An intimate summit for the people shaping where those worlds meet – held on the shores of Lake Geneva, at a Belle Époque palace in Montreux.An intimate, one-day summit for the people shaping where those worlds meet – held at 1,300 metres in the Tyrolean Alps.
We are living through the convergence of two worlds – the consumer devices collecting and relaying our data, and the regulated devices once sold only through clinicians – all powered by the AI that links them. The Device Files Summit gathers the people shaping how that future unfolds.
The phones, wearables, and sensors now collecting and relaying continuous data from everyday life – and the AI models turning that raw stream into something intelligent.
The clinicians, regulators, and medical devices that once lived only inside the clinic – holding the standards of evidence, safety, and care that consumer signals must now rise to meet.
The new default: health measured not once a year, but every moment – and the questions of agency, equity, and access that follow.
The models and systems that can extend a stretched workforce – triaging, monitoring, and guiding – to help close care gaps and ease clinical shortages, so expertise reaches the people and places that go without.
Most events are broadcast: a stage, a crowd, a queue for the microphone. The Device Files Summit is built on the opposite premise.
Everyone here participates. There are no passive seats. Each person is selected because of what they'll contribute to the room – whether that's leading a session, provoking a debate, or bringing a perspective no one else can.
We keep it small on purpose. One day, one shared table, and a group carefully composed to hold the most honest conversation of the year about where continuous health is headed.
A forward-thinking, thought-provoking publication at the convergence of medical-device wearables and AI – following where the future leads, and the intricacies of the US market.
The Summit is that conversation, lifted off the page and into the mountains.
Arrivals and a welcome reception on the first evening. The summit’s first conversations begin here – unhurried, and off the record.
A single, tightly held day of roundtables, debates, and fireside exchanges – held within the privacy of the palace's own salons.held in the seclusion of the Interalpen-Alm chalet. Every participant has a part to play.
Two optional excursions are available to attendees on day three: a guided tour to the medieval village of Gruyères and the home of Cailler chocolate – cheese and cobblestones and a hilltop castle; or the Glacier 3000 experience, a cable-car rise to 3,000 metres, the Peak Walk suspension bridge strung between two summits, and the glacier under a wide alpine sky.Choose your own close: a guided high-alpine hike, exploring the Olympic history of Seefeld, a slow morning in the 5,300 m² spa and sauna village, or a cultural excursion into Innsbruck. Some of the best connections happen while we're exploring nature and history.
We're aiming to fill the room with thoughtful leaders across a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and countries – whether from industry, services, nonprofits, or government. We don't sell tickets; we compose a room of participants.
Tell us who you are. A few thoughtful questions – not a résumé – help us understand the perspective you'd add to the table.
We assemble the group deliberately, balancing founders, clinicians, regulators, investors, and researchers so every session has the right minds in it.
Selected participants receive an invitation – and we'll discuss your desired level of participation, from discussion leader to engaged audience.
A Belle Époque palace on the shores of Lake Geneva – five stars on the Swiss Riviera, about an hour from Geneva and a world away from the everyday.
A landmark of the Swiss Riviera since 1906, wrapped in contemporary luxury on the shore of Lake Geneva.
One of the grandest hotels on Lake Geneva – a Belle Époque palace that has presided over the Montreux lakefront since 1906. With 236 rooms and suites it ranks among the largest palace hotels in the country and belongs to the Swiss Deluxe Hotels, Lake Geneva on one side and the Alps rising beyond.
The Château de Chillon and the Lavaux vineyards are minutes away. Montreux is easily reached from the international airports at Geneva, Zürich, and Basel – the final stretch a beautiful hour’s train ride along the shore of Lake Geneva, right to the door.
And to extend the journey, the scenic GoldenPass Line climbs straight from the door toward Gstaad – one of three celebrated ski mountains within about an hour, alongside Verbier and Crans-Montana.
A secluded five-star retreat at 1,300 metres, surrounded by forest and snow-brushed peaks – thirty minutes and a world away from Innsbruck.
Chalet-inspired in wood and stone, wrapped in Tyrolean forest at 1,300 metres.
A ten-minute walk from the hotel, the Interalpen mountain hut waits among the pines – panelled wood, a traditional stove, and the warmth of a true Tyrolean experience. This is where the summit gathers.
Few places on earth combine total seclusion with total ease. The Interalpen sits alone on a high plateau, wrapped in the Tyrolean forest outside of Innsbruck, near the famous Olympiaregion Seefeld.
This family-owned, five-star chalet-inspired hotel boasts architecture in wood and stone that opens into rooms of surprising grandeur. A 5,300 m² spa unfolds across a sauna village, panoramic pools, and forest views. Michelin-recognized kitchens carry the day from first coffee to final toast. Cross-country ski trails begin at the door.
Montreux sits within easy reach of Geneva, Zürich, and Basel and their international airports — so it’s simple to come in early or linger after. And some of Switzerland’s most renowned ski mountains — Verbier, Crans-Montana, and Gstaad — are all within about an hour, with the scenic GoldenPass Line climbing from Montreux toward Gstaad and the Bernese Oberland.The summit lands at the tail end of peak ski season — arguably the finest time to be in the Alps. Extend your stay to ski the Tyrol, bring the family, and explore the area at its most beautiful. The hotel will help you arrange it.
A sample of the questions this room is built to move forward – illustrative, not exhaustive, and never a fixed agenda. The final sessions take shape with our founding participants.
The wearable now notices the change – HRV drift, a sleep pattern, a blood-pressure trend – before the patient or the doctor does. Whoever interprets that signal inherits the first conversation in healthcare, and the spending that follows it. What happens to the physician's role, and to the patient's trust?
A single company can now detect a signal, interpret it with AI, route you to a program, and bill for it. Physicians are barred from self-referral; platforms are not. Is this the efficiency the system needs – or a patient-trust and antitrust question we haven't named?
Wearables were built to optimize engagement and monetize data. Now that same optimization is steering clinical decisions – which specialist, which program, which subscription. Who owns the most intimate record we've ever produced, and whose interest does the nudge serve?
Regulators are lowering the barrier for some devices while closing the 'wellness' cover for medical-grade claims. Wellness versus medical device is now a strategic choice made at the whiteboard, not discovered in a warning letter. Where's the line, and who draws it?
The moment a device detects, monitors, or manages, it crosses into medical territory – and strategy, evidence, and leadership all have to align around that. Is this the identity shift the whole field is trying to name?
AI and direct-to-consumer move at one speed; regulated medicine at another. This future needs early-stage investors fluent in both at once – comfortable with consumer velocity and clinical rigor in the same thesis. How do we educate investors to get comfortable investing at this convergence?
Monitoring only becomes care if someone funds the response to it. Reimbursement still rewards legacy volume, yet outcome-based pathways are beginning to open. Does continuous data lower total cost – or just add spend?
Breakthrough status is not a path to patients. Between coverage, EHR integration, and clinical workflow, the system loses most of what it approves. Where does it actually break?
As judgment shifts from clinician to algorithm to the person wearing the device, who is the backstop when it's wrong? If the physician is no longer the sole safety check, the system has to decide – deliberately – where accountability now sits.
AI is what forces regulators to treat a wearable as more than a sensor – an interpretive engine that shapes care. Is AI the thing that finally makes wearables medicine, and can it extend a stretched clinical workforce without breaking trust?
A starting set, not a final one – founding participants help shape the questions and the sessions.
The first names will be shared soon.
We're still composing the room and finalizing the program, so general participation isn't open yet. For now we're accepting submissions only for founding partners and the executive committee — the small circle helping shape the inaugural summit. Everyone else is warmly invited to join the waiting list.
No pricing is published yet — details are being finalized and will be shared with the waiting list first.
Registration isn't open yet — we're finalizing the program and composing the room. Join the waiting list, or submit for founding partnership, and we'll be in touch personally.
Your request is in. We're curating the inaugural group with great care, and we'll be in touch personally as the summit takes shape.