Harvey Castro, AI Pioneer
LIFE 2.0
Harvey Castro, MD, MBA is a remarkable individual who grew up with a single teenage mother in New York City to eventually become a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of a health system. His journey exemplifies the power of determination and innovation. With over twenty years of experience, Dr. Castro leads eight free-standing emergency rooms, a medical billing company, and a physician staffing firm. He also serves as a strategic advisor for ChatGPT in healthcare, where he plays a pivotal role in integrating artificial intelligence into the medical field. Dr. Castro has developed...
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Matt Sakumoto, Virtual Physician
LIFE 2.0
Matt Sakumoto MD is a primary care physician in San Francisco who specializes in virtual care. He also completed a fellowship in clinical informatics at UC San Francisco, with a focus on virtual care and clinician efficiency tools for the electronic health record or EHR. In his role as a regional CMIO for Sutter Health in the East Bay, and as a clinician-advisor to many early-stage health tech companies (Clearstep, Nabla, Oncoustics, Carbon Health, Rocket Doctor), he is passionate about exploring and implementing effective and evidence-based AI into clinical workflows, while...
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K D Adamson, A New Moral Age
LIFE 2.0
Leading visionary and ecocentrist K D Adamson argues that the most important relationship we have is with the future, and the future is stuck in the past. This is particularly on point as her undergraduate focus was on history. Based in the UK, she is an accomplished advisor, keynote presenter, TV host, author, and filmmaker whose high-energy have been likened to TED talks on steroids. She speaks with fresh insights on new digital paradigms, business value creation, societal movements good and bad, and moral imperatives. In other words, she makes people think. Considered the top...
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Holger Hoos, Responsible AI
LIFE 2.0
Holger Hoos is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of AI at (Germany), Professor of Machine Learning at (the Netherlands), and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the (Canada), where he also holds an appointment as Faculty Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). He is board chairman of the (CLAIRE), vice-president of EurAI, past president of the...
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Jonathan Brill, Radical Change Agent
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Jonathan Brill is a radical change agent who writes, speaks, and advises companies on how to create, manage, and leverage change to their advantage. An expert on technology innovation and strategic foresight, Brill is a leading business futurist. Harvard Business Review recently called Brill “the world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is currently the Managing Director of , the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute, and...
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James Litjens, Digital Twin Creator
LIFE 2.0
Based in Melbourne, James Litjens is the head of Emerging Technology at the , 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 , one of the major telecommunication...
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Matthew Holt, Digital Health Pioneer
LIFE 2.0
Matthew Holt is best known as the founder of , with 50,000 views a month, and co-founder with Dr. Indu Subaiya of the immensely popular global conference, one of the first to focus on digital health. Now he runs the advisory service for health tech startups, stars with Jess DaMassa in the weekly show , and puts on the 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...
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Anil Gupta, Frugal Innovation
LIFE 2.0
A visionary in the important area of frugal or grassroots innovation, Professor Anil Gupta walked 6,000 km across India to talk to local inventors and creators on how to innovate without resources.
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Indu Subaiya, Innovation Enabler
LIFE 2.0
A pioneer in the healthcare technology revolution, Indu Subaiya shares her thoughts on her career, critical trends in healthcare, and what the future might bring.
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Noelle Chow, Zillennial
LIFE 2.0
Born between the Millennials and Generation Z, Noelle Chow shares insights into how her generation views the future.
info_outlineThe 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 bestselling 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.