1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,380 Alright, so our next speaker is an entrepreneur and author and is the VP of Invicta Medical 2 00:00:09,380 --> 00:00:17,120 and Acta Valen. Her focus point will be on the convergence of exponential technology, 3 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:27,160 disrupting medicine, therefore enabling patent-driven healthcare. And as a nice little personal 4 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:35,940 note, she played competitive varsity hockey for six years while playing quite amazingly at 85 5 00:00:35,940 --> 00:00:45,840 pounds. One tough lady right there. So speaking with the talk of patent as CEO, ladies and 6 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,160 gentlemen, Robin Farman. Sorry. 7 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:04,720 There we go. All right. How's that? Can you hear me, guys? All right, cool. So I'm going to stand 8 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:10,240 here because if I stand there, I'll need a stepladder for you to see me. So yes, I'm Robin 9 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,200 Farman-Farmian. Give you a little background on me. My life goal is to positively impact at least 10 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,840 100 million patients worldwide. That's a pretty audacious goal, right? So I decided to hack a 11 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,920 career together that doesn't exist. I'm working now on three companies. I am called the money 12 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:27,140 girl. I'm the money girl. I'm the money girl. I'm the money girl. I'm the money girl. I'm the 13 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,060 money girl. Right? So I raise money and I do the high-level business development for companies 14 00:01:31,060 --> 00:01:35,900 that are poised to impact at least 100 million patients worldwide. As you mentioned, I'm working 15 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:41,780 on curing cancer with Actavalon. We're repairing P53, which will be able to cure more than 50% of 16 00:01:41,780 --> 00:01:47,100 all cancer. I'm working on MindMaze, which is a $2 billion unicorn. It's virtual reality for 17 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:51,980 stroke and brain injury rehabilitation. And I'm working on Invicta Medical, which is a data-driven 18 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:57,040 platform sleep apnea medical device. So these are pretty hardcore things and pretty 19 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:02,040 hardcore diseases I'm working on. Well, you know when you hear someone as crazy as I am saying, 20 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:06,840 yeah, I'm going to help out trying to cure cancer on the side, you know there's a backstory. So with 21 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:13,400 me, at the age of 16, I was misdiagnosed with an autoimmune disease. All told, I have had 43 22 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:19,880 hospitalizations and six major surgeries. Now, when you're facing surgery, and especially when 23 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,500 you're a kid, right, you go from hospital system to hospital system looking for the very best 24 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:27,020 doctors out there. But none of my doctors are going to be the best doctors out there. So I'm 25 00:02:27,020 --> 00:02:27,200 going to give you four, because I'm not strong enough to be one. So my doctor's going to say, 26 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,440 what's wrong with you? Listen, no one has ever looked at me and said, you know what, Robin? Let's 27 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,720 hold off on these surgeries because you're so young and technology is moving so quickly, it 28 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:38,360 could provide better solutions in the near future. Nobody ever looked at me and said, you know what, 29 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:46,420 Robin? Technology is hope. But technology is hope, right? In fact, had digital health IT and just 30 00:02:46,420 --> 00:02:52,920 the sheer amount of information we now have access to as patients existed when I was a teenager, I 31 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,040 most likely would not have lost three organs. 32 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:01,480 Now, at the age of 26, this is seven years after they had taken out my entire large intestine, 33 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:06,300 my doctors were telling me I was cured, but I wasn't, and I was in extreme pain. 34 00:03:06,540 --> 00:03:10,900 So over a period of years, they kept upping and upping my opiate dose, until eventually 35 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:14,020 I was on 80 milligrams a day of methadone. 36 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:19,180 Now, this is a massive dose, and we were talking basically heroin dependency at that point. 37 00:03:19,340 --> 00:03:23,360 And I went back into my doctor's office and I said, I need off this drug now, it is a 38 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:24,180 horrific medication. 39 00:03:24,180 --> 00:03:29,320 They said, okay, well, the next step would be to surgically implant a morphine pump into 40 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:29,900 my spine. 41 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:31,760 I was like, are you kidding me? 42 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:36,880 I was 26 years old, I was essentially a shut-in, just being able to take a shower was the most 43 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:40,300 thing I could do on a daily basis, and my doctors were telling me I was gonna be on 44 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:42,020 high dose opiates for the rest of my life. 45 00:03:42,180 --> 00:03:43,540 So I basically said, F you. 46 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,660 And I fired my entire healthcare team, every single one of them, and I rebuilt it with 47 00:03:48,660 --> 00:03:51,540 healthcare professionals that worked with me as a team and a colleague. 48 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:53,600 I ended up getting diagnosed correctly. 49 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:01,140 Put on a biologic medication IV called Remicade, and literally within 24 hours of that first 50 00:04:01,140 --> 00:04:03,000 dose, I went into remission. 51 00:04:04,780 --> 00:04:05,600 Totally overnight. 52 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:07,720 After 13 years. 53 00:04:07,980 --> 00:04:11,420 So that's what I'm up here to talk to you about, and that's why I've dedicated my life 54 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:13,200 to dramatically impacting medicine. 55 00:04:13,780 --> 00:04:19,360 I talk on the convergence of exponential technology, let's see if I can do this, impacting medicine. 56 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,940 So when I'm talking about exponential technology, I'm talking about all the sexy ones, right? 57 00:04:23,100 --> 00:04:23,580 Artificial intelligence. 58 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:27,640 Artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, sensors, even being able to utilize 59 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,980 the power of the crowd. 60 00:04:29,580 --> 00:04:34,800 So today, let's start out with a scenario of what it's like to be a patient today and 61 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:35,920 in the near future. 62 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:40,440 Well, right now we have a lot of point of care diagnostic devices. 63 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:45,500 What that means is a diagnostic device that comes to the patient versus the patient having 64 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:47,660 to go to a traditional setting like a hospital or clinic. 65 00:04:47,900 --> 00:04:53,160 So what I can do is take my FDA approved EKG monitor on myself in my home. 66 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:56,780 Send the data up to the cloud where it's going to be analyzed by artificial intelligence. 67 00:04:57,140 --> 00:05:03,100 And if I do need to see a physician, I can do one via telemedicine, Skype, FaceTime, even 68 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:04,840 potentially a telemedicine robot. 69 00:05:05,220 --> 00:05:08,140 In fact, that is the way right now the United States is going. 70 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:09,680 Massive into telemedicine. 71 00:05:09,780 --> 00:05:15,220 In fact, Kaiser Permanente, that is the country's largest managed care organization, their CEO 72 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:21,520 came out last year in California and said, by 2018, more than 50% of all of our clinical 73 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,140 visits are going to be telemedicine. 74 00:05:23,140 --> 00:05:23,900 We've done virtually. 75 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:25,700 CVS MinuteClinic. 76 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,860 You can walk in there any time and see a registered nurse on demand. 77 00:05:29,180 --> 00:05:32,700 They've recently partnered with Cleveland Clinic, one of the best hospital systems 78 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:33,820 in the U.S. 79 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:38,920 And you can now see a video doctor on demand from CVS MinuteClinic if you need one. 80 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:40,560 There are many, many examples. 81 00:05:40,860 --> 00:05:45,860 In fact, almost 70% of in clinic visits actually don't need to be in clinic. 82 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:51,800 And point of care diagnostics, or what I like to call diagnostics on demand. 83 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,020 We are seeing a lot going on in the world of blood collection, and nothing to do with 84 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:56,360 Theranos. 85 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:57,540 Get that out of your mind. 86 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,260 So this company right here, the Core Wellness Tracker, this is essentially a hacker type 87 00:06:02,260 --> 00:06:02,760 tool, right? 88 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:04,320 Because it's not going through FDA approval. 89 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:08,240 They did a crowdfunding campaign, and they're expected to launch in the next couple of months. 90 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:12,640 You can get a spectrometer in your own home now for a couple hundred dollars. 91 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:18,100 You can do cholesterol levels, blood glucose fasting, things like even inflammatory markers 92 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:19,860 on a daily basis if you'd like. 93 00:06:20,460 --> 00:06:20,900 EverlyWell? 94 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:25,100 They did about $3 million of funding, and what it is is mail order labs. 95 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:27,440 So you just go online, you order a kit. 96 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,720 This is out of pocket, by the way. 97 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,460 This is really hacking your health care. 98 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,420 You're not going through insurance. 99 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:32,420 You're not going to doctors. 100 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,820 You are self-prescribing lipid tests, thyroid. 101 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,460 You can get every single one of the STDs done through EverlyWell. 102 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,060 They send you a blood collection kit. 103 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,960 You take surface level blood, send it back in the postage paid free envelope, and bam, 104 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,740 you've got your own blood labs. 105 00:06:48,180 --> 00:06:50,740 We're also seeing a lot going on in the world of apps. 106 00:06:50,740 --> 00:06:52,940 BrainCheck launched earlier this year. 107 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,880 This is early detection of dementia and concussion. 108 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,240 Now why this is so important is because, especially with dementia, pharmaceutical intervention 109 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,940 is only successful at the early stages. 110 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,820 But the problem is none of us get baselines on our brain health. 111 00:07:07,940 --> 00:07:09,580 We all know our baseline on our BP. 112 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:10,940 We know our baseline on our cholesterol. 113 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,140 Nobody knows their baseline on their brain health because you don't go to a neurologist 114 00:07:15,140 --> 00:07:16,420 until you're exhibiting symptoms. 115 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,700 Once you're starting to have symptoms of dementia that are actually impacting your life, it's 116 00:07:20,740 --> 00:07:21,660 probably too late. 117 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,480 So this is a gamified version. 118 00:07:23,660 --> 00:07:24,780 It's a freemium model. 119 00:07:24,940 --> 00:07:31,140 So for free or for a couple dollars a month, I think, subscription, I can do a game for 120 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:33,580 five to ten minutes that will give me my brain health. 121 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,300 It is fun, it is engaging, and you don't have to go to the doctor. 122 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,740 Everything on this slide is actually FDA approved. 123 00:07:41,940 --> 00:07:46,180 These are clinical grade medical devices that are affordable and able to get as a patient. 124 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,380 You do not go through the healthcare system to get these. 125 00:07:48,460 --> 00:07:49,460 You do not go through your doctor. 126 00:07:49,540 --> 00:07:50,720 You do not go through your insurance company. 127 00:07:51,380 --> 00:07:55,760 Stethoscope and the ear monitoring device, they use your smartphone as the brains. 128 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:56,860 Hook right into it. 129 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:57,800 Look in your kid's ear. 130 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,360 Take your own, you know, use your own stethoscope. 131 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:05,260 And if you do need to see a physician, you can do one on demand via video through their 132 00:08:05,260 --> 00:08:05,600 apps. 133 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:07,180 I talked about a live core. 134 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:08,180 That's the EKG monitor. 135 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:09,840 It's a single lead EKG monitor. 136 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:10,940 The ultrasound. 137 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:12,240 This is interesting. 138 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,480 Philips came out and it is a subscription model. 139 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,540 So now for $300 a month, anybody in the country can get their hands on an ultrasound. 140 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:24,920 That is incredible to someone like me because they usually cost thousands and thousands 141 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:25,340 of dollars. 142 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:26,760 And you can only have them in hospitals. 143 00:08:26,980 --> 00:08:30,360 So say you're pregnant or you just need ultrasound for a couple of months. 144 00:08:30,460 --> 00:08:32,860 You can do that with this particular device. 145 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:34,340 And this is me. 146 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,160 This is me in my own living room. 147 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,400 I have hacked my healthcare in order to get almost every single bit of it in my apartment 148 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:41,780 or within a two block radius. 149 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:45,820 I get my Remicade every six weeks now for the past 18 years. 150 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,520 And now I'm doing it in my home. 151 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,520 It went from being $28,000 a year to $2,000 a year. 152 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,420 It went from being a dose, by the way, at Stanford to only $5,000. 153 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:56,040 And that goes through my insurance company. 154 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,860 So my deductible fell from about $1,000 to about $500 by doing this. 155 00:08:59,940 --> 00:09:02,520 And my recovery time went from seven days to zero. 156 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:06,980 That's how much of a big difference it makes when you pull patients out of things like 157 00:09:06,980 --> 00:09:07,560 infusion clinics. 158 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:11,660 I also do IV saline solution on demand. 159 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:13,620 I mean, how many people have had a hangover in their life? 160 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:14,120 Raise your hands. 161 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:15,720 There we go. 162 00:09:15,820 --> 00:09:15,920 Right? 163 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,860 So you can next morning, and this is in a lot of the major cities here in the United 164 00:09:19,860 --> 00:09:23,400 States, including Vegas and San Francisco, New York, Boston, IV doc. 165 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,060 It's like Uber. 166 00:09:24,220 --> 00:09:25,040 You go on an app. 167 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:30,200 You order a liter of saline solution, a vitamin B12 shot, and some vitamin C IV. 168 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,440 They come to your house within two hours. 169 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,900 And it's paid out of pocket, right? 170 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:35,740 Doesn't go through insurance. 171 00:09:36,020 --> 00:09:37,300 Doesn't go through your physician. 172 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:41,560 But if you're hungover or if you're someone like me, I have Crohn's disease, I need a 173 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:44,540 hydration frequently so I can just get one on demand. 174 00:09:44,860 --> 00:09:47,860 In fact, I even get my primary care done in my home. 175 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,460 My doctor out of Circle Medical. 176 00:09:49,860 --> 00:09:50,760 And there's other companies. 177 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:53,160 That one happens to be in the Palo Alto, San Francisco area. 178 00:09:53,420 --> 00:09:55,640 They come to my apartment for 60 minutes. 179 00:09:56,140 --> 00:09:56,880 60 minutes. 180 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:58,200 $20 copay. 181 00:09:58,340 --> 00:09:59,420 And they take care of everything. 182 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,420 When is the last time any of you saw a doctor for 60 minutes? 183 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:03,820 Pretty big deal. 184 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:06,360 All right. 185 00:10:06,420 --> 00:10:07,680 So back to our scenario. 186 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:09,140 We had our point of care diagnostic. 187 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:10,460 We sent the data to the cloud. 188 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,500 We saw our physician via telemedicine. 189 00:10:12,740 --> 00:10:15,500 What about potentially getting our medication delivered by drone? 190 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,620 Well, this is actually happening. 191 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,560 Company called Zipline. 192 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,720 $18 million of funding based in California. 193 00:10:22,020 --> 00:10:23,600 They have gone into Rwanda. 194 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,240 It is one of the poorest countries, of course, in the world. 195 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:29,100 And their infrastructure for transportation is nothing. 196 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,040 So one of the biggest killers there is maternal bleeding. 197 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:37,000 And that's solved purely by a blood transfusion, but they can't even get that in Rwanda. 198 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:38,680 So Zipline is in there. 199 00:10:38,740 --> 00:10:39,640 They've partnered with UPS. 200 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:44,040 They are creating the world's first completely nationalized drone delivery system, specific 201 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:44,720 for health care. 202 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,560 They do things like blood transfusions, vaccines, and medication. 203 00:10:48,180 --> 00:10:48,740 White House. 204 00:10:48,740 --> 00:10:51,580 White House went to them a few months ago and said, Zipline, we need your help. 205 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:56,160 So they are starting out here in the next year, actually in the state of Nevada, and 206 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:00,760 I think part of Virginia and one other state in the country where there are remote patients 207 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,960 who don't have easy access to doctors. 208 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:06,980 And we're going to start delivering drone medication in the next year here in the United 209 00:11:06,980 --> 00:11:07,480 States. 210 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,260 We're seeing drones being utilized in other areas of medicine. 211 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,260 This is a flying defibrillator. 212 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,580 If you can get to a heart attack victim in under 60 seconds, you can increase survival. 213 00:11:18,740 --> 00:11:18,760 You can get to a heart attack. 214 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,000 And one of the things that we're seeing is that the survival rates from 8% to 80% massive 215 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:23,860 change, right? 216 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,520 And one person ambulances. 217 00:11:26,580 --> 00:11:28,180 This is essentially a flying car. 218 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:29,180 This is real. 219 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:29,720 This exists. 220 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:32,360 This one is about a year and a half old, actually. 221 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,100 It's a company based out of China and they are talking to Lung Biotechnologies, a transplant 222 00:11:37,100 --> 00:11:40,120 company here in the United States, for 1,000 units of these. 223 00:11:40,340 --> 00:11:46,040 In fact, countries like Dubai are starting to launch this for consumer travel like taxis. 224 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:48,720 And one person ambulances. 225 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,320 In fact, the drone industry is exploding. 226 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,120 Last year, as you can see, 227 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,500 it was about a $2 billion market. 228 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,200 That is expected to grow over the next three years 229 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,240 to $127 billion market. 230 00:12:00,420 --> 00:12:04,060 Have you ever seen a market just expand in that quickly? 231 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,900 In fact, right now, we're entering a perfect storm 232 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:10,160 of technological advancements really enabling 233 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,620 what I like to call the era of the patient. 234 00:12:12,860 --> 00:12:14,600 So starting out with the medical science, 235 00:12:15,250 --> 00:12:16,520 we all know genetic sequencing 236 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,500 is not only on the exponential trend, 237 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:21,000 but it is dramatically outperforming Moore's Law. 238 00:12:21,860 --> 00:12:24,900 2001, it cost about $100 million to sequence the genome 239 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:28,180 and it cost about $2.6 billion to get to that point. 240 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:30,560 Last year, it fell to the under $1,000 mark. 241 00:12:30,780 --> 00:12:32,980 That is the inflection point experts have agreed 242 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:35,020 would make a massive difference in medicine. 243 00:12:35,260 --> 00:12:37,760 We're gonna start to see things like precision medicine, 244 00:12:38,020 --> 00:12:40,580 a treatment plan based on the individual 245 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:42,680 versus the one-size-fits-all model 246 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:44,080 that we have had up until now. 247 00:12:44,260 --> 00:12:45,280 That is a big deal. 248 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,440 We'll also start to do 249 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,640 early-onset diagnostics and predictive analytics. 250 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,520 All right, go to raise your hands in the room. 251 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,120 How many people have heard of the microbiome? 252 00:12:55,220 --> 00:12:58,760 Awesome, okay, I get about 50% in most of my talks. 253 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,600 So what the microbiome is, 254 00:13:00,820 --> 00:13:03,820 it is the colonies of bacteria, fungi, and viruses 255 00:13:03,820 --> 00:13:05,800 that live in and on our bodies. 256 00:13:06,180 --> 00:13:08,180 Totally symbiotic relationship, by the way. 257 00:13:08,260 --> 00:13:09,360 We need them to survive 258 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,720 and they absolutely need us to survive. 259 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:13,600 Well, genetic sequencing technology 260 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,320 is catalyzing sequencing the microbiome 261 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:17,420 because it's actually even smaller, 262 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,700 so now we need to start sequencing 263 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,280 the microbiome on our bodies. 264 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:21,520 And this is going to, 265 00:13:21,620 --> 00:13:23,140 you're gonna start to see this a lot more 266 00:13:23,140 --> 00:13:24,820 in the news over the next five years. 267 00:13:25,220 --> 00:13:28,100 The US government launched a $400 million initiative 268 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:30,500 last year around sequencing the microbiome. 269 00:13:30,680 --> 00:13:32,460 100 million coming out of the Gates Foundation 270 00:13:32,460 --> 00:13:34,520 and a lot of academic institutions 271 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,620 have gotten on board with this. 272 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:38,140 Let me give you some scenarios 273 00:13:38,140 --> 00:13:39,840 on how we can look at treating diseases. 274 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:41,040 I have Crohn's. 275 00:13:41,340 --> 00:13:43,920 Imagine I bank my microbiome 276 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:46,120 the same way you bank umbilical cord blood. 277 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:48,560 And get a transplant back when I'm not feeling well. 278 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:50,100 Or take that one step further. 279 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,280 All of us in peak health bank our microbiomes. 280 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,580 And then if we get cancer, 281 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:57,360 take antibiotics or just start aging, 282 00:13:57,580 --> 00:14:00,100 we can get a transplant back of our own microbiome. 283 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,940 Now, we are already using something 284 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:03,940 called fecal transplants for C. diff. 285 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,800 C. diff is an incredibly difficult 286 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:07,500 antibiotic resistant infection 287 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:10,580 and that is actually cured now with microbiome treatments. 288 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,080 All right, so let's talk a little bit about software. 289 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:16,280 So virtual reality, 290 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:17,320 and augmented reality, 291 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:18,740 this is both software and hardware, 292 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:20,340 but the software is the big part of it 293 00:14:20,340 --> 00:14:22,660 that's driven by artificial intelligence. 294 00:14:22,980 --> 00:14:25,280 And I mentioned I'm working in this space as well. 295 00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:28,900 Right now, I mean the obvious uses of virtual reality, 296 00:14:29,020 --> 00:14:30,440 gaming, entertainment, experiences, 297 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,360 you wanna go diving off of Mars, 298 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:35,460 whatever you wanna do, you can do by VR. 299 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,900 And training, we have been training the military 300 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:40,440 and surgery and disaster response now 301 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:41,500 for a couple of years. 302 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,680 But interesting things that we're gonna start to see 303 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,280 pop up over the next six to 12 months. 304 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,460 Trying on makeup, trying on clothes, 305 00:14:48,620 --> 00:14:50,640 test driving your cars, interior design, 306 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,360 architecture, doing all of your meetings 307 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,680 and going to school in the world of virtual reality. 308 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:57,980 But virtual reality and medicine 309 00:14:57,980 --> 00:14:59,900 is where I get really excited. 310 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,540 This is me, I'm working on, 311 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,080 I mean I'm just trying out a company called DeepStream. 312 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:05,740 They're based out of Stanford 313 00:15:05,740 --> 00:15:07,620 and they are for pain management control 314 00:15:07,620 --> 00:15:09,140 and it actually works. 315 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,940 You put on the VR, you're in there 316 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:12,860 and you're shooting penguins and they're snow flying. 317 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:13,760 High five. 318 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:15,120 And, 319 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,320 it actually works. 320 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:19,860 We're also using it for things like 321 00:15:19,860 --> 00:15:24,340 pain anxiety, PTSD, even phobias. 322 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:25,420 If you're scared of spiders, 323 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:28,100 you can now get rid of that phobia in the world of VR. 324 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:32,320 And virtual reality is going social. 325 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:34,800 There are six to seven major platforms already. 326 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:36,840 One is called High Fidelity. 327 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,820 Space is launched recently, that's Facebook's version. 328 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,720 But imagine Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn in the world of VR. 329 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:45,280 All right, so factors to consider. 330 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:47,400 A couple billion dollars, again, 331 00:15:47,420 --> 00:15:49,340 was invested in the last couple of years. 332 00:15:49,420 --> 00:15:52,160 These are mainstream VCs, these are not niche VCs. 333 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:55,600 Now we are gonna start to see it democratize, 334 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,360 as I mentioned, over the next six to 12 months. 335 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:58,800 And that is because of two companies. 336 00:15:58,940 --> 00:15:59,580 First, Apple. 337 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,940 Their 10 year anniversary is coming up 338 00:16:01,940 --> 00:16:03,820 with their iPhone 8 is launching 339 00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:05,460 and it's between September and March. 340 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:06,980 You'll probably be able to get your hands on it. 341 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:08,640 It's gonna have a heavy AR focus. 342 00:16:08,980 --> 00:16:10,600 Second one, of course, is Facebook. 343 00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:12,760 With the launch of Facebook Spaces, this is a big deal. 344 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,460 This is why they got Oculus Rift. 345 00:16:15,620 --> 00:16:17,640 And I have about two or three minutes left, 346 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:18,820 so I'll skip over Hardware. 347 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,040 I have a lot of content. 348 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:27,420 I could have done this easier. 349 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,600 All right, so all of this technology, though, 350 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,320 is raising the bar on the interaction 351 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,080 between the patient and the physician. 352 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:39,140 So if you think back to the title of my talk, 353 00:16:39,220 --> 00:16:40,320 the patient as the CEO, 354 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:42,560 and just like the CEO of a corporation, 355 00:16:42,780 --> 00:16:45,080 where you surround yourself with a fantastic array 356 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,040 of vice presidents, support staff, advisors. 357 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,040 Remember, as a CEO of a corporation, 358 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:51,800 you are not an expert in marketing, engineering, 359 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,500 finance, legal department. 360 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:55,060 You hire the best experts. 361 00:16:55,660 --> 00:16:58,040 So as a patient, why not? 362 00:16:58,220 --> 00:16:59,980 Why should it be any different? 363 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,340 You can be the CEO of your own healthcare team, 364 00:17:02,460 --> 00:17:04,320 but you hire all the best experts 365 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,220 to give you advice on what to do. 366 00:17:06,360 --> 00:17:08,100 You are the one who is the decision maker 367 00:17:08,100 --> 00:17:11,540 and you are the one who is essentially responsible 368 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:14,440 to making sure that your healthcare is gotten to you. 369 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,380 And I understand not everyone is as type A driven 370 00:17:18,380 --> 00:17:20,780 as I am, a very obviously ice hockey player 371 00:17:20,780 --> 00:17:22,360 for six years for Boston University. 372 00:17:22,580 --> 00:17:23,320 This is a pretty big deal. 373 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,320 So I talk about having a COO on the team, health coaches. 374 00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:31,440 And we're seeing this as an industry massively explodes, 375 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:33,340 both virtual and in person. 376 00:17:33,620 --> 00:17:35,540 And so health coaches can help you. 377 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,580 And they don't need to be skilled in medicine. 378 00:17:37,740 --> 00:17:39,660 They just need to be skilled problem solvers. 379 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,440 Because a lot of the time in medicine, 380 00:17:41,540 --> 00:17:43,600 maybe why you're not getting your treatment plan 381 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,060 isn't because you're not getting your treatment plan. 382 00:17:45,060 --> 00:17:46,000 It's not because you don't understand it 383 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,460 or isn't because you don't want to do it. 384 00:17:47,500 --> 00:17:49,520 But it's because you're 70 years old 385 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:50,920 and your driver's license expired. 386 00:17:51,100 --> 00:17:52,580 You have no idea how to use Uber 387 00:17:52,580 --> 00:17:54,020 and you don't know how to renew it. 388 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:55,840 So you have no way of getting to the doctor. 389 00:17:55,980 --> 00:17:58,540 Well, people like health coaches can help figure out 390 00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:01,180 how to incorporate and integrate treatment plans 391 00:18:01,180 --> 00:18:02,940 into your specific life. 392 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,440 So I wanna leave you with this thought. 393 00:18:07,180 --> 00:18:09,120 Now that you're the CEO of your own healthcare team, 394 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,420 and I mean every single person in this room, 395 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:13,540 you are now the CEO of your own healthcare team. 396 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,860 How are you gonna start to change your behavior today? 397 00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:18,480 Thank you.