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2024 INNOVATION SUMMIT

THE 2ND ANNUAL

LIFE SCIENCE & HEALTHCARE INNOVATION SUMMIT

The Future of Healthcare Starts in Austin, Texas


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About the Summit

The Innovation Summit unites academia and industry to explore advancements poised to disrupt the future of healthcare and the innovation ecosystem. Throughout the two-day Summit, participants will have the opportunity to network with and engage in programming featuring leading experts.


Featured Speakers:

Jim Breyer
Breyer Capital

Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, a premier venture capital firm. He has been an early investor in over 40 technology companies that have completed highly successful public offerings or mergers.

Jim Breyer
Jay Hartzell

Jay Hartzell
The University of Texas at Austin

The 30th President of The University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as the 12th dean of the McCombs School of Business and has been a member of the UT Austin faculty since 2001.

Mark Hura
Oracle

Mark Hura is executive vice president of Oracle’s North America Cloud Infrastructure organization. He has 20+ years’ experience working with cloud native ISVs, global enterprises, and governments.

Mark Hura
Isaac Kohane

Isaac Kohane
Harvard Medical School & NEJM AI

Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, is the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI and co-author of The AI Revolution in Medicine.

Peter Lee
Microsoft

Peter Lee is the Corporate Vice President of Research and Incubations. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and coauthor of the book, The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond.

Peter Lee
Sam Palmisano

Samuel J. Palmisano
The Center for Global Enterprise

Chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise, member of the Board of Directors for Bloomberg Philanthropies and Chairman of America’s Frontier Fund Board of Directors. Previously served as Chairman, President, and CEO at IBM.

Lisa Su
AMD

As chair and CEO, Dr. Lisa Su has led the transformation of AMD into a high-performance and adaptive computing leader. She is passionate about next-generation computing and AI solutions to solve the world’s most important challenges.

Lisa Su

Questions, please contact: utaustininnovationsummit@utexas.edu