2009
The inaugural year for BIL:PIL was a huge success, thanks to a great group of attendees, organizers, and sponsors. We had over 35 speakers, 100 attendees, and 1000 livestream viewers.
What did people say about BIL:PIL 2009?
On Blogs (more at Google Blog Search):
- The BIL:PIL unconference: Challenges and opportunities
- #BILPIL: Unraveling a thread while re-weaving the tapestry
On Twitter (more at #bilpil):
@tully3000: I had no expectations for #bilpil except to have my brain cage expanded. And it’s already happening.
@angel189: Following the #bilpil conference hashtag and livestream from Madrid
IAmBiotech: Daniel Kraft just blew my mind at #bilpil – showed video of re-growing a beating rat heart from stem cells.
@bmljenny: I think the theme for today is the importance of looking at the big picture. #bilpil
sheffi: Come to #bilpil today or watch online at bilpil.com RT @SeerGenius: geezus… #tedmed is $4000. what abt public option?
tully3000: Congrats on pulling it all together! RT @sheffi: Unbelievable first day of #bilpil. Thanks to all who came out. One more day to go!
Marston: Great first day of #bilpil – Good conversations, question asking and meeting of new people.
IAmBiotech: Day 2 of #bilpil kicking off with great talk from Aubrey de Grey (#tedmed favorite)
@davidrosenman @sheffi Hats off to you and your colleagues for an excellent BilPil. Thank you. #bilpil –> Awesome spontaneous order ex.
grapealope: Mind’s still buzzing with ideas from #bilpil. So many tweets, sites, hard to keep track!
The speakers this year included:
- Joe Trippi, Founder and Principal, Joe Trippi & Associates (@joetrippi)
- Dr. Jason Hwang, Executive Director of Healthcare, Innosight Institute, and co-author of The Innovator’s Prescription
- Dr. Philip Steven Low, Founder, Chairman & CEO, NeuroVigil. Adjunct Professor, Stanford School of Medicine. MIT, Salk affiliate.
- Dr. Stephen H. Friend, President, Sage Bionetworks
- Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation.
- Dr. Daniel Kraft, Physician, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine (@daniel_kraft)
- Dr. David Rosenman, Director of Curriculum, Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. (@davidrosenman)
- Ben Goertzel, CEO and Chief Scientist, Novamente LLC (@bengoertzel)
- Dr. Val Jones, CEO, Better Health (@drval)
- David Williams, Founding Executive, PatientsLikeMe (@DSWIII)
- Alexandra Carmichael, Co-Founder, CureTogether (@accarmichael)
- Jen S. McCabe, CEO, Contagion Health (@jensmccabe)
- Scott Johnson, President and Founder, The Myelin Repair Foundation (@MyelinRepairFdn)
- Jay Drayer, CEO, CareFlash (@JayDrayer)
- Ash Damle, CEO, MEDgle (@AshDamle)
- Michael Weiner, CEO, Technology Innovations, LLC
- Chia Hwu, Community Manager at 23andMe Research Revolution (@chiah)
- Robert Stern, CEO, MedPageToday
- David Hale, Project Manager, Pillbox. National Library of Medicine/NIH (@lostonroute66)
- Kristi Miller Durazo, Senior Strategy Adviser, American Heart Association (@krash63)
- Dr. Marya Zilberberg, President and CEO, EviMed, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (@murzee)
- Guido David Núñez-Mujica, Computational Biologist, Diagen (@OSGuido)
- Tyler Willis, Director of Marketing, Involver
- Kimberly Barr, UnitedHealthcare / Harvard Business School (@barr_k)
- Brent Pottenger, Healthcare Epistemocrat, (@epistemocrat)
- Ryan Howard, CEO, Practice Fusion, (@practicefusion)
- Juhan Sonin, Creative Director, Involution Studios Boston (@jsonin)
- Paul To, CEO & Founder, emota.net (@paulto)
- Beth Anne Baber, Founder & CEO, The Nicholas Conor Institute
- Greg Fong, Ozzie Gooen, Daniel Lubarov, Ben Jones, First Place, Student Innovation Contest, USIT, CS Department, Harvey Mudd
- Andrew Hessel, Founder and Managing Director, Pink Army Cooperative
- Jonathan Sheffi, Amgen / Harvard Business School (@sheffi)