Life Summit 2026

AI LA's annual Life Summit brings together leaders from academia, industry, and the startup ecosystem to explore the ideas, innovations, and debates shaping the future of human health. Through keynote talks, panel discussions, and networking, we'll examine emerging technologies, address healthcare's most pressing challenges, and highlight the entrepreneurs and researchers driving meaningful progress.

Health by Design: AI and the future of care.During the day, we will explore the ways clinical AI gets adopted when it fits how patients, providers, and care teams operate together.Whether you're a technologist, clinician, researcher, founder, investor, policymaker, or simply curious about what's next, you'll join a community committed to exploring the future of health with both optimism and critical thinking.

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September 1  through October 23 (Early Bird):Member - $35General - $60Students/teachers - $25

Now through November 13:Member - $50General - $100Students/teachers - $25

November 14:ALL - $125

Agenda

9:00-10:00AM: Check-in and Networking

10:00-10:15: Welcoming remarks

10:15-10:55AM: Keynote

11:00-11:55AM: Founders and Investors Conversation

12:00-12:55PM: Session to be announced

1:00-1:55PM: Lunch break

2:00-2:45PM: Assessing Generative AI for Mental Healthcare

2:45-3:10PM: Networking coffee break

3:15-4:10PM: Fireside chat

4:15-5:00PM: Workforce Development | Beyond the Model: The Human Work that Makes AI Work

5:00-7:00PM: Closing and networking reception

Session Details

Keynote Speaker: Thomas C. Kingsley, MD, MPH, MS, Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence @ UCLA | Co-Director Innovation and Outcomes Validation of AI (INOVAi) Center @UCLA. Conversation moderated by Martha Lawrence, Member, Board of Directors, UCLA Technology Development Group

Founders and Investors Conversation: Description, moderator and panelists to be announced.

Assessing Generative AI for Mental Healthcare: What evidence do we need before putting generative AI in patients’ hands? This session introduces a research-based framework for assessing patient-facing AI across technical performance, clinical validity, expert perceptions, and user perceptions. A pilot study of a chatbot for student stress management illustrates the expert and user assessment dimensions, offering practical lessons, limitations, and questions that must be addressed before deployment. Session based on works of the presenter and can be viewed HERE.

Presenter: Polina Durneva, Assistant Professor at LMU

Fireside Chat Speaker:How can we design healthcare around the people it serves? David Feinberg, MD, Chairman @ Oracle | Healthcare, Medicine, Health IT, draws on his experience as a physician and leader at UCLA Health, Geisinger, Google Health, and Cerner to explore how AI and connected health data could give caregivers more time with patients and make care more accessible, personal, and effective.

Moderator: Stephanie Sharron, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP

Workforce Development | Beyond the Model: The Human Work that Makes AI Work: A candid look at how AI is reshaping healthcare careers, from emerging roles to changing clinical responsibilities. Three panelists share their career paths, what working alongside AI looks like day to day, and the skills healthcare professionals need to navigate what's next.

Moderator: Lauren Mansfield, AI LA Ambassador, Health | Women in AI

Panelists: Alison Cerezo, PhD, Chief Science Officer, mpathic, Eric Lee, VP, Chief Health Information Officer, AltaMed Health Services with additional panelists to be announced.

Additional details on speakers, sessions, keynotes, panels and more will be announced soon.

About AI LA

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