Bold Ideas, Breakthrough Impact: Why Radical Innovation is Needed to Transform Health and Life Sciences

🌍 As Alberta and Canada strengthen their global leadership in health innovation, we recognize that tackling pressing healthcare challenges requires bold ideas rather than incremental changes. From an aging population to chronic diseases, sustainability, workforce pressures, and equitable access, these issues call for daring solutions and collaboration across disciplines.

🗣️ This featured panel will unite leaders from challenge-based innovation, digital health, healthy aging research, and entrepreneurship to explore how transformative concepts translate into real-world impacts. We'll discuss the importance of embracing risk, setting ambitious objectives, and fostering an environment that empowers innovators to tackle seemingly insurmountable problems.

🚀 Attendees will gain insights on developing, scaling, and implementing solutions that can alter health outcomes on a population level through perspectives from XPRIZE, a global leader in incentivizing radical breakthroughs. Learn from innovators engaged in global initiatives like XPRIZE competitions and understand how challenge-based models inspire breakthrough thinking, attract talent, investment, and foster partnerships for societal improvement.

Panelists:

• Annika Anderson
  Senior Team Relations Manager, XPRIZE Health
  Annika supports innovators in XPRIZE competitions globally, offering unique insights on what sets successful innovators apart in science and technology.

• Jordan Masys
  Co-Founder & COO, Labfront
  Jordan's journey began in Ethiopia, co-founding the Nordic Medical Centre and later launching Labfront to democratize access to health research, growing to over 2,000 researcher accounts.

• Anthony Kaul
  Founder & CEO, Cloud DX
  Anthony leads Cloud DX in remote patient monitoring and virtual care, focusing on data-driven models to improve healthcare outcomes.