Recorded on 10/10/25 TD Cowen's The Future Is Now podcast series, hosted by health care analysts Dan Brennan and Brendan Smith, discusses emerging themes and critical investment topics across the life science tools and diagnostics sector. The series focuses on key takeaways from the team's proprietary conferences, unpacking the macroeconomic and geopolitical environment of the sector and the impact on emerging R&D spend trends across the health care industry. In this episode, Dan and Brendan highlight the biggest takeaways from TD Cowen's 14th Annual MedTools Conference. The team hosted 10 different key opinion leaders across four panel sessions, with more than 100 investors on site to discuss four main topics: 1) The AI Era of Tools/Dx; 2) The Future of Bioprocessing; 3) Pharma R&D Spending Trends; and 4) Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED). The discussion includes insights on how to contextualize key growth drivers in the sector today, expectations for 2026, and how innovation across the space is disrupting long-established tools spending paradigms.