

Healthcare Innovation Showcase + Networking
From Problem to Partner: Healthcare Innovation Showcase + Networking
Before the formal Day 1 program begins, NuVert will host a curated morning experience connecting healthcare leaders with emerging solutions, founders, and perspectives from Boston’s innovation ecosystem and beyond.
Rather than a traditional expo, the morning combines short, curiosity-driven startup spotlights, global perspective, and organic networking—helping participants move from “What problem are you solving?” to “Is there a reason we should work together?” The emphasis is on discovering what is being built, learning from founders and ecosystem leaders, and creating relationships that can move promising healthcare innovation closer to real-world adoption.
Who Should Attend
This experience is designed for leaders building, evaluating, funding, or implementing healthcare innovation, including:
Healthcare executives and health-system leaders
Clinicians and clinical innovation leaders
Healthcare and AI founders
Investors and ecosystem partners
Digital health, AI, and transformation leaders
Researchers and academic medicine leaders
Organizations looking for emerging healthcare solutions and potential partners
What You Will Take Away
Exposure to emerging healthcare and AI solutions from the Boston ecosystem
A clearer understanding of the problems startups are working to solve
Perspectives on moving medical and technological innovation into practice
Direct access to founders, healthcare leaders, and ecosystem partners
New relationships and potential pathways for collaboration
A more practical view of how startups and established healthcare organizations can work together
From Problem to Partner
Healthcare innovation does not move forward through technology alone. It moves when the right problem, solution, people, and ecosystem come together.
Join NuVert in Cambridge on September 24 from 8:30–11:00 AM for a curated morning of startup discovery, global perspective, and relationship-building designed around a simple principle:
Meet the trailblazers building healthcare’s future.
Morning Program
8:30 AM | Registration & Coffee
Session: Arrive, connect with fellow participants, and begin conversations with healthcare innovators, founders, executives, and ecosystem leaders before the showcase begins.
9:05 AM | Healthcare Innovation Showcase + Networking
Local Perspectives
A curated group of healthcare innovators will share short, focused spotlights on the problems they are solving and the opportunities they see for improving healthcare.
TRAIN4AI
Amrutha Killada — Founder & CEO, TRAIN4AI
TRAIN4AI helps organizations assess AI readiness and build the practical skills, workflows, and capabilities needed to move from AI interest to adoption.
Scriptify
Nomase Iyamu — Founder, Scriptify
Scriptify is developing a healthcare platform that enables community pharmacies to play a greater role in chronic-disease management and continuous patient care.
Kidney Connective
Grace Lightfoot — Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Kidney Connective
Vanessa Evans — Co-founder & Chief Advocacy Officer
Kidney Connective uses clinical intelligence and intelligent matching to help kidney patients identify transplant centers aligned with their individual needs and circumstances.
Accelidea
Rose Huang — Founder & CEO
Accelidea uses AI-powered decision intelligence to help medical device teams anticipate regulatory, quality, and engineering impacts, accelerating development from product concept to FDA submission.
Ece Kaner — Founder & CEO, Pathways to Parenthood Inc.
Pathways to Parenthood is developing a patient-centered healthcare platform that improves coordination, continuity, and personalized support across complex fertility and family-building journeys.
Liza Health
Andy Palmer — Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Liza Health
Liza Health is reimagining primary care by exploring new models for making high-quality, personalized care more accessible.
Fullscript
Dr. Jeffrey Gladd — Chief Medical Officer, Fullscript - Distinguished Guest
Fullscript brings a whole-person-care perspective to how technology, health information, and clinical relationships can support more personalized healthcare.
Session: Through concise startup spotlights, participants will hear what innovators are building, the healthcare problems they are addressing, and where new partnerships could help move solutions toward real-world impact.
Global Perspective | From Medical Science to Practice
Mark Turrell — Founder, unDavos; Professor of Global Strategy, Hult International Business School; Strategist, Author & Entrepreneur
Session: A global perspective on how scientific and technological breakthroughs move beyond discovery and become solutions that can spread, scale, and create meaningful real-world impact.
What Comes Next: Connecting Startups to the NuVert Ecosystem
Tim White — Founder & CEO, NuVert
Session: A look at how NuVert intends to connect startups with its broader executive and healthcare ecosystem, what opportunities are coming next, and how founders and leaders can remain engaged.
10:00–11:00 AM | Open Networking
Session: Continue conversations directly with founders, healthcare leaders, investors, and ecosystem partners—moving from introductions and startup spotlights toward potential relationships, shared problems, and opportunities to collaborate.
Access to the Event:
Bring a valid government-issued ID for security check-in upon arrival at Microsoft NERD.
After receiving building access, proceed to the M Floor, where the event is.
Complete event check-in at the reception desk before entering the program space.
Once checked in, you are all set to network, connect, and enjoy the event.
For additional event information and updates, visit: https://nuvert.com/
Parking & Transportation
Microsoft Garage
Inform attendees that Microsoft does not validate parking
Current weekday parking rate is $37 for the day
Garage entrance is at the back of the building via the one-way driveway on Memorial Drive
Guests take a parking receipt upon entry and pay when exiting
Public Transportation
Recommend the Red Line to Kendall Square
Microsoft is approximately a 5-minute walk from Kendall Square Station
Nearby Parking Alternatives
350 Kendall Street Garage / Pilgrim Parking
25 Hayward Street
245 First Street