David K. Mao, Ph.D.

At HCSC, the largest privately-held health plan in the US with $90+B annual revenue and 26M+ members, Dr. Mao is responsible for driving enterprise AI strategy and execution, transformation office, integration/separation office, investment allocation / portfolio management / PMO, and procurement/vendor management to maximize value delivery for our members and stakeholders.

At Solera, we're redefining and streamlining digital healthcare delivery with a value-based, on-benefit solution that measurably drives down the total cost of care. Our HALO platform integrates seamlessly with payers’ on-premises operations, intelligently guiding participants to best-fit care providers via a combination of bespoke and curated digital health solutions with your own preferred apps—all in a single digital space. Together, we can untangle healthcare's web of inefficiencies, siloed information, and outdated systems. It only takes one. It only takes Solera. For more information, visit www.soleranetwork.com.

Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice. Headway was founded in 2019 and are now powering 600,000+ appointments per month. To scale its vision, Headway has raised over $325 million in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Thrive, Accel, and GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.

Collective Health simplifies employee healthcare with an integrated technology and service solution that makes administering company health benefit plans incomparably easier and more insightful than traditional health insurance company solutions. With over a quarter of a million members and over 50 enterprise customers—including Driscoll’s, Pinterest, Red Bull, RH, Zendesk, and more—Collective Health is reinventing the healthcare experience for forward-thinking organizations and their people across the U.S.

Medecision is a digital care management company whose solutions and services are used by leading health plans and care delivery organizations to support more than 42 million people nationwide

The Blue Venture Fund is a corporate venture fund program to which thirty-six BCBS entities have committed over $1 billion to date. The Funds invest in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield Plans and provide access to its portfolio to deploy innovation at scale.

Alacura is the first and only medical transportation management company dedicated to simplifying air and ground transportation. It was born from a drive to streamline the patient experience during ambulance transfers and to stop abuse and mismanagement in the medical transportation industry.

VeganUs is a plant-based food company in Orlando, Florida of USA. Its NoChicken and NoBeef products are Non-GMO Project Verified, Certified Plant Based, and simply delicious. They are ready to cook with no seasoning required, catering to everyone who want to enjoy tasty plant-based food with minimum efforts. The mission of VeganUs is to serve as a steppingstone for consumers towards an increasingly natural, healthy, and wholesome diet.

MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, includes more than 700 current and alumni startups from around the world, working together with dozens of hospitals and health systems, universities and industry-leading companies to build the future of healthcare. Together, the MATTER community is accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. For more information, visit matter.health and follow @MATTERhealth.

Leveraging the power of healthcare data from more than 200 million Americans, Blue Health Intelligence delivers insights that empower healthcare organizations to improve patient care, reduce costs, and optimize performance. With the largest, most up-to-date, and uniform data set in healthcare, BHI provides an accurate representation of the health profile of commercially insured Americans.