Healthcare was a major discussion thread at TechChicago Week 2026, with AI and quantum in the spotlight.
Panels explored how health systems are utilizing health AI to improve workflow, how care teams are leveraging the technology to support clinical decision-making, and how patients are responding when the effort is made to explain and demonstrate the benefits. Discussions at the Global Quantum Forum explored the power of quantum computing to process vast amounts of medical data at unprecedented speeds, a path to facilitate advanced drug discovery, accelerate personalized medicine, and achieve earlier and more accurate disease detection through complex modeling and analysis.
Partnerships Powering the Future of Healthcare AI, an exclusive discussion with representatives from Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS and Hopscotch Health, provided an inside view on how startups can access the technology, infrastructure, expertise, and ecosystem support to successfully build, scale, and deploy AI solutions in healthcare.
The Ascent Strategy Group team met with founders, executives, investors, and fellow innovators who are asking the right questions, taking on big challenges, and doing work that matters. Key takeaway: healthcare transformation can be achieved when we combine our strengths and work together for real-world results.
