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
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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
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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_outlineProfessor 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.