Prassant KumarHealthcare technology · India
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Keynotes, panels and closed-door executive sessions on healthcare technology, applied AI and building in India.

I do not have a stock deck. Before every session I ask for the delegate profile, the two or three outcomes you want the room to leave with, and what the previous speaker is covering. The talk gets written around that.

Slides reach your AV team a week ahead. I stay for the full day where the schedule allows, because the corridor conversations are usually where the useful work happens.

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Talk topics

Sessions I am asked for most

Each one is rewritten for the audience in front of me. Tell me who is in the room and I will tell you which of these fits.

Why hospital IT projects fail, and the four decisions that save them

A field talk drawn from hundreds of go-lives: the governance, data and change-management choices that separate a system clinicians use from one they work around.

  • For: Hospital boards, CIOs, medical directors
  • Keynote · 30 min

AI in the ward, not in the demo

Where artificial intelligence is genuinely earning its place in Indian hospitals today, where it is theatre, and what has to be true in your data before either question matters.

  • For: Healthcare leadership, technology teams, investors
  • Keynote or workshop

Building a software company in India without raising money

Twenty years of bootstrapping: pricing, cash discipline, saying no to the wrong customer, and what you gain by never having a runway.

  • For: Founders, startup ecosystems, business schools
  • Fireside · 40 min

The interoperable hospital: ABDM and what comes after

What ABDM actually requires of a hospital, what it will require next, and how to build for standards that are still moving.

  • For: Policy forums, hospital associations, health IT teams
  • Panel or keynote

Healthcare for the next 800 million

Access, affordability and technology outside metro India — what works in a fifty-bed district hospital and why metro solutions do not transplant.

  • For: Public health, CSR, impact investors
  • Keynote
Formats

How the work is structured

Conference keynote

A 25 to 40 minute keynote built around your audience rather than a stock deck — I ask for the delegate profile before I write anything.

  • Written fresh for the event theme
  • Indian hospital data and field examples, not global slideware
  • Slides supplied a week ahead for your AV team
  • Happy to take open Q&A

Panel and fireside

Panels on healthcare digitisation, AI in clinical settings, health data policy and building a technology business in India without capital.

  • Moderator or panellist
  • Pre-briefing call with the moderator
  • Quotable, on-record positions — no fence-sitting

Executive workshop

A half-day or full-day working session for a hospital leadership team or a product team, ending with decisions rather than notes.

  • Structured around your live problem
  • Pre-read and post-session summary
  • Up to 25 participants
Straight answers

Before you write in

Who is Prassant Kumar?
Prassant Kumar is a healthcare technology leader based in Mumbai, India. He is the founder of Caresoft Systems Private Limited, a bootstrapped hospital software company whose systems run in more than 1,000 hospitals across 12 or more countries. He works as a keynote speaker, consultant, mentor to healthtech founders and angel investor, and writes on Indian healthcare technology.
What does Prassant Kumar speak about?
His talks cover hospital digital transformation, applied artificial intelligence in clinical settings, health data interoperability and ABDM, healthcare access outside metro India, and building a software business without external funding. Sessions are written for the specific audience rather than delivered from a fixed deck.
How do I invite Prassant Kumar to speak at my event?
Send the event date, city, audience profile and session format through the contact form on this site. Speaking enquiries are answered within one working day, and a briefing call is scheduled before anything is confirmed.
What kind of consulting work does he take on?
Independent hospital digital strategy and HIS selection, applied AI readiness, healthtech product and go-to-market advisory, and interoperability or compliance readiness including ABDM. Engagements typically run four to eight weeks, or as a monthly retainer.
Does he invest in healthcare startups?
Yes. He writes early angel cheques into healthtech and adjacent B2B software, usually at pre-seed and seed stage, with a focus on India and emerging markets. He also takes advisory and board-observer roles where hospital-side credibility is the thing the company is missing.
Where is he based and does he travel?
He is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and travels for engagements across India, the Gulf, East and Southern Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. Virtual sessions are available for events elsewhere.
Is there a fee for mentorship?
Paid founder mentorship runs on a six-month minimum. A small number of unpaid slots are reserved each quarter for pre-revenue founders working on healthcare access, rural care or public health, with priority to founders outside the metro cities.

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