Tony Fantana | How to Speed up a Miracle

Filmed at Innovation Network Gathering | West Chester, PA, USA | October 2025

When you think of the work that we do, what do you feel? Gratitude? Fear? Sometimes Sadness? Frustration? What about Awe? The work we do sometimes can help save and improve lives -- at scale. And that is worthy of some awe. Tony Fantana feels that awe. It gets his huge brain pinging in many directions. Including questions about our regulatory environment. There is a debate raging, sometimes in scared silence, about the role of the government.  Too often simplified as bigger or smaller -- more or less. Instead of better and future.  Could this time of uncertainty also be a time when we redesign the systems by which we govern ourselves? 


The Innovation Network Gathering is dedicated to anticipating and shaping the future of human-centric clinical trials. Together we identify the toughest challenges on the road to more human-centric clinical trials, develop the solutions, & accelerate implementation. For more information about this speaker and to consider joining us for next year’s event, please visit our website: www.innovationgathering.network

Credits:

  • Event Production: Smith & Jones Innovation

  • Direction & Speaker Support: Jeff Smith

  • Production & Stage Management: Michelle Jones

  • Stage Design & Lighting: Steve Harper | Indigo Design

  • Video Capture: Armosa Studios

  • Video Editing: Kyle Blackburn & Sigfried Seeliger

  • Screen Assets & Video Engineer: Hunter Loveridge | Picture This

  • Sound Engineer: George Koenig | Uptown! Knauer Center for Performing Arts

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