Alphabetical by Last Name
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Gil Alterovitz, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA
Director, National Artificial Intelligence Institute, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Gil Alterovitz is the inaugural Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Institute at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is focusing on leveraging health information for AI as well as building AI research and development capacity to help our nations Veterans through the Office of Research and Development. He is also a faculty member with Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Alterovitz was one of the core authors of White House Office of Science Technology and Policy’s The National AI R&D Strategic Plan from 2019. He has also spearheaded the “AI-able Data Ecosystem” pilot, creating a new approach for public-private collaborations with personnel/resources across a dozen agencies and working with companies internationally.
Brian Anderson
Dr. Brian Anderson is a Harvard trained physician-scientist, digital health innovator and clinical systems engineer. Dr. Anderson became a nationally recognized expert on the use of information technology in support of emerging CDS models and the provision of safe, effective, patient-centered care while at athenahealth where he launched a new model of clinical decision support leveraging artificial intelligence.
As MITRE’s Chief Digital Health Physician, Dr. Anderson helps to architect, implement, and analyze health information systems for CMS, HHS, the FDA and the VA. Dr. Anderson is also the Co-Principal Investigator of MITRE’s largest internally funded R&D project, where he is leading the development of a common data model in Oncology based on FHIR, termed mCODE (minimal Common Oncology Data Elements).
Tom Anderson
Tom is the CEO of Devvio Inc., an enterprise blockchain company. He is an experienced entrepreneur and previously founded Novint Technologies, a robotics company that created the world’s first consumer 3D touch device. He was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of haptics (adding the sense of touch into computers/VR). He led fundraising of over $34 million, licensed tens of millions of dollars of game development, got national distribution, and took the company public. His Novint patents were sold to Facebook. He founded Devvio in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
José Arrieta
José Arrieta is the former U.S. Health and Human Services Chief Information Officer and acting Chief Data Officer. He delivered the first live enterprise application of blockchain/AI in the U.S. federal government and has been one of the most recognized leaders in vision and action bringing emerging technology to health in recent years.
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Pat Baird
Pat Baird works at Philips as the Head of Global Software Standards. Pat likes to think of his job as “Policy Engineering” – understanding the unmet needs (and frustrations) of regulators and developers, and developing standards, whitepapers, and training to meet those needs. His current passion is related to artificial intelligence in healthcare; he is co-chair of a CTA committee on healthcare AI, co-chair of a WHO AI quality management committee, is active on ISO/IEC SC42 AI standard committees, is active in trade associations related to AI, etc. Past roles have included software developer, engineering manager, project manager, lead engineer, and most recently he was the Director of Risk Management at Baxter Healthcare. Drawing on 20 years’ experience in product development, he has published and presented over 50 papers regarding product development. He has an MBA from Marquette and a Masters in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety from Northwestern University.
Silona Bonewald
Silona Bonewald is the Executive Director for IEEE SA Open, a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. Previously she was vice president of community architecture at Hyperledger, a global open source collaborative effort hosted by The Linux Foundation, where she integrated leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things (IoT), supply chains, and manufacturing. Other notable career accomplishments include, while with PayPal, pioneering the InnerSource process; for Siemens AG, creating a cutting-edge and Six Sigma-compliant e-commerce website; and for Ubisoft, creating an international content management system (CMS) architecture.
Dan Bowden
Dan has 30 years’ experience as a successful technology executive. His range of expertise and experience crosses cybersecurity, infrastructure, mobile wellness apps and blockchain platforms. Currently Vice President at Sentara Healthcare, his four years there have been filled with several accomplishments in delivering digital transformation solutions, secure public cloud services, telehealth patient services and telework enablement.
Dan is Executive Advisory Board Member for Tenable, RedShield, CyberMDX, EC-Council, Intruno, and AEHiS. Dan’s industry experience spans healthcare, higher education, banking, retail, and the military. He has been recognized several times as one of the top technology and executives in healthcare and among the top cyber security officers globally.
Dan’s other professional and academic interests include digital strategies, cloud computing, global and homeland security. Dan has a M.S. in Administration of Justice and Security with a concentration on Global and Homeland Security. He works in Virginia Beach, Virginia and has a home in South Jordan, Utah. His personal interests focus on faith, family, fitness and outdoor activities.
Dawn Brockett
Dedicated to providing the best experience for Healthcare and Clinical Trials patients and clinicians.
Dawn joined SurveyVitals in 2019, where she leads the standard delivery healthcare and clinical trials client-facing teams. She brings 20 years of strategic client relationship management and 10 years of commercial pharma experience to her role. Dawn has served in leadership roles on product launch and market development teams. Her strong interest in the R&D side of the house was cemented early on with advisory membership on the Government and Regulatory Affairs Committee of a large, international pharmaceutical company. She enjoys working with joint-effort industry groups like CNS Summit and DTRA. Dawn’s expertise lies in bridging gaps or silos, sparking critical conversations and leading collaborative change initiatives.
Dawn is a professor in the graduate program of the School of Public Service at Boise State University, teaching MBA, MHA and MPA students organizational change management; negotiation theory and tactics; conflict management and dispute resolution; optimizing workplace relationships; and designing processes that work and adapt. She serves on the board of directors of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Idaho’s preeminent arts organization.
Debbie Bucci
Debbie is currently the Director, Patient-Mediated and Institutional Data Exchange at ConsenSys Health.
Formerly a lead IT Architect in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), her primary focus there was on the privacy and security aspects of Health Information Exchange and in particular Open APIs. She has been previously recognized, both within HHS and nationally, for her work in Federated Identity Management.
Darryl Burton
Burton is a veteran of public health leadership and healthcare system design. During 2012 he worked on the rollout and implementation of the Affordable Care Act better known as Obamacare which provided health insurance coverage for over 10M people. As a speaker, his focus was on explaining to policymakers, trade groups and business owners the different plans, costs, and rules under the ACA’s Small Business Health Option Program (SHOP). He currently works at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
He is an outspoken advocate of Blockchain’s future as a ‘human-centric’ technology platform for healthcare and data privacy; and most importantly, as a technology for underdeveloped countries to create low-cost interoperable healthcare records for every citizen from the day of birth.
Darryl sits on a number of healthcare startups to include AiMed an artificial training platform and Ohmnilabs a robotic telehealth company. He has held senior position in the San Francisco Department of Public Health and also as department head for San Francisco Mayors, Willie Brown and Gavin Newson. He holds a MS in Healthcare Systems and MBA from the University of San Francisco. He is also an Army combat veteran and in 2007 was awarded the military’s 3rd highest honor, the Bronze Star.
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Bob Celeste
Bob holds a deep understanding and knowledge of the healthcare supply chain, including compliance issues, current standards and technologies. His ability to harness his expertise and innovate around the complexities of regulatory compliance, cross-industry operations and emerging technology, has made him a trusted industry and regulator partner.
Bob often serves as an advisor to State Boards of Pharmacy, the US FDA, USAID and other federal agencies. He has advised international governing organizations such as the Pakistani FDA, EU Commission and Health Canada. He was chosen to administer the US FDA Drug Supply Chain Security Act Pilot Program, lead the industry in developing the Center’s Digital Trust Framework for the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.
Celeste launched the Center for Supply Chain Studies in 2015 to continue his practice of utilizing strategic simulations to address the challenges and demands of the supply chain. His expertise extends across many industries, including Pharmaceutical, Consumer Goods, Fresh Foods, Aerospace, Automotive, Specialty Chemicals and others.
Prior to founding the Center, Bob was Sr. Director at GS1 US where he worked with industry on standards-based, item-level traceability leading to the publication of the first Drug Supply Chain Security Act implementation guideline.
Dipto Chakravarty
Dipto Chakravarty leads an Alexa AI team at Amazon and serves as the Chair of IoT Community’s Security, Trust and Privacy center of excellence. Dipto has led turnarounds at four public companies including CA, Novell, IBM, Thomson-Reuters and has led four startups with successful exits to publicly traded companies. He is the author of three best-selling books from McGraw-Hill and Wiley, has 12 patents to his credit in artificial intelligence, blockchain, security and cloud. Dipto holds a B.S and M.S in Computer Science from U. of Maryland, and GMP from Harvard Business School.
Wendy Charles, PhD
Wendy is extremely passionate about the use of health information technology (and particularly blockchain) for advancing data opportunities for healthcare and life sciences research.
Dr. Wendy Charles has been involved in clinical trials from every perspective for 30 years with a strong background in operations and regulatory compliance. She currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer for BurstIQ, a blockchain healthcare company where she leads the Life Sciences division. Wendy augments her blockchain healthcare experience by serving on the EU Blockchain Advisory Panel, HIMSS Blockchain Task Force, Government Blockchain Association healthcare group, IEEE working groups, and she is involved as an assistant editor and reviewer for academic journals. Wendy obtained her PhD in Clinical Science with a specialty in Health Information Technology from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. Wendy is certified as an IRB Professional, Clinical Research Professional, and Blockchain Professional.
Wendy provides:
- Expert knowledge of blockchain technology and standards for life sciences research.
- Regulatory compliant strategies for including health information technology in life sciences research.
- Research designs to establish effectiveness, efficiencies, and satisfaction for health information technology.
- True joy when talking about science!
Dan Conway
Professor Conway is Associate Director for the Blockchain Center of Excellence. He previously served on faculty at Notre Dame, Indiana University, Northwestern, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Florida and South Florida teaching topics from Analytics, Data Science, and Digital Transformation. He was the first professor in residence at Cisco Systems and has decades of consulting experience in analytics and artificial intelligence. He currently focuses on blockchain and digital transformation.
Thomas Cox
Thomas Cox is known as a systems integrator of the world’s best ideas on leadership and governance. One of the first Oracle Certified DBAs, he mastered database architecture and then pivoted to focus on how to lead technology teams and other collectives. He chairs P2145 “Blockchain and DLT Governance Standards” for IEEE. One of the world’s leading experts on decentralized governance, Mr Cox believes that embracing the “single source of truth” of blockchain will force organizations worldwide to focus on learning, tolerance, forgiveness, and systems thinking.
Sam Crowe, PhD, ICF-ACC, CDTLF
Executive and Transformation Coach, Founder Evalia Consulting LLC
Dr. Sam Crowe holds a vision of a brighter world through brave, humanized living and leading. She serves across sectors and industries — including Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and the U.S. military — by providing leadership and transformation coaching, training, and expertise. Sam is an expert in emotions and resilience, holding a doctorate degree in neuroscience and 10+ years’ experience at Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and the National Institutes of Health. She also has extensive experience in strategy, leadership, and people development. This includes leadership and advisory roles at the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and serving as chief of staff and executive advisor at the industry trade association, PhRMA. Sam is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation and trained in trauma-informed and somatic coaching. She’s also a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, trained directly by Dr. Brené Brown; a Certified Diversity to Belonging Culture Facilitator; and certified to coach and train in Emotional Intelligence and Conscious Business.
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Gora Datta
Gora Datta, FHL7 is a US based serial entrepreneur and an internationally acknowledged Subject Matter Expert on Digital Health, Health Informatics Standards & CyberHealth initiatives.
He is an accomplished, visionary executive with 36 years of international professional expertise in the field of Computer & Software Engineering and its application to Healthcare, Mobile Health, CyberSecurity, IoT, Blockchain, eLearning & Social Protection. Gore serves as trusted advisor and director on the following: As an US “Electronic Health Record (EHR)” Subject Matter Expert and ICT Expert on eHealth, Public Health & Social Protection/Safety Net. Programs. Gora provides consultancy to and collaborates with large governmental organizations [e.g., US Dept of Health and Human Services (ONC, CMS, CDC), State of California (Public Health), County of Los Angeles (Dept of Health, Public Health), NIST: National Institute of Standards & Technology-USA]; Governments [of Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Niger, Philippines, USA]; multilateral agencies [The World Bank, ADB, WHO, UNICEF] and US based independent hospital consortium (consisting of over 150 hospitals).
In addition Gora is the Chair of following IEEE groups and events IEEE Healthcare: Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence Virtual Series, Southern California Council, SUSTECH-2021 Conference on Sustainable Technologies, IEEE-USA USGCoI (US Government Communities of Interest) and Orange County, Southern California CyberSecurity
Gora is also Convenor of the following ISO Groups: TC215 AHG#4 Standards & Conformance, TC215/WorkGroup#10 Traditional Medicines, TC215 Task Force#2 Outreach & Communications.
As Chair of this series, Mr. Datta can be found speaking throughout these sessions. | View talk from Session #1 »
Frederic de Vaulx
Frederic de Vaulx is Vice President of Prometheus Computing where he helps develop the vision, innovation and strategy of the company. He is also a Senior Software Engineer and Program Manager overseeing the design, architecture and development of custom software applications for Prometheus’ federal and commercial clients.
Frederic is a member of the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest and Co-Chair of the Blockchain Working Group that published a blockchain primer in late 2017 and a first version of the blockchain playbook in early 2018. He is a member of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative, the HIMSS Blockchain Task Force and the CSA Blockchain Working Group.
Ted DellaVecchia
Ted is the CEO and Managing Partner of Symbotix, and CIO where he leads digital innovations and reinventions for health systems, academic medical centers, and insurance payers. As a international renown Healthcare Strategist, Ted recently strengthened the synergy between Red Hat and IBM Watson Health and inspired a pivot by laying the cornerstones of #LinuxForHealth – an Open Community ecosystem project and kernel of an open operating system that enables industry-wide data interoperability.
Ted is the founding chairman of the Healthcare Industry Transformation Project (HITP). Founded in 2011, the HITP is a digital-health innovation ecosystem of early-adopting healthcare organizations collaborating to invoke reinvention of the healthcare industry.
Ted led IT-enabled business transformations at several Fortune 100 enterprises across multiple industries. Examples include: delivered global elements of a corporate turnaround at IBM Corporation, defined and advanced world-wide supply-chains and drove earnings growth for Starbucks Coffee Company, and as senior vice president / CIO restructured IT divisions into high performance engines while innovating enterprise business strategies for three multi-billion dollar health insurance companies.
He has served as sponsor and advising board member of the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT Sloan School of Management, has performed as guest lecturer at MIT Sloan and frequently speaks at industry events on the topic of accelerating/assimilating use of digital health solutions for symbiotic ecosystem interactions. He also served on Boards of Directors for companies transcending successful Initial Public Offerings and those pioneering the use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) methodologies in healthcare.
Dr. Quinn DuPont, PhD
Quinn DuPont is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business at University College Dublin. He has a PhD in Information Science from University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Washington. He is the author of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains (Polity), Founder and Editor in Chief Blockchain Research Network, Associate Editor Frontiers in Blockchains, Education Chair IEEE Blockchain Initiative, and Research Fellow at University College London’s Center for Blockchain Technologies. Previously, he held visiting research positions at Leuphana University and the University of Victoria and was a Senior Information Specialist at IBM.
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Tamiko Eto, MS, CIP
Research Compliance and IRB Management
Administrative leadership and direction to operational aspects of DOR’s human subject research program. Oversee regulatory affairs of KPNC DOR-lead research.
Provide guidance to IRB and oversight of research infrastructure to assure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations across the institution (locations across the country).
Management, Training & Development: Education and training for research development.
Assess compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies for improving overall performance within the DOR: identify areas of weakness, develop tools and education to improve deficiencies.
Regulatory Functions: In-depth knowledge of changing federal, state and local regulations and policies. Report serious/continuing noncompliance with regulations, unanticipated problems, etc. to relevant officials as required.
Serve as Co-Chair of DOR IRB Processes Committee and voting member of the Administrative Steering Committee. Lead in development of new policies and SOPs.
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Heather Leigh Flannery
Heather Leigh Flannery is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ConsenSys Health, a spin-off from ConsenSys AG effective March 2nd, 2020. She is also Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global (“BiHG”), a new 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO. She chairs the IEEE SA P2418.6 Standards Development Working Group (blockchain in healthcare and life sciences), serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force, Chairs the Healthcare Special Interest Group at the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), and is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Frontiers Blockchain for Science. Ms. Flannery is also an Innovation Fellow at EP3 Foundation, has served as Industry Faculty for the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (US HHS ONC) and is an active consultant, advisor, and keynote speaker.
Prior to ConsenSys, she founded and led Obesity Prevention, Policy, and Management, Inc. (“Obesity PPM”), an innovative provider of disease management, population health, research administration, and information technology managed services for health systems in the Americas, and an early adopter of blockchain technology.
As Co-Chair of this series, Ms. Flannery can be found sharing her knowledge throughout these sessions. | View talk from Session #1 »
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Juby George
Juby George-Vaze, RN, CCM, MBA is the CEO & Chief Innovation Officer of Globex Health, a company that she founded to help hospitals, providers and managed care successfully navigate the new healthcare landscape using her immersive clinical knowledge and Big Data Analytics, Telehealth, Remote Health Monitoring, AI, Compliance, Reimbursement and Blockchain Payment technologies. She has a special focus on aging, eldercare and polychronic condition management.
Prior to Globex Health, Juby held many leadership roles at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield & its many subsidiaries including Empire BC/BS, American Imaging Management, AmeriGroup, where she led transformation efforts that intersects at regulatory, technology, cybersecurity, regulatory, finance, medical management, contracting, insurance product design, claims, denials, patient centered medical home, payment models and care management. She is a leader and pioneer in Value Based Payment, Pay for Performance, Shared Risk and Accountable Care Organizations in addition to developing and running many complex disease management programs nationwide.
Juby currently serves on the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Blockchain Task Force, Nurse Informatics Group, New York Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), NY Healthcare SIG-cochair of Advanced Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE’s Blockchain in Healthcare Standardization group, co-chairing it’s Genomics subgroup. She serves on the Tech United’s Life Sciences Advisory Council. She is also advisor and mentor to several startups including health tech and blockchain companies.
Juby is licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) and is Certified Case Manager (CCM). and holds an MBA in Health Systems Management and a Bachelor of Science (BSc), both from Pace University.
Bjorn-Soren Gigler, PhD | 
Bjorn-Soren provides policy advice on economic impact and access to finance for digital innovations with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, IoT, Supercomputing, 5G. Coordinate the preparation and implementation of programs (funded through financial instruments) focus on the digital economy including the digitalisation of SMEs, Digital Innovation Hubs, Semi-conductor and Photonics industries.
Michael Glickman
Michael L. Glickman (MGlickman@CNAInc.com) is CEO of Computer Network Architects and Chair of ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics.
Michael is the Chair of International Standards Organization (ISO)/TC215, Health informatics representing the interests and SME resources of sixty-three (63) countries. He has over 50 years of experience in the computer industry, and 40 years, specializing in the unique requirements of “clinical reliability”, interoperability and data quality/data science in HealthCare. He is very active in healthcare informatics standards development and use.
Deeply experienced nationally and internationally recognized Subject Matter Expert in Health informatics; Board Member, Scientist, Engineer, University Teacher, Mentor and consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the HIT and services industry. Skilled in: Design, Requirements Analysis, HIT Infrastructure Strategy, Protocol Based Clinical Research/Pharma, Interoperability, Health Informatics and Data Science, Population Health, Genomics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), Digital Engagement and Transformation, and the art and science of Reducing Clinical Burden.
Christopher Gorog
Christopher Gorog PMP, CISSP, CEO BlockFrame Inc., Founder International Alliance of Trust Chains, Founder Blockchain Development Community, Founder New Cyber Frontier, Published Author, Chair IEEE Blockchain Privacy & Security.
BlockFrame Inc. is a company dedicated to building a future where cyber-security is implemented from the ground up. BlockFrame’s Unified Eco-Secure Framework is changing the behavior of people by enabling accountability of trusted transactions.
BlockFrame technology:
- Enables zero trust environment for networked devices.
- It is an underlining secure protocol that enables the trust of all things in the Eco-System.
- Provides Proof of Origin of all devices within the Eco-System.
- Unchangeable trust providing privacy between communication channels.
- Delivers Quality Quantifiable Risk
Tiffany Gray, DrPH, GWCPM, MPH
Tiffany Gray is a Public Health Advisor and Consultant specializing in Health Behavior, Research and Policy and the intersection of health and emerging technologies.
John Greaves
John Greaves is a globally recognized leader in technology who has pioneered development in DLT and Blockchain. His work in the Standards, Regulatory and Compliance areas for over 40 years enables him to support the rapid adoption of Blockchain DLT, revolutionizing IT as he states “in the post Turing era.”
This has led John to becoming one of the first in his field to apply Value Models in Supply Chain and Health Care in particular. His OHIO Principle (Zero Human Intervention Operations) is the backbone of the assessments and evaluations that are driving rapid adoption of Blockchain DLT.
Greaves has been the founding chair of several US, EU and British standards groups. He works closely with and continues to be a part of the EU Blockchain and DLT Programs. He was the leader of the GTAG program for EAN.UCC and developed, among many significant implementations worldwide, usable inter-operable IT and Data Processing engines. These very engines have rapidly been adopted by Standards and Regulatory IT Architecture.
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Mari Greenberger, MPPA
Mari is the Senior Director of Informatics for HIMSS, a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on the reformation of the global health ecosystem through the power of information and technology. In her role she directs and executes all Health Information Exchange (HIE), social health and standards-based interoperability initiatives including the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase™ and the Immunization Integration Program, a cooperative agreement with the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) and the CDC. This includes thought leadership curation, coalition building, and informing policy comment opportunities as well as oversees development of strategic goals, planning and implementation. The area’s content scope includes HIE, SDOH, public health, blockchain and interoperability volunteer activities and educational.
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Thomas Hardjono
Dr. Thomas Hardjono is currently the CTO of Connection Science and Technical Director of the MIT Trust-Data Consortium, located at MIT in Cambridge, MA. For several years prior to this he was the Executive Director of the MIT Kerberos Consortium, helping make the Kerberos protocol to become the most ubiquitously deployed authentication protocol in world today. Over the past two decades Thomas he has held various industry technical leadership roles, including Distinguished Engineer at Bay Networks, Principal Scientist at VeriSign PKI, and CTO roles at several start-ups. He has been at the forefront of several industry initiatives around identity, data privacy, trust, applied cryptography, and cybersecurity.
Justin D. Harris
Justin has developed systems for various NLU fields such as ontological representations, classification, entity tagging, dialog, and implementing neural networks for production systems. Justin has management experience in bringing NLU systems to production for many languages but prefers work directly on engineering now. Justin works on ways to bring machine learning to more people using Federated Learning and/or sharing updatable models in smart contracts on a blockchain, and is working on putting trainable AI models into smart contracts on a public blockchain for anyone to update and while keeping inference/prediction free to use.
Justin is using his experience in ML and crowdsourcing to implement a framework for ML in smart contracts to collect quality data and provide models that are free to use. Experiments are done on the Ethereum blockchain. Blogpost: https://aka.ms/0xDeCA10B-blog1. Details: github.com/microsoft/0xDeCA10B.
Dr. Amin Hassanzadeh
Senior Research Principal at Accenture Cyber Lab and leads the Cyber Lab R&D team working on cybersecurity research projects such as Attack Surface Management, DevSecOps, Secure Industrial Internet, Trustworthy AI, and Cyber Risk Management. He has earned his PhD in computer engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research interests are IoT and Industrial IoT Security, Predictive Analytics in Cyber Security, Privacy Preserving, Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networks, and Intrusion Detection Systems. Dr. Hassanzadeh has designed and developed multiple prototypes on alert correlation in IIoT, proactive risk analysis and remediation, and security event classification that are currently industrialized by Accenture Security and in production for Accenture clients in several industries.
Joyce Hunter
Joyce Hunter is a strategic-doer and a philanthropreneur. She was appointed by President Barack Obama to the position of Deputy Chief Information Officer for Policy and Planning at the Department of Agriculture (2013-2017) and was the Acting Chief Information Officer from March 2016 to July 2016. In addition to policy and technology planning, Ms. Hunter oversaw the Departments 4.1 billion dollar IT investment portfolio, created and continues to lead the Data Science Camp Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit summer camp for underserved youth, developed USDA’s Open Data/Big Data strategy and was the executive sponsor of the IT Fellows and IT Workforce Development Programs.
As the Executive Director with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT), a cybersecurity Think Tank, she provides program management, strategy development and execution, to support cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, legislative, commercial, and public-sector cybersecurity stakeholders.
Ms. Hunter earned a BA from Villanova University and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. Ms. Hunter was recently named by Security Magazine one of the most Influential People in Security for 2020, chosen by the editors of FedScoop to be included in the 2017 and 2016 annual list of “D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology”, the 2016 Top 50 Federal Leaders, a 2017 recipient of the Roy L. Clay Sr. Technology Pinnacle Award as one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology and a recipient of the Wharton DC Club Joseph A. Wharton award. Ms. Hunter is on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Villanova University, many industry advisory boards and published in The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration: Transforming, Performing and Innovating in a Complex World (Routledge 2017).
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Jacob Kean, PhD
Jacob Kean, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Health System Innovation and Research, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, and Research Scientist, Salt Lake City VA Health Care System. He completed his doctorate in 2008 and served subsequently and concurrent with his faculty appointments at Indiana University as an Indiana CTSI KL2 Faculty Scholar, a Visiting Scientist at the Boston University Rehabilitation Outcomes Center, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Rehabilitation Research Using Large Datasets at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and a VA Career Development Awardee. Dr. Kean completed the NIH Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) and a post-doctoral Master’s degree in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics and Assessment (MESA) at the University of Illinois – Chicago.
Aman Khera
Aman is VP, Global Head of Regulatory Strategy at Worldwide Clinical Trials, a mid-size CRO. She is an accomplished leader and expert in regulatory affairs with a 24-year track record of success within the CRO environment in providing global strategic direction in regulatory affairs. She has led a wide variety of regulatory projects providing regulatory strategy and development services for a variety of client sponsor companies ranging from virtual companies to large companies in many therapeutic indications. Aman is passionate about helping clients develop comprehensive regulatory strategies. Her career is built on helping clients achieve their end to end regulatory strategies from study submission to commercialization.
Anjum Khurshid
Director, Data Integration; Co-Chief Health Informatics, and Assistant Professor, Population Health
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Anjum is a nationally-recognized physician-leader in population health and applications of health information technology (HIT). As the inaugural Director of Data Integration at the Dell Medical School, Anjum works on health informatics initiatives to improve the data ecosystem to support the mission of the School, and leads several population health and health IT programs to improve information sharing and patient outcomes. These projects include developing a FHIR-based, patient engagement technology for care and research, integrating social determinants of health in clinical settings, and prototyping a blockchain application for identity management in healthcare. Anjum leverages over 20 years of executive leadership, policy research, and advanced analytics experience applied to a variety of complex, multi-stakeholder, large health informatics projects and standards development initiatives, including several which are blockchain based.
David Kochalko |
David Kochalko is the CEO and Co-Founder of ARTiFACTS. Dave has built and managed businesses that deliver research data & software solutions used by millions of scientists in over 7,000 organizations, including universities, research institutes, governments and corporations. As a Co-Founder of ORCID, he also serves as consulting advisor and board member for industry and academic institutions and is an alumnus of the University of Michigan.
Kitty Kolding
Ms. Kolding is a successful start-up CEO, having led multiple new, early stage and mid stage start-ups across categories including marketing tech, marketing services and data. She has founded and led three of her own companies, and has been brought into several start-ups by Founders and VC investors as a professional CEO, to drive more disciplined and productive business operations, for firms including House Party, Cravebox, Elicit, Infocore and Innovation Pavilion.
Kitty founded Chrysalis Partners in early 2018, a company that helps obtain value, utility and revenue from data. Immediately prior to Chrysalis, Kitty was CEO of Infocore for 5 years, where she oversaw a team of global data sourcing and activation experts serving Fortune 500 marketers and their agency partners in the USA and 90 countries around the world.
Prior to her appointment at Infocore, she was CEO of several start-ups, including Cravebox, a next generation marketing platform for Fortune 500 consumer marketers, and House Party, a social and experiential marketing firm, for nearly 5 years. Prior to joining House Party, Kitty was founder and CEO of S3, an outsourced services firm specializing in strategic sales and partnerships, which she ran for 4 years on a full time bases, after leading strategic sales and business development at Jupiter Research, where she held a series of executive positions, helping grow revenues to over $100 million.
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Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, PhD
Dr. Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is an Associate Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and revels in pushing the boundaries of financial knowledge and product development both as an academic and FinTech entrepreneur. He has published pioneering research in the intersection of social media big data, blockchain, and financial markets. He currently teaches “Big Data Machine Learning AI,” “Crypto-Currencies and Blockchain,” “Advanced Hedge Fund Strategies,” and “Leading Entrepreneurship and Innovation” at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Craig Lipset
Craig Lipset (he/him/his) leads at the forefront of innovation in clinical research and medicine development. He is an advisor to technology and biopharmaceutical companies, leading universities, and the venture community, bringing vision and driving action at the intersection of research, digital solutions, and patient engagement. Craig was the Head of Clinical Innovation and Venture Partner at Pfizer, on the founding Operations Committee for TransCelerate Biopharma, and on the founding management teams for two successful startup ventures (Perceptive Informatics and Adnexus Therapeutics). During that time, Craig designed and launched multiple industry firsts — from the first fully remote/virtual clinical trial for a new medicine to the first returning of results and data to research participants.
Craig currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (Co-Chair), Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research and the MedStar Health Research Institute, and, as well as on the Editorial Board for Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science. Craig is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Health Informatics at Rutgers University, and an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Rochester Center for Health + Technology.
Orlando Lopez
Orlando is Director of the Dental Materials and Biomaterials Program and Coordinator of the Small Business (SBIR/STTR) Program at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). He leads efforts to strengthen NIH/NIDCR’s portfolio in basic science and translational research by funding development of biomaterials, oral biodevices and digital dentistry technologies intended to address oral health and overall health.
He serves as program manager to trans-NIH initiative on Rapid Acceleration for Diagnostics for COVID-19 detection by oral biosensing and an interagency research program at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) supporting development of clinically relevant standards for dental biomaterials and oral biosensors.
Orlando is also a major contributor to multiple professional working groups and industry standards committees, including NIH Data Management Working Group, NIH Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group, DoD’s Working Group on Computational Modeling, IEEE 2933 Standard on Clinical IoT Interoperability with TIPPSS, IEEE Healthcare Blockchain and AI, DMV Chapter of Blockchain in Healthcare Today, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Biomedical Engineering Technical Committee and Thermal Medicine Standard, American Dental Association (ADA) Standards on Dental Products, American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) Blockchain and AI Working Groups.
Prior to NIDCR, he served as lead regulatory reviewer at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health of the Food and Drug Administration (CDRH-FDA) where he led regulatory approvals of medical devices in the areas of diagnostic medical imaging, cardiovascular and digital health technologies. He is alumni of the prestigious FDA Commissioner’s Fellowship and the NIH Postdoctoral IRTA Fellowship.
Orlando received a GWCPM from The George Washington University, School of Business, and a Ph.D. from Mayo Clinic and B.S. from Boston University, both, in Biomedical Engineering.
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Sean Manion, PhD
Sean is the Chief Scientific Officer of ConsenSys Health. He is a neuroscientist with two decades of federal research experience. He is a noted author, having recently co-authored Blockchain for Medical Research: Accelerating Trust in Healthcare with journalist Yael Bizouati-Kennedy (2020 CRC Press) along with the book chapter, “Advancing Health Research with Blockchain” in the HIMSS Series textbook, Blockchain in Healthcare: Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals and Improve Care, and articles such as Blockchain Compliance by Design: Regulatory Considerations for Blockchain in Clinical Research. Sean co-founded and serves as a Chief Editor for the peer-reviewed journal Blockchain for Science published by Frontiers. Dr. Manion is co-founder of Blockchain in Healthcare Global, a 501 (c)(6) under the IEEE International Standards & Technology Organization, and he is a member of the HIMSS Blockchain Task Force and the IEEE Standards Association working group for Blockchain in Healthcare & Life Sciences (p2418.6). He was named a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association in 2019 and serves as an editorial board member of their journal.
Prior to moving into the private sector, Dr. Manion served as Deputy Chief of Staff and later Research Activities Chief at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Neuroscience from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2006, and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Temple University in 1999.
Mike McCoy
Mike McCoy is the Director of Platform Integration & Technical Partnerships at ConsenSys Health building a platform based on distributed computing, machine learning and privacy enhancing technology for health care, life science and public sector partners. Previously at Accenture and the ConsenSys parent company, Mike has worked in technical strategy, development, integration and growth models for people to use and scale emerging technologies to industry standards.
Mike is also an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson University’s Institute of Emerging Health Professions as a lecturer and course developer for emerging technology graduate certificate courses. He is the Chair of the Hyperledger Healthcare Special Interest Group and a member to IEEE, Frontiers, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, Blockchain for Social Impact and other Hyperledger Working Groups.
Denise McCurdy
Denise McCurdy is a veteran of the Information and Communications industry with over 35 years of experience working with Fortune 100 firms. With a professional and personal interest in emerging technologies, Denise returned to academics to investigate blockchain, completing her doctorate in business with a thesis in blockchain for supply chains. Passionate about mentoring, Denise enjoyed working with her team members to secure a first place win at GSU’s Blockchain Innovation Competition with a supply chain solution.
With a background in strategy formulation, Denise has extensive experience in assembling and managing global teams to resolve challenging business problems, and counts among her clients the Gates Foundation and the Center for Global Development, P&G, British Telecom, and a mobile money start-up in Argentina.
In addition to her Doctorate in Business Administration, Denise holds a Master of Science degree in Strategic Management from Georgia State University and a bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University.
Denise has traveled extensively overseas, and enjoys meeting people from all parts of the world. Calling Vinings, GA home, Denise is a transplant from the Midwest and enjoys the Atlanta sunshine.
Publications
McCurdy, D. (2020). The Role of Collaborative Governance in Blockchain-Enabled Supply Chains: A Proposed Framework.
Johnson, A., McCurdy, D., Schechter, D., & Loch, K. (2020, January). Hot or Cold… How Ready are Third Party Logistics Cold Storage Companies to Implement Blockchain? In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Pisa, M., & McCurdy, D. (2019). Improving Global Health Supply Chains through Traceability. CGD Policy Paper 139.
Standards Associations
Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA) – Standards Review co-chair. BiTA is one of the largest commercial blockchain alliances in the world, with nearly 500 members in over 25 countries that collectively generate over $1 trillion in revenue annually.
IEEE P2145 Blockchain Governance Working Group – Member at large, and team lead for Governance for Interoperable Blockchains sub-group.
David Metcalf, PhD |
David Metcalf has more than 25 years of experience in the design and research of web-based and mobile technologies converging to enable learning and healthcare. Dr. Metcalf is Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. The team has built mHealth solutions, simulations, games, eLearning, mobile and enterprise IT systems for Google, J&J, VA, U.S. military and UCF’s College of Medicine among others. In addition to research and commercial investments, he supports social entrepreneurship in education and health. Dr. Metcalf continues to bridge the gap between corporate learning and simulation techniques and non-profit and social entrepreneurship.
IoT, blockchain, cybersecurity, simulation, mobilization, mobile patient records and medical decision support systems, visualization systems, scalability models, secure mobile data communications, gaming, innovation management and operational excellence are current research topics outside his lab duties. Dr. Metcalf encourages spinoffs from the lab as part of the innovation process and has launched Merging Traffic and several other for-profit and nonprofit ventures as examples.
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Dr. Clara Neppel |
Dr. Clara Neppel is responsible for the growth of IEEE’s operations and presence in Europe, focusing on the needs of industry, academia, and government. She serves as a point of contact for initiatives with regard to technology, engineering, and related public policy issues that help to implement IEEE’s continued global commitment to fostering technological innovation for the benefit of humanity.
Raj Nihalani, MD, RAC |
Dr. Raj Nihalani is a physician entrepreneur who has start up to exit experience. He is an expert in innovations in cardiovascular, obesity, metabolic disorders, spine fusion innovations, ophthalmology, digital health, AI, big data platform, business development, M&A, regulatory strategy, clinical trials, medical technology analysis /assessment, and clinical marketing.
Dr. Nihalani is one of the few medical device entrepreneurs who took the challenge of starting his own medical device company during 2008-2009 US economic recession. He invented and developed the Gastric Vest System which got acquired by Enteromedics in May 2017. The technology won the Most Innovative Product Award by CONNECT, San Diego in 2016 and was nominated for High Tech Innovation Award for 2017.
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John Palfreyman
John joined IBM in 1996, as part of the acquisition of Data Sciences where he was General Manager of the Aerospace Division. John has worked at a European and Global level in IBM as leader of emerging technology businesses including Pervasive Computing, Linux Services, Grid Computing and Open Source Services and extensively in the Global Defence, Intelligence and Public Safety industry. John currently focuses on the business application of Blockchain, working directly with customers and through enablement of IBM practitioners and partners. John has worked on several high profile Blockchain customer projects, illustrating the transformational value of this new technology. John founded Palfreyman Ventures in July 2017 offering informed, objective advice for the application of new technologies for sustained business advantage. John also works as Non-executive Director of Novus Property Solutions and as a Supervisor and Lecturer at Leeds University Business School and Lecturer/Associate at Salford University Professional Development.
Maria Palombini, MBA |
Maria works with the global Health/Wellness community to utilize the IEEE SA platform to develop trusted solutions in technologies poised to deliver better health outcomes for everyone.
Committed to fulfilling a mission that provides all individuals with the right to privacy, security, safety and universal sustainable quality of life enabled by trusted and validated use of new technologies and related applications. Open collaborating with global multi-disciplinary community comprised of the most innovative developers and progressive minds, they are working to build consensus and develop solutions that will enable clinicians throughout the healthcare ecosystem realize the possibility of precision and quality care for all individuals.
Mitch Parker
Mitch joined Indiana University Health in September of 2016 as executive director of information security and compliance, where he leads a team of 21 people dedicated to protecting the organization’s systems and data. “Everything we do on the team is about the mission of the organization and we keep that in mind every day,” Parker says. “We do this because our patients depend on us.” Parker’s team is divided into four smaller groups, which include:
- Cybersecurity operations: This team responds to any virus or ransom malware that tries to attack an IU Health machine.
- Third party vendor risk management: All equipment purchased by IU Health that connects to the network is evaluated for risk by this team before being used.
- Regulatory compliance: This team is responsible for making sure IU Health complies with the HIPAA security rule – national standards that protect an individual’s electronic personal health information — and credit card processing rules.
- Internal review: This team conducts IU Health’s own version of an internal audit, making sure its security controls are effective.
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
Jonathan is a research scientist at ConsenSys Health and Imperial College London.
His current research at ConsenSys Health focuses on privacy preserving machine learning and decentralisation. Jonathan is exploring the potential of bringing together techniques such as Federated Learning and Blockchains to build a new generation of healthcare systems. He is growing a strong expertise on Secure Computing (Trusted Execution Environments – TEEs, MPC, …) and Verifiable Computing (TEEs, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, …) with the goal to enhance machine learning deployments with these privacy preserving technologies.
At Imperial, Jonathan works in the BioMedIA group, under Prof. Daniel Rueckert, where he’s leveraging distributed computing for AutoML. This project encompasses model selection, neural architecture search and hyperparameter tuning using a various range of methods. This is done in collaboration with the Complex Systems Institute, Paris in the context of the OpenMOLE project.
Dr. Robert Popovian
Dr. Robert Popovian is an Healthcare/Biopharmaceutical Leader accomplished in pharmaceutical science, business and government, with a distinctive array of academic and practical experience across a wide range of healthcare and business management functions. Positioned at the intersection of economics, policy, and innovation which maximizes patient access, Dr. Popovian fosters an environment of performance, leadership, inclusiveness and innovation.
In fact, he is one of the few experts who has studied and published both clinical and policy related economic analysis as well as one of a handful who have studied and published empirical data regarding emerging payment mechanisms in the US healthcare system. He is also one of the first to secure inclusion of health outcomes data regarding labeled indication of a biopharmaceutical.
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Ramesh Ramadoss, PhD |
Ramesh Ramadoss is a co-chair of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative. He leads the IEEE Blockchain Standards Committee. He also serves on the Expert Panel of the European Union Blockchain Observatory. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA in 2003. Between 2003 and 2007, he was employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama, USA. In 2008, he moved to Silicon Valley and has over a decade of industrial experience in technology companies. He has conducted projects for DARPA, NASA, US Army, US Air Force, Sandia National Labs, and Motorola Labs. He is the author or co-author of 1 book, 3 book chapters and 55 research papers (Google Scholar Citations: 936). He has delivered talks at over 90 international conferences in 40 countries.
Susan Ramonat
Founder and Chair of Advisory Board of Spiritus Partners, Inc.
With over 25 years of Wall Street and banking experience, Susan has excelled in executive roles across enterprise sales, product management, technology strategy, operational risk and corporate development.
As Chief Risk Officer for a $9 billion financial services firm, she built an enterprise risk management program directly aligned with the company’s strategy of marshalling emerging technologies for its wealth management, hedge fund and pension fund clients – experience she’s used in healthcare since the company’s founding in 2016.
Susan serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Loyola University Chicago, and is an Industry Associate at UCL Blockchain Centre of Excellence. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University.
Drummond Reed
Drummond has spent over two decades working on Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust frameworks. He joined Evernym as Chief Trust Officer after Evernym’s acquisition of Respect Network, where he was CEO, co-founder, and co-author of the Respect Trust Framework, which was honored with the Privacy Award at the 2011 European Identity Conference. Drummond has served as co-chair of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee since 2004, the new semantic data interchange protocol that implements Privacy by Design. Prior to starting Respect Network, Drummond was Executive Director of two industry foundations: the Information Card Foundation and the Open Identity Exchange, the international not-for-profit clearinghouse for Internet trust frameworks. He has also served as a founding board member of the OpenID Foundation, ISTPA, XDI.org, and Identity Commons. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was honored as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.
Alex Reznik
Alex is a Distinguished Technologist in Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s North American Telco organization. In this role he is involved in various aspects of helping Tier 1 CSPs deploy state of the art flexible infrastructure capable of delivering on the full promises of 5G. Since March 2017, Alex also serves as Chair of ETSI’s Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) ISG – the leading international standards group focused on enabling edge computing in access networks.
Prior to May 2016 Alex was a Senior Principal Engineer/Senior Director at InterDigital, leading the company’s research and development activities in the area of wireless internet evolution. Since joining InterDigital in 1999, he has been involved in a wide range of projects, including leadership of 3G modem ASIC architecture, design of advanced wireless security systems, coordination of standards strategy in the cognitive networks space, development of advanced IP mobility and heterogeneous access technologies and development of new content management techniques for the mobile edge.
Alex earned his B.S.E.E. Summa Cum Laude from The Cooper Union, S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He held a visiting faculty appointment at WINLAB, Rutgers University, where he collaborated on research in cognitive radio, wireless security, and future mobile Internet. He served as the Vice-Chair of the Services Working Group at the Small Cells Forum. Alex is an inventor of over 150 granted U.S. patents, and has been awarded numerous awards for Innovation at InterDigital. He recently co-authored the book “Multi-Access Edge Computing in Action.”
Sandra Ro
Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. She left a career in derivatives, investment banking and currency markets to focus on emerging technologies for sustainability, access, and resiliency, particularly in financial systems. She is an early investor in, and an advocate of crypto and digital assets. Sandra currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), a Swiss-based non-profit as well as an angel investor in emerging technologies, Board member, advisor, keynote speaker and cofounder of several start-ups, non-profits, and key blockchain industry networks.
She is currently Board director of Global Digital Finance (UK) NYS Senate appointee on the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, Fintech Advisory Council of Astana International Financial Center (AIFC Kazakhstan), Board Treasurer of BitGive Foundation, member of EU Public Funds and New Green Economy Consortia, Chair of Open Impact Foundation (Switzerland), Advisory Council of Filecoin Foundation, Health Tech Chair of Yale Alumni Health Network (YAHN), and member of Open Transparency Initiative (Denmark), member of World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium (DCGC), US Department of State Speakers Bureau, Standards, International Securities Services Association (ISSA), amongst others.
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Neil Sahota (萨冠军) |
Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) AI Advisor, author of the book Own the A.I. Revolution., and Chief Innovation Officer at UC Irvine. He is a business solution advisor to several large companies and sought-after keynote speaker. Over his 20+ year career, Neil has worked with enterprises on the business strategy to create next generation products/solutions powered by emerging technology as well as helping organizations create the culture, community, and ecosystem needed to achieve success such as the U.N.’s AI for Good initiative. Neil also actively pursues social good and volunteers with nonprofits. He is currently helping the Zero Abuse Project prevent child sexual abuse as well as Planet Home to engage youth culture in sustainability initiatives.
Moira Schieke
Moira is a digital health innovator, cancer imaging and MRI expert, board-certified clinical radiologist, inventor of “5D” medical imaging, and Founder/CEO of Cubismi. She is a passionate advocate for patient rights and for breaking down legacy barriers to improved care.
As a business owner, Moira’s focus is on advancing medical imaging technology through big data learning and revolutionary user interfaces. Moira brings a unique perspective as a practicing radiologist that gives her powerful insights into how a revolutionary new medical imaging paradigm can empower physicians’ decision making and lead to improved patient outcomes.
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi MBBS, PhD
Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is the founding head of Center of Excellence in Healthcare at IIIT-Delhi and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computational Biology. He received his M.B.B.S from Government Medical College, Amritsar and PhD from CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi, India. For two years, he was a Visiting Faculty member at Stanford University, Department of Biomedical. Tavpritesh is also a Kavli Fellow, in the Kavli Frontiers of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, United States and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at AIIMS, New Delhi. He has contributed to Data Science solutions in Critical Care, Infectious Diseases, Genomics, Public Health policy, and recently in COVID. He has more than 25 articles in Biomedical Data Science published in toptier journals and has delivered several international Keynote addresses and talks at reputed venues including the WHO. He serves as an academic editor for PLOS One, Nature Scientific Reports, Systems Medicine and Journal of Genetics.
Arie Shen |
Results-oriented executive with a proven track record in building and growing companies. Creates and implements key strategies. Manages programs, P&L, technical projects and worldwide teams in various sectors. Quickly grasps complex technology concepts. Connects to customers, resellers and VARs, technologists and executives, and works effectively with all of them. Demonstrated experience in leading, developing, and contributing to teams that achieve results. Accomplished, analytical, big-picture thinker who promotes a shared vision and thrives in challenging, fast-paced environments where innovative ideas and pragmatic methods are valued. A leader through empowerment, integrity, and personal example / individual contributor with rich international background.
Sachin Shetty
Sachin Shetty is an Associate Director at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center. He holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor with the Department of Computational, Modeling, and Simulation Engineering. Sachin Shetty received his PhD in Modeling and Simulation from the Old Dominion University in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Min Song. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, he was an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Tennessee State University. He was also the associate director of the Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Engineering Research Institute and directed the Cyber Security laboratory at Tennessee State University. He also holds a dual appointment as an Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Indiana.
His research interests lie at the intersection of computer networking, network security and machine learning. His laboratory conducts cloud and mobile security research and has received over $12 million in funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Lab, Office of Naval Research, Department of Homeland Security, and Boeing. He is a co-principal investigator on the DoD Cyber Security Center of Excellence, the Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence, the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), and Department of Energy, Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC). He has authored and co-authored over 150 research articles in journals and conference proceedings and two books. He is the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Award, DHS Scientific Leadership Award and has been inducted in Tennessee State University’s million-dollar club. He has served on the technical program committee for ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCN, and IEEE ICCCN.
Susanne Sommerville
Susanne is CEO Chronicled, focusing on establishing networks powered by blockchain to automate the way companies do business together. She is one of the founders of the MediLedger Network, established for the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences industry, with solutions already available to enable prescription medicine verification, and automation of revenue management processes. She brings over 25 years of pharmaceutical, biotech, and supply chain experience. Susanne was most recently the Vice President of Supply Chain, North America, for Genentech.
Jim St. Clair
Jim is the CTO of The Dinocrates Group, a Maryland-based boutique strategy and advisory firm, and the founder of the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology.
As CTO, Jim leads the Dinocrates Transformational Technology Services to assist public and private sector clients understand and adopt the latest advances in Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and cyber risk.
Given the dramatic changes in technology and healthcare delivery, Jim recently founded the Institute for Healthcare Financial Technology, which upon inception will be a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the healthcare value chain to reduce costs and streamline access and delivery of healthcare. IHFT builds on the innovations of financial, insurance and healthcare technology, especially in such concepts as distributed ledgers, blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Nicole Tay, MPH
Nicole has her MPH from Columbia University in Epidemiology and the Social Determinants of Health. She is a creative healthcare professional and blockchain technology consultant. As a queer woman of color, Nicole is passionate about using blockchains and other emerging technologies to bolster underserved communities. In her spare time, she writes and directs short films.
Ben Taylor
Ben is the CEO of LedgerDomain, founded in 2016 to bring blockchain solutions to enterprise ecosystems, unlocking a world of communal computing and real-time performance. After doing undergraduate and graduate work at MIT, Ben spent a quarter of a century incubating and investing in early-stage technology companies. In partnership with the Clinical Supply Blockchain Working Group, LedgerDomain developed the world’s first iOS blockchain app for the clinical supply chain. As part of the US Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) DSCSA Pilot Project Program, LedgerDomain partnered with UCLA Health to deploy a last-mile application helping to deliver lifesaving medications at one of the busiest hospitals in the United States.
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Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, MBA
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes is a healthcare executive, futurist and globalist who is highly dedicated to digital and ethics advocacy. She is a passionate educator and entrepreneurship ecosystem builder, known as an expert speaker, board advisor and consultant. Throughout her career she has received several awards for excellence in research, teaching or leadership. This past year she has been named one of the Top 100 Global Women Leaders, 100 Global Healthcare Leaders, Top 100 Global Finance Leaders and Top 100 Women in Crypto. Additionally, she received the 2021 Excellence in Education Award, World Women Vision Award for Technology and innovation, serves as an Expert Advisor to the EU Blockchain Observatory Forum, and was appointed to the Board of UN Legal and Economic Empowerment Network. Most recently she also received the WBAF World Excellence Award for The Best Businesswoman Role Model Demonstrating Social Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Vasiliu-Feltes is the Founder and CEO of The Science, Entrepreneurship and Investments Institute, as well as Co-Founder, Chairwoman and VP of Innovation for Pharma Trade Network and currently serving as a Country Director for WBAF USA. She is also Sr. Senator of WBAF, Faculty Member of the WBAF Business School – Division of Entrepreneurship, and teaching the Executive MBA Business Technology Course at the UM Business School.
Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH
A systems-thinker with extensive experience in operations management, policy, executive education, and establishing strategic partnerships designed to improve health and wellness in underserved communities.
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Gisele Waters, PhD
Seasoned bilingual educator, writer, editor and researcher exceptionally skilled in translating and communicating complex technical and organizational concepts to author a broad range of compelling research deliverables for public and commercial sectors, scientific and academic institutions. Along with several key consulting engagements, Gisele is on the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Blockchain, responsible for editing and assessing the rigour and validity of blockchain for science research + working collaboratively with authors and editors to improve the manuscripts, ensuring only high-quality content is published. Information development. Knowledge management.
Proven track record of successful collaboration and qualitative research with a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary stakeholders and organizations resulting in highly effective research products and proposals.
A gypsy in terms of travelling through disciplines; I have a unique ability to flow in and out of disciplinary geographies because learning is a passion. My homes are in my head and heart, so I never feel bound by the usual shackles of assumed commitments to boundaries and jurisdictions.
Scott Whitmire
Scott Whitmire is a senior enterprise architect with over 40 years of system architecture and development experience, including lead architect on a number of major applications. He has built or designed applications for several industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, professional practice management, financial services, wholesale, retail, and telecommunications.
Mr. Whitmire is a Senior Member of the IEEE, an Iasa Fellow, and holds the CITA-P certification. He has mentored many architects and engineers, and has served on many CITA-P boards. He has published one book (so far), “Object Oriented Design Measurement,” as well as numerous papers, articles, and presentations. He is a frequent speaker at Iasa chapter and global events.
Samson Williams
Samson’s super power is helping smart and amazing people be more smart and amazing,
help them with any or all of the following:
- Making Money
- Raising up to $5M via Investment Crowdfunding
- The Space Economy
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- Crisis & Emergency LeadershipSpecialty areas include:
- Emerging Technology Adoption
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- Crisis Communications
- Disaster Preparedness & Response
- Organizational Change Management
Peter H. Woodward
Peter serves as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MEC @ the Basement LLC, a start-up business focused on next-generation 5G connectivity and compute solutions, utilizing multi-access edge computing (MEC). He is also the CEO of Innovative Power, LLC since the acquisition of that business in December 2018. He is the Founder and President of MHW Capital Management, a private investment. Mr. Woodward serves as the Chairman of the Boards of Directors of TSS, Inc. and Precision Optics Corporation. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and director of Cartesian, Inc., a publicly-listed consulting firm in the telecommunications space. Mr. Woodward holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colgate University and a Master’s degree in International Economics from Columbia University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Peter serves as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of MEC @ the Basement LLC, a start-up business focused on next-generation 5G connectivity and compute solutions, utilizing multi-access edge computing (MEC). He is also the CEO of Innovative Power, LLC since the acquisition of that business in December 2018. He is the Founder and President of MHW Capital Management, a private investment. Mr. Woodward serves as the Chairman of the Boards of Directors of TSS, Inc. and Precision Optics Corporation. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer and director of Cartesian, Inc., a publicly-listed consulting firm in the telecommunications space. Mr. Woodward holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colgate University and a Master’s degree in International Economics from Columbia University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.