Empatica Summit 2026
Where clinical research meets patient care
Bringing together healthcare leaders to explore the evolving role of digital biomarkers. The day will center on how continuous wearable data is changing clinical research and monitoring in routine care.
September 16th, 9am – 5pm
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Event Agenda
Breakfast
Building Resilient Digital Biomarker Strategies: Lessons From Pharma Leaders
Jian Yang, VP of Digital Health, Eli Lilly | Carrie Northcott, Head of Digital Medicine and Translational Imaging, Pfizer | Sarah Ernst, Head of Clinical Innovation Strategy and Implementation, Sanofi | Abhishek Pratap, Global Head of Medicine, Digital Health Technologies, Boehringer Ingelheim | Viprali Bhatkar, Head of Digital health and AI Enablement, Clinical Development, Bristol Myers Squibb
Morning coffe break
Digital Measures and Regulatory Confidence: An FDA Perspective
Mallika Mundkur, Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer, FDA with Matteo Lai, Co-founder & CEO, Empatica
Understanding Pain: Building Physiological Models of Pain for Clinical Research and Patient Care
Yacine Hadjiat, Head of Innovation, Dubai Health | Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Professor and Co-founder, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction
When Human Data Becomes Art: Inside the Dataland x Empatica Collaboration
Refik Anadol, Co-founder, Dataland
Lunch
Circadian Patterns: Insights From Wearable Data and Deep Learning
Robert Hirten, Associate Professor of Medicine & Artificial Intelligence and Human Health Mount Sinai
Quantifying the Value Proposition of Wearables in Clinical Trials
Kenneth Getz, Executive Director and Professor, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development
Between Visits: Insights From Continuous Monitoring in Eating Disorders
Dr. Cheri Levinson, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Pediatrics, University of Louisville
Afternoon break
Digital Measures in Narcolepsy: Advancing Clinical Trials and Orexin Drug Development
Alice Cai, MD, Senior Medical Director, Takeda
The Future of Epilepsy Care: Advances in Research, Technology, and Clinical Practice
Roz Picard, Chief Scientist, Empatica | Jacqueline French, Professor of Neurology and Epileptologist, NYU Langone | Ben Brinkmann, Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic
Continuous Monitoring in Parkinson’s: Perspectives Across Research and Clinical Care
Zoltan Mari, Ruvo Family Chair & Director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Program, Cleveland Clinic | Alessandro Di Rocco, Neurologist and System Director for Parkinson's and Movement Disorders, Northwell Health | Larsson Omberg, Scientific Advisor, Empatica