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Based in Melbourne, James Litjens is the head of Emerging Technology at the ARQ Group, one of Australia’s top innovation and technology consultancies that focuses on the trifecta of digital, data, and cloud. ARQ has successfully helped some of the largest and most well-known household brands bring new tech ideas to life. Its clientele includes government and private companies across many industries. ARQ’s mission is to bridge the gap between current and leading-edge technology so companies can build roadmaps for the future. ARQ Group recently became part of Singtel, one of the major telecommunication companies operating in Singapore that provides mobile, fiber broadband, and TV services.

Litjens is also a serial entrepreneur, having studied business entrepreneurship with distinction at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, one of the top universities in the world. One of his startups was JukeStar, a social jukebox app for partygoers where the host provides a jukebox that guests can customize. It’s been quite successful, gaining thousands of users.

In the past five years, however, Litjens has worked mostly in the corporate context with a portfolio that includes flagship mobile apps, virtual and augmented reality, automation, chatbots, and many other interesting projects. In this podcast, Litjens discusses the increasing use of digital twins.

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Matthew Holt is best known as the founder of The HealthCare Blog, with 50,000 views a month, and co-founder with Dr. Indu Subaiya of the immensely popular global Health 2.0 conference, one of the first to focus on digital health. Now he runs the SMACK.health advisory service for health tech startups, stars with Jess DaMassa in the weekly show Health Tech Deals, and puts on the What's Next for Health Care conference.

Mr. Holt graduated from Cambridge University in the UK with his Bachelor’s in Social Policy & Society, followed by a Master’s in Health Services Research at Stanford. During his career, he has spent nearly 30 years in healthcare and healthcare IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist, having worked for renowned think tanks like Institute for the Future. At Harris Interactive, Mr. Holt conducted two groundbreaking survey research studies, Computing in the Physician's Practice and The 10,000 Patients Study. Before returning to the consulting life, Mr. Holt was vice president for strategy and business development at i-Beacon.com, an eHealth software company.

Mr. Holt has delivered keynote addresses all over the world and is on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine, whose mission is to help patients engage in their healthcare.

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Professor Anil Gupta, PhD is a pioneer, educator, and visionary in the field of frugal or grassroots innovation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in agriculture, a master’s in biochemical genetics, and a PhD in management. Dr. Gupta went on to be a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India’s top business school, for 36 years until he retired in 2017.

As a visiting professor, he still teaches a highly popular course in which he takes students to different parts of India to study knowledge systems in local communities. The course was based on his personal odyssey in 1998, when he began walking across the length and breadth of India over the next two decades, a total distance of more than 6,000 km, to talk with numerous grassroots innovators who created useful inventions despite significant resource constraints.

For his innovative work, Dr. Gupta was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s 4th highest civilian honor, by the President of India. He is a recipient of many international awards, a widely published author, speaker at TEDIndia and many major conferences, and founder of the Honey Bee Network, a volunteer organization that disseminates innovative ideas and traditional knowledge from local individuals and communities, while preserving recognition and fair compensation. Dr. Gupta also founded the National Innovation Foundation of India, the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, and the Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network. Professor Gupta is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the Indian National Science Academy.

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Indu Subaiya, MD, MBA is co-founder and President of Catalyst @ Health 2.0, the industry leader in digital health strategic partnering, innovation competitions and programs for piloting and commercializing novel healthcare technologies. Indu co-founded and served as CEO of Health 2.0, a global conference platform and community for the showcase and advancement of new technologies in healthcare. Health 2.0's conference business was acquired by HIMSS in 2017 after which Indu headed the organization as Executive Vice President. She continues as Senior Advisor to HIMSS, providing thought leadership and content advisory services under the office of the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer. In 2013, FierceHealthIT named Indu one of Health Information Technology’s Most Influential Women. In 2018, Indu was selected as a fellow of the Aspen Institute's fourth class of Health Innovators Fellows.

Recognized as an engaging keynote speaker, interviewer, and moderator, Indu has spoken or moderated at numerous industry conferences including the American Medical Association’s National Advocacy Conference, the Clinton Foundation Health Matters Initiative, Mayo Clinic’s Transform, Cleveland Clinic’s Patient Experience Conference, SXSW Interactive, Slush, and many more. She has worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, World Bank/International Finance Corporation, the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the California Health Care Foundation to build partnerships within the digital health innovation ecosystem.

Indu received her BS from Cornell University in Science and Technology Studies and MD from Stony Brook University. She came west to receive her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, deciding to forgo medical residency in order to develop new healthcare dialogues and care models. Prior to founding Health 2.0, Indu was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Physic Ventures, Vice President of Healthcare and Biomedical Research at Gerson Lehrman Group, and Director of Outcomes Research at Quorum Consulting. She has served as Vice President of the Society for Participatory Medicine and on advisory committees of the Department of Health and Human Services and National Health Data Consortium.

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Noelle Chow graduated from college in 2020 in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic. In this podcast interview, she gives us honest insights into how her generation views the future. Noelle talks about coping with remote education, social isolation, angst, pros and cons of social media, privacy, culture, mental health, and finding one's way in life after college.

Noelle is particularly intrigued by the intersection between technology and culture, especially as a young person living in an increasingly digital world. She peeks at the future through the lenses of both someone who professionally researches the behavior of people with tech, and as a young person who was born between the Millennials and Gen Z’ers.

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Uli K. Chettipally, MD, MPH is an emergency physician, researcher, author, and innovator. He is the Founder and President of InnovatorMD, a community platform for physician innovators. He received the Pioneer Award for Innovation and Morris F. Collen Research Award from Kaiser Permanente, which recognized his accomplishments in building innovative technology platforms across 21 hospitals that access EHR data to deliver clinical decision support to physicians.

Dr. Chettipally also serves as President of the San Mateo County Medical Association, is co-founder and chairman of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, and helps various healthcare startups as an advisor, mentor, and investor. His book Punish the Machine! The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare is available on Amazon.

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The head of thought leadership at Cognizant, Benjamin Pring co-founded and leads Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, and is a member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership Team. Ben is a co-author of the best-selling and award-winning books, What To Do When Machines Do Everything (2017) and Code Halos; How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business (2014). His latest book, Monster: Taming the Machines that Rules our Lives, Jobs, and Future, will be out in early 2021.

He sits on the advisory board of the Labor and Work Life program at Harvard Law School. In 2018 he participated in the Bilderberg Meeting. In 2020 he was named as one of 30 management thinkers to watch by Thinkers50, a business publisher. He was recently named a leading influencer on the future of work by Onalytica.

Ben joined Cognizant in 2011 from Gartner, where he spent 15 years researching and advising on areas such as Cloud Computing and Global Sourcing. He wrote the industry's first research notes on Cloud Computing (in 1997) and Salesforce.com (in 2001), and became well known for providing provocative but accurate predictions about the future of IT. In 2007, Ben won Gartner’s prestigious Thought Leader Award. Prior to Gartner, Ben worked for a number of consulting companies including Coopers and Lybrand.

Ben’s expertise in helping clients see around corners, think the unthinkable, and calculate the impact of unintended consequences has made him an internationally recognized expert on leading edge technology and its intersection with business and society. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, London Times, BBC’s News Night, PBS’s News Hour, NPR’s On Point, Drucker Forum Report, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune, The Sun, MIT Review, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Parade, Times of India, Quartz, Inc., Axios, Australian, and Economic Times.

Based near Boston since 2000, Ben graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Manchester University in the UK where he grew up.

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An 8th generation Vermonter, a farm boy, Harvard graduate, and farm equipment industry professional, George Russell has worked for 24 years for equipment manufacturers. His career has included several global positions and postings.

George’s interest in agricultural technology started on the farm and continues today. With the advent of the Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80, and the personal computing era, he founded a startup company that sold computers, software, and data management services directly to farmers. That company was later sold to its employees.

Later, as product director for large combine harvesters, he helped Case IH, a leading manufacturer, to become the first company to offer its customers factory-installed yield monitors and GPS receivers – both important tools that formed the foundation for precision farming.

Since 2007, George has been Executive Partner at Currie Management Consultants (https://curriemanagement.com/), a consulting company that advises farm and construction equipment dealers on how to integrate machines with myriad agricultural technologies. One of his passions is to see how new technologies are conceived and implemented.

George speaks and facilitates panels at many equipment industry meetings, such as Dealership Minds Summit, Precision Farming Summit, and an annual webinar that summarizes dealership consolidation called The Big Dealer Report. He also founded the Machinery Advisors Consortium (MAC), which provides advice and training to improve agricultural productivity (https://www.machineryadvisors.org).

The Machinery Advisors website has over 80 articles, such as: "Are You Ready for the 2nd Machine Age? What is the connection among Nebraska Tractor Tests, Moore’s Law, and the second half of the chess board?"

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Scott Bolland, PhD is an executive coach, international speaker, facilitator, and futurist. His PhD and background (of 25 years) are in the area of Cognitive Science – the scientific study of how the mind works, spanning areas such as psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. His expertise and interests fall into two main areas – HOW to teach, and WHAT to teach, in order to optimize human potential.

Regarding HOW to teach, Scott's company New Dawn Technologies (http://www.newdawntechnologies.com.au/), utilizes Artificial Intelligence to help personalize education, in order to improve student engagement and learning outcomes.

Regarding WHAT to teach, Scott's main focus is in the field of Positive Psychology (the science of human flourishing), and has brought the latest research-backed insights to a diverse range of clients from MBA students, through to the military, police services, resource companies, education providers, and financial institutions. With his company Aha Entertainment (http://www.ahaentertainment.com.au/), accompanied by a 10-piece band, he has delivered large-scale Positive Psychology-based events to 1,000s of school and corporate staff, utilizing a compelling mix of experiential learning activities and live music as a way to "challenge the mind and inspire the soul."

Scott believes the future of education lies in the synergy between these areas – the more effective use of technology to better personalize education, mixed with a greater emphasis on the teaching of soft-skill competencies (such as resilience, empathy, teamwork, and creativity) that are highly correlated with performance, health, and general life satisfaction.

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Jenny Chen, MD is currently the Founder and CEO of 3DHEALS, a company focusing on education and industrial research in the areas of bioprinting, regenerative medicine, and healthcare applications using 3D printing. Trained as a neuroradiologist, Dr. Chen earned degrees in both medicine and radiology from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed fellowship training in neuroradiology at Harvard Medical School. She currently serves as Adjunct Clinical Faculty in neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center. With a focus on health technology, Dr. Chen also serves as a startup mentor to IndieBio EU and French Tech Hub, tech accelerators that help IT and life science startups launch and expand their product offerings, identify customers, and manage operations. Her interests lie in the application of emerging technologies (especially in the field of 3D printing and bioprinting) and automated biology. Dr. Chen envisions a decentralized and personalized healthcare delivery system in our near future.

Bill Burnett is an Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Executive Director of the design programs at Stanford. He received his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Product Design at Stanford and has worked in industry and academia ever since. He directs the undergraduate and graduate program in design and teaches classes at the d.school. In addition, he has worked in startups and Fortune 100 companies, including seven years at Apple designing award-winning notebook computers and a number of years in the toy industry designing Star Wars toys. He advises several startup technology companies started by his students.

Bill is also the co-founder of the Life Design lab and co-author of Designing Your Life, a book that captures the lessons from 13 years of teaching the Stanford class of the same name, and Designing Your Work Life, a book that helps you reimagine your job. Both books are based on design thinking and positive psychology and attempt to help people answer the age-old question, “What do I want to be when I grow up?”

Ioana Cozmuta, PhD is the Managing Partner of Gravity Free Consulting and CEO of G-Space Inc., two small, women-owned businesses. These two portfolio companies are a reflection of Dr. Cozmuta’s driving passions: (1) to discover new revenue opportunities and help accelerate the time to market of New Space ventures; and (2) to discover new materials by liberating the potential design space from the limiting effects of gravitational force. 

Dr. Cozmuta’s work at the confluence of Space and Earth is based on a 19-year career in academia, at NASA, and in the startup world uniquely combining expertise in physics, computational chemistry, materials research, data science, and space technology with business and entrepreneurship. From her early work in nanotechnology research to engineering projects for missions like Hypersonics, Stardust, Mars Science Laboratory, Orion, and commercialization of the International Space Station, Dr. Cozmuta has built a legacy of transforming the status quo, opening new avenues for innovation, and devoting her energy, enthusiasm, and collaborative spirit to advancing the new space entrepreneurial ecosystem. 

Dr. Cozmuta holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is a former postdoctoral scholar in the Material and Simulation Center at the California Institute of Technology and an alumna of Stanford University where she was a postdoc in the Genome Technology Center.

Dan Weberg, PhD, RN is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation, and human-centered patient design with extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute inpatient hospital settings, and academia. He currently serves as the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform for the healthcare industry, where he helps drive product strategy and works to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce.

Prior to joining Trusted, Dan spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, where he held executive roles in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 60,000 nurses. He was also part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and multiple innovation fellowship programs. He previously taught on nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Leadership for Evidence-Based Innovation in Nursing and Health Professions.

Dan earned his Bachelor’s in Nursing and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Master’s in Healthcare Innovation program at ASU, as well as the first-ever graduate of the PhD in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at ASU. His clinical background is in Emergency and Trauma nursing at level 1 trauma centers in California and Arizona.

Dan hosts a healthcare podcast for Trusted Health called The Handoff.

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS is CEO of Back9 Healthcare Consulting. His career history involves an intersection of clinical care, applied informatics, digital transformation and innovation strategy paired with executive management, business and entrepreneurial roles. He has over twenty years of experience as a primary care physician, an informatician, a healthcare innovator and a health tech entrepreneur.

He was most recently Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Product at MDLIVE, and previously spent over 20 years helping lead innovation and IT at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago.

Dr. Berkowitz has additionally helped start and manage multiple digital health companies over the past 20 years and currently sits on the boards of healthfinch and Oneview Healthcare. He has been listed as one of HealthLeader’s “Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better”; Healthspottr’s “Future Health Top 100”, and Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Clinical Informaticists.”

He graduated with a Biomedical Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He has been elected to Fellowship in both the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

You can find him at www.DrLyle.com and @DrLyleMD.

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Alan Pitt, MD is a Professor at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix Arizona, the country’s largest center of excellence for the neurosciences. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Pitt has been an advisor to large healthcare systems and state government. He has functioned as founder, advisor, board member, or executive for several small and large companies in the health IT and device spaces and has successfully exited 2 companies. He has 3 patents (1 in health IT, 2 in device), and has been a national speaker on issues related to cloud-based computing and healthcare. Dr. Pitt is an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona School of Public Health.

In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Pitt is the Chief Medical Officer for CloudMedx, a clinical AI company based in Silicon Valley. You can visit his blog at Healthcare Pittstop.

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