Health systems, health plans, pharma, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, healthcare technology companies and professional associations.
Robin also speaks to boards, executive retreats and corporate audiences about emerging healthcare technology, employee access to care and healthcare costs. Sessions explain complex technologies without requiring a technical background.
Signature talks
From AI strategy to care at home
Healthcare Is Leaving the Clinic: How AI Is Powering 24/7 Care at Home
Explore how AI, remote patient monitoring, wearables, virtual care and mobile diagnostics are moving care beyond hospitals and clinics. Robin examines the shift from episodic care toward continuous care, with the home becoming an increasingly important place for healthcare delivery.
Audience takeaways
Understand how AI and connected technologies enable care at home.
Explore how continuous health data can support earlier, more proactive intervention.
Identify what changing care models mean for organizations, the workforce and patients.
When AI Stops Asking for Permission: The Promise and Peril of Agentic AI
Understand the progression from AI that analyzes to AI that creates and AI that acts. Robin uses examples from healthcare and business to examine the opportunities and risks of increasingly autonomous systems.
Audience takeaways
Distinguish traditional AI, generative AI and agentic AI.
Recognize where agents are beginning to change healthcare and business workflows.
Evaluate opportunities, risks and leadership responsibilities as AI systems take action.
About Robin
A patient perspective on healthcare innovation
Robin Farmanfarmaian is a healthcare entrepreneur, professional speaker and author working at the intersection of AI, emerging technology and healthcare. She has delivered more than 250 keynotes in 16 countries and written four books, including The Patient as CEO and How AI Can Democratize Healthcare. Her work with emerging AI and medical technology companies informs her perspective on technologies moving into practice.
Her own experience navigating complex care led her to assemble a care team, evaluate new technologies and write The Patient as CEO. That experience continues to shape a central question in her work: does an innovation improve a person’s life?
Previous speaking clients include UnitedHealthcare, Roche, Kaiser Permanente, Abbott, Humana, Takeda, AARP and the American Nurses Association.
Topics include Healthcare Is Leaving the Clinic: How AI Is Powering 24/7 Care at Home; When AI Stops Asking for Permission: The Promise and Peril of Agentic AI.
Keynotes typically 45 to 60 minutes, with shorter sessions from 10 minutes by agreement. Executive and board briefings, fireside conversations, panels and virtual sessions. Available as a guest, moderator or discussion leader.
Robin meets with the client before the event to understand audience needs, organizational priorities and desired outcomes, then tailors examples and technical depth.
Resources after the session
Customized follow-up resources can be discussed for your event, including technologies, companies and concepts covered in the presentation. There is no standard worksheet distributed with every keynote.
Watch Robin
See her speaking style
Speaker reel covering AI, healthcare and future trends.
Updated from Robin’s submitted speaker questionnaire on September 29, 2026, including her signature talks, formats, video links and testimonial excerpts.
