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Executive Summary & Themes
Five signals, the brain economy overview, and seven cross-cutting themes that recurred across every session.
Slalom · Executive Insights Report
Texas Brain Economy Summit2026 Executive Report
A flagship Slalom publication synthesizing the summit's keynotes, panels, and frameworks into a single strategic briefing for CEOs, CHROs, healthcare and university leaders, investors, and policymakers.
Key Themes · Strategic Implications · Opportunities for Leaders
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- 24
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- 14
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- 2026
New · 2026
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Texas Brain
Economy Summit
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Executive Insights Report
Key Themes · Strategic Implications
Prepared by
Slalom
Developed by
Kimberly J. Lewis
At a Glance
A briefing built for the C-suite
Designed to be read in thirty minutes — and to hold up on the desk of a Fortune 500 CEO, a university president, a hospital system leader, or a cabinet official.
Executive synthesis
Not a transcript. A strategic distillation of every keynote, panel, and framework.
Flagship design
Produced from a dedicated report template — not a webpage print export.
Action-ready
Every section ends with implications, questions for leaders, and applications.
Boardroom voice
Graduate-level analytical tone with executive callouts and visual frameworks.
Inside · Executive Summary
The six signals leaders should take away
The next decade of competitive advantage — for companies, cities, and nations — will be decided by how seriously they invest in the human brain. Six strategic takeaways frame the report.
Read the full summary- 01
Brain capital is society's most valuable asset.
Mental health, neurological health, creativity, learning, and resilience are the inputs to every knowledge-economy output.
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Mental health is economic infrastructure.
Lost productivity, disability, and care costs make mental health a board-level economic risk — not an HR program.
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Houston is positioned to lead globally.
Texas Medical Center, life-sciences depth, and demographic vitality make Houston a credible brain-economy capital.
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AI is the accelerant for precision neuroscience.
AI fuses imaging, multi-omics, and digital phenotypes into precision subtypes and actionable interventions.
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Partnership is the only path forward.
Healthcare, employers, academia, technology, capital, and policy must operate as one connected system.
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Workplaces are the new clinical setting.
Employers reach more adults more consistently than any clinical system — making the workplace the most scalable surface for brain health intervention.
What's Inside
Fourteen sections. One coherent leadership agenda.
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Session Highlights
Each summit panel synthesized into a consistent executive format with implications and applications.
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Healthcare Implications
From treatment to prevention — what health system leaders should do next.
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Workforce Transformation
Cognitive capital at work, behavioral science, and Slalom's HabLab approach to fiercely human teams.
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Artificial Intelligence
Engineering AI for augmentation — not cognitive depreciation.
09
Education
Building brain-aligned learning systems for the next generation of human capital.
10
Public Policy
Brain capital as public infrastructure — measurable, fundable, accountable.
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Investment & Opportunities
Where capital should flow, and a 24-month leadership agenda across six categories.
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Closing & Appendix
Three commitments for leaders, references, and acknowledgments.
Developed by
Kimberly J. Lewis
Principal Consultant · Slalom
Prepared by
Slalom
Global business & technology consulting
A Letter From the Author
From insight to action.
“The Texas Brain Economy Summit was more than a convening — it was a signal. This Executive Insights Report was created to extend that signal beyond the summit hall: a single, credible document leaders can hand to a CEO, CHRO, university president, hospital system leader, or cabinet official to bring them current on the brain economy in under thirty minutes.”
Read the full letter, the five signals, and the leadership agenda inside the report.
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