NuVert Healthcare AI Activation™
AI adoption in healthcare is accelerating, but breakthrough technology alone does not create better health outcomes. The real challenge is what happens between innovation and implementation: evidence, investment, infrastructure, trust, governance, clinical adoption, organizational readiness, and ultimately the ability to scale.
Hosted by NuVert, the Day 1 afternoon Healthcare AI Activation brings together healthcare executives, clinical leaders, researchers, policymakers, innovators, investors, and responsible AI practitioners to examine one central question:
What does my organization actually need to do about AI now?
Through executive intelligence, horizon-setting perspectives, clinical and policy discussions, and applied working sessions, participants will move through a purposeful journey:
Intelligence → Frontier → Practice → Governance → Impact → Action
Program Highlights
1:00PM - 3:00PM
The State of Healthcare AI
NuVert opens the afternoon with Executive Intelligence drawn from 30+ healthcare leader conversations to reveal where healthcare AI stands today, what is slowing adoption, and where the biggest opportunities and governance priorities are emerging.
From Innovation to Impact: Why it’s Hard
Moderator: Dr. Rifat Atun, Dean for Education & Innovation at Harvard School of Public Health
With healthcare, clinical, research, and innovation leaders.
This cross-sector conversation explores what it takes to move healthcare breakthroughs from evidence and investment through infrastructure, adoption, and scale to deliver measurable improvements in human health.
Policy to Practice: Governing AI for the Future of Healthcare
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ami Bhatt, CMO of WHOOP
This session explores how healthcare breakthroughs move from promising ideas to scalable solutions that deliver measurable improvements in human health.
The Next Frontier in Health Systems: AI, Biology & Human Security
Keynote Speaker: Eric Horvitz (Chief Science Officer) & Ashley Conard (Senior Researcher) | Microsoft
This horizon-setting session explores where AI is taking healthcare and life sciences next—and what increasingly capable technologies will require from leaders.
From Promise to Practice: The Clinician’s Take
Moderator: Alice Stein, Founder & Managing Principal of STEIN+PARTNERS with Health Leaders
This session examines how AI is changing care at the point of practice—and whether clinicians, patients, and health systems are ready to trust and adopt it.
Governing the Next Era of Healthcare: Policy, Trust & Responsible AI
Moderator: Ambassador Muhammadou Kah
With 75th Governor of Delaware Beth Hall-Long and other public-sector, technology, healthcare, and innovation leaders.
This discussion explores how healthcare leaders can build governance that protects people, earns trust, and still enables responsible AI innovation to move forward.
Closing: From Insight to Action
Judah Phillips, CEO of Boston AI Week
The formal program closes by bringing the conversation back to the individual leader: What did you learn? What changed in your thinking? What will you do in the next 90 days?
After 3:00PM - Optional
Executive Intelligence Islands + Networking
The afternoon shifts from listening to participation through optional working conversations centered on three critical dimensions of responsible AI adoption:
Governance First — assess AI governance, risk, decision rights, accountability, and readiness.
Leading Organizational Change — explore executive alignment, AI literacy, workforce readiness, culture, and adoption barriers.
Human Flourishing in the Age of AI — examine what AI should amplify in people and organizations, and what human outcomes may be put at risk.
Who Should Attend
This experience is designed primarily for:
Healthcare CEOs, CMOs, and senior executives
Hospital and health-system leaders
CIOs, CMIOs, Chief Digital and AI Officers
Clinical and academic medicine leaders
Innovation and transformation executives
Public-policy and government leaders
AI governance, risk, and compliance leaders
Investors and healthcare innovation leaders
Researchers and responsible AI practitioners
Leaders responsible for organizational change and AI adoption
What You Will Take Away
A clearer view of where healthcare AI actually stands today
A better understanding of what prevents breakthroughs from becoming real health outcomes
Perspectives on the emerging frontier of AI, biology, and healthcare
Practical insight into clinical trust, governance, and responsible adoption
A clearer picture of your organization's readiness for AI
Concrete priorities for governance, organizational change, and human impact
A 90-day action orientation rather than another abstract AI conversation
From AI Possibility to Organizational Action
The next phase of healthcare AI will not be defined simply by who has the most advanced technology.
It will be shaped by the leaders who can connect innovation with evidence, governance, trust, people, infrastructure, and execution—and translate those pieces into meaningful health outcomes.
Join NuVert in Cambridge on September 24 from 1:00PM–4:00 PM to understand where healthcare AI is going, examine what responsible implementation actually requires, and leave with a clearer view of what your organization should do next.
Participation is limited and application-based.