Great science rarely becomes a great company on its own. The challenge is turning research into something customers, investors, and partners believe in.

Aykut Aksit (Co-Founder & CEO, Haystack Medical), Demetri Maxim (Co-Founder & CEO, Nephrogen), and Jonathan Scheiman (Co-Founder & CEO, FitBiomics) join moderator Scott Alpizar (Managing Partner, Emerging Innovations Consulting) to share what it really takes to build a company from academic research.

The conversation explores the transition from scientist to entrepreneur, covering technology transfer, licensing, fundraising, customer discovery, team building, and the commercialization strategies that transform promising research into venture-backed companies. Along the way, the founders share practical lessons on navigating university IP, raising capital, and why commercial thinking often matters as much as scientific excellence.

Recorded live during Scalpels & Spreadsheets' Healthtech Week during NY Tech Week.

Patients are no longer walking into the clinic with just symptoms. They're arriving with wearable data, lab results, GLP-1 prescriptions, peptide protocols, and AI-generated health advice already shaping how they think about their care. What does that mean for the clinicians meeting them on the other side of the exam room?

David Kessler, MD, MSc (Vice Chair of Innovation and Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine, Columbia University), George Matthew, MD, MBA, FACP (Chief Medical Officer, Times AI Health), and Peter Rezkalla, MD (Pediatrician & Founder, Doctor Disney) join moderators Aakash Saraiya (Emergency Medicine Physician, Investor & Co-Chair, NXGN) and Athena Yao (Biotech Operator & Co-Chair, NXGN) for a conversation on how medicine is evolving as patients become more informed, data-driven, and technology-enabled.

The conversation explores how patient-physician interactions are changing in an era of unlimited online health information, what makes patient-generated health data truly valuable, the rise of longevity and optimization culture, and how clinicians are adapting to patients who increasingly arrive informed, empowered, and expecting to play a more active role in their care.

Recorded live during Scalpels & Spreadsheets' Healthtech Week during NY Tech Week.

Patients are no longer starting their healthcare journey inside the health system. Increasingly, it begins with a wearable, a direct-to-consumer service, or an AI-powered tool long before a clinician is involved.

Dr. Devin Mann (Director of the Section of Digitally Enabled Care, NYU Langone Health), Daniel Marchalik, MD, MBA (Medical Director of Business Innovation & Executive Director, MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing), and Holden Groves, MD (Critical Care Anesthesiologist & Lead for Inpatient AI and Mobile Solutions, NewYork-Presbyterian) join John Joshua, RRT, MHA and Addison Montiel, RN, MBA (Co-Founders, One Health Collective) to explore how health systems are adapting as consumers build their own front door to healthcare.

The conversation explores how health systems should respond to the rise of AI-powered care, wearables, and consumer health platforms, what organizations can't afford to get wrong as patient expectations evolve, and why the future of care depends on combining trusted clinical relationships with technology that improves access, engagement, and outcomes.

Recorded live during Scalpels & Spreadsheets' Healthtech Week during NY Tech Week.