Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation

Registration is open to everyone, including faculty, students, and staff at Duke and other academic institutions, as well as healthcare professionals, industry professionals, and business professionals. Please join us!

Overview

Duke AI Health and the Pratt School of Engineering are partnering to host the Duke Summit on AI for Health Innovation with the goal of fostering a community of practice around health-oriented AI development, that bridges the medical and engineering fields.

This event will leverage the strengths of Duke in AI product development and the ecosystem for healthcare innovation, harnessing responsible AI in the service of patients and communities for better health. To enhance the impact of our discussions and collaborations, the summit will integrate the principles of design thinking into its programming. This approach will guide participants through a process of empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing, ensuring that solutions are user-centered and more readily deployed once developed.

Registration

Please register here: https://events.duke.edu/innovation-summit-2024

The registration fee for the Summit is $375 and includes lunch for each day.  We are able to offer a set number of seats at a discount for members of nonprofit organizations ($150), and registration is free to current students with a valid ID at Duke or other institutions. All fees are payable through the registration site.

All fees are non-refundable. Once we reach maximum registration, please register on the waitlist; we will contact those on the waitlist as spots become available.

Focus of the Event

Engineers think about the world in a special way. What can an engineering mindset teach us about defining opportunities and creating innovation in the world of health? AI is disrupting technology, but it is also disrupting how we create new innovations and holds the promise of harnessing AI as a companion to human thinking. This event was designed to help participants think differently about clinical problems: both in defining problems and designing solutions. AI will change the way that we do research and design, as well as commercialize, license, and share innovation. This event has a “wide aperture” in framing possibilities from molecules to bedside to community, and how design innovation and technology can help us in what to do about them.

Who should attend

This summit is for people who want to:

• Explore the development process from concept to finished product through hands-on educational experiences and interactive discussions with experts, incorporating design thinking methodologies.
• Actively participate in setting the agenda for future work, using insights gained from a design thinking approach to identify user needs and create impactful solutions.
• Network with students and representatives from industry, medicine, academia, and funders, fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations.
• Engage with fellow attendees to identify open problems, generate new ideas, and spark innovation through collaborative and user-centered approaches.

We especially encourage participation from industry, academia, government, and the local community.

Sponsorship

We thank Johnson & Johnson and Globant – Healthcare & Life Sciences as our founding sponsors.

Opportunities for sponsorship are still available and are structured as follows:

• Bronze-level sponsorship ($2.5k): Includes invitation for the sponsor to display an information table
• Silver-level sponsorship ($10k): Named sponsorship of a coffee break, plus invitation for the sponsor to display an information table
• Gold-level sponsorship ($25k): Named sponsorship of a meal, plus invitation for the sponsor to display an information table
• All sponsors receive 2 free registrations

For sponsorship opportunities, please contact Jonathan Owens, MBA, Director of Industry Partnerships for the Pratt School of Engineering (jonathan.owens@duke.edu)