Annual Experience 2025

Digital Transformation with AI & MedTech in Orthopaedics

DOCSF25– Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco 2025, presented in partnership with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF!

DOCSF25 provided a full day of learning and networking with digital orthopaedics and technology experts. This one-day event was Friday, Oct 3, 2025.

Why Attend
DOCSF?

DOCSF is a one-day conference at the intersection of orthopedics and digital health. The program brings together surgeons, innovators, investors, and technologists to explore the latest in AI, workflow automation, robotics, wearables, and medtech frontiers. Through keynotes, startup showcases, and two blocks of interactive breakout sessions, attendees will gain valuable insights and practical tools to implement digital transformation in their practices.

Program

Friday, October 3, 2025 | 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Morning Sessions

  • Opening Remarks with Benjamin Ma, MD & Stefano Bini, MD
  • Focus Session: AI and Workflow Automation
    • The Promise of Virtual Scribes
    • The Role of Agents in Health Care Automation
    • Bringing Light into the OR
    • AI-Driven Workflow Automation in a Highly Efficient Practice
  • Focus Session: Med Tech Frontiers — Approaching the Boundaries of Science Fiction
    • Who is Pushing the Boundaries Outside of Ortho?
    • Explaining Contextual AI, Spatial Computing & Semantic AI
    • The Future of Surgical Robotics is Autonomous
    • Physical AI- The Next Frontier is at Our Doorstep
    • The Future of Surgical Robotics Is Autonomous
  • DOCSF Science: The Research in 2025 That Changed Everything
  • The State of the Deal with Orrick: The Financial Climate for Orthopedic Innovation
  • Startups We Love

Afternoon Sessions

  • Med Techs We Love
  • Leadership Keynote by Joshua Liu: Lessons Learned Driving Adoption of New Technologies
  • Bootcamp Breakout Part 1:
    • Innovating in Arthroplasty
    • Innovating in Sports
    • Leveraging AI Tools in Research
    • IDEO: Bringing Innovation to Your Teams
  • Bootcamp Breakout Part 2:
    • Innovating in Spine
    • How to Build an Agent
    • Integrating Tech Platforms in the OR: A Case Study
    • IDEO: Bringing Innovation to Your Teams
  • Getting to YES with Mohan Nair
  • Best Papers Awards with OREF
  • Closing Remarks
  • Happy Hour & After Party

StartUps
We Love

Every year at DOCSF we feature startup companies with technology that will revolutionize Orthopaedics. 

At DOCSF25, we will feature the following startup companies:

  • XY.ai — Agentic AI to automate office operations in healthcare
  • Hip Insight — Mixed Reality-based digital surgery platform for hip surgery
  • Ventcreativity — The Digital Twins Surgery Company
  • EverEx — Personalized rehabilitation for everyone: bringing AI into rehab
  • VitVio — The future is AI-powered operating rooms
  • Tempida — Merging digital scribes, editors, and workflow tools into one platform
  • Ospitek — Seamless AIoT to automate patient navigation
  • The Commons Clinic — Digital innovation to deliver integrated value-based care

Medtech
We Love

A fast-paced showcase of cutting-edge medical technologies shaping the future of orthopedic care. 

At DOCSF25, we will feature the following Medtech companies:

  • TracPatch — Wearable sensors for better outcomes through remote patient monitoring
  • Proprio — The future of spine navigation using light field technology and AI
  • Visie — 3D computer vision and spatial computing in orthopedics
  • THINK Surgical — Miniature wireless robotic knee systems

Firmly anchored in MSK as the use case, at DOCSF25 we focused on AI in the clinic and the latest in MedTech. We featured bootcamp breakout sessions focused on orthopaedics specialties including arthroplasty, sports, spine, and trauma. Additional breakout sessions focused on AI tools in research, technology in the OR, and other hot topics. DOCSF Science shed light on the latest research trends. And we heard from MedTech companies and startups about their groundbreaking technologies. 

Meet the
speakers

Bini Headshot
Stefano Bini, MD
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery & Chief Technology Officer, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery UCSF
Founder & Chair, Digital Orthopædics Conference San Francisco (DOCSF)
C. Benjamin Ma, MD
V-nee Yeh Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Chair
Dept. Orthopaedic Surgery Surgical Director, UCSF Mount Zion Hospital
Fabrizio Billi, PhD
Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery UCLA
Co-Chair, DOCSF24
Nicholas Colyvas, MD
Nicholas Colyvas, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery UCSF
Peter L. Schilling, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Center for AI Research in Orthopaedics (CAIRO)
Thomas Peterson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery UCSF
Scott Sigman, MD
Host of The Ortho Show Podcast
Chief Medical Office,r OrthoLazer Orthopedic Laser Centers
Meir Marmor, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon & Associate Professor, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery UCSF
Stephen Murphy
Stephen B. Murphy, MD
Principal, Surgical Planning Associates
Sara Edwards, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon
UCSF
Ayoosh Pareek
Ayoosh Pareek, MD
Sports Medicine Surgeon, HHS
Romil Shah
Spine Surgery Fellow at Cedars Sinai
Daniel Kraft
Daniel Kraft, MD
Founder
Exponential Medicine / Digital.Health / NextMed
Alex Chan Yoon, MD
CEO
Everex
Slim Souissi
Co-founder & CEO
Ospitek Inc.
Omair Khan
Omair Khan, MD, PhD
Partner at ARTIS Ventures
Andrew Parambath, MD, MBA
Investor, Pear VC
Gilly Yildirim
Founder & CEO
Vent Creativity: The Digital Twin Surgery Company
alexander sah
Alexander Sah, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Co-Director- Institute for Joint Restoration
Unity Stoakes
Unity Stoakes
President & Cofounder
StartUp Health
Danny Goel, MD
Danny Goel, MD
CEO, PrecisionOS
Mohan Nair
CEO, Emerge, Inc.
Chase Williams
Senior Vice President, IT Transformation
Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company
Joseph Maratt, MD, MBA
Joseph Maratt, MD, MBA
Orthopedic Surgeon @ Forté
Founder & CEO @ Lumirai
Archana Dubey, MD, FAAFP
CEO, Founding Partner Arches Accelerator Former Market Chief Medical Officer @ UHC CMO consultant @ HP Former Asst. Professor @ Stanford University, School of Medicine Board of Director, Advisory Board member
Josh Makower, MD
Director & Co-Founder
Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
Emel Demircan, PhD
Associate Professor
California State University, Long Beach
Sigurd Berven
Sigurd Berven, MD
Professor, Chief of Spine Service, UCSF
Reid F. Conant, MD
Reid F. Conant, MD
Sr. Physician Executive
Abridge
Ilya Bendich, MD
Attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Washington University in St. Louis
Pradeep Javangula
Pradeep Javangula
Partner, Everest VC
Sridhar Obilisetty
Sridhar Obilisetty
Partner, Everest VC
Charlie DeCook, MD
President & Joint Surgeon
Total Joint Specialist
Douglas Unis, MD
Founder & CMO, Monogram Technologies
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Mount Sinai Health System
Joshua Liu Seemless MD
Joshua Liu, MD
Co-Founder & CEO, SeemlessMD
Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA
Benjamin Schwartz, MD, MBA
SVP, Care Services & Strategy
Commons Clinic
Sam De Brouwer
Sam De Brouwer
Co-Founder & CEO
XY.AI Labs
Gregg Griner
Partner
Orrick Technology Companies Group
Founder and COO, Archetype AI
Brandon Barbello
Founder & COO
Archetype AI
Doug Fairbanks
President & CEO
VISIE Inc.
Thomas Knox
Founder & CEO
VitVio
Stuart Simpson
CEO
THINK Surgical
Ronald Navarro, M.D.
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Kishore Tipirneni MD
CEO
Tempida LLC
Michael Havig, MD
Michael Havig, MD
Orthopedic surgeon & Founder
HealthMe
Richard Bolander, PhD
President
TracPatch Health, LLC
Lee Grossman
CEO
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Gabriel Jones
CEO & Founder, Proprio
David Yousefzadeh
Head of Sales
XY.AI Labs
Sierra Hillman
IDEO
Meron Fasica
IDEO
Thank you Sponsors

join the revolution

Be part of our community: register for the conference and join the digital orthopaedics revolution.

The Digital Orthopaedics Conference San Francisco (DOCSF) has been radically redesigned to create an immersive look into the future of musculoskeletal care, outline the transformational tools needed to transition to digital orthopaedics, and highlight the translation research providing the evidence for change.

The Venue

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

Conveintly located a few minutes from SFO Airport. Take advantage of our group booking rate: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/SFOBU/G-DOCS

Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010

Group rate: $229/night plus taxes

Get in Touch

Please email Kristina Portillo with any questions: kristina@docsf.health
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