BioSTL 10th Annual Global Health Innovation Summit

Where Healthcare Leaders Meet the Innovations That Matter

October 6–8, 2026  |  Washington University in St. Louis

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Why Attend?

Discover Curated Innovation

Access a vetted pipeline of global health tech companies solving your most pressing clinical, operational, and financial challenges.

Structured BD Meetings

Pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings with innovators matched to your organization's shopping list — no cold outreach required.

Thought Leadership

Keynotes, panels, and peer discussions on the innovation trends reshaping care delivery — AI, rural health, value-based care, and more.

Peer Network

Connect with 200+ senior healthcare executives across health systems, payers, PBMs, and academic medical centers.

Rural Health Day (Oct 8)

Dedicated programming on rural health transformation — RHTP, CMS, and Missouri/Kansas health system leaders in one room.

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Agenda

Summit Main Day

Wednesday, October 7 

  • Welcome Kickoff & Global Hubs Recognition
  • Innovator Pitches
  • Lunch Keynote
  • 1:1 BD Meetings with Innovators
  • Featured Speakers: Announcement Coming Soon

Rural Health Day @ Knight Center

Thursday, October 8 

  • RHTP Overview: Missouri & Kansas
  • Panels: Healthcare AI & Remote Care Technologies
  • Case Studies: GVMH, Bothwell
     

Our Healthcare Buyer Platform

BioSTL Global connects innovators directly to the largest organized US healthcare marketplace — $550B+ in purchasing power across payers, providers, and PBMs.

Centene:

  • Largest Medicaid & Exchange Managed Care Co. in USA
  • $154B in revenue across 50 states

Evernorth / Cigna

  • Leading Health Service Company: Payer-PBM
  • $212B in revenue

Mercy

  • Top-tier integrated health delivery network
  • $11B revenue from 24 hospitals across 2 states

BJC / WashU

  • Leading research center in cancer, infectious disease, liver disease, aging, brain disorders, heart/lung
  • Innovation Center in STL

SSM Health

  • $11.4B revenue from 23 hospitals across 4 states

Ascension 

  • Largest non-profit hospital system in USA
  • $27.2B revenue from 151 hospitals across 22 states

WashU Medicine

  • Most selective medical school in USA
  • Top 5 academic-research
  • #2 in 2024 NIH Funding

What Our Buyers Are Shopping For

  1. Strengthen the financial condition of healthcare delivery systems
  2. Building a sticky and longitudinal patient/member relationship
  3. Stitching together a fragmented care ecosystem: building an end-to-end patient care journey; shifting locus of care — Agentic, Virtual, Ambulatory, @Home 
  4. Reaching and managing the unreachable, underserved, and high-utilizers
  5. Enabling seniors to age at home and transforming caregiving
  6. Transitioning from fee-for-service to value-based care
  7. Leveraging AI to enable all of the above pain points

Join Us in St. Louis

Step 1: Register for the Summit

Step 2: Hold the dates: October 6–8, 2026

Early bird special ends August 31, 2026.

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