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 over 30 iPhone apps and is a frequent presence on live TV, sharing his expertise in both English and Spanish. A proud alumnus of University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas A&M, and a current resident of Dallas, Dr. Castro is not only a dedicated medical professional but also an author with seven books on Amazon, a compelling public speaker, and an educator teaching on AI in healthcare at harveycastromd.info. His vision and efforts are directed toward harnessing AI's potential to foster a healthier, more intelligent world.

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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 maintaining digital empathy to better connect with patients and care partners.

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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 talks 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 female futurist in the world, K D Adamson is an authority on the sustainable transformation of organizations, environmental, social, and corporate governance or ESG, the changing face of modern leadership, and the blue, green, and circular economies.

Her stellar client list is a who’s who of major global brands in consumer electronics, media, advertising, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and shipping; as well as multi-nationals, governments, NGOs, and nonprofits. Her books include Shipping and the 800-lb Gorilla and Payload, a suspense novel, while she has several film projects pending, including Nobleization and The Future You Ordered Is Out Of Stock. www.kdadamson.com

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Holger Hoos is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of AI at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands), and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (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 Confederation of Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), vice-president of EurAI, past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC), member of the Advisory Board, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Prof. Hoos leads the VISION coordination mandate for the four European networks of centers of excellence in AI established in 2020.

Holger’s research focuses on Human-Centered AI, AI for Good, and AI for All. His goal is to improve the efficiency of AI methods by automatically increasing performance and reducing resource needs; and to broaden access to and use of cutting-edge AI methods. Overall, Holger and his group develop and study AI methods that augment rather than replace human intelligence, and that help human experts to overcome their biases and limitations. Known for his work on machine learning and optimization methods for the automated design of high-performance algorithms and on stochastic local search, Holger has developed – and vigorously pursues – the paradigm of programming by optimization (PbO). He is also one of the originators of automated machine learning (AutoML). Holger works at the boundaries between computer science and other disciplines. Much of his work is inspired by and has broad impact on real-world applications.

In 2018, Holger co-founded CLAIRE, an initiative to advance European AI research and innovation. Incorporated as an international nonprofit in 2019, CLAIRE promotes excellence across all of AI, for all of Europe, with a human-centered focus. In 2021, CLAIRE received, jointly with the European Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the €100 000 German AI Innovation Prize (Deutscher KI-Innovations-Preis) in recognition of outstanding contributions to development and research in AI. This prize is the largest of its kind in Europe.

In November 2021, Holger was selected for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI, Germany’s most highly endowed research award, which honors its recipients for their outstanding research record and aims to facilitate long-term and groundbreaking research contributions. Supported by this award and substantial additional resources made available by the university, he started building a new research group at Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen, Germany) dedicated to the advance of Human-Centered AI, AI for Good, and AI for All, in January 2022. He also serves on the board of directors of the RWTH AI Center.

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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 Center for Radical Change, the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute, and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.

He is the author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 economics bestseller in China. The Economist called it “a very important book for managers,” and Adam Grant called it “an actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” Brill has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, from startups to the Fortune 500 to the U.S. Secret Service. 

Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo, and the U.S. government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2015 World's Fair (Expo Milano), and Taco Bell’s Gordita.

He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab, and took management training at Stanford Business School.

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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 Health Care 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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