__FINAL AGENDA FEATURING Keynote speakers Michael Graves and Stephen Wolfram ANNOUNCED FOR the first-EVER WIRED HEALTH CONFERENCE: LIVING BY NUMBERS __
presented in partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
*- Sold Out Conference Connecting Pioneering Researchers With Ambitious Entrepreneurs Available Live at Wired.com - *
NEW YORK, October 3, 2012 – The agenda for the first-ever__ WIRED Health Conference: Living by Numbers was __announced today by partners WIRED and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The two-day symposium, connecting pioneering researchers with ambitious entrepreneurs, will take place October 15-16, 2012 at Le Parker Meriden in New York City. Seats at the conference are sold out, however sessions featuring presentations and conversations that underscore the extraordinary impact of technology on healthcare, can be viewed live online at stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience.
Selected by WIRED’s Executive Editor, Thomas Goetz, this year’s main stage speakers and session topics include:
Day 1: October 15, 2012
Visualizing Health
“Big Data, Better Health”
Rick Smolan, CEO, Against All Odds Productions
“The Quantified Self”____
Kevin Kelly, Cofounder, Quantified Self; Senior Maverick, WIRED & Gary Wolf, Cofounder, Quantified Self; Contributing Editor, WIRED in conversation with Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor, WIRED
“Redesigning for Health” (Keynote Speaker)
Michael Graves, Founding Partner, Michael Graves & Associates/Michael Graves Design Group in conversation with Adam Rogers, Senior Editor, WIRED
Day 2: October 16, 2012
SESSION 1: WETWARE & HARDWARE
“Research, Knowledge, Power” (Keynote Speaker)____
Craig Venter, Founder, Chairman & President, J. Craig Venter Institute; CEO & President, Synthetic Genomics in conversation with Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, WIRED
“Information into Action”____
Eric Topol, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Research Institute in conversation with Thomas Goetz, WIRED
“A Long View” (Keynote Speaker)____
Stephen Wolfram, President & CEO, Wolfram Research in conversation with Steven Levy, Senior Writer, WIRED
“A New Way To Measure”____
Alan Greene, Chief Medical Officer, Scanadu
SESSION 2: HEALTH IN CONTEXT
“Meet Dr. Roboto”____
Yulun Wang, Chairman & CEO, inTouch Health & Charlie Hunier, Vice President, Marketing & Busines Development, inTouch Health
“Better Tools, Better Health”____
Sue Siegel, CEO, GE Healthymagination in conversation with Steven Levy, WIRED
“Disrupting Drug Design”____
Gigi Hirsch, Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Innovation, MIT in conversation with Adam Rogers, WIRED
“Inside the Google Kitchen”____
__Jennifer Kurkoski, __Manager, People & Innovation Lab, Google & Brian Welle, People Analytics Manager, Google
SESSION 3: ENGINEERING HEALTH
“Free the Data”____
Andy Grove, Former Chairman & CEO, Intel, in conversation with Chris Anderson, WIRED via telepresence
“How to Make A Strong Army”____
Rhonda Cornum, Director of Health Strategy, TechWerks; Former Director, Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Initiative, US Army in conversation with Thomas Goetz, WIRED
“The Networks of Health”____
Nicholas Christakis, Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director, Human Nature Laboratory, Harvard University in conversation with Clive Thompson, Contributing Writer, WIRED
“A Healthy Home”____
Anind K. Dey, Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
SESSION 4: TRACKING & FITNESS
“365 Days of Nicholas Felton”____
Nicholas Felton, Graphic Designer, Feltron.com
“The 4-Hour Everything”____
Tim Ferriss, Author/Guinea Pig, The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body in conversation with Clive Thompson, WIRED
“The World’s Greatest Athlete” (Keynote Speaker)____
Ashton Eaton Gold Medalist, Olympic Decathlon; World Record Holder, Decathlon and Heptathlon in conversation with Mark McClusky, Special Projects Editor, WIRED
The full program can be found at www.wiredhealthconference.com.
Follow day-of coverage of the WIRED Health Conference: Living by Numbers on Wired.com at stag-mantis.wired.com/wiredscience and via Twitter @wired and @WIREDBiz.
The WIRED Health Conference: Living by Numbers is made possible through partnership with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and additional support from the premier sponsor IBM, premium sponsor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, as well as BASF, BodyMedia, iHealth, and 2Morrow Mobile.
About WIRED:
WIRED is the first word on how ideas and innovation are changing the world. Each month in the magazine and every day online, our editors deliver a glimpse into the future of business, culture, innovation, and science. AdWeek named WIRED to its 2011 Hot List and made WIRED its first-ever “Magazine of the Decade” in 2010. It was named to Advertising Age’s A-List in 2010, received three National Magazine Awards for general excellence in 2005, 2007, and 2009, and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year in 2011. Wired.com was named 2009’s Best Magazine Website by AdWeek, Best News, Business & Finance Website in 2009 by MPA Digital, and was a 2011 National Magazine Award for Digital Media “General Excellence” finalist. WIRED and Wired.com reach more than 14 million readers each month.
About Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful, and timely change. For 40 years the Foundation has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous, balanced approach to the problems that affect the health and health care of those it serves. When it comes to helping Americans lead healthier lives and get the care they need, the Foundation expects to make a difference in your lifetime. Follow the Foundation on Twitter www.rwjf.org/twitter or Facebook, www.rwjf.org/facebook.
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Contact:
WIRED
Jonathan Hammond, WIRED, (212) 286-5866 or jonathan_hammond@wired.com
Rachel Millner, WIRED, (415) 276-4952 or rachel_millner@wired.com
Karen Shosfy, WIRED, (212) 286-7273 or karen_shosfy@wired.com
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation____
Beth Toner, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (609) 627-5937 or media@rwjf.org
