Summit Speakers

2025 Converge Summit Speakers

Ali Alemozafar, J.D., Ph.D.

Partner

Wilson Sonsini

Ron Alfa, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Noetik

Aliza Apple, Ph.D.

Vice President, Catalyze360 AI/ML

Eli Lilly

Jun Axup, Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer

E11 Bio

Suha Bachir, M.D., M.S.

Clinical Associate Professor, Medical Biochemist Genetics

Stanford University

Joe Betts-LaCroix

Co-Founder & CEO

Retro Biosciences

Thore Buergel, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Pheiron

David Everman, M.D.

Clinical Scientist

Pangaea Data

Anastasia Gamick

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Convergent Research

Vibhor Gupta, Ph.D.

Founder & Director

Pangaea Data

Martha Head, Ph.D.

Associate Vice President, Center for Research Acceleration by Digital Innovation

Amgen

Matthew Hudes

Founder & CEO

bdlBiologx

Pantea Khodami

Worldwide Head of Life Sciences and Precision Medicine

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Benjamin Kim, Ph.D.

Partner

Playground Global

Jeff Kindler, J.D.

Former Chairman & CEO, Pfizer; CEO

Centrexion Corporation

Ali Madani, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Profluent

Marc Malandro, Ph.D.

Chief Operating Officer

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative & CZ Biohub Network

Michelle Nemits

Executive Director, Bay Area

Biocom California

Thomas Osborne, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, Microsoft Federal Civilian; Clinical Professor

Stanford Health Care

Shifeng Pan, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Genesis Therapeutics

Emily Park, M.D.

Principal

DCVC Bio

Ben Portney, Ph.D.

Investment Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Preetha Ram, Ph.D.

Managing Partner

Pier 70 Ventures

Dan Rock, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Cartography Biosciences

Ameen Salahudeen, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Hematology & Oncology

University of Illinois College of Medicine

Sandra Schmid, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

Janine Sengstack, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Junevity

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.

CEO

Xaira Therapeutics

Raphael Townshend, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Atomic AI

Daniel Tumas, DVM, Ph.D.

VP, Search & Evaluation, Corporate Development

Gilead Sciences

Elena Viboch

Managing Director

General Catalyst

D.A. Wallach

Co-Founder & General Partner

Time BioVentures

Austin Walsh

General Manager, Healthcare

Microsoft

Renee Yao

Ecosystem Business Development, Healthcare Life Sciences

NVIDIA

Past Speakers

Vasudev Bailey, Ph.D.

Managing Partner

ARTIS Ventures

Sarah Benson-Konforty, MD

General Partner

1010VC

Atul Butte, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, UC San Francisco; Chief Data Scientist

UC Health

Erin Cahill

Deals Partner

PwC

Jorge Conde

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz

Charles Fisher, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO

Unlearn.AI   

Joydeep Ganguly

Sr. Vice President, Corporate Operations & Chief Sustainability Officer

Gilead Sciences

Margo Georgiadis

Co-Founder & CEO, Montai Therapeutics; CEO-Partner

Flagship Pioneering

Sam Hawgood, MBBS

Chancellor

UC San Francisco

Abraham Heifets, Ph.D.

Co-Founder & CEO

Atomwise

Nan Li

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Dimension

Tim Luker, Ph.D.

Vice President, Lilly Ventures, West Coast USA Head, Corp BD

Eli Lilly and Company

Matthew Lungren, M.D., MPH

Chief Data Science Officer

Microsoft

Thomas Miller

Co-Founder & CEO

Iambic Therapeutics

Ryan Moog

Head of Life Sciences Solutions

Datavant 

April Purcell

Specialist, Clinical Development & Operations

Halloran Consulting Group

Mary Rozenman, Ph.D.

CFO & CBO

insitro

Scott Skellenger

VP, R&D Informatics and Global Infrastructure Services

Amgen