Download the FutureMed 2013 Press Kit (.zip), consisting of:
- Media Advisory
- FutureMed Fact Sheet
- FM Speaker Presentations
- CHM Presentations
- Faculty Speaker bios
MEDIA ADVISORY
FUTURE MED AT SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
FOR FUTURE MED 2013: FEBRUARY 4-9, SILICON VALLEY
SPECIAL EVENT TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 9 AT THE COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM,
MOUNTAIN VIEW, WITH TECH DEMOS, PITCH SESSIONS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – FutureMed (www.FutureMed2020.com), a specialized six-
day program, uniquely focused on exploring the impact and potential of rapidly advancing
technologies on the future of health, medicine and biotechnology, has announced the program
of speakers and presentations for FutureMed 2013.
The program will be held February 4-9, at Singularity University’s campus at NASA
Research Park, Moffett Field, CA. The detailed program schedule is located at:
http://futuremed2020.com/special/) – bringing together the San Francisco Bay
Area’s rich community of clinicians, inventors, innovators, investors, healthcare executives
and entrepreneurs from across the healthcare ecosystem. The event will include hands-
on demonstrations of the latest technologies in medicine, neuroscience and healthcare, VC
pitch sessions for emerging companies, and a dinner program featuring specialists in Brain/
Machine Interface, and Ekso Bionics, among other presentations.
Past participants call FutureMed “a mind-opening voyage into the future with the people who
are creating it; Absolutely incredible and intellectually invigorating with practical business
benefits.”
FUTURE MED 2013 (HIGHLIGHTS):
• Feb 4: Keynote: Ray Kurzweil Keynote, Co-Founder, Singularity Univ
• Feb 4: Keynote: John Abele, Co-Founder, Boston Scientific
• Feb 5: Keynote: Dr. Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder, Singularity Univ
• Feb 5: Data Driven Health, Larry Smarr, Dr. John Mattison AI and Healthcare: Marty Kohn, IBM Watson; Vinod Khosla
• Feb 5: Future of Oncology: Jack Andraka, ISEF teen winner for Cancer Test, Dr. Ron Levy, Stanford Univ.
• Feb 6: Biotech, Genome, Personalized Medicine: Dr. Atul Butte, Stanford Future of Intervention: Catherine Mohr, Intuitive Surgical
• Feb 8: Regenerative Medicine Dr. Alan Russell, Carnegie Mellon University
• Feb 8: Neuromedicine Dr. Adam Gazzalay, UCSF
• Feb 8 Special Presentation: Dr. Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for HealthCare IT Office of the National Coordinator, HHS, will present the Million Hearts Prize Awards
SPEAKERS BIOS: http://www.FutureMed2020.com/faculty/
Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, Farzad Mostashari, Larry Smarr, John Mattison, Christopher
Longhurst, Marty Kohn, Lee Hochberg, Adam Gazzalev, Christopher DeCharms, Tiffany Shlain,
Ajay Verma, Vinod Khosla, David Judge, Lucien Engelen, Daniel Riskin, Neil Jacobstein, David
Shaywitz, Ronald Levy, David Ewing Duncan, Jack Andraka, Raymond McCauley, Andrew
Hessell, Catherine Mohr, Jay Schnitzer, Peter Fitzgerald, Daniel Kraft, Alan Russell, Jonathan
Abele, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, Babak Parviz, Salim Ismail, Nick Soloway, David Albert,
Aza Raskin, Jose Gomez, Alan Russell, Linda Stone, Marc Goodman, Eric Rassmussen, Dan
Barry, Pete Worden.
Executive Director: Dr. Daniel Kraft; Executive Producer: Robin Farmanfarmaian
MEDIA CONTACT: To attend FutureMed sessions, news media representatives must register
in advance no later than Friday, February 1, with Diane Murphy at 202.361.9681, or by email
at: diane@singularityu.org.
