Madison, WisconsinHealthcare · Technology · Life sciences
Good things happen when curious minds get to work.
Madison Health Works brings together people across healthcare, technology, and life sciences to share what they’re learning, meet people who make them think, and build what’s next.
- 01Meet curious people.
- 02Share what you're learning.
- 03Build something better.
Events
Our first gatheringGathering №1
24
Nov
Tuesday · 2026
- Time
- 4:30–6:30 PM CT
- Where
- Madison Club · Madison, WI
- Format
- Hosted discussion
Kickoff
Our first gathering is a hosted discussion around one question: what's the most eye-opening thing you're working on, personally or professionally? It doesn't have to be AI. We're probably going to talk about AI a lot.
Leave with
- One practical new idea
- One new connection
- One thing you're excited to try
01About
Madison has the talent. Let’s bring it together.
From health systems and research labs to startups and enterprise technology, Madison is home to people working on some of healthcare’s most interesting problems.
Those worlds don’t always meet. Someone at a health system rarely sits down with a biotech founder. An engineer building AI agents rarely hears what a clinic manager actually needs. Everyone is keeping up with the same changes, separately.
Madison Health Works is a place for the people behind that work to find each other, trade ideas, and learn from one another. Practical conversations, surprising connections, and the belief that good ideas get better when they’re shared.
02How we gather
A different kind of gathering.
Not another keynote. Not another sales pitch. A room where people share what they’re actually working on and get better together.
- 01
Come curious.
You don't need to have the answers. Good questions are where most of the interesting work starts.
- 02
Share the real work.
Bring what you're building, testing, learning, or stuck on. Half-finished counts.
- 03
Learn by doing.
Expect real conversation, hands-on exploration, and something you can try the next morning.
- 04
Build together.
Different backgrounds make better ideas possible. Nobody in the room knows all of it.
03Community
Different backgrounds. Shared curiosity.
Clinicians, builders, researchers, operators, founders, product leaders, technologists, and anyone interested in making healthcare better. Whether you’re deep in the technical details or simply curious about what’s emerging, there’s a place for you in the conversation.
Healthcare & clinical
clinicians, health systems, operations, administration
Technology & AI
engineers, data scientists, product teams, EHR and enterprise software
Biotech & life sciences
research, pharma, medtech, clinical trials
Startups & innovation
founders, early teams, investors, commercial strategy
Operations & transformation
process improvement, revenue cycle, finance, consulting
Research & product
academic research, design, product management, analytics
You don’t need to be
a software engineer · a startup founder · an AI expert · an executive · a public speaker
You do need to be
Curious.
Experienced practitioners make the room better. So do people who are brand new and willing to ask “how does that work?”
04Formats
Less networking. More working.
Every gathering is a little different. Sometimes we’ll hear from people building something interesting. Sometimes we’ll roll up our sleeves and solve a problem together. Sometimes we’ll bring the whole room into a conversation about what’s changing in healthcare.
The constant is the people: curious, generous, and ready to learn.
An idea worth exploring + people worth learning from + a chance to take part.
Show & Tell
Short presentations from people making interesting things: a working agent, a prototype, a process that finally works.
Working Sessions
Pick a practical problem and work on it together. Map a process, design a workflow, find the automation hiding in plain sight.
Salons
A facilitated conversation about what's changing in healthcare and what people are learning from their own projects.
Problem Solving
A local nonprofit or healthcare organization brings a real challenge, and the room puts its collective expertise on it.
What we believe
We believe the future of healthcare is built together.
Madison is full of extraordinary people working across healthcare, technology, research, and life sciences. Too often, we work in separate circles.
Madison Health Works brings those circles together.
We are builders, thinkers, operators, clinicians, creators, and curious minds. We believe ideas get stronger when they're shared, learning speeds up through practice, and real connections start with genuine curiosity.
We don't gather to talk about innovation from a distance. We gather to explore it, challenge it, build it, and make it useful.
Come curious. Bring something you're working on. Leave with something new.
Let's make healthcare work better, together.
05Organizers
Built by people who believe in this community.
Madison Health Works started with a simple idea: the most interesting people in healthcare should have more chances to learn from one another. It began with a few local conversations and a shared commitment to make that happen.
Founding organizers
- Serge Romero
- Chris Notaro
- Joy Kurber
- Josh Heurung
We’re starting small, on purpose.
Community supporters
Made possible by our community.
Our gatherings run on the people who show up, and now and then on a local organization that helps cover a room or a round of drinks. We keep it simple: a thank-you here, never an ad.
If your organization would like to support a future gathering, talk to any of the organizers.
There’s a lot happening in healthcare. Let’s figure it out together.
Join our next gathering and meet the people shaping what’s next.