Featured Virtual Sessions 2026
Celebrity Speakers
WITH POWERFUL STORIES!
Opening Keynote by Damon Wayans
Reimagining Trust in Healthcare: How Community-Inspired Marketing Used Humor to Inspire Action
Join comedy icon and Type 2 diabetes patient Damon Wayans and Genentech CMO Zoë Lazarre for a candid conversation on the power of authentic storytelling and creative marketing strategies to reach and activate high-risk populations. Drawing on Genentech’s "All Eyes on DME" campaign, they will explore how marketers can tackle serious health issues, reduce stigma, and engage underserved communities through creative approaches that resonate far beyond traditional healthcare communications.
A Fierce Conversation with Tamsen Fadal
The Most Important Women’s Health Story We Were Never Told
Tamsen shares how a personal turning point led her to uncover critical gaps in education, awareness, and care surrounding women’s midlife health. Through the lens of storytelling, she explores how conversations around menopause and aging are finally moving into the mainstream and why addressing these longstanding blind spots is essential for improving health outcomes and supporting women across every stage of life.
What Was My Doctor Thinking? Inside the Moment a Prescription Gets Written
Maria Menounos
Global Health Advocate, Founder & Host of Heal Squad, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, and 2x New York Times Bestselling Author
Every patient has asked this question — Maria Menounos asked it twice, fighting to be heard through a brain tumor and a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. In this conversation with physician-turned-founder Dr. Harshit Jain, she takes the question literally: what is really happening in a doctor's mind in the moments before a prescription is written? A patient who became her own advocate and a doctor who built a company around that invisible moment explore the same prescription from opposite sides — and what it would take for patients to never have to fight that hard again.
