Please join us for the 2014 KCALSI Annual Dinner, celebrating our progress in the regional life sciences, on September 9 at the Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland. This year’s theme is “Going Viral: Technology Integration in Healthcare.”
The night will feature an expert in novel technologies being developed for healthcare, Dr. Daniel Kraft. His presentation, “Reinventing the Future of Health and Medicine: Where Technology Can Take Us,” will explore the range of robotics to mobile health apps and challenge our conventional approach to healthcare. Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur and innovator with more than 20 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation.
Dr. Kraft chairs the Medicine track for Singularity University and is Founding Executive Director for Exponential Medicine, a program that explores exponential and convergent developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. Kraft also recently presented to the 10 mobile health companies in the Sprint Accelerator, showed off his multiple wearable devices and was impressed by their novel mobile health apps.
Dr. Kraft recently founded Bioniq Health, focused on enabling connected, data driven, and integrated personalized medicine. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies.
Dr. Kraft’s experience and vision in many ways epitomizes the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that is shaping, not only the future of healthcare, but also the future of wellness, prevention, and biopharma.
A new addition to the annual dinner is “Science to Art,” a silent auction of scientific images from our stakeholders that have been turned into art. The art has been curated by Sarah Hearn and Erin Olm-Shipman of the Collectors Fund. The scientists responsible for the images will be highlighted and the proceeds from the silent auction will support STEAM education, an integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Art.
To attend this year’s event, please register online. KCALSI also offers various sponsorship opportunities featuring packages of seating and advertising options.