Every few weeks, a headline promises the next great disruption in healthcare. AI that reads scans better than radiologists. Robotics that perform surgery with millimeter precision. Startups that claim to democratize diagnostics for a billion people. The future sounds sleek, efficient, and inevitable.
But step inside an Indian hospital on a crowded Monday morning, and the reality is messier. The dragon we are trying to tame is not just one of technology. It is the dragon of overflowing wards, of costs rising faster than incomes, of chronic disease turning into generational burdens, of rural patients traveling miles only to find no doctor available. This dragon breathes fire every single day. And too often, the conversations about slaying it happen without the people who wrestle with its flames: the doctors.
At the RizingTV Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025, we want to change that imbalance.
The Missing Voice
Innovation is seductive. It speaks the language of scale, efficiency, and valuation. But healthcare is not software. It is not about faster cycles or clever pivots alone. It is about decisions at the edge of life and death.
Doctors are the ones who live with those decisions. They know what an ICU sounds like at 3 AM. They know how protocols that look good on paper can collapse under the weight of 60 patients waiting outside an OPD. They know how technology that promises to streamline can, in practice, slow them down when every second matters.
And yet, in so many summits, their voices are absent. Panels debate reimbursement models, AI ethics, or policy reform, but the practitioner, who sees both the promise and the pain of these shifts, is missing. Without them, we risk building castles of innovation with no foundations.
The Empathy Deficit
Every founder and investor talks about empathy. It has become a buzzword, a branding exercise. But real empathy in healthcare is not abstract. It is lived. It is the feeling in a surgeon’s chest when a family asks if their child will make it. It is the frustration of explaining to a patient why the MRI machine is not working. It is the exhaustion of paperwork that steals time from patients.
Doctors and healthcare professionals carry this empathy into the room. Their presence grounds every grand claim in the stubborn, unglamorous truth of lived practice. They remind us that a new AI model is not just an algorithm, it is a tool that either saves time for a nurse or adds to herburden. They remind us that innovation cannot simply be about what dazzles, but about what heals. Without them, we risk building solutions that solve for investors, not for patients.
Why This Summit Needs Them
The theme of this summit is Taming the Dragon. The dragon is not technology, it is the chaos, inequity, and inertia that stalk our healthcare system. Technology is only the sword, doctors are the ones who know where to strike.
This summit is not just about showcasing AI platforms or debating venture capital trends. It is about asking harder questions:
- Can robotics in surgery scale beyond elite hospitals?
- Will femtech remain niche or transform outcomes for millions of women?
- How do we secure digital health data in a country where compliance often lags innovation?
- Can investors back healthcare with patience, not just speed?
Each of these dragons cannot be tamed in theory. They need the presence of clinicians who live the consequences of innovation every day.
A Call to Doctors and Health Professionals
We want more doctors in the room. Not as side notes, not as tokens on a panel, but as central participants in the conversation. Your voices must shape how AI models are built, how robotics is deployed, how policies are framed, and how startups scale.
The Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025 is happening on September 13 in Bangalore. Seats are limited, and first preference will be given to doctors, nurses, and healthtech professionals. Because without you, the summit is incomplete. With you, it can be transformative.
This is more than an invitation, it is an appeal. Come not just to listen, but to challenge, to question, to redirect. Because innovation without your presence is theatre. With you, it becomes medicine.
The Agenda for Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025
9:30 – 10:15: Registration
10:15 – 10:30: Welcome Address | Taming the Dragon in Healthcare
The summit opens with a call to action: healthcare’s dragons, rising costs, chronic disease, inequities are daunting, but they can be tamed. This address sets the tone for a day where technology meets empathy to fuel real-world impact.
Speaker: Shrija Agrawal, Founder – RizingTV
10:35 – 10:55: Special Masterclass | Robotics in Surgery: How It’s Redefining Healthcare
This session explores how robotics is no longer futuristic but a present-day force in precision surgery, shortening recovery times and elevating patient outcomes. The dragon of complexity is confronted with clinical mastery.
Speaker: Dr. Vidyadhara S, Chairman – Spine Surgery, Manipal Hospitals (MHEPL)
11:00 – 12:00: Panel Discussion | What’s Hot in Healthcare: The VC Perspective Investors debate where the smart money flows in 2025: AI diagnostics, femtech, biotech, or data platforms. The conversation goes beyond buzzwords to address how venture capital can tame uncertainty, balance risk, and scale innovations responsibly.
Speakers:
- Shubham Jhuria – Partner & CFO, Aeravti Ventures
- Nitya Agarwal – Vice-President, 3one4 Capital
- Saurav Gopal – Principal, Capria Ventures
- Vishap Rana – Principal, Elevation Capital
- S. Harish – Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
12:05 – 12:25: Data-Driven Healthcare: Unblocking Health Monitoring with IoT & AI
How portable, affordable devices are making cardiac diagnostics more accessible, taming the dragon of limited reach.
Speaker: Adarsha k – Founder & CEO, AyuSynk.ai
12:30 – 12:50: AI/ML – Securing the Lifeline: Managing Risks in Digital Health Data Collection
Exploring the compliance and security challenges of digitized health records, and how AI can safeguard the sector.
Speaker: Limton Xavier – Chief Architect, Inovatrik Technologies
12:55 – 13:15: AI in Biotech: Designing Antibody Therapeutics from Scratch
How do you tame the dragon of traditional drug development, often slow, costly, and resource-heavy? Dr. Aridni Shah, Co-founder & CEO of immunitoAI, showcases how her team is rewriting the rules with a proprietary AI platform capable of generating novel antibody therapeutics entirely from scratch, without relying on biological sources.
Speaker: Dr. Aridni Shah, Co-founder & CEO of immunitoAI
13:20 – 13:45: Unlocking Healthcare’s Data Goldmine: AI-Powered Automation in Life Sciences
A masterclass in how AI-driven data science can accelerate drug discovery, streamline clinical research, and transform life sciences.
Speaker: Vivek Kalagara – Founder & CEO, Datafoundry
13:50 – 14:20: Masterclass | Government Support for MSMEs
A session on how healthcare entrepreneurs can leverage CGTMSE credit schemes to secure funding, manage defaults, and build resilience.
Speaker: CGTMSE Representative
14:20 – 14:30: Closing Keynote | Taming the Dragon: Building Trust, Access, and Impact in Indian Healthcare
A final vision for healthcare’s future: how startups, doctors, and investors together can transform India’s healthcare challenges into opportunities.
Speaker: Shrija Agrawal, Founder – RizingTV
Let’s tame this dragon together.
