Schedule

Friday,
June 5th

Curated, invitation-only. The program moves between plenary conversations, hands-on studio sessions, and informal networking. Capacity is limited.

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  1. 9:15 – 10:00 AM
    Arrival & Networking Coffee
  2. 10:00 – 10:15 AM
    Welcome Address
    Prof. Narges Baniasadi
  3. 10:15 – 11:00 AM
    Building Innovation for Society: Entrepreneurship & Health Impact
    Dr. Thomas Osborne, CMO at Microsoft
    Shaun Garcia, Chief, Quality and Health Equity, DHCS
    Dr. Joshua Tamayo-Sarver, VP Innovation at Vituity
    A conversation on how to build a shared language and platform of innovation across sectors, and how education can better connect healthcare, industry, and emerging leaders.
  4. 11:00 – 11:30 AM
    Meet the Teams: Emergence Venture Introductions
    Emergence teams briefly introduce their work on stage before inviting participants to engage with them directly through poster-based discussions.
  5. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
    Networking Lunch & Poster Discussions with Emergence Teams
  6. 12:30 – 3:00 PM
    Emergence Innovation Studios: Collaborative Problem Solving
    The core working sessions of the Summit, designed for direct collaboration between founder teams and participants across five tracks.
    Track A: Next Generation Diagnostics & Precision Medicine
    Track B: AI & Consumer Health
    Track C: Food as Medicine
    Track D: Healthcare Access & Social Impact
    Track E: Investment for Health Impact

    Our cohort's ventures surface real challenges from their work — from validation and adoption to implementation and equity. Participants move between sessions across two rounds.
  7. 3:00 – 3:15 PM
    Community Open Mic: Calls for Collaboration
    Participants are invited to briefly share opportunities, ideas, or needs with the broader community.
    In a series of short, one-minute contributions, attendees can invite others to collaborate, highlight initiatives, or signal areas where they are seeking engagement. Participation is limited and requires advance sign-up — please reach out to tim@stanford.edu.
  8. 3:15 – 3:30 PM
    Closing & Next Steps: From Summit to Collaborative
    A brief closing to reflect on the day's insights and outline next steps.
    Continued engagement through the Health Industry Collaborative, Investor Leadership Circle, and Community Engagement programs.
  9. 3:30 – 4:30 PM
    Closing Reception & Networking
2026 Accelerator Cohort

Stanford Emergence Entrepreneurs

01
Cristabelle De Souza
Precision Oncology / Targeted Therapeutics
Resilion Therapeutics
Developing a first-in-class therapeutic strategy targeting osteopontin (OPN), implicated in tumor progression, metastasis, and immune evasion across multiple solid tumors. Initial focus is ovarian cancer, with a platform designed to extend across solid tumor indications.
Cristabelle De Souza — Instructor, Radiation Oncology, Stanford School of Medicine
02
Danielle Klinger
Precision Medicine / Maternal Health
Bebeo
A wireless, wearable monitoring platform enabling continuous prenatal and early labor monitoring — shifting care from episodic clinic visits to proactive, data-driven oversight through a comfortable abdominal patch and machine-learning pipeline.
Danielle Klinger & Laura Moreno Carbonell — PhD Candidates, Bioengineering, Stanford
03
Bhav Jain
Access to Healthcare / Climate Resilience
ResiliNet
A digital platform helping hospitals maintain access to care during climate-related disasters by enabling real-time sharing of critical medical resources, live supply visibility, and rapid peer-to-peer exchange across facilities.
Bhav Jain — MD Candidate, Stanford School of Medicine
04
Maximilian Mancini
Access to Healthcare / Global Health
Tembelea Health
Operating and managing in-clinic pharmacies within outpatient facilities in Kenya, addressing medication stock-outs and counterfeit drugs in primary care — enabling clinicians to focus on patients while ensuring reliable, affordable medicine access.
Maximilian Mancini — MBA Candidate, Stanford GSB
05
Yasser Gidi
Access to Healthcare / Preventive Diagnostics
Certainty
A portable, at-home molecular diagnostics platform powered by novel aptamer-based technology for rapid, affordable detection of key health biomarkers — with a provisional patent filed and focus on regulatory pathways and decentralized diagnostics.
Yasser Gidi — Research Scientist & Former Stanford Postdoctoral Fellow
06
Gleb Vizitiv
Access to Healthcare / Preventive Care & Equity
Anton
A discreet, frictionless sexual-health platform providing free or low-cost at-home STI testing and rapid access to PrEP and DoxyPEP for underserved LGBTQ+ communities, integrating at-home diagnostics, telehealth, and 340B-supported medication access.
Gleb Vizitiv — MBA Candidate, Stanford GSB
07
Elman Amador
Access to Healthcare / Health Literacy
Tribu AI
An AI-enabled platform delivering plain-language, literacy- and language-tailored patient education and informed consent — initially focused on bone marrow transplants — translating complex consent materials into interactive digital experiences.
Elman Amador & Klara Klarowicz — MBA Candidates, Stanford GSB
08
Andrew Napier
Access to Healthcare / Emergency & Rural Medicine
IntuBlade
A single-use, low-cost video laryngoscope that plugs into any phone or tablet, expanding access to advanced airway management in EMS agencies and low-resource settings. Already adopted by more than 100 agencies.
Andrew Napier — ER Physician, Former Army Medic, Stanford Clinical Informatics
09
Lelina Chang
Food is Medicine / Climate-Aligned Food Systems
Nai
An on-demand, nutrient-fortified, barista-grade oat-milk platform designed to improve metabolic health while reducing food-system emissions — producing oat milk on-site and pairing premium institutional sales with subsidized deployment to food pantries.
Lelina Chang — MBA/MPP Candidate, Stanford GSB & Harvard Kennedy School
10
Zooey Wilkinson
Social Determinants of Health / Access to Justice
Wind & Rain
A dual-entity social enterprise expanding access to civil rights enforcement as preventive public health — providing 0% interest loans to plaintiffs during civil rights litigation and AI-enabled tools for small public-interest law firms.
Zooey Carter Wilkinson — MBA/MA Psychology Candidate, Stanford