June 10, 2026  |  London

The Embodied
Tech Summit

Wearables, Interoception, and the Future of Human-Centered Health Technology.

Wearables have made the body visible. Now we need to make bodily data meaningful.

An invitation-only working summit bringing together leaders in wearable technology, digital health, life sciences, AI, and interoception science to ask a timely question: how should technology sense, interpret, and communicate the body’s internal signals without overwhelming the people it is meant to help?

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Convened by Innervation Sciences Stripe Partners

An Embodied Series Event

Why Now

Every heart-rate alert, sleep score, glucose trend, recovery metric, and stress notification does more than report physiology. It teaches people how to interpret their bodies.

That is the opportunity — and the risk.

Wearables can support self-awareness, prevention, and behavior change. But poorly contextualized signals can also amplify vigilance, anxiety, false certainty, and dependence on external feedback. The next generation of embodied technology must move beyond measurement alone toward interpretation, timing, context, and human meaning.

The first era of wearables quantified the body. The next era must understand how bodily data becomes feeling, behavior, and self-knowledge.

The Science Behind the Signal

Interoception science explains how physiological signals become perception, emotion, decision-making, symptom experience, and behavior. This matters because wearable data does not reach users as neutral information. It is filtered through attention, expectation, prior beliefs, anxiety, context, and the brain’s ongoing model of the body.

The summit brings leading interoception researchers into direct working dialogue with the teams designing the next generation of wearable and digital health systems.

Scientific Leadership

Sahib Khalsa
Speaker & Facilitator

Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD

Director of Anxiety Disorders Research · UCLA Semel Institute

Board-certified psychiatrist and physician-scientist whose research combines innovative physiological approaches with sophisticated measurement tools to investigate how the brain senses heart, lung, and gut signals — and how disruptions in this process drive anxiety and eating disorders.

Lead author of Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap, a field-defining synthesis paper whose convening model this summit follows.

Hugo Critchley
Speaker & Facilitator

Hugo Critchley, MD, PhD

Chair of Psychiatry · Brighton & Sussex Medical School

Practicing psychiatrist, physician-scientist, and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant.

Critchley’s research has for several decades defined the key mechanisms through which bodily arousal is represented in the brain and shapes emotional processing — the foundational architecture that underpins how wearable data becomes human experience.

Sarah Garfinkel
Speaker & Facilitator

Sarah Garfinkel, PhD

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience · UCL

Leads the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Group at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, investigating how cardiac and visceral signals shape emotion, memory, and decision-making across anxiety, autism, PTSD, and psychosis.

Her insights into the multidimensional nature of interoceptive processing have inspired a measurement framework this summit will apply to technology design.

Translational Innovation Leaders
Patrick Scott Welsh
Patrick Scott Welsh
Innervation Sciences
 Cyril Maury
Cyril Maury
Stripe Partners
 Cath Richardson
Cath Richardson
Stripe Partners
 Indigo Weller
Indigo Weller
Stripe Partners
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The Summit

This is not a conference. It is a working summit.

Participants will bring live product, research, design, and translation challenges into structured sessions with leading interoception scientists and innovation strategists. The aim is not passive attendance, but shared frameworks that can shape the next generation of embodied technology.

Facilitated jointly with Innervation Sciences’ scientific leadership and Stripe Partners’ research team.

What We Need to Get Right

More data is not the same as better self-understanding.

Continuous sensing can help users recognize patterns, intervene earlier, and build healthier habits. But when bodily signals are decontextualized, overinterpreted, or delivered at the wrong moment, they can create noise rather than insight.

Questions the summit will examine
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When does physiological feedback improve self-regulation, and when does it increase vigilance?

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How should products distinguish meaningful signal from normal bodily variability?

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What should users be told — and what should remain in the background?

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How can AI agents mediate bodily data without creating false certainty?

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What would it mean to design for embodied intelligence rather than biometric dependence?

Who Should Be in the Room

This summit is designed for senior leaders shaping how bodily data is measured, interpreted, and returned to users.

Participants will include leaders across wearable technology, digital health, AI, life sciences, behavioral science, product design, clinical research, and investment. The emphasis is on people building systems that already influence how millions of users understand sleep, stress, metabolism, recovery, performance, anxiety, and health risk.

Wearable & Digital Health Leaders

Building products that transform physiological signals into user-facing feedback.

Product, Design & UX Leaders

Designing how bodily data is framed, timed, visualized, and acted upon.

Health AI & Data Science Leaders

Developing systems that interpret continuous physiological data and personalize feedback.

Life Sciences & Clinical Innovation Leaders

Exploring how drugs, devices, biomarkers, and digital tools reshape bodily awareness and health behavior.

Interoception Scientists

Bringing mechanistic understanding of how the brain senses, predicts, and regulates the body.

Attendance is limited to a curated group of senior leaders across wearable technology, digital health, AI, life sciences, and interoception science.

Outcomes

What Participants Will Leave With

Participants will leave with a shared language for applying interoception science to wearable and digital health design, including practical frameworks for:

Practical frameworks
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Interpreting physiological signals without overclaiming.

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Designing feedback that supports regulation rather than vigilance.

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Integrating AI into bodily data interpretation responsibly.

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Identifying where current products are scientifically strong, weak, or underdeveloped.

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Building collaborations between scientists, product teams, and health innovators.

Summit outputs will include a scientific synthesis, translational design principles, and a curated network for continued collaboration.

From Embodied Minds to Embodied Tech

Embodied Minds explored how interoception reshapes our understanding of consciousness, mental health, and intelligence.

Embodied Tech turns that question toward the technologies now mediating everyday bodily awareness.

If Embodied Minds asked what it means to be human in an age of AI, Embodied Tech asks how technology should sense, interpret, and communicate the body in ways that support human flourishing.

“Embodied Tech is a working summit designed to bridge interoception into action.”