I am a senior medical AI researcher at Charité with an M.D., a Ph.D. in Medical Neuroscience and an M.A. in Medical Ethics, and I am also CSO at ai4medicine. My foci include AI-research, AI-ethics, data science, neuroimage post-processing and clinical research.

Currently I am the scientific lead of the "Predictive Modelling in Medicine" research group at Charité as well as the Prediction2020 project (prediction2020.org) and the PRECISE4Q project (precise4q.eu), where we develop clinical machine learning models for stroke and apply neural nets for neuroimage segmentation.

I have special expertise in the ethics of AI, especially bias and upcoming regulations for AI products. In this role, I´m also on the expert council of the Good Technology Collective (GTC, https://goodtechnologycollective.com/experts/) and an associate editor of the interdisciplinary Delphi Journal (https://www.lexxion.eu/zeitschriften/delphi/).

I am also the organizer of the "Machine Learning in Healthcare" meetup in Berlin(https://www.meetup.com/Machine-Learning-in-Healthcare/).

Jefferson Fernandes is a Neurologist experienced in health management, education and research and digital health innovation, including telemedicine. He is the CEO of SPECIS - a Health Consulting Firm, Partner of SYTE Institute, Hamburg, Germany.

Dr Fernandes is Vice President of the Brazilian Association of Telemedicine and Telehealth, Coordinator of the Telemedicine Education Program of the Paulista Medical Association - SP (APM), and President of the Board of Curators, Global Summit Telemedicine & Digital Health, an international conference organized by APM. He is also Professor and Academic Coordinator of MBA courses at the Fundação Getulio Vargas - RJ, and IBCMED – SP.

Dr Jefferson was the founder and Director-General of the Higher School of Health Education and Sciences of the Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC), São Paulo, Brazil. He was also the Superintendent of Education, Sciences and Innovation of HAOC and Coordinated its Telemedicine and Telehealth Center.

He was the founder Director of the Institute of Education and Research of the Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, RS, and also held a position of Full Professor (Neurology) at the School of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS).

Dr Fernandes worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization (Geneva), for the World Bank (Washington), for the Brazilian Ministry of Health (Brasília) and for the Health Secretary of the Rio Grande do Sul State.

Dr Jefferson graduated in Medicine at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), specialized in Neurosurgery and later in Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, University of London, England. Dr Fernandes has an MSc in Neuroanatomy and a Doctoral degree in Clinical Medicine, both at UFRGS. He has also done a postgraduate course in Hospital Administration and Health Business (IAHCS/PUCRS) and an MBA focused on Strategic Management and Information Technology (FGV).

Dr Fernandes has published in several scientific journals, chapters in medical books and articles in magazines for the lay public on neurology and several subjects, including telehealth and digital health innovation. He is a member of the American Telemedicine Association, of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology.

After the graduation from the Faculty of Medicine of the Lisbon University (Portugal), Daniel completed his training in Cardiology at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.

He is a consultant cardiologist, certified by the Portuguese College of Physicians for the Cardiology specialty and for the Emergency Medicine competence.

His main investigation areas lie on the Cardiac Intensive Care, Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, e-Health and e-Cardiology.

He is the author and/or co-author of 85 book chapters and articles in specialty journals.

He is a member of several national and international medical societies and he is Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and of the American College of Cardiology (FACC).

Currently, he is the Head of the Clinical Cardiology at the Hospital da Luz – Lisbon; Clinical Director for the Hospital da Luz - Digital Clinical Center; Coordinator for the Digital Health Working Group of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology.

Dr Tan Jit Seng is trained as a medical doctor and still is a fulltime eldercare clinician doing primary health care work and running long-term home-based services. He has been involved in public, charity, military, social enterprise, and private systems for the past 18 years. He is currently Founder and Director of Lotus Eldercare Pte Ltd www.lotuseldercare.com.sg in Singapore.

Dr Tan has worked in hospital wards, Emergency Departments, Specialist Outpatient Clinics, Nursing Homes, General Practitioner Clinics, Transitional Care and Home Care Settings.

He has been involved in health technology development since 2010, supporting

• Government research organisations like A*STAR ‘s I2R on fall detection research using audio and vibration signatures; MOHH on looking at Nursing home EMR systems in NHELP project; SgEnable on Enabling Village Tech-Able initiatives
• MNCs like National Computer Systems on Vital Signs Monitoring projects, Innosparks on wheelchair ramps, ST Engineering on their Tech Factor Challenge events; and
• Start-ups on innovating and development of cloud platforms, devices, robotics and A.I. medical technology, with companies like Pastel Health, Nucleus Dynamics, SoundEye, and Pillpresso to name a few.

Dr Tan is currently the Vice President of Asia Pacific Assistive Robotics Association. www.apara.asia He has founded www.LocumSg.com in 2010 as well, a job referral portal to linking directly healthcare institutions with a huge pool of locum doctors in Singapore.

Dr Tab’s latest health tech involvement includes the Medical Advisor for TUV SUD - Smart Elderly Care @ Home Centre. The centre acts as a “sandbox” for companies to pilot innovative smart healthcare devices for patients’ home use; and customising Telepresence Robotics by Ohmnibots for healthcare uses. In 2018, Dr Tan Co founded Wellderly, world’s first blockchain solution for senior care – www.wellderly.network which was unsuccessful . In 2019, Dr Tan is working on smart clothing for health monitoring and trialling on Vivago, the medical grade activity monitor for seniors. His paper on “Televital signs monitoring compliance trial in Singapore” was published in “Digital Medicine” in 2018.

As a respond to COVID-19 in 2019, Dr Tan kick started another Tele Medicine project – telefam.io support nurses and patients via tele consultations. We are currently looking at developing smart robotic physician assistant assembling various cutting edge technologies from our collaborators all over the globe - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drtanjitseng_robotics-doctor-activity-6676351478447390720-yjln

Dr. Erat (MD/PhD) studied medicine and trained in molecular and biomedical research at University of Zurich and Harvard Medical School.

Subsequently she was invited to Harvard Medical School as a post-doctoral fellow and consultant. In parallel she also did a doctorate in health systems management and epidemiology at the Business Faculty of the University of Zurich and SwissTPH.

After finishing her scientific training she worked as a consultant for the pharma- and biotech- industry in Switzerland and also as an expert for the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG).

Before finishing her training in internal medicine and sports medicine, she attended an executive management program at Harvard Business School. Furthermore, she successfully graduated from the INSEAD International Directors Program in 2019.

She is currently a medical director at Klinik Hirslanden focusing on preventive and personalized medicine and sits on numerous advisory boards in Switzerland.

Lambert has spent the bulk of his career working for leading international management consulting firms focused on performance improvement, business transformation and cost reduction.

In these companies, he held senior executive positions as business process analyst, head of auditing and assessment, business development VP and country manager.

The experience accumulated during those years conducting performance assessments and driving change management projects for more than 200 clients belonging to the world’s leading multinational corporations, government organizations, as well as to large and medium sized private companies in all types of industries and services in 36 countries, has provided Lambert with a truly global vision.

Lambert applies his business analysis skills and is deep knowledge and understanding of the reality in the “frontline” to bridge information and digital technologies with operational needs and constraints and make them work best in the client’s interest. In 2007 Lambert decided to apply his change management expertise to the Healthcare sector by creating Boost Consulting.

Boost was founded with a mission to implement process, systems, organizational and behavioral changes in healthcare delivery, in order to improve the patient pathway; its quality and performance, whilst achieving measurable operational and financial gains.

Boost has carried out 30+ projects for major hospitals in four continents and all are references. Lambert continues to act as an advisor and analyst for management consulting firms and is an “ambassador” for several hospitals.

Lambert is multicultural: French citizen, attending English, American, French schools and universities in Africa, Europe and the USA. Trilingual in English, French and Italian. Holds a PhD in political science and international relations. Lives near Milan, Italy

Dr. Eyal Zimlichman is an internal medicine physician, a health care executive and a researcher focused on assessing and improving health care quality and value, patient engagement and patient safety.

Dr. Zimlichman is currently Deputy Director General, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital.

Prior to this Dr. Zimlichman has held the position of Lead Researcher at Partners Health Care Clinical Affairs Department in Boston where he was involved in the efforts to bring about a strategic care redesign initiative.

Dr. Zimlichman holds an appointment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School affiliated Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, where he is conducting research on implementing technology to improve health care quality and patient safety.

Dr. Zimlichman served as an advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is a founding member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Health Care.

In his capacity as Chief Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, Dr. Zimlichman conceptualized and launched a groundbreaking collaborative strategy called ARC which aims to accelerate innovations that will redesign healthcare on a global level.

Dr. Zimlichman is a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health Executive Health Care Management Master of Science program and has earned his MD at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Christof Bühler has 25+ years of engineering & research experience in electronics, software, vision & sensor systems, optics, lasers and micro-technology.

His interdisciplinary expertise is in system integration, computer/information technologies, biotechnology, medical devices, sensors, computer vision, fast data processing and artificial intelligence incl. machine- and deep-learning.

Daniel Faggella is Head of Research at Emerj. Called upon by the United Nations, World Bank, INTERPOL, and leading enterprises, Daniel is a globally sought-after expert on the competitive strategy implications of AI for business and government leaders.

Lars is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corti and has previously worked with companies like Apple and Issuu. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark with an extensive research and publication history within semi-supervised and unsupervised machine learning. He was nominated PhD of the year by the department of applied mathematics and computer science.

As a professor for healthcare management, my research focuses on two fields:

• Process optimization in healthcare organizations (Lean Healthcare)
• The impact of Digital Health on healthcare management

At the ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences), I have conducted together with hospitals, insurances and pharma/medtech companies several projects on these two topics. We are interested in developing analogue and digital approaches that increase the quality and the efficiency of health care delivery.

Together with my colleagues from several diverse institutes, we have found the “ZHAW Digital Health Lab” to foster an interdisciplinary approach on the field Digital Health (www.zhaw.ch/digitalhealth).

My professional background, before entering academia, includes working as a supply chain manager for Nestlé S.A. and as a consultant for McKinsey & Company.

Monika is a doctor, digital health entrepreneur, and a healthcare quality researcher, with more than 13 years of experience. She holds a Master's degree from Cranfield University, UK and is an Alumni of Indian Institute of Management-K. She has driven process improvement & digitalization in multiple health systems across the globe, both in public & private sectors.

Her multidisciplinary background spans the design for policies, quality, patient safety, service design, digital transformation and strategy.

She has designed diverse digital health products & her latest initiative is designing Smart Hospitals enabled through emerging technologies.

She is engaged with multiple tech-driven startups in healthcare as a mentor.

She believes in contributing to a more equitable & sustainable healthcare environment through human centered designs, emerging technologies and innovation.

Quy is the Chief Data Officer and Co-Founder of HIT Foundation & Centiva Health – a global blockchain-based marketplace for health data – in addition to being a globally-renowned speaker.

Her life’s work is dedicated to healthcare innovations aimed at providing equal opportunities and benefits to all stakeholders. Moreover, Quy is an AI advisor of LAPO blockchain (Switzerland) which brings stability with traditional Swiss expertise in financial services to crypto assets worldwide.

She was voted ‘The Most Influential Woman in Blockchain in Europe’ ( ‘Blockshow Europe 2018’) and received various awards through her life. She founded Give Him The Light, an international charitable project aims to save lives, and solve problems of relevance to humanity.

She also a member of the Board of Directors of different Vietnamese Associations globally (International Vietnamese Academics Network, Association of Vietnamese Intellectuals and Experts in Switzerland …) to promote networking, collaboration among academics professional, researchers, and university students of Vietnam origin living in Vietnam and abroad.

Recently she joins AVSE Global to deliver strategy for Vietnamese government for Vietnam sustainability growth in Industry 4.0.

Dr, Emma B Hodcroft is formally a biologist, with a BSc from Texas Christian University in Biology - but she has been programming since at 15.

After completing her MSc & PhD at the University of Edinburgh, studying evolution, population genetics, & phylogenetics in HIV, she worked as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation PANGEA-1 project, creating an agent-based model to simulate genetic data for HIV in African communities, in order to evaluate phylogenetic analyses methods.

In 2017, she came to the University of Basel and began working as part of the Nextstrian team, where she helps both with programming, maintaining, and implementing new features and doing phylogenetic analyses. Until the COVID-19 crisis, Dr Hodcroft was studying Enterovirus-D68, a pathogen that causes serious respiratory illness and sometimes paralysis in young children, and had uncovered the potential for undetected transmission in adults as a source for childhood infections.

Since January 2020, she has been working 100% on SARS-CoV-2 research and science communication relating to the pandemic.

Marjolaine has always worked in healthcare organizations with a special interest in digital health projects and innovation.

She holds a double master’s degree in healthcare organization and business administration.

For twelve years she held the position of Director for the regional union of liberal doctors in Normandy (5000 doctors). She contributed to the implementation of 200 pluri-professionnal health centers, and various digital health projects: secured email system, electronic patient care information reporting, public/private digital health projects (in oncology, cardiology, neurology, dermatology), digital elderly patient monitoring, telemedicine, AI health projects, virtual reality projects in surgery.

She also worked with the French Ministry of Health to draft healthcare laws. Currently, she is working for Normand’e-santé, a public digital health service company.

As Head of Partnerships she promotes e-health projects and telemedicine with healthcare workers, build partnerships with start-ups, industries, and public organizations.

With Covid 19, activities are rocketing, and many ideas are emerging to improve patient care.

Luiza's passion lies in using technology as an enabler to drive a positive impact in healthcare - and actually save lives. Luiza is the CEO & Founder of Komed Health AG, a young company based in Zurich with the vision to save lives through simplified, secured and connected clinical communication.

Healthcare has always attracted Luiza as a magnet; on one side through her own experiences she has witnessed how "broken" the healthcare system is and on the other side she has realized the huge opportunity to actually change something though technology. And this how Komed Health was born. Luiza has 10+ years experience in leading and developing businesses.

Throughout her career she gained both corporate and start-up experience. She holds a double Master's Degree from University of St. Gallen and ESADE Business School.

Luiza has won several awards including the prestigious Niesen Bergpreise at Swiss Economic Forum 2019 and being nominated for the Swiss Innovator of the Year Award 2018.

Evangelos is a recognized thought leader in insurance and innovation and works for the Swiss Re Institute. He is a design thinker and a holistic, interdisciplinary, and implementation oriented strategist and doer.

Thus, among other tasks he liaises strongly with academia, insurtech, and start-up ecosystem. His main focus covers digital ecosystems, omni channel management, and business model innovation.

He has worked in the life and health primary insurance industry in various managing and steering positions such as marketing & sales, business development, and market strategy.

Evangelos has studied sport sciences (minor in mathematics and fine arts), business information technology as well as business administration. He holds a doctoral degree in business administration.

I have been bringing ideas to life for more than 25 years in varying roles such as marketing, project management, and business development. With a focus on I.T., I specialize in helping companies develop products and bring them to market using proven marketing and business development strategies.

I have local and global business development experience, and bring depth to any project that I work on.

I am passionate about bringing together new ideas, high tech, and entrepreneurship. This has led me to teach "Global Innovation Ecosystems" at universities, where we explore how high-tech can breed new ideas in today's world and how it can be marketed globally. It has also led to me create, and head as President, the non-profit "High-Tech Connect Suisse" association, which encourages high-tech business development. I have organized 150+ high-tech business events in Switzerland and organized 15+ trips to Silicon Valley.

If you are interested in what I do and wish to connect with me for business or other opportunities, let's connect.