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  • Explore how shifting economic trends are influencing venture capital, strategic partnerships, and fundraising opportunities in women’s health.
  • Hear how investors are redefining risk and value and what start-ups must demonstrate to stand out and secure funding in today’s tighter investment environment.
  • Learn actionable strategies for resilience and growth, from capital efficiency and non-dilutive funding to building investor confidence through strong clinical and commercial milestones.

 

Author:

Anula Jayasuriya

Managing Director
Kidron Capital
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Anula Jayasuriya

Managing Director
Kidron Capital

Author:

Julia McDowell

Venture Partner
F-Prime Capital
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Julia McDowell

Venture Partner
F-Prime Capital

Author:

Anna Valcheva

Founder and CEO Astra Ventures; Venture Partner and Advisor
Alumni Ventures Group
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Anna Valcheva

Founder and CEO Astra Ventures; Venture Partner and Advisor
Alumni Ventures Group

Author:

Megan Dover

Partner
Cross-Border Impact Ventures
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Megan Dover

Partner
Cross-Border Impact Ventures
 

Charlie Jensen

Head of Payment Integrity Strategy
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Illinois

Charlie Jensen

Head of Payment Integrity Strategy
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Illinois

Charlie Jensen

Head of Payment Integrity Strategy
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Illinois

In today’s healthcare landscape, payers and providers face mounting pressure to deliver accurate, efficient, and fair payment outcomes. Yet, longstanding friction between the two sides often undermines collaboration and trust. This session will explore how technology—particularly AI-driven innovations—can act as a bridge, enabling transparency, consistency, and shared confidence in payment integrity.

Lyric’s Chief Product Officer will share strategies for leveraging advanced technology to reduce administrative burden, strengthen data accuracy, and align payers and providers around common goals. Attendees will gain insight into practical applications that build trust while improving operational performance, ensuring that innovation benefits both organizations and the members they serve.

Author:

Brian Berkowitz

Chief Product Officer
Lyric
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Brian Berkowitz

Chief Product Officer
Lyric

Author:

Akshay Sharma

Leading AI
Lyric

Akshay Sharma leads AI at Lyric, driving innovations that make payment integrity and accuracy seamless for payers and providers.

An experienced entrepreneur and product leader, he has scaled transformative technologies across healthcare, finance, and artificial intelligence.

He also invests in and incubates ventures that harness technology for meaningful impact.

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Akshay Sharma

Leading AI
Lyric

Akshay Sharma leads AI at Lyric, driving innovations that make payment integrity and accuracy seamless for payers and providers.

An experienced entrepreneur and product leader, he has scaled transformative technologies across healthcare, finance, and artificial intelligence.

He also invests in and incubates ventures that harness technology for meaningful impact.

 

Vishal Sarin

CEO & Founder
Sagence

Vishal is a deep tech entrepreneur and engineer with over 25 years of success in numerous strategic leadership capacities in semiconductors and related systems. His calling is driving and leading company and technology vision, building exceptional business and engineering teams in both startup and large-scale organizations. His seminal work has been in analog in-memory computing using non-volatile memories. Underpinning this are his numerous innovations in associative and in-memory compute architectures; SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC flash; network processors, and artificial intelligence architectures.

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Vishal Sarin

CEO & Founder
Sagence

Vishal Sarin

CEO & Founder
Sagence

Vishal is a deep tech entrepreneur and engineer with over 25 years of success in numerous strategic leadership capacities in semiconductors and related systems. His calling is driving and leading company and technology vision, building exceptional business and engineering teams in both startup and large-scale organizations. His seminal work has been in analog in-memory computing using non-volatile memories. Underpinning this are his numerous innovations in associative and in-memory compute architectures; SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC flash; network processors, and artificial intelligence architectures. He has over 100 patents, authored numerous publications, and holds an MSEE from University of Michigan and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

 

David Tischler

Developer Relations Engineer
Edge Impulse

David is a Developer Advocate at Edge Impulse, helping the community learn about the shift from the cloud to the edge, and how running AI/ML workloads on tiny devices is 100% achievable. In his spare time, David loves horsepower, drinks way too much coffee, and is an extreme recycler.

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David Tischler

Developer Relations Engineer
Edge Impulse

David Tischler

Developer Relations Engineer
Edge Impulse

David is a Developer Advocate at Edge Impulse, helping the community learn about the shift from the cloud to the edge, and how running AI/ML workloads on tiny devices is 100% achievable. In his spare time, David loves horsepower, drinks way too much coffee, and is an extreme recycler.

 

Heath Blandford

Senior Solutions Engineer
Edge Impulse, a Qualcomm company

Heath is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Edge Impulse, working to help customers bring enterprise grade AI to the Edge to solve real world problems. In his spare time, Heath enjoys training for ultra-endurance races, backpacking, and watching Formula 1.

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Heath Blandford

Senior Solutions Engineer
Edge Impulse, a Qualcomm company

Heath Blandford

Senior Solutions Engineer
Edge Impulse, a Qualcomm company

Heath is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Edge Impulse, working to help customers bring enterprise grade AI to the Edge to solve real world problems. In his spare time, Heath enjoys training for ultra-endurance races, backpacking, and watching Formula 1.