Conference Agenda
The day, hour by hour.
Saturday, November 14, 2026 · UC San Diego Medical Education and Telemedicine (MET) Center. Registration & breakfast from 7:30 AM, sessions 8:30 AM – 4:50 PM, reception 4:50 – 6:00 PM.
Plenary Morning
7:30 – 10:35 AM · All attendees
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Registration & Breakfast
Registration · 60 min
8:30 – 8:45 AM
President's Welcome & Opening Address
Dr. Venkatramana Pegadaraju, PhD, MBA — President & CEO, TiE San Diego
Welcome Address · 15 min
8:45 – 8:50 AM
Welcome from the Conference Chair
Dr. Venu Prabaker, MD, MBA — Conference Chair; Former Asst. Prof., Stanford University
Welcome · 5 min
8:50 – 9:10 AM
Opening Keynote: Healthcare Policy and Regional Economics in the Age of AI
Dr. Priya Bhat-Patel — Mayor Pro Tem, Carlsbad City Council
Keynote Address · 20 min
9:10 – 9:35 AM
Enterprise Health AI & Clinical Integration
Dr. Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc — Chief Health AI Officer, UC San Diego Health
Plenary Talk · 25 min
9:35 – 9:55 AM
Making Healthcare AI Work in the Real World
Dr. William Tseng, MD, MPH — Assistant Area Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente San Diego
Feature Talk · 20 min
9:55 – 10:15 AM
Beyond Guidelines: What Your Heart, Genes, Fitness, and Lifestyle Reveal about You
Dr. Ramesh Rao, PhD — Director, Qualcomm Institute (Calit2), UC San Diego
Feature Talk · 20 min
10:15 – 10:35 AM
Morning Networking Break & Exhibit Booths
Break · 20 min
Mid-Morning — Main Stage
10:35 AM – 1:15 PM · Clinical AI, Therapeutics & Longevity
10:35 – 10:45 AM
Augmented Reality Artificial Intelligence in Real Orthopedic Surgery
Dr. Rina Jain, MD — Synergy Orthopedic / UCSD
Feature Talk · 10 min
10:45 – 11:05 AM
The AI Sleep Revolution: Precision Neurodiagnostics & Next-Gen Therapeutic Pathways for OSA
Dr. Perry Mansfield, MD, FRCSC — Founding Partner, Senta Clinic; Director, Advanced Head & Neck Surgery, Scripps Presby Cancer Center, CEO, MansField Companies
Feature Talk · 20 min
11:05 – 11:25 AM
From Earwax to Swimmers Ear: What Your Ears Wish You Knew
Dr. Michael O’Leary, MD — Senta Clinic; Past Chairman, Skull Base Surgery Committee of American Academy of Otolaryngology; Navy Meritorious Service Award
Feature Talk · 20 min
11:25 – 11:45 AM
The Incretin Revolution: Beyond GLP-1s in Diabetes & Metabolic Care
Dr. Sunder Mudaliar, MD — Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Diego; Staff Physician, Endocrine/Diabetes Section, VA San Diego Healthcare System
Feature Talk · 20 min
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Longevity Panel: Extending Healthspan, Functional Medicine & Stress Resilience
Dr. Kiran Dintyala, MD, MPH, Dr.Calm — NeuroBiological Stress Expert, Global speaker, Author · Dr. Smitha Reddy, MD — Arthritis Care & Research, Rheumatologist, Functional Medicine; President, SAPI · Dr. Joel Furman — Longevity Investor, Executive Director of Enterprise Systems
Panel Discussion · 45 min
12:30 – 1:15 PM
Lunch, Networking & Exhibit Booths
Lunch & Networking · 45 min
Track A — Main Stage Plenary
From 1:15 PM · Runs in parallel with Track B
1:15 – 2:00 PM
Genomics Keynote: Next-Generation Sequencing & Clinical Translation
Dr. Eric Green, MD — Chief Medical Officer, Illumina
Keynote Address · 45 min
2:00 – 2:45 PM
From data to therapy: Emerging technology driving cancer diagnosis and drug discovery
Malini Rajagopalan, PhD — Lead / Moderator; VP, Marketing and Scientific Affairs Oncology · Naresh Nayyar, PhD — Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Avenzo Therapeutics · Dr. William Audeh, MD — Chief Medical Officer, Agendia; medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer · Mysore Ramprasad, PhD — Biopharmaceutical CMC development leader
Panel Discussion · 45 min
2:45 – 3:05 PM
Precision in Practice: Transforming Neurosurgical Excellence Through Artificial Intelligence
Sabareesh Natarajan, MD, MS, FAANS, FCNS — Founder & CEO, Brain, Spine, & Vascular Neuroscience Institute, San Diego; Neurointerventional Surgeon, Sharp Healthcare
Feature Talk · 20 min
3:05 – 3:20 PM
Afternoon Networking Break
Break · 15 min
3:20 – 3:45 PM
Financing Innovation: Life Science Capital Markets & Strategic M&A
David H. Crean, PhD, MBA — Managing Partner, Cardiff Advisory / Life Sciences Investment Banking
Feature Talk · 25 min
3:45 – 4:10 PM
Hacking the Clock: Science of Biological Age Reversal
Venu Prabaker, MD, MBA — CEO, Pinnacle Nexus; Former Asst. Prof., Stanford Univ.
Specialty Talk · 25 min
4:10 – 4:40 PM
AI Applied to Drug Discovery and Development
Yves Theriault, PhD, PMP — Lead / Moderator; UCSD · Shashank Choudhary — Co-founder and CEO, Sapien Labs · Tao Long, PhD, MBA — Co-founder and Head of Data Science, Sapient Bioanalytics · Julia di Iulio — Senior Director of Research, Vir Biotechnology · Adrian Jinich, PhD — Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Panel Discussion · 30 min
4:40 – 4:50 PM
Conference Synthesis & Closing Remarks — featuring 2-min spotlight for the Pitch Fest Winning Founder
Dr. Venu Prabaker, MD, PhD — Conference Chair · Dr. Venkatramana Pegadaraju, PhD, MBA — President & CEO, TiE San Diego (Pitch Fest winners announcement)
Closing Address · 10 min
Track B — Breakout Salon, Room 141
From 1:15 PM, in parallel · Founder Pitch Fest
1:15 – 1:17 PM
Moderator Opening Remarks
Ram Srinivasan — Executive Board, TiE San Diego
Opening · 2 min
1:17 – 1:22 PM
TiE San Diego Boot Camp Program
Narasimhan Raghavan — Executive Board, TiE San Diego
Program Talk · 5 min
1:22 – 1:27 PM
Global Programs of TiE
Anshuman Sinha — Global Board of Trustees, TiE
Program Talk · 5 min
1:27 – 1:32 PM
Rules of Engagement & Welcome — Introduction of Investor Judges & Scoring Rubrics
Investor Judges: Bhargavi Vijaykumar — Founder, Java Capital · Greg Peters, PhD — CTO & Co-founder, Brilliant Biome · Dr. Jerry Feitelson, PhD — CEO & Co-founder, AgriVitae · Ryan Smith, PhD — Duane Morris LLP · Balu Masti — Ecosystem Builder, Berkeley SkyDeck
Welcome · 5 min
1:32 – 3:12 PM
Founder Fast-Pitches — 10 curated San Diego startups (5-min pitch + 4-min Q&A + 1-min scoring each)
Founders & Investor Judges
Pitch Competition · 100 min
3:12 – 3:22 PM
Judges' Scoring & Transition
Scoring · 10 min
Evening
4:50 – 6:00 PM · All attendees
4:50 – 6:00 PM
Evening Reception, Booth Visits & Networking
Networking Reception