Medication VS. Diet: Is an Apple a Day Enough?

Isabelle Kenyon is the Founder & CEO of Calibrate, a metabolic health company on a mission to change the way the world treats weight. In two years, Calibrate has raised more than $125 million from leading investors, including Founders Fund, Tiger Global, Optum Ventures, Forerunner Ventures, Threshold Ventures, and Redesign Health, and has published clinically-reviewed results from its One-Year Metabolic Reset that exceeded the best outcomes from clinical trials across all metabolic markers. Calibrate was recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2021 and by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas in 2022.Prior to Calibrate, Isabelle led business operations, growth, and strategic partnerships & communications at Capsule, a technology business rebuilding the pharmacy from the inside out. Before Capsule, she worked at beloved consumer brands in London and New York. Isabelle began her career as an investment banker in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015. 

As the US Consulting Digital Health and Smart Health Experience Leader, Rachel helps clients rethink and establish market positions, based on industry convergence considerations and customer needs, leveraging robust customer and digital capabilities.She has more than 25 years of experience across the health continuum, including payers, providers and life sciences. This includes driving experience-led transformations, new portal presence and redesign, performance improvement initiatives, care management optimization and supply chain transformations.Rachel has an MBA from Saint Louis University.

Lindsey Kane is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Behavior Change Expert, and Nutrition Consultant with 12+ years of experience in the Food, Health, and Wellness space where she leverages nutrition research, behavioral science, consumer insights, and industry trends to create win-win opportunities that drive business results and optimize health and wellbeing.She most recently served as Vice President of Nutrition & Wellbeing at Sunbasket, where she guided the development of personalized, chef-crafted, dietitian-approved meal solutions delivered to doors nationwide, empowering individuals across the country to put their healthy eating intentions into action. In her 5+ years at Sunbasket, she helped the company emerge as an industry leader in the Food as Medicine space. Notably, Lindsey co-authored a clinical trial that demonstrated improvements in Hba1c and quality of life using Sunbasket’s home-delivered medically-tailored meal solutions as a mode of behavior change intervention for patients living with diabetes. Harnessing this clinical evidence, Lindsey facilitated the formation of numerous strategic health partnerships –from employers, to providers, to payers– in an effort to bridge the gap between the healthcare system and the food industry, and ultimately, to make nutrition security accessible for everyone.    Today, Lindsey’s focus is dedicated to her personal business, Bite for Change where she coaches high-achieving women on how to become a more intentional and empowered eater so that they can confidently and compassionately nourish their body in a way that’s connected to who they authentically are, and who they aim to become.  Additionally, Lindsey offers nutrition consulting services exclusively to companies in the food, health, & wellness space that embody a values-driven, evidence-based, consumer-first, and inclusive approach to health & wellbeing. Previously, Lindsey has developed and implemented impactful healthy eating programs for major food companies such as Whole Foods Market and Zesty (acquired by Caviar/Square, followed by Doordash).  Throughout her career, Lindsey has offered nutrition counseling services to a variety of organizations such as Unite for Her (a nonprofit breast cancer organization), Simplex Health (corporate wellness), and The Wellnest (integrative health center), helping hundreds of clients improve their health and vitality while managing various health conditions including infertility, PCOS, diabetes, heart disease, breast cancer, IBD, sports performance, and general wellbeing.Lindsey has served as a main contributor for Philly.com’s Health and Wellness Column, and her expertise has been featured on top platforms such as Shape, US News & World Report, Reader’s Digest, Eat this Not that, MindBodyGreen, Parade. She’s also appeared as a guest on podcasts such as "Quit Dieting for Good", "The PATHPod", and Blue Cross Blue Shield’s Blue 365 Podcast, “Rewriting Wellness”. Lindsey attended Cornell University where she received her B.S in Nutritional Sciences and competed on the Women’s Division I Varsity Lacrosse Team. She received her M.S in Nutritional Sciences from The University at Buffalo, and graduated from The University at Buffalo Dietetics Program. 

Sami Inkinen is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Virta Health, the first company with a treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery. A data-driven technology entrepreneur and expert in building category-leading companies, Sami’s personal connection to diabetes was the motivation behind Virta Health and its innovative model for diabetes care.Previously, Sami was the co-founder of the leading online real estate marketplace Trulia, serving as its COO and president until its IPO and eventual sale to Zillow Group. Sami is also an active angel investor in healthcare, specifically supporting organizations that share his passion for advancing health on a global scale.