Curated by WIRED’s award-winning editorial team, WIRED Health:Tech will gather fascinating disruptors in health, medicine and science to investigate the direct impact of COVID-19, as well as the trends that the pandemic has accelerated. The programme covers artificial intelligence, telehealth, surgical robotics and next-gen systems, and addresses the need for smarter supply chains, remote friendly surgical systems and self-tracking software.

WIRED has designed the conference content to flow through a live broadcast in 90-minute sessions – one in the morning and one in the afternoon. WIRED also understands that networking, brainstorming and speaking with peers is a key reason to attend events. Therefore, there are a few optional upgrades that give access to one-to-one chats with other attendees, and a choice of both roundtable and workshop, moderated by the WIRED team.

WIRED has announced its six speakers for the virtual conference:

*Jennifer Doudna, professor of Depts. of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry, Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley
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Jennifer Doudna’s research seeks to understand how RNA molecules control the expression of genetic information. She and collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier determined the mechanism of RNA-guided bacterial adaptive immunity by the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a transformative technology that is revolutionizing the fields of genetics, molecular biology and medicine.

*Eric Topol, founder and director, Scripps Research Translational Institute & Professor of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research
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Eric Topol is a practicing cardiologist, scientist and author who has published three bestselling books on the future of medicine, including Deep Medicine, on the impact of artificial intelligence for healthcare.

*Mark Slack, chief medical officer and co-founder, CMR Surgical
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Mark Slack is an entrepreneur, consultant gynaecologist and the co-founder and chief medical Officer of CMR Surgical. The British medical technology company is behind the next-generation surgical robotic system Versius – a surgical robotic system that supports surgeons to carry out minimally invasive keyhole surgeries and procedures.

*Heidi Larson, professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project
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Heidi Larson is the director of the WHO’s Vaccine Confidence Project™, an initiative tackling the anti-vax movement. Larson headed UNICEF’s strategy for the introduction of new vaccines and is the Principle Investigator of the project ensuring deployment, acceptance and compliance of an Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone.

*Pearse Keane, NIHR clinician scientist, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL
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Pearse Keane leads a research group focused on the development and application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. In 2016, he initiated a formal collaboration between Moorfields Eye Hospital and Google DeepMind, with the aim of developing artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the earlier detection and treatment of retinal disease.

*Pravene Nath, global head for Digital Health Strategy, Roche
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Pravene Nath, an MD in emergency medicine, oversees the commercial deployment of digital health tools on market in partnership with Roche Affiliates globally. Prior to Roche, Nath was the chief product officer and SVP of solutions and healthcare operations at Mindstrong Health, where he was in charge of Mindstrong's digital biomarker, patient engagement, telehealth, and care management products.

WIRED Health:Tech is a fantastic way to get into the active WIRED community of influencers, startups, scaleup founders, investors and technologists – and hopefully, a way to keep us connected during these unprecedented times.

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