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04/23/2026

“The biggest challenge – and the biggest salvation – for those of us in recovery is fellowship. To survive these illnesses, we need each other, and the cornerstone of recovery is transparency. This is what our country needs: fellowship.” - Patrick J. Kennedy, Co-Founder, The Kennedy Forum

In dialogue with Kate Snow, Anchor of NBC News Daily and Senior National Correspondent.

04/21/2026

Joshua Roman, Cello Soloist, Composer, and Curator of Romancello, shared his experience living with Long COVID and how it reshaped his life.

“So I picked up the cello and I held it against my body, and I began to play those notes that I shared a few minutes ago from the Bach. And as I did, despite the fact that my fingers were incredibly rusty, the power of the cello, the vibrations, the sheer physicality of making music moved me to tears. It dawned on me that I had stopped appreciating this connection long before Covid, that I'd been so focused on giving music that I had lost sight of my own need to receive it.”

04/20/2026

“Every crisis can create innovation…it lowers resistance, it moves people to think different.” - Yitshak Kreiss, MD, MHA, MPA, Director General & Professor, Sheba Medical Center.

A look at how one of the world’s most AI-advanced hospitals is putting that mindset into practice.

04/17/2026

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc nearly died from Castleman disease.

After diagnosing and curing himself, David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Assoc. Professor, University of Pennsylvania (CSTL); President & Co-Founder, Every Cure; President & Co-Founder, Castleman Disease Collaborative Network and Author, now focuses on repurposing existing drugs to treat rare diseases faster.

“When I got Castleman Disease, we said, ‘What are they doing?’ Then we realized there was no ‘they’’. Then we figured out we needed to become the ‘they’ for Castleman's – which we did.”

In conversation with Juju Chang, Emmy® Award-winning Co-Anchor of ABC News Nightline.

04/15/2026

We are living longer. The question is whether our systems are built for it.

In this discussion, leaders examined how longer lifespans are reshaping work, retirement, and financial security.

Moderated by Jean Chatzky, Founder & CEO of HerMoney Media; Personal Finance Expert; Author, the conversation featured:

🔹 Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, CEO, AARP
🔹 Joe Coughlin, PhD, Director, MIT AgeLab
🔹 Brooks Tingle, President & CEO, John Hancock

“The most important number is not your blood pressure, not your 401k — your zip code. Zip code predicts everything from your quality of life to access of care and frankly even your longevity. One part of a route can live 13 years longer than another just two miles away.” - Joe Coughlin, PhD

04/13/2026

What does it take to transform a neighborhood once written off into a living model of regeneration, education, art, and hope?

“You have to unlearn what you think you know in order to learn something new, which requires a paradigm shift to embrace different strategies of regeneration, like urban acupuncture or agroecology. Regeneration is to renew, restore, or heal something in support of the continuation of life.”

Emmanuel Pratt, Executive Director of Sweet Water Foundation, shared the powerful evolution of Chicago’s South Side into the Common|Wealth Communiversity Campus.

04/09/2026

In this forward-looking conversation, Mike Sicilia, CEO of Oracle, joined Gloria Caulfield, Founder & Executive Director of the Lake Nona Impact Forum, to discuss how cloud infrastructure, data, and AI are reshaping the systems behind healthcare.

“It’s not just about making the systems more efficient, to make the people more efficient. It’s about making the systems disappear…Once they trust it, I think 95% of the screens can just go away.” - Mike Sicilia

04/08/2026

Some of the most interesting ideas come from unexpected intersections.

In this compelling session, Frans Johansson, CEO of Medici Next, explored how innovation often happens when people from different fields come together and look at problems in new ways.

“Predictability is not the key to success. It’s unpredictability that helps us stand apart… this very human idea of connecting something unexpected.”

04/06/2026

Three years ago on this stage, Peter Lee, PhD demonstrated something called Prometheus.

“And what the audience didn't know, and what OpenAI, in our agreement, didn't tell people is that Prometheus was actually what we call GPT4." - Peter Lee, PhD

Moderated by Christina Farr, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Second Opinion Media and General Partner, Scrub Capital, the conversation featured:

🔹 Peter Lee, PhD, President, Microsoft Research
🔹 Lorraine Bardeen, Corporate Vice President, AI Strategy & Transformation, Microsoft
🔹 Lerrel Pinto, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO, Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI); Assistant Professor, New York University

Joined also by ARI’s walking robot, the conversation returned to where AI is heading next.

04/02/2026

“Well, I studied classical music since I was two, so I know a little about perfection – it’s unattainable.”

Pianist, Composer, & Activist Chloe Flower brought life and imagination in a forum of health and innovation through her music to the audience at the Lake Nona Impact Forum.

03/31/2026

As we come to the close of Endometriosis Awareness Month, it’s a reminder of how much we still don’t understand about the disease.

Louise King, JD, MD, Asst. Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School; Director, Reproductive Bioethics, HMS Center for Bioethics, shared with us at LNIF26:

“I want someone to put me out of a job so that any patient with endometriosis doesn't need me as a surgeon anymore because we can fix it in a different way.”

She sees it every day, both as a surgeon and as a parent. There are treatments that show promise, but from both her clinical work and her experience as a parent, it’s clear we still need more research and a deeper understanding of the condition.

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