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Speakers

Founders, researchers, and operators shaping what comes next.

A roster spanning artificial intelligence, neuroscience, genetics, and consumer technology — plus an investor panel of VCs active across the frontier.

Tom Hale
CEO, OuraConfirmed

Tom Hale

CEO of Oura, the smart ring that turned continuous sleep, recovery, and readiness tracking into a mainstream category. Tom's keynote will trace how consumer hardware, AI, and longitudinal data are converging into a new computing layer.

Ben Kompa
Co-Founder & Head of AI-Lab Innovation, Lila SciencesConfirmed

Ben Kompa

Co-Founder and Head of AI-Lab Innovation at Lila Sciences, the Flagship Pioneering venture building toward "scientific superintelligence." Ben works at the intersection of AI and automated experimentation, connecting frontier models with real-world lab workflows to translate AI into scalable scientific discovery.

Alan Patricof
Co-Founder, Primetime PartnersConfirmed

Alan Patricof

A pioneer of the venture capital industry, Alan founded Apax Partners and Greycroft and is now Co-Founder of Primetime Partners, which backs companies serving the aging population. Across a six-decade career he has been one of the earliest and most influential investors in American venture capital.

Jamie Goldstein
Founding Partner, Pillar VCConfirmed

Jamie Goldstein

Founding Partner of Pillar VC, the Boston firm he launched in 2016 to turn breakthrough science into lasting companies, often as the first check into university spinouts. Over a 25-year career he's backed companies like PillPack, PathAI, Abridge, and Algorand, and invests at the frontier where technical founders meet commercialization.

Muthu Alagappan
Founder & CEO, Counsel HealthConfirmed

Muthu Alagappan

Physician and AI researcher, and Founder & CEO of Counsel Health, which is building AI-powered, asynchronous care to make high-quality medical advice widely accessible. Before Counsel, he was Chief Medical Officer at Notable Health and an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess and UCSF. He earned his MD from Stanford, where his research focused on the intersection of medicine and AI.

Dan Furman
CEO, ArctopConfirmed

Dan Furman

CEO and co-founder of Arctop, a neuroscience and AI company building software that decodes brain signals in real time. Dan leads work at the frontier of brain–computer interfaces, applied machine learning, and consumer neurotechnology.

Lee McCormack
Founder & CEO, ORRBConfirmed

Lee McCormack

Founder of ORRB, Lee is a design engineer and entrepreneur whose work spans immersive environments, smart city infrastructure, and AI-enabled systems. Drawing on engineering collaborations including McLaren, he built ORRB, a precision-controlled environment designed to advance the measurement of human performance.

Casey Caruso
Founder & Managing Partner, Topology VenturesConfirmed

Casey Caruso

Founder and Managing Partner of Topology Ventures, an engineering-centric frontier-tech fund she launched with an oversubscribed debut, backed by names like Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon. A former Google machine-learning engineer turned investor, Casey backs founders at the frontier of AI, robotics, neurotechnology, and autonomous discovery. She invested at Paradigm before founding Topology and is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in venture capital.

Robert Stickgold
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolConfirmed

Robert Stickgold

One of the world's leading researchers on sleep and cognition, and founder of Harvard's Center for Sleep and Cognition. Stickgold's pioneering work established sleep's essential role in memory consolidation and learning, using EEG and cognitive studies to reveal how the brain processes experience overnight. His research anchors the science beneath modern sleep and recovery technology.

Jonathan Leary
Founder & CEO, Remedy PlaceConfirmed

Jonathan Leary

Founder and CEO of Remedy Place, the world's first Social Wellness Club. A doctor turned entrepreneur, Leary pioneered the concept of "social self-care," building intentionally designed spaces that blend recovery technologies like cryotherapy, ice baths, and infrared saunas with human connection. He is reshaping how the multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry thinks about preventative health.

Conor Walsh
Founder, Harvard Biodesign LabConfirmed

Conor Walsh

Paul A. Maeder Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard and founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab. Walsh pioneered the field of soft wearable robotics, developing lightweight exosuits and robotic apparel that augment healthy movement and restore mobility for patients with stroke, Parkinson's, and gait deficits. His lab bridges engineering, design, and clinical research to move breakthrough technology from bench to real world.

Eva Steinman
Investing Partner, Andreessen HorowitzConfirmed

Eva Steinman

Investing Partner on the Bio + Health team at Andreessen Horowitz, where she backs founders building the future of healthcare technology. Her investments span AI-driven care, behavioral health, and the infrastructure reshaping how patients access and experience medicine. Before a16z, she invested at Left Lane Capital across healthcare, technology, and consumer, and began her career at Morgan Stanley.

Rob Go
Co-Founder & Partner, NextView VenturesConfirmed

Rob Go

Co-Founder and Partner at NextView Ventures, a leading seed-stage firm investing in founders redesigning the "everyday economy." Rob works hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs from a company's earliest days, backing names across consumer, digital health, and vertical software. Before co-founding NextView, he invested at Spark Capital and led product for eBay's "Finding" business, and he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Arya Rao
MD-PhD Candidate, Harvard-MIT ProgramConfirmed

Arya Rao

MD-PhD candidate in the Harvard-MIT program, a Soros Fellow, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree working on AI for biology and medicine, toward the design of more intelligent health systems. She also serves as Chair of the Artificial Intelligence subgroup at the Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare (MESH) Incubator at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she leads work developing and translating new AI technologies for healthcare.

More coming soon.

Additional speakers — professional athletes, leading VCs, and serial entrepreneurs — to be announced.