THE NEXT BIG THING 2026
MY HEALTHCARE
From Healthcare to My Healthcare.
PERSONALIZED & PRECISION HEALTH · MEDTECH · BIOTECH · AI
PREVENTION · BRAIN HEALTH · MENTAL HEALTH · HEALTHY AGING
The big idea
What works for YOU?
For generations, healthcare has largely asked:
What works for people like you?
Your age. Your diagnosis.
Your demographic. The average patient.
Now technology, science and medicine are making another question increasingly possible:
What works for YOU?
Your biology. Your brain. Your data.
Your risks. Your choices. Your future.
Healthcare is becoming personal.
See it earlier.
Understand the person.
Bring care closer.
Live better, longer.
I should be part of it.
Why business?
Why should an
entrepreneur care?
We are not bringing our business community together to spend a day learning medicine.
Healthcare is becoming one of the great areas of innovation, investment and entrepreneurship.
- New technologies need commercialization.
- New services need business models.
- Hospitals need solutions.
- Consumers want choices.
- An aging population creates enormous needs.
- AI creates new capabilities.
- MedTech is moving healthcare beyond the hospital.
- Personalized medicine is creating new markets.
Where there is change, there is opportunity.
The O Six Lens
What does this mean for
MY HEALTH?
What does this mean for
MY BUSINESS?
The journey
One Journey.
Seven Chapters.
01KNOW ME
What can biology, diagnostics, data and technology tell us about ourselves?
02PREDICT FOR ME
What risks can we identify earlier?
03PREVENT FOR ME
What can we change before disease begins?
04TREAT ME
What happens when treatment becomes more personalized and precise?
05LIVE BETTER
Brain health. Mental health. Lifestyle. Performance.
06AGE WITH ME
How can we live longer without simply being sick longer?
07BUILD FOR ME
What will entrepreneurs build around all of this?
That final chapter is what makes this The Next Big Thing rather than another healthcare conference.
Voices shaping the conversation
A North Star for the day.
Opening Keynote
Dr. Charmaine van Schaik, MD
Chief of Staff, Southlake Health
From Healthcare to My Healthcare: What Should Better Healthcare Look Like?
Patient → physician → hospital → health system → future.
My Brain
Winnie Sun
What Can We Do Before It’s Too Late?
Alzheimer’s prevention. What can I know earlier? What can I change earlier? What can I prevent?
My Business · Main Stage
Hon Leong, MSc, PhD
Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute · Associate Professor, University of Toronto · Co-Founder, YEX
What Does Healthcare Mean to My Business?
From science to business. From Canada to China. Where can entrepreneurs enter healthcare? How can innovation become a business? What can Canada and China build together?
My Healthcare Showcase
See the future.
Don’t just hear about it.
Lunch becomes part of the content.
No forest of booths. Small footprint. High interaction.
Showcase concepts · Participants to be announced
Know My Brain
Brain health / cognition
Know My Body
Diagnostics / biomarkers
Know My Heart
Cardiac innovation
My Health at Home
Remote monitoring / home healthcare
My MedTech
Device innovation
My Future
Healthy aging
Meet the Founder
Selected healthcare startup
If it can’t be experienced, demonstrated or meaningfully discussed, it doesn’t need a booth.
Afternoon breakouts · Potential topics
Choose your
conversation.
MY HEALTH
Prevention becomes personal.
- My Brain
- My Heart
- My Metabolic Health
- My Healthy Aging
- Prevention / Precision Health
MY MIND
The Entrepreneur’s Brain
- Stress & burnout
- Sleep
- Decision fatigue
- Performance & identity
A conversation connecting business leadership and wellbeing, with the Schulich community.
MY BUSINESS
What could you build?
- AI + Healthcare
- Building a MedTech company
- Commercializing healthcare innovation
- Selling into hospitals
- Investing in healthcare
- The business of healthy aging
The O Six question
A day that moves you forward.
WHAT SHOULD I KNOW?
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
WHAT COULD I BUILD?
Every session should answer at least one.
A prestigious speaker who answers none of the three?
Wrong speaker.
The experience · An emotional arc, not a session schedule
From curiosity
to possibility.
10 AM
Healthcare is enormous and complicated.
11 AM
Healthcare is changing.
12 PM
This is actually about me.
2 PM
There are things I can do differently.
3 PM
There are enormous problems still waiting to be solved.
4 PM
Maybe my business has a role here.
5 PM
My health. My opportunity. Our future.
Our community
A future built together.
Community Partners
Presenting / Supporting Partners
Partner lineup in development.
Scotia Wealth Management — The Anne Li Group
Sun Life
Schulich Venture Academy
VAVA
Join the conversation
Don’t just sponsor the future.
Help us build it.
We are not simply looking for logos.
We are looking for partners in the conversation.
Bring an idea. Show an innovation.
Lead a conversation. Meet the community.
Health × Science × Technology × Business × Community
The future of healthcare will not be built by healthcare alone.
MY HEALTHCARE
October 29, 2026 · The O Six Foundation
Greatness Together.