2026 Featured Speakers

Morgan Evans is a MedTech entrepreneur, investor, and strategic operator with a proven track record of taking ideas from concept to commercialization. With a degree in biomechanical engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Kellogg, she spent time in Corporate Development at Medtronic, where she gained insight into high-level growth strategy and strategic acquisitions.

Over the last ten years, Morgan has founded or co-founded multiple ventures—spanning medical device companies, accelerators, and venture investing vehicles. She now leads Agitated Solutions, developing ultrasound innovations, and owns Avio MedTech Consulting, advising founders on product development, regulatory strategy, capital raising, and go-to-market execution. She also scaled the industry-leading SurgiSmoke Solutions, which protects operating room teams by capturing surgical smoke. 

Known for her fearless yet disciplined approach, Morgan blends market insight with hands-on experience to drive results. She actively mentors founders, fosters cross-industry partnerships, and works to position MedTech innovations for both clinical adoption and commercial success, helping bring breakthrough technologies to patients and markets worldwide.

Dr. Kumar is a board-certified internist and nephrologist. She joined Fairview as the system Chief Medical Officer and President of Fairview Health Medical Group in May of 2024. As the medical leader of the third largest employer in Minnesota, she leads a network of over 5,000 providers and 34,000 employees.

Dr. Kumar has over 20 years of healthcare leadership experience, more recently she served as the CMO for HCA HealthONE Swedish Medical Center in Denver.  She has a remarkable and extensive track record in healthcare leadership, quality improvement, physician engagement, health equity advancement, and the development of effective multidisciplinary teams. Dr. Kumar received her medical degree from King George’s Medical University and trained at The State University of New York (SUNY); the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of Arkansas. She has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Tennessee. Recognized for her leadership and dedication to community health initiatives, she was honored as "Outstanding Woman in Business" by the Denver Business Journal in 2022. At Fairview, her contributions have been invaluable, showcasing strong operational and people leadership. Dr. Kumar also serves on the board of directors for the Twin Cities American Heart Association and enjoys volunteering in the community.

Andrew Marshall is Regional Market President for Medica, leading market strategy and growth across Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Throughout his 25-plus years in healthcare, he has worked with employers, providers, brokers, and community leaders to solve complex challenges and improve access, affordability, and experience.

Andrew believes healthcare works best when trust exists among the people and organizations responsible for delivering it. His leadership experience spans growth, customer experience, provider relationships, and market development, giving him a unique perspective on what it takes to turn strong ideas into meaningful change.

He also serves on the Boards of Washburn Center for Children and the Minneapolis Downtown Council.

Jonathan Shoemaker is Chief Executive Officer of ABOUT Healthcare, a national healthcare technology company whose care orchestration platform helps more than 100 health systems manage patient access, transfers, capacity, and post-acute transitions. Since joining as CEO in 2023, he has led a company-wide focus on leveraging intelligence and data to drive outcomes in patient care — and completed a strategic acquisition to expand its AI capabilities.

Before ABOUT, Jonathan spent 18 years at Allina Health, the $5B integrated delivery system serving Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer and Chief Integration Officer. His tenure spanned enterprise IT and analytics, a $300M performance transformation portfolio, and day-to-day operations across laboratory, IT, clinical engineering, and digital experience. He is a past chair of the Minnesota Epic User Group Board and served on the Minnesota e-Health Advisory Committee.

Jonathan brings a distinctive vantage point to the AI conversation in healthcare: he has been the buyer, the operator, and now the builder of health technology. He holds two degrees from the University of Minnesota.

As senior vice president of health services and chief medical officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Dr. Mark Steffen oversees all health and provider network strategies for the company’s 2.5 million members. In this role, Dr. Steffen is responsible for leading provider relations, population health, pharmacy, utilization management, case management, behavioral health, and affordability strategies.

Dr. Steffen is an experienced executive and holds three board certifications in Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Occupational Medicine.  He came to Blue Cross in 2018 after spending several years in managed care where he focused on population health and value-based care. Dr. Steffen spent five years at the Mayo Clinic in the Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine where he served as the Medical Director of the Preventive Services Clinic and as education chair for the division. Dr. Steffen’s leadership career began with a three-year tenure as medical director for the Fairview Red Wing Medical Center, a position in which he collaborated with local businesses to improve health and control costs and prior to that he practiced rural family medicine in Zumbrota, Minn.

Dr. Steffen received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry/molecular biology from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and both his medical degree and master’s in public health from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Steffen chairs the Blue Plus board and sits on the board of directors for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation. He is also a board chair for Minnesota Community Measurement, an organization that uses data from providers, insurers and state agencies to analyze and improve health care cost and quality.

Hailey Hildahl is a Principal Product Manager at Mayo Clinic Platform, where she leads the development and dissemination of AI-enablement tooling. Her portfolio spans model development, validation, federated learning and analytics, silent model deployment, and portfolio strategy. She helped establish an AI qualification framework for Solutions Studio, has collaborated with the FDA, NIH, MITRE, Duke, Stanford, and Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) to propose and shape national standards for AI governance. She also co-authored Mayo Clinic Platform’s Digital Hippocratic Oath, guiding the ethical development and deployment of AI in healthcare.

Hailey began her career at Medtronic, where she led the launches of novel software, hardware, and artificial intelligence products and their supporting services that spanned the cardiovascular portfolio, including a next generation insertable cardiac monitor, Bluetooth enabled bedside and phone application monitors, patient education applications, and the company’s first set of artificial intelligence algorithms. These award-winning experiences sparked her passion for healthcare AI and its potential to reduce clinician burden and improve care delivery for patients.

A two-time University of Minnesota alum, she first earned a self-designed bachelor’s of science degree with a focus on biological sciences and healthcare administration and most recently, she completed her MBA at the Carlson School of Management with a specialization in the Medical Industry Leadership Institute. Her graduate work deepened her prior experience with international markets and venture- backed innovation evaluation, further supporting the ability to scale trustworthy AI across the healthcare ecosystem.