Podcast · Episode 47

#47 - Pavan Kumar: The Future Of Wearables with Ultrahuman

Podcast April 16, 2026

Welcome to Episode #47 of Bills & Business. In this episode, Laura Davis, Co-Founder of USLege, sits down with Pavan Kumar, General Manager of Ultrahuman's advanced health tech facility, to explore what happens when cutting-edge biosensor technology meets the realities of smart manufacturing, FDA regulation, and federal policy advocacy.

Pavan brings a rare combination of credentials to the conversation: a PhD in mechanical engineering from UT Dallas, a decade running a maker space and fab lab in India, and a fellowship in Washington DC that introduced him to the world of policy and advocacy. At Ultrahuman, he led the buildout of one of the first smart wearables manufacturing facilities in the United States, managing a team of 100 people while driving automation and reshoring strategies designed to make domestic production viable at scale. His work has since taken him from the factory floor to Capitol Hill, where he is actively advocating for an open, competitive wearables market that protects consumer choice and prevents monopolistic patent abuse in the health tech space.

In this conversation, Laura and Pavan cover the full arc of the wearables revolution, from CGMs and smart rings to ambient home monitoring and women's health, and unpack why the future of preventative healthcare depends not just on better devices but on better policy. They also dig into what automation really means for manufacturing jobs, why the US is the global leader in wearables adoption, and why every company building in a regulated industry needs to be at the table when the rules are being written.

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