InnovationDB - Innovation Briefing: The Use of AI and Blockchain in Connected Medical Devices

Date

07 February 2019

Event Summary

In February 2019, we are bringing together an international line up of speakers from major corporations, with experts from hospitals and health services in several countries, SMEs with novel approaches, and major players in the AI and Blockchain arenas for a day of learning and discussion about this crucial topic.

Event Description

Innovation Briefing: The Use of AI and Blockchain in Connected Medical Devices
7 February 2019
Conference: 9:3am–6pm
Followed by networking drinks reception

In an increasingly interconnected world, the analysis and secure handling of healthcare data is an essential component of the path ahead.

More than 300 million wearable devices were sold last year alone and these, along with many other clinical as well as consumer devices, are now being used to capture healthcare data. Mobile phones, which are increasingly seen as the best way to connect patients with their healthcare providers, are looking likely to become the de facto patient-centric tool for organising healthcare in the years to come.

Event Programme

Time	Programme	Speaker(s)
9:30 - 10am	Registration and refreshments on arrival
10am – 10:15am	Opening and welcome	Gerald Law, Chief Executive at Innovation DB and David Hickie, Partner at PA Consulting
Focus on medical practicioners
10:15am – 10:45am	Talk with Q&A: AI and Blockchain — Defining terms, summarising basic principles Gerald will make sure that we are all agreed on basic terms and have a core understanding of how blockchain works, using illustrations, metaphors and other techniques	Gerald Law, Chief Executive at Innovation DB
10:45am – 11:30am	Panel Session: Getting connected devices working the real world of hospitals What we need from these clever new devices — how our patients and we will use them	Patrick Etyngier, Head of Clinical Research EU at Phillips (France) and Nicole Papen-Botterhuis, Advisor Science & Innovation at Máxima Oncology Center, Máxima Medical Center, (Netherlands)
11:30am – 11:45am	Coffee break
Focus on patients
11:45am – 12:15pm	Interview: Helping the patient to manage their illness using AI Building intelligent interfaces for patients	Amer Fasihi, Founder at Caros Connect and Michal Kendereski, Director of Innovation at Volume AI
12:15pm – 1pm	Talk with Q&A: Challenges in sharing information across medical IoT Healthcare is transforming from cure to prevention and an important part of this transformation will be Internet of things (IoT) solutions that collect data on and near the individual. If the enabling AI is to be useful, there must be a way to share data between stakeholders with the consent from the individual whose data it is. Parallels are easy to find in the financial sector when sharing account information or making payments. This presentation will elaborate an innovative approach for addressing these challenges.	Anders Strömberg, Senior Business Manager at Sony
1pm – 2pm	Lunch and networking
Implementation
2pm – 2:30pm	Talk with Q&A: It won't work unless you do this first… Unifying data dispersed across many databases and collecting data in a format that aids analysis later on	Vibhor Gupta, Director and Founder at PangaeaData.AI and Jenny James, EMEA Leader at Innovit
2:30pm – 3:15pm	Interview: Getting to widespread adoption: Making the component supply chain secure Building trust between components from 3rd party manufacturers	Omar Fogliadini, Managing Partner at LIFEdata and Luke Herbert-Hansen, Independant Security Consultant
3:15pm – 3:30pm	Coffee break
3:30pm – 4:15pm	Talk with Q&A: Life sciences companies as superb candidates for the adoption of blockchain technology Life Sciences companies operate with overwhelming amounts of data — data which must be shared yet secure, data that is digitised now more than ever, data that belongs to the increasingly empowered patient. By providing faster access to this trusted data, as well as facilitating better collaboration and increased transparency, blockchain can significantly improve and personalise the patient experience. The technology can also help reduce counterfeit medicines, promote more effective research and development, and drive new or optimised business models.	Andrew Fried, Global Life Sciences Industry Leader at IBM and Stefano Bensi, Director, Watson Internet of Things, World Wide Sales at IBM
Scaling up
4:15pm – 5pm	Panel: Getting to scale Too many small projects exist in individual hospitals, what we need now is a way to scale these innovations to make them truly valubale to the whole community. The roles of technologists, healthcare providers and other stakeholders will be discussed.	Matt Bonam, Pharmaceutical Project Director, Intelligent Pharmaceuticals at AstraZeneca R&D; Matt Hall, Head of MRI at National Physical Laboratory (NPL); and Navin Ramachandran, Healthcare Specialist in Distributed Ledgers and IoT at IOTA Foundation
Putting it all into practice
5pm – 6pm	Workshop: Solving today's healthcare challenges with tomorrow's technology A working session facilitated by PA Consulting to solution challenges in the healthcare industry through innovative applications of AI and Blockchain	Proteus Duxbury, Director, PA Consulting
6pm – 8pm	Drinks Reception