C3 Davos of Healthcare — Silicon Valley Summit

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre said Tuesday it awarded the Innovation Challenge winners at the C3 Davos of Healthcare summit in Sunnyvale. (manilatimes.net) The summit opened Monday, April 27, at Plug and Play Tech Center, 440 North Wolfe Road, with an 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. schedule and a keynote from former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (eventbrite.com) (plugandplaytechcenter.com) Plug and Play described the gathering as C3’s new Silicon Valley edition and said it expected more than 500 attendees, including Fortune 500 executives, hospital leaders, venture funds and startups. (plugandplaytechcenter.com) The agenda mixed policy, investment and product sessions in a single day. Roundtables started at 8 a.m., an Innovation Challenge pitch competition ran from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., and closing remarks included the KFSH pitch-competition winner announcement. (plugandplaytechcenter.com) (c3int.org) The conference theme was “Healthtech Frontiers: Building the Health Ecosystem of Tomorrow,” and the program centered on artificial intelligence, corporate-startup partnerships, healthcare costs, and digital-biotech convergence. (finance.yahoo.com) (plugandplaytechcenter.com) KFSH, the Saudi tertiary-care and research hospital known formally as King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, was the summit’s global strategic partner. The hospital said before the event it would use the meeting to present work in artificial intelligence and genomic medicine. (finance.yahoo.com 1) (finance.yahoo.com 2) One scheduled morning roundtable focused on Food and Drug Administration pre-submission meetings for device makers, and another showcased clinical-intelligence startups using predictive analytics, workflow automation and treatment-personalization tools. (c3int.org) C3 and Plug and Play pitched the summit as a bridge between hospitals, investors and founders at a time when health systems are trying to move pilots into systemwide adoption. That framing ran through sessions on scaling digital tools across care networks and on whether artificial intelligence in healthcare will be led by consumers or clinicians. (plugandplaytechcenter.com) The Sunnyvale stop also expands C3’s healthcare summit circuit beyond New York, Riyadh, Manama, Beijing and Tokyo. Plug and Play said Silicon Valley is a new venue for the franchise. (plugandplaytechcenter.com) By Tuesday, the public update was not a financing deal or acquisition but the startup-competition results. The summit’s first Silicon Valley edition closed with C3 and KFSH using the pitch stage to spotlight companies they said could improve patient care. (manilatimes.net)