The BIL:PIL 2009 Healthcare Innovation Conference will bring together over 200 entrepreneurs, health professionals, technologists, and laypeople to describe the future of healthcare.
BIL:PIL will be held in the unconference format. For those unfamiliar, unconferences are free of charge, with no sponsored presentations, and the proceedings are open to all who wish to present. Our goal is to make sure that every speaker is heard.
A few examples of topics to be addressed by those already scheduled to speak:
- What are the consequences of the personal genomics revolution?
- How can patients relate to each other as never before using Web 2.0 technologies?
- How can science address life extension and aging?
- How can diagnostics more accurately match a patient to the right therapy?
- What does new legislation imply for the future of the biotechnology industry?
- How can we revolutionize the way we think about paying for healthcare?
- What if your iPhone could “look” at your pills and spot a possible drug interaction?
Expect to see many short yet polished talks presenting compelling new ideas in healthcare. All talks will be recorded and published online for those watching from home. We will also have lab space available for you to show off your own novel research, as well as open breakout rooms for impromptu brainstorming and collaboration sessions.
To sign up to speak at BIL:PIL, send an email to speak@bilpil.com with your name, title & company, twitter handle, a short bio (or link to your bio), and 1-2 paragraphs summarizing what you’ll talk about or demonstrate. You may submit more than one talk, and each one will be voted on independently.
BIL:PIL will be held October 30th and 31st at the San Diego State University BioScience Center in San Diego, California. A registration and voting website for those wishing to attend BIL:PIL will be available in the coming months.
BIL:PIL is a natural offshoot of the highly successful BIL Conference. Expect a lot of creative individuals, a high ratio of speakers to attendees, and hundreds of engaging side conversations — the best part of any gathering of passionate people.
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I’ve enjoyed every BIL conference in California to date so I expect to enjoy this one as well. Just milling around with all these smart folks is great fun, and there is some prospect that alliances will be formed which can have major effects toward making a brighter future for all of us.
Can we find a way to leave some residue from this meeting? Can some or all of the talks be made available as podcasts? Could we encourage bloggers to leave pointers to their blog postings in a common location? Do you need a volunteer to moderate proposed edits to a wiki (to weed out vandalism)? Could we start with the content of all the proposals for talks, including those rejected? Could we then add peoples’ impressions from the talks actually given? Could we ask, (and answer) the questions not addressed in the talks themselves?
Are there other, better ideas for making sure this event has lasting effects?
Dick