DOCSF 2025: Med Tech Frontiers: Approaching the Boundaries of Science Fiction

Recorded live at DOCSF 2025 in San Francisco, this session brings together thought leaders who are challenging what’s possible in digital health.

Moderator Unity Stoakes (StartUp Health) guides the conversation, opening the floor to:

• Dr. Daniel Kraft (NextMed Health & Digital.Health) shares a rapid-fire overview of breakthrough technologies shaping healthcare, from generative agents and digital twins to programmable biology. He invites clinicians to rethink what's possible as care becomes increasingly personalized and proactive.
• Dr. Fabrizio Billi (UCLA) explores contextual intelligence, spatial computing, and semantic AI. He explains how these technologies can create more adaptive healthcare systems that understand not just data but the meaning behind it.
• Brandon Barbello (Archetype AI), who introduces the concept of physical AI. These foundation models are trained on sensor data to recognize patterns in human movement, detect early signs of disease, and support real-time interventions.
• Dr. Douglas Unis (Monogram Orthopaedics & Mount Sinai) outlines the future of autonomous surgical robotics and how it could reshape surgical workflows and orthopedic practice.

This session offers a thoughtful look at how emerging technologies are bringing science fiction closer to clinical reality.