

Daniel Kraft is a physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and healthcare innovation expert with extensive experience in clinical practice and biomedical research.
Why you should book Daniel Kraft for your next event
- Expertise: Daniel Kraft is a leading authority on healthcare innovation, with extensive experience in clinical practice and biomedical research. He has a wealth of knowledge and insights to share on the latest advances in healthcare technologies, and how they can be applied to improve patient outcomes.
- Engaging Speaker: Daniel is a dynamic and engaging speaker, with a talent for simplifying complex medical concepts and making them accessible to audiences. He is able to convey his message in an entertaining and informative manner, leaving audiences feeling inspired and empowered.
- Relevance: In today's rapidly changing healthcare landscape, it is more important than ever to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and trends. Daniel Kraft is at the forefront of this field, and can provide valuable insights and perspectives on how emerging technologies and innovations are transforming healthcare delivery and improving patient care.
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Transforming healthcare through innovation and technology
Daniel Kraft is a renowned physician-scientist, entrepreneur, and healthcare innovation expert with a career spanning over 25 years. He is the founder of Digital.Health, and Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance Task Force. He has multiple scientific publications and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through his positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California San Francisco. He is a sought-after speaker on the future of health, medicine, and technology, and has given several TED and TEDMED talks.
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and is founder and chair of NextMed Health, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.
He is the founder of Digital.Health, co-founder and partner at Continuum Health Ventures (focused on seed-stage Digital Health and Longevity), and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force, where he recently co-led the rapid Covid diagnostics XPRIZE. Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford where he completed a post-doc in the laboratory of Irving L Weissman.
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society.
He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organizations.
He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco.
He is the founder of Digital.Health, co-founder and partner at Continuum Health Ventures (focused on seed-stage Digital Health and Longevity), and is serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic &Health Alliance Task Force, where he recently co-led the rapid Covid diagnostics XPRIZE. Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford where he completed a post-doc in the laboratory of Irving L Weissman.
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is a member of the Kaufman Fellows Society.
He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organizations.
He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco.

Keynotes
Keynote by Daniel Kraft:
The Future of Health & Medicine: Where Can Technology Take Us?
From the perspective of a leading physician, scientist, inventor and innovator this presentation examines rapidly emerging, game changing and convergent technology trends and how they are and will be leveraged to change the face of healthcare and the practice of medicine in the next decade.
Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
A deep dive into where emergent fields such as low cost personal genomics, the digitization of health records, crowd sourced data, molecular imaging, wearable devices & mobile health, synthetic biology, systems medicine, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, 3D printing and regenerative medicine are transforming healthcare, and have the potential to enable clinicians, empower patients, and deliver better care and outcomes at lower cost.
Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.
A deep dive into where emergent fields such as low cost personal genomics, the digitization of health records, crowd sourced data, molecular imaging, wearable devices & mobile health, synthetic biology, systems medicine, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, 3D printing and regenerative medicine are transforming healthcare, and have the potential to enable clinicians, empower patients, and deliver better care and outcomes at lower cost.
Keynote by Daniel Kraft:
Medical Innovation & the Accelerating Future in the Time of COVID
How the pandemic is catalyzing
New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
Redesigning care on the front-lines. From the ER/ICU to primary care
Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven
Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials, to vaccine development
Public health/global health collaborations and emerging platforms that will impact the future of health and medicine, to prevention, detection and response of future pandemics.
New approaches to diagnostics, from molecular to digital
Redesigning care on the front-lines. From the ER/ICU to primary care
Acceleration of virtualized care, from telemedicine to connected, data driven
Therapy acceleration: from drug discovery and clinical trials, to vaccine development
Public health/global health collaborations and emerging platforms that will impact the future of health and medicine, to prevention, detection and response of future pandemics.
Keynote by Daniel Kraft:
From Hospital to Home
Prevention, diagnostics and care is increasingly moving out of the 4 walls of the clinic, ER and hospital
Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high risk patients and standard care.
Cutting edge and future of telehealth
Future of the Hospital
The Virtualist: Role and abilities of the future clinician
Digital health on steroids. What’s coming next
Regulatory and reimbursement: Aligning incentives for the COVID and Post-COVID age.
Understanding the accelerating use of connected health solutions, remote patient monitoring for high risk patients and standard care.
Cutting edge and future of telehealth
Future of the Hospital
The Virtualist: Role and abilities of the future clinician
Digital health on steroids. What’s coming next
Regulatory and reimbursement: Aligning incentives for the COVID and Post-COVID age.
Keynote by Daniel Kraft:
Augmented, Virtual and Extended Reality
How VR/AR/XR are reshaping health and medicine.
AR, VR and XR has a wide range of applications across healthcare and biomedicine, in this talk he explores many of the cutting edge use cases and future potential for AR & VR in medical education and simulation, to therapy, telemedicine and beyond.
AR/VR/XR in medical education (simulation, training)
Virtual Therapy (Pain Rx, Physical Therapy, Mental Health)
Virtual Collaboration Tool
Virtualized Healthcare
AR, VR and XR has a wide range of applications across healthcare and biomedicine, in this talk he explores many of the cutting edge use cases and future potential for AR & VR in medical education and simulation, to therapy, telemedicine and beyond.
AR/VR/XR in medical education (simulation, training)
Virtual Therapy (Pain Rx, Physical Therapy, Mental Health)
Virtual Collaboration Tool
Virtualized Healthcare
Keynote by Daniel Kraft:
Exponential Technologies, Mindset and Innovation
Understanding Exponentials, Disruption and Pace of Change
A dive into accelerating and exponential technologies, from AI, Robotics, Big Data and Genomics, to VR, 3D Printing, Blockhain and beyond
Convergence: The role of Convergence exponential technologies in reshaping:
Healthcare,
Future of Work,
Travel (Self-driving cars),
Future of Home (entertainment, social),
Business Models