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From Hype to Clinical Impact: AI x Healthcare
Join Tech Brews × Workato x Peninsula Pharmacist Association for an evening exploring how AI is moving from hype to real-world impact in healthcare.
We'll bring together healthtech founders, clinicians, healthcare leaders, investors, and builders for a conversation around what it actually takes to safely build, sell, and deploy AI into clinical workflows.
Expect: 🎤 Panel discussion featuring healthcare & AI leaders 💡 Conversations on AI adoption, clinical workflows, and implementation 🤝 Curated networking with Bay Area healthtech & AI builders 🍴 Food & refreshments
Speakers:
Dr. Jay Park, Co-founder of iQ Surgical Jay is a Korean South African physician-entrepreneur, Co-Founder of iQ Surgical, and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. He left clinical training to pursue a vision of making surgery more data-driven, measurable, and ultimately more intelligent. At Stanford, he co-founded the Surgical Innovation & Machine Interfacing (SIMI) Laboratory, focused on translating emerging technologies into surgical care, with particular emphasis on computer vision and understanding surgical performance. Before transitioning from physician-scientist to entrepreneur, Jay also built and operated several small ventures across education, imports, entertainment, and the non-profit sector.
Kaya Deng, Clinical Informaticist, San Francisco VA Health Care System Kaya is a healthcare operator, clinician, and technologist with experience across clinical informatics, healthcare operations, and healthtech product development. She has led high-acuity clinical operations, built solutions that improved health system efficiency, and designed digital health products from 0 to 1. Kaya brings a unique clinical, operational, and product perspective to turning AI and emerging technologies into practical, scalable healthcare solutions.
Fiona Bao, CEO and Founder of Genpulse Fiona is the founder of Genpulse, a health Al infrastructure company that turns consumer-grade imaging into clinical-grade data. Genpulse is incubated by Harvard iLab and National University of Singapore, with ongoing clinical testing at Stanford Hospital and A*STAR Singapore. The company's flagship product, Lushair.ai, has already served 20,000+ users across 36 countries. Fiona is focused on bridging the gap between consumer health devices and real-world clinical research — making precision health accessible, measurable, and user-owned.
Gurkanwal (GK) Brar Chief Technology Officer at Plenful GK is a seasoned AI technologist and Chief Technology Officer at Plenful. He brings deep expertise in building enterprise-grade AI systems and has led product and engineering teams across both early-stage startups and scaled technology organizations like VMWare and Qualcomm. At Plenful, GK drives the vision and development of AI-powered automation tools that create value for our pharmacy customers through incredible time savings and revenue capture.
Attendance is curated and RSVP approval is required.
Come meet the people building, buying, and deploying the next generation of healthcare technology!
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
