Recently MedCrunch attended the incredible Pioneers Festival, a startup & tech event hosted in our hometown of Vienna, Austria. The Festival was conceived by the amazing crew behind STARTEurope which curated an unparalleled experience, extending the world of technology and internet startups to a much broader audience. At the Pioneers Festival we met up with Dr. Daniel Kraft , Executive Director of FutureMed at the Singularity University, who was invited to give a talk about “hacking the human body” and to share some of his thoughts on the future of health. MedCrunch was granted access to Dr. Kraft for a unique interview which was engaging and thoughtful. Our conversation took on a life of it’s own and yielded some surprising insights. The following is Part 1 of our interview: (Transcription below) MedCrunch: Which life experiences have helped shape your perspective on medicine? Daniel Kraft: It hasn’t been any one life experience, but I have been across several from the worlds at the NIH (National Institutes of Health), to standard academia at Brown, Harvard and Stanford; to a bit of the Internet Start-up World, during the bubble; to medical device engineering as well as the mix I have been lucky to get into with folks from the TED World and beyond. […]