BY SEAN DUFFY

The New World Of Digital Therapeutics

Sean's passions live at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and design. In his current role as CEO and Co-Founder of Omada Health, he sets the vision for the company and helps inspire and empower a team of incredibly smart, driven clinicians, designers, and engineers.

BY RONI ZEIGER

Scaling Medical Expertise

Roni Zeiger, former Chief Health Strategist at Google, works at the cutting edge of technology, information, and healthcare. At Google, he developed innovative digital medical services like online medical records, Google Flu Trends, and Symptom Search. Now Roni is leading a new company called Smart Patients, which leverages the expertise and networks developed by patients.

BY DAVID COX

The Science Behind Mindfulness

Having discovered mindfulness through Headspace, David came on board to help the company become a leading light in mindfulness research, and, ultimately, get Headspace to the point where it can be prescribed to patients by their doctors. 

BY DANIEL CHAO

Enhancing Brain Performance

Daniel Chao is a medtech entrepreneur, specializing in devices that retune the brain. Halo Neuroscience, a venture backed start-up based in San Francisco is developing a novel, simple, and powerful neuroscience-based technology for optimizing brain performance for the healthy and impaired.

BY UWE DIEGEL

The Real Future Of Healthcare

Uwe Diegel is the visionary President of iHealth Labs Europe, established in 2013 in Paris. He is the holder of several patents pertaining to temperature and blood pressure measurement and is considered as a specialist in medical diagnostics.

BY GREGORY KATZ

Breaking The Sound Barrier Of Genomic Data

Gregory KATZ is chaired professor and founder of the ESSEC Chair of Therapeutic Innovation at ESSEC Business School. His research and publications focus on the socio-economic impact of biomedical innovations, especially in the field of genomics and stem cell biobanking.

BY ROBIN FARMANFARMAIAN

The Era Of The Patient

Robin Farmanfarmaian believes that technology can empower patients and make a positive impact in the health and medical field. This position drives her to provide education to leaders, entrepreneurs, physicians, patients, healthcare professionals and innovators to positively impact  healthcare.

BY REMI DANGLA

The Untaped Genetic Content of Blood Samples

After a PhD at Ecole Polytechnique, Rémi has directed his efforts towards the application of this novel microfluidic technology to the emerging field of digital PCR, which led to the creation of Stilla Technologies in 2013.

BY PETER HAMES

The Era of Digital Medicine

Peter Hames holds a Masters degree in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University, and overcame his long term poor sleep by applying techniques refined by Professor Espie. It was his frustration at how difficult it was to access these proven techniques that inspired him to create the Sleepio course.

BY NICOLAS COLIN

Regulating Healthcare Innovation

Co-founder of TheFamily, Nicolas co-authored with Henri Verdier "The age of multitude, entrepreneurship and governance after the digital revolution" which provides an in-depth analysis of changes induced by the digital revolution. Inspecteur des Finances and entrepreneur, astute observer of issues related to digital public policies.

BY JONATHAN O'HALLORAN

The Handheld Laboratory

Jonathan O'Halloran, co-founder of QuantuMDx, has invented a £500 handheld device that can diagnose cancer in ten minutes. It's hoped mobile lab Q-POC could be used for detecting HIV and STIs. Q-POC analyses tiny tumour samples, taking multiple copies of DNA.

BY MOHAMMAD AFSHAR

Stratified Medicine

Mohammad Afshar is the founder of Ariana Pharma, a leading decision support company bringing the benefits of Big Data to clinicians. Specialized in patient stratification and design of multiplexed biomarkers, over the last 10 years Ariana has developed diagnostic and software tools that help the doctors to choose the best personalized treatment for the right patient.

BY JULIEN L. PHAM

Clinician Entrepreneur in Digital Health

Julien L. Pham helps reduce healthcare costs by helping primary care physicians avoid unnecessary specialist referrals. RubiconMD simplifies the process by allowing a primary care physician to submit a question about a patient's condition, to the company's platform where RubiconMD routes the case to a specialist and returns the opinion within a few hours.

BY LAVINIA IONITA

Quantified Diagnosis

Seeking the well-being and high performance of her patients, Dr. Ionita's approach focuses on the collection and analysis of data, whether they are environmental (lifestyle, diet, employment status) or physiological (blood, genetic, hormone or stool tests, etc.), in order to make better decisions.

BY XAVIER DUPORTET

Rethinking Antibiotics

Xavier is the founder of PhageX, a biotech startup founded by 4 researchers from the Institut Pasteur, MIT and Rockefeller University. Thanks to their technology, they have created smart antibiotics that can manipulate and control the microbiom with extreme precision.

BY ERIC CARREEL

Smart Devices For Your Health

Eric Carreel is a serial entrepreneur. Before Withings, he founded Sculpteo, Invoxia and Invetel. Withings creates smart products and apps to take care of yourself and your loved ones.

BY JEAN YVES QUENTEL

Real Time Quantitative Neurophysiology

With Yann Renard, a world expert in the real-time monitoring of brain activity, Jean-Yves Quentel founded Mensia Technologies to create wellness and healthcare applications of real-time, quantitative neurophysiology. 

Transforming The Hospital

Alexandre Mignon - iLLUMENS
Jorge Juan Fernandez - Moebio
Shari Langemak - Medscape 

The Rise Of Digital Health

Olivier Vial - Voluntis
Kyle Rose - MySugr
Eduardo Ronzano - Keldoc
Shari Langemak - Medscape 

New Trends in Healthcare Startups

Cécile Tharaud - President at Inserm Transfert Initiative
Pierre Frouin - Founder Bioserenity
Nicolas Simon - Founder Wandercraft