Esther Dyson -- Getting to the proof: why I'm investing in health, not health care

Esther Dyson talks about why she is investing in health - not health care - and how she expects the market to develop.  Her talk will be hosted by Shay Garvey of Delta Partners, with a discussion and Q&A to follow.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Esther Dyson (@edyson on twitter)  is chairman of EDventure Holdings.  Her primary activity is investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care and aerospace.  She recently (October 2008 to March 2009) spent most of six months training as a backup cosmonaut in Star City outside Moscow Russia.  

She has chronicled some of her EDventures on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/edyson.

Apart from this brief sabbatical, she is an active board member for a variety of startups, including 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (advisory board), Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva (the company behind text4baby.org in the US and Russia),  WPP Group (not a start-up!), XCOR Aerospace and Yandex (recent IPO).   Her past investments have included Medstory (sold to Microsoft), Flickr and del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo!), Brightmail (sold to Symantec).  EDventure is Esther Dyson's DBA ("doing business as").  Her portfolio includes all the companies she serves as a director.  Her current health  investments include  Applied Proteomics,  Genomera,Habit Labs, HealthEngage, Health Loop, HealthRally, HealthTap, Keas, Medico, Medivo, Omada Health, Organized Wisdom, PatientsLikeMe, PatientsKnowBest (UK), Resilient, Tocagen and Valkee (Finland).

Dyson  also sits on the boards of several nonprofits, including  the the Eurasia Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, the Personal Genome Foundation, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation  and StopBadware.org. She has a BA in economics from Harvard and was founding chairman of ICANN from 1998 to 2000. In addition, she wrote the best-selling, widely translated book "Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age," published by Broadway Books, in 1997.