Featuring Dustin D. McMahon, Founder and Managing Partner of Direct + Clear Partners; Entrepreneur in Residence at Babson College

Many healthcare innovations fail not because the technology is weak, but because organizations struggle to drive adoption, integrate solutions into existing workflows, and scale effectively across complex healthcare systems.

Join Dustin McMahon for a conversation on what it takes to move an innovation from a promising idea to a market-leading solution. Drawing on his experience building and commercializing healthcare technologies, Dustin will share practical insights on navigating stakeholder buy-in, developing sustainable growth strategies, overcoming implementation barriers, and creating lasting value for patients, providers, and health systems.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, innovator, healthcare leader, or student interested in the future of healthcare, this session will provide actionable lessons on turning innovation into real-world impact.

Key Takeaways:

• Why many healthcare innovations struggle to achieve adoption
• Strategies for gaining stakeholder buy-in and organizational support
• How to align innovation with clinical and operational workflows
• Best practices for scaling solutions across healthcare organizations
• Lessons learned from successfully bringing healthcare innovations to market

This session is ideal for aspiring healthcare innovators, entrepreneurs, clinicians, administrators, and anyone interested in transforming great ideas into meaningful healthcare impact.

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Dustin has significant experience as a senior executive at, seed investor in and growth advisor to venture-backed companies creating transformative change across multiple industries.vHe has deep expertise in artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and large language models. This work has been at the intersection of controlling costs, scaling products and driving adoption.

He is a Techstars alum-turned-mentor who currently works with early-stage healthtech startups bringing new products to market. Part of this work is in conjunction with Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and academic medical centers including Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic and Northwestern Medicine.

Previously, Dustin was a founding executive at several startups and venture funds. Some of his most recent work: an AI-powered sports media company backed by Comcast NBCUniversal, an activities management app for dialysis patients and a mental health services platform for college students.

Dustin holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard University.