Healthy Human Economy® Innovation Exchange — Year Three | Zane VC
Year Three · Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The room where the platforms redefining care delivery get funded, sold, and scaled.

The Healthy Human Economy® Innovation Exchange brings together the investors writing checks, the founders building intelligent systems, the health system executives making procurement decisions, and the service providers who know where deals are won and lost.

Date
Tuesday, August 11
Location
Atlanta · Atlanta Tech Week
Format
Summit + Evening Reception
The Thesis
We back foundational platforms and intelligent systems redefining care delivery — from reactive and episodic to proactive and continuous.

Every session at Year Three flows from a single idea: the technology moving care from responding to illness toward building health is the investable opportunity of the next three decades.

Zane VC backs the architects of prevention — founders whose clinical rigor and lived experience give them the foresight to reimagine how care is accessed, delivered, and sustained. This room exists to accelerate them: with capital, with buyers, and with the service providers who help deals close.

Three years in, this community has become the most intentional health innovation table in the Southeast. Year Three is ticketed. Paid means committed. The people in this room showed up because they meant to.

Opening Keynote

Follow the Money

Where health innovation returns are actually being generated

Kathryn Lawler
Keynote Speaker
Kathryn Lawler
Chief Executive Officer
Saint Joseph's / Mercy Care
Linda Goler Blount
Keynote Moderator
Linda Goler Blount, MPH
President & CEO
Community Catalyst
Additional Speakers

Panel speakers across intelligent systems, procurement, and go-to-market — including voices from Atlanta, New York, and the broader Southeast — will be announced in the coming weeks.

Host

Our Host

Guiding the conversations shaping the future of proactive care delivery.

MC Name
Host
Christian Ross
Founder and CEO
Happy Talks
The Conversations

Three panels. One thesis.

Every panel this year sits at the intersection of clinical reality and commercial execution. Expect clinicians on every stage — not as a token authority, but because founders and investors both need to hear from people who have deployed these platforms inside a workflow.

01
Intelligent Systems in Care Delivery
Panel 01
Where AI is actually producing clinical outcomes — and where it's still a science project. A panel grounded in clinical reality, with voices from a portfolio founder-operator, a health system deploying in workflow, and the policy and standards frameworks shaping what gets reimbursed.
Speaker Name
Moderator
Kirk Barnes
Co-Founder and President
TransPharMed
02
Procurement Unlocked
Panel 02
Selling proactive care platforms into health systems and payers. Tactical, founder-serving, and direct. Buyers explain how they actually evaluate and purchase. Clinical champions and attorneys explain where deals die — and how to prevent it.
Jeff Gray
Moderator
Jeff Gray
Founder and CEO
AgeTech Connect
Lindsay Karas Stencel
Speaker
Lindsay Karas Stencel
Partner
Thompson Hine LLP
03
From Clinic to Contract
Panel 03
Go-to-market for founders building continuous care. How to identify the real economic buyer, when a clinical co-founder unlocks the deal, and how the Southeast market differs from coastal playbooks.
Investor Lightning Round
Speed Round
Five investors. Five minutes each. No slides. Three questions: thesis, trend in reactive-to-proactive care delivery, and what founders consistently get wrong. Hosted by Shila Burney.
Shila Burney
Moderator
Shila Burney
Managing Partner
Zane VC
Sig Mosley
Speaker
Sig Mosley
Managing Partner
Mosley Ventures
The Reception

The Exchange is where the deals get made.

After the stage goes quiet, the real work begins. The Exchange is a structured evening reception designed to foster conversations that lead to partnerships, pilots, and term sheets. This is the most relationship-rich moment of the day.

Structured Rotations
Investor-to-founder, buyer-to-builder, and clinician-to-founder pairings guided in 10-minute rounds. No awkward mingling. Every conversation has a purpose.
Legal Office Hours
Health tech attorneys station at a dedicated table for the first 30 minutes. Founders and students bring their procurement and compliance questions. Attorneys get warm intros. Everyone wins.
Signature Cocktail Service
Open reception, ambient music, and curated introductions by the Zane VC team. Conversations, community, and connections — the reason everyone came.
Reserve Your Seat

Paid means committed.

Year Three is ticketed by design. The people in this room showed up because they meant to.

University Student
$25 / $49
Early bird / General. For students building careers at the intersection of care delivery and investment.
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General
$249
Standard admission with full summit and reception access after the early bird allocation.
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