ATS Orlando 2026 · First Reflection Now Live

Five days.
Three engagements.
One conversation that changed us.

QIS spent five days at ATS Orlando 2026 with three engagements: a poster at the Respiratory Innovation Summit, fifteen hours of live conversation at AI Lab Kiosk 4 in Booth 1028, and a twenty-minute education presentation in the AI Lab! Answers Theater. We came to listen. We left changed by what we heard. The first co-authored reflection by Marc and Jennifer Bulandr is now live: AI in Healthcare Needs More Than Faster Answers. It captures what the conference taught us about ATS, QIS, and PF Warriors, and why the three belong in the same sentence.

Days at ATS
Five
Engagements
Three
Hours of Conversation
Fifteen at Kiosk 4
First Reflection
Now Live
Now Live · First Reflection

What ATS taught us
about showing up.

A co-authored reflection by Marc and Jennifer Bulandr on the five days that changed how we think about ATS, QIS, and PF Warriors. Built from fifteen hours of conversations with patients, clinicians, advocates, foundation leaders, and the people who showed up at AI Lab Kiosk 4 ready to talk about what AI is doing in respiratory medicine right now. Plain language. Five-minute read. Built for everyone who cares about how patients are seen.

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What ATS made possible

A program designed to let the field test AI against its own questions. We had a front-row seat.

02

What QIS is learning

What patients told us they need from AI, and what they told us they need it to stop doing. The methodology grew up at this conference.

03

What PF Warriors carries

Twenty-three years of patient advocacy meeting AI in real time. Jennifer's voice on what changed for her, and what she carried back.

Read the First Reflection AI in Healthcare Needs More Than Faster Answers. The first piece in an ongoing series.

We went against the norm. We did not use ATS as a commercialization-first approach. We listened first. We earned the right to do more later. And the conference made room for exactly that posture.

Marc Bulandr · Founder, Qualividence
What We Did in Orlando

Three engagements. One purpose.

Education first. Demonstration second. Conversation throughout. We earned the right to do more by being useful before we asked for anything.

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The RIS Poster · May 15-16 · Space 143

The methodology, on the wall.

The QIS poster sat in the Respiratory Innovation Summit at Space 143 on Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16. The before-and-after demonstration on a composite patient case built from INPULSIS placebo-arm data. What the clinical record captured. What the QIS qualitative instrument added. The methodology the rest of the work runs on, posted where clinicians and researchers could see it on their own time.

Patent Application 63/935,100 was filed December 2025. The poster was the public proof point of the work behind it.
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The AI Lab! Answers Kiosk · May 17-19 · Kiosk 4 in Booth 1028

Fifteen hours of conversation.

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. May 17, 18, and 19. Fifteen hours at the new ATS AI Lab! Answers program, AI Lab Kiosk 4 in Booth 1028, right across from Coffee & Connection. Marc hosted in person. The full team joined virtually throughout. Jennifer Bulandr, also at ATS working as Director of Development and Communications for PF Warriors, dropped in between her commitments. We listened to what people were working on. We showed them what we were building. We answered the question they actually came in with, not the one we wanted to answer.

The QIS MVP ran live on real questions across the three days. Three Verity lenses, each on a different model. A persistent memory layer. The Verity voice. Visitors saw the convergence and the divergence. They saw what a Human Gate decision actually looks like. We did not pretend it was more than it was. By the end of the conference, neighboring booth mates were walking over to ask what the buzz was about.

Three Verity lenses, each running on a different frontier model. Persistent memory layer. Human Gate held by Marc. Otter captured with consent.
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The 20-Minute Presentation · May 19 · 11:55 AM

How patients actually use AI.

Tuesday, May 19, from 11:55 AM to 12:15 PM in the AI Lab! Answers Theater. Educational, not promotional. We walked through how AI can help a PF or rare disease patient prepare for an appointment, understand a report, organize their thoughts. Where it works. Where it drifts. What clinicians, nurses, foundations, caregivers, and pharma each need to know. Built with input from the community, not at it.

Anchored on twenty-three years of patient conversations carried by Jennifer Bulandr inside the PF and IPF community.
Tom Tully, Patient Adviser
Featured Hours at the Kiosk

Tom Tully showed up.

A patient with heart, perspective, and a story to tell. Tom joined the kiosk virtually on Monday and Tuesday, 11 AM to 12 PM each day, to be in conversation with anyone who wanted to talk about what AI means when you are the one waiting on a transplant list. Doctors stopped. Patients stopped. The CEO and the President of ATS stopped and met Tom. The patient voice did its work in the room.

“The integration of feelings and emotions in medical records can be incredibly beneficial. It can improve diagnostic accuracy, enhance patient experience through better clinician trust, and better treatment adherence.”

Where Tom Was
Kiosk 4 · Booth 1028
When
Mon & Tue, May 18-19 · 11 AM-12 PM
Role
Three Lakes 12-20 Partner

Read Tom's full story →

The Presentation

How patients use AI to make sense of what is happening to them.

Twenty minutes. Built for clinicians, nurses, foundation leaders, and the pharma teams that serve them. Not a pitch. A working session on how the people we care for are using these tools today, where the tools help, where they drift, and what the ecosystem can do about it together.

WhereAI Lab! Answers Theater
WhenTuesday, May 19 · 11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
FormatEducational, not promotional
Built withPF Warriors · the PFF community

Three things people walked away with.

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What AI is good at for patients right now

Plain-language translation. Question preparation. Organizing what they want to bring to you. The simple "what is" use cases that build comfort.

2
Where it drifts, and why that matters clinically

Long sessions accumulate. Sycophantic reinforcement. Hallucination across context. The drift problem that PF Warriors leadership named first. What patients should know, what clinicians should watch for.

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What infrastructure could change about this

Multi-lens triangulation. Persistent memory. A Human Gate at every conclusion. The architectural answer to the drift problem, named without being sold.

The Team Who Showed Up

All in. The whole team.

This was not a vendor booth. Marc Bulandr was in person at the kiosk for three days. The full team joined virtually throughout. Founder. Founding adviser. Clinical and regulatory. Data science. AI engineering. The PF community that built the qualitative instrument with us. Jennifer Bulandr was also at ATS in person, working as Director of Development and Communications for PF Warriors, and dropped by the kiosk between her commitments. People found us. The work spoke for itself.

Marc Bulandr, Founder
Marc Bulandr
Founder
In person on the floor for the 15 hours. Held the Human Gate.
Jennifer Bulandr, Founding Adviser
Jennifer Bulandr
Founding Adviser
In person at ATS for PF Warriors. Dropped by the QIS kiosk between commitments. Virtual otherwise.
Lisa Krefft, Clinical and Regulatory Adviser
Lisa Krefft
Clinical & Regulatory
Virtual at the kiosk for clinical and regulatory conversations.
Jacob Bulandr, Senior Data Science Adviser
Jacob Bulandr
Data Science
Virtual at the kiosk Monday morning for data science and analytics conversations.
Usman Fawad, Senior AI Technical Adviser
Usman Fawad
AI Engineering
Virtual partner all 15 hours. Live MVP build conversations on screen.
Tom Tully, Patient Adviser
Tom Tully
Patient Adviser
Virtual at the kiosk Monday and Tuesday from 11 AM to 12 PM. Familial PF survivor and lung transplant recipient. Partner at Three Lakes 12-20.
Who This Work Is For

If you are doing this work,
we want to talk.

We are not optimizing for leads. We are looking for the people who recognize the gap and want to close it together. ATS reminded us how many of those people there are. If you are one of them, find us.

Patient foundations and advocacy organizations

Especially the ones with patient stories you have been holding for years and have not yet been able to do anything systematic with. We have a methodology built for exactly that data.

Pulmonologists, ILD specialists, and ILD nurses

You see what the clinical record cannot hold. We want to learn from what you see. Bring the questions you have about how your patients are using AI. We will run them through the system live.

Pharma medical affairs and patient engagement

The qualitative signal patients generate around your trials is the signal trial design currently treats as exogenous noise. We are building the infrastructure to receive it as evidence.

Clinical trial sponsors and CROs

If you have ever wondered why a trial dropped patients you thought you understood, the answer is usually in the qualitative signal that lived and died in a log nobody read. We want to talk about that.

Federal research, regulatory, and policy leaders

We have engaged the FDA, NIH, and Duke-Margolis on the federal infrastructure question. ATS deepened those conversations in a clinical setting.

Patients and caregivers

You are the reason any of this exists. Come tell us what you wish AI could do for you, and what you wish it would stop doing. We are listening before we are talking.

This is legacy work. We lost the patriarch of our family in 2002. Jennifer has dedicated her life to making sure no one else dies nine weeks after diagnosis with no one to talk to. We are here to build something sustainable in partnership with the people who care about this work as much as we do. We are here to leave the world in a better place.

Marc Bulandr · April 2026

The first reflection
is now live.

The co-authored reflection by Marc and Jennifer Bulandr on the five days at ATS, what QIS learned in those fifteen hours, and what PF Warriors carried into and out of the conference. Plain language. Five-minute read. The first piece in an ongoing series of field reflections from QIS.

Read the First Reflection See the Methodology