Open Innovation In Healthcare Pop-Up 2019 Recap (Photos)
This past Sunday in San Francisco we, in partnership with Ogilvy Consulting and humble ventures, hosted the ‘Open Innovation in Healthcare’ Pop-Up. On behalf of all of us, we appreciate all of you who helped make this a huge success!
Over 150 leaders from academia, health systems, pharma, startups, and VC braved the pouring rain to enjoy great programming and meaningful conversation. We learned from a variety of different perspectives from across the healthcare ecosystem about overcoming key challenges to making innovation work in their respective organizations. The agenda featured engaging conversations from panelists and fireside chats:
Introduction: Ritesh Patel — Ogilvy Consulting
Introducing open innovation at Mount Sinai Co-Lab — Eric Kostegan
Commercialization of innovation: idea to implementation
Kevin Hart — Kaiser Permanente
David Eagleman — Stanford
Key Takeaway: Higher quality outcomes, more affordable care and better personal experiences — that’s great innovation in healthcare.
Funding innovation: the VC perspective
Harry Alford — Humble Ventures
Erik Lium — Mount Sinai Innovation Partners
Solome Tibebu — Affiniti VC
Jack Kaufman — Dreamit Ventures
Key Takeaway: As a startup searching for funding, being able to crisply communicate your competitive advantage to investors is highly important.
Early stage innovation in health care delivery organizations
Kayode Owens — Humble Ventures
David Steuer — UCSF
Rishab Shah — Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub
Sinthusan Sinnadurai — Stanford Health Care
Key Takeaway: Innovation and cultural change inside both the enterprise and hospital need to be in place before actual open innovation.
Early stage innovation in pharma, biotech and medical devices
Kirk Keaffaber — Lilly USA
Emmanuel Fombu — J&J
Kate Merton — JLaBs
Key Takeaway: Look at where the opportunities are in healthcare that will enable more people to be healthy in the future.
The event also featured a showcase of seven innovative startups that are building solutions for common challenges in healthcare, which was moderated by Ogilvy Consulting’s Peter Fasano.
Medable — Michelle Longmire, Founder/CEO
CareSet — Ashish Patel, Founder
HumanAPI — Andrei Pop, Founder/CEO
Oxitone — Dr. Leon Eisen, Founder/CEO
Roundtrip — Mark Switaj, Founder/CEO
Quantum Insights — Bernard Chen, CEO
The MedNet — Samir Housri, Founder
Additionally, the event provided an intimate setting for audience members to ask thoughtful questions; inspire meaningful conversation in breakout rooms; and spark social engagement online from industry leaders like Susan Shiff, Senior Vice President & Head of the Center for Observational and Real World Evidence for Merck.
The pop-up even made Sara Holoubek’s JPM Healthcare Conference Hot Take! Below is a gallery of just a few of the many beautiful moments captured from the event including the delicious cupcakes, cheese and Napa’s finest wine.
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The Mount Sinai Co-Lab is an open innovation program designed to find solutions to healthcare challenges that have the potential to impact health globally. Solving tomorrow’s healthcare challenges requires today’s preeminent organizations to interface with healthcare systems in ways that they haven’t needed to in the past. The Co-Lab fosters long-term partnership between preeminent organizations and Mount Sinai’s forward-thinking leadership, faculty, and students. Participating organizations are matched with a navigator, a Connector-In-Residence across the Mount Sinai Health System that helps hone in on nodes of value and activate the right Mount Sinai resources to optimize partnership.
