MedHeave CEO Haroon Chaudhary will represent the company at the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit 2026, a three-day international healthcare, AI and life sciences conference opening Tuesday at the ADNEC Centre.
The summit is convened by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi under the theme To Sense Is to Predict and runs October 20-22.
For a U.S. revenue cycle management company, attendance at a global health summit is not a departure from core operations.
The clinical AI tools being presented in Abu Dhabi are the same technologies now entering the billing workflows that MedHeave operates inside every day.
MedHeave’s presence puts its leadership in the same room as the companies building the tools that will shape how claims are coded, authorized and adjudicated over the next 12 to 18 months.
The summit at scale
The conference expects approximately 16,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. These are organizer projections, not verified headcounts.
| Detail | Confirmed information |
| Dates | October 20-22, 2026 |
| Location | ADNEC Centre, Abu Dhabi |
| Convened by | Department of Health – Abu Dhabi |
| Expected attendees | ~16,000 |
| Conference delegates | ~1,750 |
| Countries represented | 100+ |
| Expected exhibitors | 175+ |
| Side events | 14 |
Source: Abu Dhabi Media Office, official summit website
Founding partners include PureHealth, M42, IHLAD and Mubadala Bio. Pharmaceutical sponsors include AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Novo Nordisk and Vertex.
The confirmed speakers
The official roster spans government health ministers, pharma CEOs, AI founders and clinical researchers.
- Sir Pascal Soriot — CEO, AstraZeneca
- Max Jaderberg — President, Isomorphic Labs
- Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov — CEO, Insilico Medicine
- Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic — CEO, Cleveland Clinic
- Sir Martin Evans — 2007 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
- Tim Schmid — EVP and Worldwide Chairman, J&J MedTech
- Elena Bonfiglioli — Global Business Leader, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Microsoft
Health ministers from Egypt, Greece, Bahrain, Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Syria, Fiji and Jordan are also scheduled. Published schedules are subject to change.
SUMMIT AGENDA — AI AND BILLING-RELEVANT SESSIONS
Where clinical AI meets revenue cycle reality
DAY 1 — OCT. 20
Health financing models
Rare diseases and genomics
AI redefining medicine
Sensing technology
DAY 2 — OCT. 21
Predictive health timing
Precision oncology
Health data side events
Clinical research assembly
DAY 3 — OCT. 22
The rise of the AI physician
Investment and prediction
Korean health AI showcase
Closing recognitions
All times Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4). Source: Official summit agenda
The connection between clinical AI and RCM
Clinical AI does not stay inside clinical walls. It flows directly into revenue cycle operations.
| Clinical AI category at the summit | How it affects billing workflows |
| Predictive diagnostics | Changes which diagnoses appear on claims and when |
| Ambient documentation and AI scribing | Alters the clinical records that coders work from |
| AI-driven clinical decision support | Feeds into prior-authorization automation and coverage checks |
| Health-data interoperability | Determines how cleanly clinical information reaches the claim |
Seven Korean AI companies — including Lunit (cancer screening imaging), VUNO (cardiac arrest prediction), Kakao Healthcare (chronic disease management) and Puzzle AI (automated clinical documentation) — are presenting at a dedicated showcase on October 22.
These are the kinds of tools that, once adopted by U.S. health systems, change what billing teams see in the chart, on the claim and inside the denial.
The official livestream begins Tuesday at 09:55 Gulf Standard Time for those following remotely.
