build the crowd you need to succeed. Please make sure your idea is protected prior to submission.)

Finalists will be determined by reviews by members of the MedStartr Mentor network, the vast crowds that will come to the site to review the projects, and the MedStartr Ventures Investment Review Committee. The teams that gather the most support from the crowd of healthcare leaders, experts, providers, partners, patients, and investors will generally be the ones to make the finals, so get your application in sooner rather than later so you can gather this support!

All finalists will be considered for the MedStartr Ventures Acceleration Program which provides up to $100,000 in investment and partner services to each of our portfolio companies. Learn More and Apply Here. (http://www.medstartr.com/pages/rise2017)

Experts: Are you an expert in the fields of Big Data, Precision Medicine, or Population Health? Please apply to be part of the discussion and judging panels at future events or to be an alternative for this one: Apply Here (https://medstartrmentors.wufoo.com/forms/medstartr-event-speaker-or-panelist-application/).

Agenda:

1:00 PM - Meet, Tweet and Greet #RISE2017

1:30 PM - Welcome and Opening Keynote by Jeff Nadler, CTO at Teladoc

1:50 PM - Fireside Chat with Les Funtleyder

2:05 PM - The State of teh Digital Health Revolution by Startup Health

2:25 PM - Panel Discussion: Machines for Healthier Populations - moderated by Peter Frishauf, Founder of MedScape

3:25 PM - Coffee, Snacks and Networking

3:55 PM - RISE2017 Challenge Pitch Contest (Enter here (http://www.medstartr.com/pages/rise2017))

5:00 PM - Panel Discussion: Killer Apps and Devices for Healthy Living - Panel Discussion moderated by Ben Chodor

6:00 PM - Closing Keynote and Awards

6:30 PM - Cocktail Reception!

Speakers - For the latest list please see https://rise2017.splashthat.com/

NEW SPEAKERS ADDED

Alan Warren, CTO, Oscar Insurance

Gary Cheung, Sr Software Architect- Big Data and Analytics, Cigna

Jason Bhan, MD- CEO Prognos.ai

Prognos is an innovative healthcare AI company, which launched after six years of development as Medivo. Supported by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., the company strives to improve health by tracking and predicting disease earlier in partnership with Life Sciences brands, payers, and clinical diagnostics organizations. Prognos’ innovations enhance the value of laboratory results and clinical diagnostic data through advanced analytics and artificial intelligence techniques.

Les Funtleyder, Healthcare Portfolio Manager and CNBC Commentator

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Mr. Funtleyder is a Healthcare Portfolio Manager at E Squared Capital Management where he is responsible for conducting fundamental and valuation analysis of public and private companies within the healthcare industry. Prior to E Squared Mr. Funtleyder was the Director of Strategic Investments for Opko Health, Phil Frost's holding company. Prior, he was a healthcare strategist and portfolio manager for the Miller Tabak Health Care Transformation Fund (Symbol: MTHFX). He joined Miller Tabak, after managing a healthcare portfolio for Provident Advisors, a hedge fund in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Before joining Provident, Les worked as a medical device analyst at UBS Warburg. He also covered Biotechnology stocks at Bigelow and company. His industry experience includes directing clinical and business research at Innovative Health Solution, a joint venture of Merck and Wyeth; and as a consultant to HMOs and hospitals for Coopers & Lybrand and Health Strategies Group. He started his healthcare career at Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Mr. Funtleyder wrote Healthcare Investing: Profiting from the New World of Pharma, Biotech, and Health Care Services (McGraw Hill), which bridges the gap between health reform, innovation and investing. He is widely quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times, and is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg and NPR for his perspective on the healthcare sector and its constituent companies. He is also a consulting partner to Bluecloud Health, a Sub-Saharan healthcare private equity fund, and on the board of several healthcare companies and foundations. Last, Les is currently a Professor of Public Health at Columbia University.

Les earned his Masters of Public Health from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and studied English and Economics at Tulane University.

Jeffrey Nadler, Chief Technology Officer, Teladoc

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Jeff is responsible for all aspects of information technology at Teladoc including overall enterprise security.

At Teladoc include re-architecting the core application platform to achieve massive scalability and deep and flexible data integration with clients and partners, designing and developing the company’s suite of mobile apps, driving the company’s technology strategy and building out the IT department to meet the growing needs of the business.

Before joining Teladoc, Jeff served as chief technology officer for ActiveHealth Management, a leading vendor of products and services for the healthcare industry in the areas of disease management, wellness, personal health records, analytics, lifestyle coaching, UM/CM and clinical decision support. His accomplishments there include development of the world‘s leading, patented clinical decision support engine.

Previously, he served as senior vice president in the enterprise technology group at Marsh and McLennan Companies, director and program manager at Cambridge Technology Partners and co-founder of a company that specialized in text retrieval software and related products and services.

Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where he received a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.

Ben Chodor, Anchor, Health Tech Talk Live, Linkedin Profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-chodor-a52699)

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Ramu Kannan, CIO, CityMD, Linkedin Profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramukannan)

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Peter Frishauf, Investor, Activist, and Innovator, Linkedin Profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterfrishauf)

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Troy Bannister - Startup Health

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Note, if you registered for the More Data Please event please realize that this is a scaled up version of that event and your ticket is still good here AND you just got a discount!