Texas Brain Economy Summit · Helix Park, Houston

Krystal anchors CCG's contribution to the Texas Brain Economy Summit at Helix Park (9-10 June 2026), a WEF-sponsored convening organized by the Center for Houston's Future Project Metis brain-economy initiative, co-chaired by The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB Health), and the broader Global Brain Economy Initiative UTMB announced at Davos earlier in the year.

The Summit convenes more than five hundred senior executives and thought leaders from academia, industry, and government, with participation from organizations including the World Economic Forum and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Krystal's contribution is the operating-strategy translation: how organizations build cultures where mental, brain, and social health drive measurable outcomes, and how the workforce-resilience lens connects directly to productivity, retention, and earnings quality. The talk draws on the implementation arc that produced Shell's brain-health business case, the company's twenty-seven percent reduction in total cost of care for users of its mental-health service, the eighty percent symptom-improvement rate among employees with two or more PHQ-9 measures, and the median time-to-service drop from roughly six weeks to six days.

The Houston conversation has been one of the few attempts to anchor the brain economy in a single city's economic strategy, with universities, private companies, and NGOs operating under a tiered governance structure run through the Center for Houston's Future.

Specific session placement and panel composition will be confirmed in the run-up to the event.