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Blockchain’s Impact on Healthcare Tech: Enterprises & Entrepreneurs
February 18, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$15 – $25
Blockchain's Impact on Healthcare Tech: Enterprises & Entrepreneurs
Feb 18 | Chicago, IL | $15 - $25 Tickets Get Your TicketMind The Blockchain, with the support of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator of Los Angeles, MATTER, and HealthTech Women of Chicago has assembled thought-leaders from Healthcare Startups and Enterprises to share their perspectives on the role of blockchain technology and innovations for the health tech sector.
It will be an evening of education and networking focused on blockchain and it’s impact on healthcare technology. We are building an inclusive community of individuals looking to “Future Proof” their careers. Blockchain Curious? — Then this event is for you.
Join Us!
Event Take Aways
Our collective goal is that attendees will gain some understanding around the following:
- Healthcare sector trends with technology apply across a variety of other sectors.
- Real use cases from startups & enterprises provide concrete uses that solve a problem or create new value using blockchain infrastructure along side other tech solutions.
- Your livelihood can be positively impacted knowing blockchain and the opportunities it provides for creating economic value, business creation, as well as job security.
- Inclusion is key to better solutions and equitable participation in wealth creation.
The Agenda
5:30
Networking with lite bites
6:00
Welcome & Introductions
- Mind the Blockchain: Team & Advisor Introductions
- Co-hosts: Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, MATTER, HeathTech Women of Chicago
6:15
Setting the Healthcare Tech Stage
- Take Aways from the JP Morgan Healthcare Investor’s Conference 2020
- Entrepreneurship leading change
- Blockchain 101 /// Hannah Rosenberg /// LinkedIn Bio
6:30
Panel & Questions
7:30
Thank you! See you next month.
About the Panel
Jered Haedt
Jered, founder and Chief Science Officer at Pricing Cloud, has diversified experience in analytics and strategy; specializing in econometrics and strategic business intelligence platforms. His experience provides significant and comprehensive utilization of complex application of theory in data-sparse environments and adaptive modeling.
Feyi Olopade
Feyi, the CEO and co-founder of CanerIQ. Her journey with CancerIQ began in 2012, when she wanted to be more of a participant in the healthcare sector than a bystander. Feyi witnessed the most cutting edge clinical care, and identified a number of bottlenecks that constrained patient access to it. In 2013, CancerIQ was born. After recruiting a board of thought leading advisors spearheaded by her mother, she led the product design effort, raised capital, and recruited a team to help her flesh-out the concept. CancerIQ has garnered support from top accelerator programs, investors, and most importantly – customers. She leads the business development team at CancerIQ, and manages all strategic partnerships.
Karrie Sullivan
Anthony Zeoli
Anthony is an Attorney and Partner in the Corporate Practice Group and the Leader of the Emerging Industries Team at Freeborn and Peters. He concentrates his practice in the areas of banking and commercial finance, securities, real estate, and general corporate law.
Anthony is also an industry leader in the areas of crowdfunding, blockchain, securities based cryptocurrency/token offerings, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, and Regulation A+ offerings. He also personally drafted the Illinois intrastate crowdfunding exemption, which was unanimously passed into law by the Illinois House of Representatives. Anthony was recently named to the National Law Journal’s inaugural list of Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and FinTech Trailblazers.
Shuhan Zhou
Shuhan currently works at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare as an internal analytics consultant, advising executives and physician leaders on operation efficiency improvement and value based care transition strategy. Previously, she worked in litigation consulting, co-founded a civic engagement social enterprise and sat on the board for multiple local non-profits in her spare time. She is passionate about exploring opportunities in digital health startups as well as impact investing. Shuhan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Berkeley and a Master of Public Policy from University of Chicago, both with high honors distinction.
About the Event Organizers
Lead Organizer
Mind The Blockchain
The Mind The Blockchain 2020 calendar starts with a February forum discussing blockchain’s relevance in the healthcare industry!
By building an inclusive community and convening at various forums, Mind the Blockchain focuses on increasing blockchain knowledge and its near term use. Experts at Gartner predict that the new wealth creation from blockchain will be close to $3.1 trillion by 2030*. Blockchain curious yet? We believe we need to be proactive—not reactive to this change. If you want to be at the forefront of this new technology, it is time to Mind the Blockchain. Join us.
We are creating a community of diverse individuals who want to be leaders in their organizations or launch entrepreneurial efforts. Together, we will learn and lead the creation of new economic value. We will not wait for changes to make us obsolete! We will lead the change.
*Furlonger, D & Uzureau, C. (2019). Executive Guidance: Get to Know Blockchain, (p.3). Gartner.
Accelerator Program
Cedars-Sinai Accelerator
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is transforming healthcare quality, efficiency, and care delivery by helping entrepreneurs bring their innovative technology products to market.
This three-month program, based in Los Angeles, California, provides companies with $100,000 in funding, mentorship from more than 300 leading clinicians and executives, access to Cedars-Sinai, and exposure to a broad network of entrepreneurs and investors.
Host
MATTER
At MATTER, we believe collaboration is the best way to improve healthcare. The MATTER collaborative includes more than 200 cutting-edge startups from around the world, working together with dozens of hospitals and health systems, universities and industry-leading companies to build the future of healthcare. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives.
Industry Partner
Healthtech Women of Chicago
Healthtech Women is dedicated to supporting women in achieving their goals, advancing their careers, and fueling innovation across health. Join our 20,000+ members across the globe to expand your knowledge, share ideas, get inspired, and make a difference.
Our Partners
Thank you to our generous host, MATTER, for providing a great space for collaboration to improve healthcare. To our co-host, the Cedar Sinai Accelerator, for their dedication to investing in entrepreneurs and thought leaders who bring innovation technology to the industry. And lastly, to our partners at HealthTech Women of Chicago, who like us, are empowering women and minorities to take action to lead in our community. Together we are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives.
Our Sponsor
Thank you to our generous sponsor, Freeborn & Peters, for supporting our vision and making our forum possible.