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Thursday, May 16

11:00 AM - UTC - Online

Healthcare organizations today are called to leverage AI in the service of improving patient outcomes and providing personalized care experiences.

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As EMEA RBL for HLS, Kevin is responsible for commercial go-to-market, industry strategy, co-innovation, and strategic partnerships to accelerate transformation with cloud and AI across key providers, payors and life sciences’ organisations in the region. He leads a team of deep Industry thought leaders operating across the value chain to unlock and extract value and insights for customers delivering and supporting large scale transformation.

Dr. Amanda Verpoorte, PhD, brings a unique blend of expertise across fundamental research in biomedical sciences, engineering, and business management consulting. After serving dozens of clients in the BioPharma sector at McKinsey & Company—advising global pharmaceutical companies, mid-size players, and biotechs alike across the pharma value chain with a major focus on oncology and rare diseases—she joined SOPHiA GENETICS as Medical Innovation Strategy Director in October 2020. Amanda has been leading the Global Platform Product Management team since September 2023. Previously, Amanda was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), where she carried out her PhD in engineering and biomedical sciences.

Robert Strzelecki, CEO of TenderHut Technological Group, is a Forbes Technology Council member leading Mixed Reality experts. He pioneered Mixed Reality and AI in Holo4Med and Holo4Labs for the healthcare and life sciences industries. With over 20 years in IT, he's a visionary in tech innovation.

Christian Hardahl started his professional career as a health data analyst consultant and solution architect in the Nordics and evolved into business advisory roles with global health responsibilities. Since 2020, Christian has been leading the industry in EMEA, providing industry domain knowledge to colleagues and customers and focusing on health innovation and the increased convergence between healthcare and other industries. Christian helped European health ministries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic with data and analytics to make sure they made the best possible data-driven decisions, and he continues to serve as an expert advisor in health data and AI for hospitals and health institutions in the EMEA AP region.

Professor Patricia Maguire is a biomedical scientist focused on the important cargo that platelets sequester, store, and release upon activation. Her current work is in translational diagnostics research, developing the novel non-invasive blood-based diagnostics platform PALADIN (PlAteLetbAsed DIagNostics), which harnesses the power of circulating platelets combined with AI to uncover the secrets of health and disease. She’s a Professor of Biochemistry at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and Director of the UCD Institute for Discovery, a major transdisciplinary research institute that cultivates interdisciplinary connections aligned to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Patricia is also the Scientific Director of the UCD Conway SPHERE research group and author of over 65 peer-reviewed publications in journals including Nature Communications and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Maguire leads the AI_PREMie team, who were winners of a special prize in the Science Foundation Ireland AI for Societal Good Challenge Fund. Their work has discovered that information carried by platelets, combined with powerful AI, can help doctors diagnose preeclampsia.

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