Adam Sachs is the CEO of Vicarious Surgical which is developing a break away approach to the surgical robotic marketplace. Reimagined actuators and the hardware changes that are necessary for the future of surgical robotics. “Shrinking the surgeon down” and putting them inside the patient. Vicarious has taken a different approach to fundamental hardware and actuator differentiators.

Anthony Fernando, the CEO of Asensus, shares the amazing journey that Asensus has been on. The journey as one of the earliest entrants into the general surgical robotic market and one of the few robotic platforms that is FDA cleared and has been focused on augmented intelligence, machine learning, performance driven surgery.

Stefan Kreuzer is an incredibly talented orthopedic surgeon and entrepreneur who is the Founder of INOV8. INOV8 is a unique Ambulatory Surgical Center which is nearly a 40,000 sq ft center of technology driven to provide the economics of healthcare through technology, robotics, data analytics and insightful partnerships with medtech companies, payers and patients.

Harel Gadot, the Executive Chairman and President of XACT Robotics. Harel has the trademark of “bringing it”. Always provocative, thoughtful and clear in his approach as to where the industry needs to go. Especially in the emerging markets of surgical robotics. One of the first CEOs to introduce a disposable robot, an autonomous robot and with Harel, you never know what is next, but you will always be thinking about what he says days later.

Kurt Azarbarzin has been incredibly busy over the past few years. Verb Surgical, SurgiQuest and now ColubrisMX Robotics which is focused on endoluminal surgery using an enabling of a robotic procedure and methodology that the market has not seen before.