Who Owns the Data? The New Diligence Checklist for AI in Healthcare

For founders building AI-native healthcare & life science companies and the investors backing them.

As AI becomes core infrastructure in healthcare & life sciences, data rights, provenance, architecture, and governance are becoming part of fundraising and enterprise diligence. This session brings together founders, investors, healthtech operators and data governance leaders to examine the questions that increasingly determine whether an AI company is truly built to scale: where patient data comes from, how it is traced from ingestion to model output, what touches training pipelines, and who's accountable when something breaks.

Founders leave with a blueprint for building traceability and transparency into their architecture from day one whether they are MedTech, BioTools or Digital Health. Investors leave with a sharper diligence checklist for evaluating AI-native health companies before writing the check.

Discussion topics:

• Data provenance: tracing a single data point from source document to model output
• Training boundaries: how PHI is (or isn't) isolated from model fine-tuning
• Consent & transparency: what an audit trail needs to look like to survive a HIPAA/BAA review
• Vendor & EMR dependency risk: how much of a company's "traceability" story depends on a third party it doesn't control
• Red flags vs. green flags: what separates real architectural transparency from a compliance slide bolted onto a pitch deck

Introduction & Event Kick-Off: Lauren M. Taylor, Partner at NDVC

Sponsor Introduction: Sonia R. Farber, Partner at Ashurst Perkins Coie, advising innovative companies and investors.

Moderated by: Jen Gibson, Co-Founder & CEO, Xela OS

Panelists:

RJ Burnham, Founder and CEO, Consig Consig solves the problem of getting patients on the phone: post-discharge follow-up, intake forms, chronic care check-ins, appointment rebooking. Underneath it sits the part nobody demos: connect rates, and the compliance rules that change state by state. Then a…

Part of San Francisco Tech Week. RSVP on tech-week.com.