Health Innovation and Business Growth Speakers for Your Event

By Harvey Castro, MD, MBA, founder of Signal & Stage. This organizer guide is published by the collective and is not an independent speaker ranking. Reviewed November 3, 2026.

Health innovation events often bring together people who face different decisions. A founder needs to understand buyers and adoption. A life sciences leader may need a research or portfolio perspective. An operator may be deciding how analytics fits an existing service. Name the decision before building the shortlist.

Match expertise to the business question

• Sally Ann Frank: Healthcare innovation, enterprise adoption and startup growth. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• Marissa Fayer: Women’s health, medical technology and investment. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• Reenita Das: Healthcare futurist and keynote speaker on AI in healthcare, women’s health, pharma strategy and global healthcare growth. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• MaryAnne Rizk, Ph.D.: Healthcare AI, connected data and life sciences strategy. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• Rachida Parks, PhD: Putting AI and analytics to work in healthcare. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• Victoria Manax Rutson, MD: Oncology, clinical research, drug development and healthcare investment. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.
• Robin Farmanfarmaian: Agentic AI, continuous care and healthcare at home. Read the approved topics and available speaking evidence on the profile.

Choose an approved session as the starting point

Sally Ann Frank’s From Innovation to Impact addresses the conditions around enterprise adoption. Her supplied takeaways include identifying readiness gaps, mapping the buying system and connecting a growth story to workflow change and value. This is a useful starting point for founders and innovation teams working beyond a pilot.

Marissa Fayer’s women’s health topics connect medtech and investment with operating decisions. Reenita Das offers distinct keynotes on healthcare futures, pharma strategy, global markets and women’s health. Use the women’s health conference guide when that is the event’s central focus.

MaryAnne Rizk, Rachida Parks and Victoria Manax Rutson bring different perspectives on connected data, analytics, digital transformation, clinical research and life sciences. Their profiles identify the current approved scope. Confirm a specific description and outcomes for the event rather than treating these disciplines as interchangeable. Robin Farmanfarmaian adds a care delivery and patient access perspective.

Plan a conversation around one constraint

For a proposed panel, choose one concrete constraint: moving beyond a pilot, finding an adoption partner, reaching a population or evaluating a new care model. Give each speaker a distinct question. For example, a clinical perspective from Harvey and an enterprise adoption perspective from Sally can help an audience examine different parts of implementation. Confirm participation before offering a combined program.

A useful moderator asks which assumptions need evidence, who must be involved in a decision and where an example does not transfer to the audience’s setting. A compelling company story is context, not a guarantee that another organization will achieve the same result.

Review the evidence and practical requirements

Follow the profile links to approved topics and available speaking samples. Compare a sustained stage sample with a stage requirement, and use interviews to assess explanation in conversation. When a relevant sample or final session detail is absent, request it during planning rather than infer it.

Ask about the audience’s sector, geography, stage of adoption, language and desired depth. Confirm whether the requested format includes exercises or supporting materials. Discuss company affiliations and product relationships so the organizer can plan appropriate disclosures.

Explore six conference topic groups

• Practical healthcare AI
• AI governance, risk and trust
• Health innovation and business growth
• Mental health and human experience
• Enterprise AI and organizational change
• Leadership, resilience and innovation

Plan the next step

Share your audience, event date, location, presentation and Q&A language, preferred format and the decision the session should support. Use the event planning worksheet and comparison scorecard to record your shortlist.

Speaker combinations are proposals. Confirm each person’s participation, session scope, duration, language, recording permissions and commercial terms before announcing a program. An inquiry does not reserve a date.

Discuss your event with Signal & Stage. For Harvey directly, explore his speaking topics and reel.