Join us for the 2nd Annual RAPS 2026 Kick-Off meeting in San Francisco! Network with industry leaders, discuss the latest trends, and gain valuable insights.
Registration Fees & Deadlines
Member $60 | Nonmember $100 | Student Member: $0 | Student Nonmember: $30 (With Promo Code)
*Please reach out to a RAPS San Francisco Chapter Leader to request a Student Promo Code
Agenda
5:30-6:15 pm Registration/Networking/Meet Sponsors
6:15-6:30 pm RAPS San Francisco Chapter/Sponsor Announcements
6:30-7:00pm Plenary speech Daniel Kraft, MD Founder & Chair NextMed Health
7:00-8:00 pm Panel discussion: Reflecting Rapid Regulatory Changes in 2025 and What to Expect in 2026
8:00-9:00 pm Vendor show/Networking
Speakers
Daniel Kraft
Founder & Chair, NextMed Health
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded NextMed Health (previously called Exponential Medicine) a program and community that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He serves as Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance.
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is member of the Kauffman Fellows Society. He is a managing partner with Continuum Health Ventures which is focused on funding early stage health tech companies enabling the democratization of health and improved healthspan for all.
He is often called upon to speak to the future of health, medicine and technology and has given four TED and two TEDMED Talks and has delivered keynotes to a diverse array of organizations.
He has multiple scientific publications (including in Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco.
He is heavily involved in digital health, founded Digital.Health, is on the board of Healthy.io and advises several Fortune-50 and digital health-related startups. Daniel recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized, data-driven, precision medicine. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies.
June-Mei Han
Chief, Drug and Medical Device Compliance and Enforcement Section
Food and Drug Branch California Department of Public Health
Location
Digital Jungle
972 Mission Street
2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Sponsors
Annual Platinum Sponsor
Bronze Sponsors
Cancellations and Refunds
RAPS reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion. RAPS will not be responsible for travel or other costs incurred due to cancellation. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to support@raps.org. Cancellations will receive a full refund minus a 20% administrative fee. RAPS is unable to accept cancellations by phone.
Substitutions
Paid registration substitutions may be accepted with written approval from RAPS for requests received before the start of the event. To transfer a registration, email support@raps.org with the event title, name of the original registrant and the contact information for the new attendee.
Proof of Attendance
A certificate of attendance can be downloaded from the RAPS Learning Portal following the event.
Questions
Contact the RAPS Support Center:
Call +1 301 770 2920, ext. 200 (8:30 am–5:30 pm EST, Monday–Friday) or email
support@raps.org.