__WIRED AND ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE ____FIRST-EVER __WIRED HEALTH CONFERENCE: LIVING BY NUMBERS
-- Keynote Speakers Include Craig Venter, One of the Leading Scientists of the 21st Century and Ashton Eaton, “The World’s Greatest Athlete” --
Monday, July 23, New York, NY – WIRED and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today announced that they are partnering to host the first-ever WIRED Health Conference: Living By Numbers, which will be held on October 15-16, 2012 at Le Parker Meriden in New York City. The conference is designed to gather a dynamic audience of influential leaders in the worlds of healthcare, science, and technology for in-depth and enlightening conversations on the future of healthcare.
Modeled after the WIRED Business Conference, the WIRED Health Conference begins with a simple premise: better data can lead to better health. Living By Numbers represents the current revolution in medicine as the engine of information technology – a force that has revitalized so many industries – arrives to healthcare. The WIRED Health Conference is designed to build on the enthusiasm for bringing scalable, transformative technologies to improving the diagnosis, care, and prevention of disease by providing a unique forum for the innovators and thought-leaders who are making it happen.
WIRED and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation unveiled some of the speakers confirmed to participate at the inaugural event including:
- Keynote Speaker__ Craig Venter__, Ph. D., Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute, and Founder and CEO of Synthetic Genomics Inc. Dr. Venter and his team at JCVI continue to blaze new trails in genomics. They have sequenced and analyzed hundreds of genomes and published numerous important papers covering such areas as environmental genomics, the first complete diploid human genome, and the groundbreaking advance in creating the first self-replicating bacterial cell constructed entirely with synthetic DNA.
- Keynote Speaker__ Ashton Eaton__,__ __world-record holding athlete in both the decathlon and heptathlon events who will be representing the United States in the decathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Only the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point barrier with a world-record 9,039 points, this World Championships two-time medalist (one gold, one silver) uses extensive data tracking as part of his Olympic training.
- Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph. D., MPH, is a social scientist, physician and Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Health Care Policy, and Sociology at Harvard University. He conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. His current research focuses on health and social networks, namely how a person’s ill health, disability, health behavior, healthcare, and death can influence the same phenomena in others within the person's social network.
- Rhonda Cornum, Brigadier General US Army, Ph. D., M.D., is the Director of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness in the Army G-3/5/7 and the author of She Went to War: the Rhonda Cornum Story. She created the soldier fitness-training program for the US Army. The conversation will cover: how do you efficiently and effectively get a military force into fighting shape, especially while national obesity rates are climbing.
- Timothy Ferriss, *The New York Times *Best Selling Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body, and renowned “guinea pig.”
- WIRED Senior Maverick Kevin Kelly and Contributing Editor Gary Wolf, co-founders of the Quantified Self, a blog about self-knowledge through numbers.
- Stephen Wolfram, Ph. D., President and CEO of Wolfram Research, has been responsible for three revolutionary developments: the Mathematica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine.
Attendance for the WIRED Health Conference: Living By Numbers is by invitation only. For more information, please log on to www.wiredhealthconference.com.
