Healthy Human Economy® Innovation Summit — Year Three
Follow the money. Build the infrastructure. Shape what's next.
Exchange Year Three · Atlanta Tech Week · August 2026
The Southeast's premier health innovation summit — where investors, founders, health system leaders, and payers converge to move the future of health from vision to value.
This is not a conference. This is the room where the platforms and intelligent systems that are shifting healthcare from reactive crisis response to a proactive standard of living are funded, sold, and scaled.
Three years in, this community has become the most intentional health innovation table in the Southeast. The investors writing checks, the founders building solutions, the health system executives making procurement decisions, and the service providers who know where deals are won and lost — all in one room, for one afternoon, with one purpose.
Year Three is our first ticketed event. Paid means committed. The people in this room showed up because they meant to.
Opening Keynote "Follow the Money: Where Health Innovation Returns Are Actually Being Generated"
Most health tech founders spend years chasing large health systems while overlooking the buyer who moves fastest, needs them most, and produces the most compelling outcomes data. Kathryn Lawler leads both Saint Joseph's Health System and Mercy Care — one of the few leaders in the country operating simultaneously across a full health system and a federally qualified health center. She knows what she needs from an innovation partner, how decisions are made, and why the validation story that comes out of a safety-net system may be the most powerful asset a health tech company can bring to its next stage of growth.
In conversation with Linda Goler Blount, President & CEO of Community Catalyst, Kathryn will follow the money to where returns are actually being generated — and make a direct case for why the founders and investors who understand this market first are the ones who will win.
On the Agenda
AI as Infrastructure — what investors need to know before betting on health AI
Procurement Unlocked — how to sell into hospital systems and win
Investor Lightning Round — five investors, five minutes each: thesis, trend, and what founders get wrong
Go-to-Market in the Healthy Human Economy® — finding the right buyer before you build
The Exchange 5:00 – 6:30 PM · Evening Reception
The agenda ends. The real work begins.
The Exchange is where the conversations started in the room find their next chapter — over a drink, across a table, with the exact person you came here to meet. Structured connection rounds open the evening, pairing investors with founders and buyers with builders. Then the floor opens.
This is where the Healthy Human Economy® community lives — not in a session, not on a panel, but in the relationships that outlast the afternoon.
Come ready to connect.