Speakers & Facilitators

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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. His group studies how information from the heart and gut shape brain function, combining functional brain imaging with innovative physiological probes.

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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.

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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.

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Patrick Scott Welsh

Co-Founder & CEO · Innervation Sciences PBC

After two decades leading innovation, a life-altering neurological diagnosis forced him to step away from work and retrain his nervous system. This led him to interoception research.

He began a doctorate to translate interoception science into societal impact and co-founded Innervation Sciences, a public benefit corporation that helps others by building the infrastructure that moves interoception research from the lab to the world.

His research centers on Interoceptive Intelligence — a framework for how technology can be used to augment rather than replace the body’s internal intelligence.

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Cyril Maury

Partner · Stripe Partners

Strategy and innovation practitioner specialising in business model innovation. Cyril leads Stripe Partners’ healthcare practice, helping clients such as Novo Nordisk and Embla develop patient-centric growth strategies.

Previously at Capgemini Invent and Claro Partners. HEC Paris and Sciences Po graduate with deep experience navigating the operational and cultural complexities of global expansion.

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Cath Richardson

Partner · Stripe Partners

Research and strategy practitioner with particular expertise in helping product teams apply insight to innovation challenges. Cath works closely with clients such as Google, Meta, and Apple to shape product strategy and design thinking.

Previously led strategic research at Etsy and the UK’s Government Digital Service.

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Indigo Weller

Senior Consultant · Stripe Partners

Narrative researcher with a background in healthcare, medical education, and patient advocacy. Draws on experience working with individuals affected by dementia, cancer, and stroke to centre patient perspectives across all phases of the project cycle.

MBE in Bioethics (Harvard Medical School), MS in Narrative Medicine (Columbia), MFA in Creative Writing (CalArts).