Every industry has a breaking point. For healthcare, it arrived long before the artificial intelligence boom. Growing patient backlogs, systemic workforce burnout, and ballooning operational costs have pushed modern hospital infrastructure to its absolute limit. Historically, the framework for medical leadership has been centered on damage control by efficiently managing wait times, rationing bed counts, and balancing rigid budgets.

We are now in a different moment entirely.

Artificial intelligence is a fundamental paradigm shift that demands an entirely new way of thinking about human data, institutional scale, and standards of care. The healthcare organizations, investors, and entrepreneurs that survive the upcoming decade will be those that realize the era of reactive medicine is over. 

Dr. Peter Fleischut and Dr. Pierre Elias are currently executing this exact transformation playbook at NewYork-Presbyterian one of the world's largest medical networks. As Chief Transformation and Growth Officer, Dr. Fleischut has led a highly successful and an aggressive strategy managing over 120 active AI initiatives. He is spearheading a massive digital overhaul across multiple hospitals to eliminate clinical friction and accelerate the delivery of modern care. 

Dr. Pierre Elias is the Medical Director for AI and a principal investigator at the CRADLE deep learning lab, where his team builds clinical tools designed to augment decision-making and expand clinical insight.

 As one example, their collaboration has turned the world’s most basic, low-cost tests into unprecedented predictive shields. Using their recently FDA-cleared model, EchoNext, they have successfully trained algorithms to analyze a standard 10-second EKG and uncover hidden structural heart diseases that are otherwise imperceptible during routine reviews. By catching complex cardiac deterioration before a patient ever shows a single symptom, they are successfully demonstrating how to convert theory into practice with a massive impact on health outcomes.

In this session we will discuss the operational framework, funding models, and institutional agility needed to deploy and scale AI and innovation across millions of patients responsibly.

Submit your questions for Dr. Peter Fleischut and Dr. Pierre Elias for a chance to ask them live.

Danny Meyer built an empire on a wildly counterintuitive bet: that hospitality, real, human, generous hospitality, is a durable competitive advantage in business. He opened Union Square Cafe at 27 and went on to build Union Square Hospitality Group into one of the most respected restaurant companies in the country, home to Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, and a dozen other beloved New York institutions. He then took the same philosophy and built Shake Shack from a single hot dog cart in Madison Square Park into a global public company. Along the way he wrote the modern playbook for how business gets done, Setting the Table, required reading in boardrooms and business schools alike.

Now, in his new book What Could Possibly Go Right, he's making an even bigger bet, on optimism itself, at a moment when it's never felt more countercultural.

Topics on the table include: What has he gotten wrong? What has he learned about leading through crisis, scaling culture, and betting on people when the data says bet on efficiency? What does he know about what's coming next that the rest of us don't yet?

Join us live on October 26, 1:00–2:30 PM ET for a live conversation with Danny Meyer, moderated as a Q&A sourced from the Collective[i] Forecast community, an elite group of executives, entrepreneurs, researchers, innovators, and journalists.  

RSVP early and submit your questions for the chance to have them asked live.