Rich Scarfo is a visionary leader and event innovator who has built his career on redefining how industries connect. As President of HLTH, he spent the past seven years transforming the startup into the world’s leading healthcare innovation event and helped launch HLTH Europe, now entering its second year. He was the driving force behind ViVE, launched in 2022, which has rapidly become the top event for C-suite leaders and decision-makers, and the industry’s brightest companies in digital health and health IT.

Known for breaking industry norms, Rich has a storied background that includes senior roles at CES, where he helped expand the show into a broader consumer tech platform, and co-launching E3, which became the flagship event for the video game industry. He also held leadership roles at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and HIMSS, where he created and ran the Personal Connected Health Alliance following HIMSS’s acquisition of his first event—the mHealth Summit. Across every chapter, Rich has built platforms that challenge the status quo and deliver real impact.