About the Summit
The FT Digital Surgery Summit included 23 speakers across a mix of keynotes and panel discussions. The second Summit will take place in 2020 in New York.


Sessions and panel discussions included:
Driving Innovation: From Military Research to Civilian Medical Practice - Colonel (Dr) Jerome Buller, Commander, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
Defining Digital Surgery in the Context of Value-Based Care - Heather Lyu, General Surgery Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Ozanan Meireles, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Jean Nehme, CEO and Co-founder, Digital Surgery Ltd; Dinesh Vyas, Chair, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, California Northstate University
Investment Opportunities in the Future of Health IT - Joe Lonsdale, Founding Partner, 8VC
Automating the Metrics of Surgical Expertise: What do Surgeons Really Need? – Carla Pugh, Professor of General Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine
The Future of Health and Medicine: Where can Technology Take us? - Daniel Kraft, Faculty Chair for Medicine, Singularity University and Founder and Chair, Exponential Medicine
The Next Generation of Surgical Tools, Instruments and Materials - Luke Hares, Technology Director, CMR Surgical; Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy, Vice President, Applied Research and Technology, Verb Surgical; Richard Leparmentier, VP Engineering, Auris Health; Dan Stoyanov, Professor of Robot Vision, UCL & CSO, Digital Surgery Ltd
Preparing for the Future of Surgery – Allan Kirk, Chair, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
Artificial Intelligence - Rachael Callcut, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of California San Francisco; Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Amazon Web Services; Euan Thomson, Global Head of R&D, Digital Technology and Advanced Innovation, Johnson & Johnson; Michael Yip, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego
New Ways of Learning - A Digital Surgical Curriculum - Jaap Bonjer, Chair and Professor of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centre and CEO, Amsterdam Skills Centre for Health Sciences
Panel: Bringing it Back to the Patient - Monika Hagen, Consultant Surgeon and Lecturer, University Hospital Geneva; Daniel Buchbinder, Chief, Maxilofacial Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Cheri Reynolds, Director of Program Development and Global Health, Assist International; Tim Worden, Partner, Life Sciences, Taylor Wessing

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