Healthcare Reimagined
When & Where
May 8, 2021
9:00 AM To 11:30 AM
Virtual
About this Track:
The pandemic has accelerated the disruption of healthcare and technology is playing a pivotal role in enabling care. As a result, the healthcare ecosystem as a whole has seen a widespread and rapid adoption of technological innovations.
Driven by measurable benefits, telemedicine adoption is at an all-time high. Pharmaceutical companies such as Gilead Sciences, Genentech, and Johnson & Johnson are leading the charge in drug discovery and vaccine development to combat COVID-19. Healthcare providers like Sutter/PAMF have new processes and have utilized telemedicine to keep their communities safe during the pandemic. From Next-Generation sequencing offered by Illumina to fitness and wellness enabled by Peloton, you will hear healthcare influencers speak passionately about what they believe in!
Don't miss out! Come join us to salute our healthcare leaders! ENGAGE with us as we EMERGE from this pandemic and ELEVATE you to exponential healthcare adoption! In the new normal will it be business as usual or HEALTHCARE REIMAGINED?
Track Agenda
- 05/08/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers
Marc Berson has >23 years of experience in IT, Business Transformation, Financial Systems and Finance roles and is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Gilead Sciences. In this capacity, Marc is leading the IT function including Business Engagement, IT Architecture, Solution Delivery/Innovation, Security/Controls,Analytics/Data Management, Innovation and Infrastructure/Operations.
Prior to joining Gilead, Marc served as Senior Vice President and Global Head of IT Innovation and Business Transformation for HP Inc. Marc led all Business Process and IT Innovation programs, including an enterprise-wide ERP deployment program as well as Application Delivery across all process domains including Finance, Supply Chain and Sales/Marketing.
Prior to joining HP Inc., Marc worked for Royal Philips as the Head of Business Transformation for the Americas Market Group. There, Marc led a team focused on driving deployment of standard processes and IT solutions which advanced operational efficiency and effectiveness using data-driven methodologies like Lean and Six Sigma. Marc was also part of the Royal Philips Business Transformation Leadership team in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and led a team program managing the company’s entire transformation portfolio of 450M Euro per year.
Prior to joining Royal Philips in 2014, Marc spent 17 years at International Business Machines (IBM) progressing through a number of leadership roles including serving as Vice President in IBM’s Business Transformation and IT organization leading the sustainment of the enterprise’s end-to-end ERP platform covering the process areas of Opportunity to Order, Order to Cash and Finance, serving as Vice President Finance Transformation within IBM’s Global Business Services consulting organization where he led an IBM consulting team for a major client and was on International Assignment from the US to Shenzhen, China as well as leading IBM’s Enterprise Business Analytics Center of Competency and global Financial Planning and Analytics IT team where he developed and ran the world’s largest Business Analytics cloud service.
Marc completed his undergraduate work at Pennsylvania State University in 1997 where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Finance and International Business. In 2000, Marc earned a Masters in Project Management from George Washington University.
He is based in Palo Alto, California. Ron is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of IT experience. He has successfully run IT Business Operation functions for three Fortune 50 companies and brings a wealth of knowledge to Gilead in the areas of IT financial stewardship, vendor management, and managed services transformation. He has led Enterprise Architecture and Portfolio Management functions, governing and setting the direction for over $300M of transformation work. In his last role he helped achieve an excess of $150M year-over-year IT run-rate reductions, including $40M savings annually with software and services vendors. Ron has a Business degree from Texas A&M and an MBA from University of Houston. In his spare time, he enjoys volunteering for various charities with his family and coaching his children’s sports teams.
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- 05/08/2021 | 9:30 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers Viresh Rustagi is a software engineering executive with more than 25 years of experience, earned at industry leading technology companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and, now, Peloton.
As SVP, product software engineering, Viresh fuels software innovation across Peloton’s growing suite of apps and connected fitness devices in markets around the globe. Viresh is no stranger to scaling strong, empowered teams who ship extraordinary products and features to push the bounds of innovation, quality and speed. With a deep understanding of software tech stacks -- from embedded software on proprietary devices to cloud software powering advanced logic and multimedia experiences -- he brings a practical know-how to the company’s vertically integrated business.
Viresh began his technology studies at the Institute of Technology, BHU, in India, prior to attending Florida State University for undergrad, and then Santa Clara University for his MBA. His work has been published and presented in and at leading industry journals and events, respectively, and he currently holds more than ten patents.
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- 05/08/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers
Pallaw Sharma is the Chief Data Science Officer at Johnson & Johnson. He is a leader with an extensive track record of digital transformation and impact by Data Science. Some of his focus areas include Natural Language Processing, Image Analytics, Forecasting, Simulation & Optimization, Segmentation, and Anti-Fraud Analytics. Sharma leads the Johnson & Johnson Data Science Council responsible for designing and building common platforms, practices, and solutions spanning the entire global enterprise. Outside of J&J, Pallaw is a notable board member of the Innovation Board of GS1, a global standards organization for business communications. He holds multiple patents and has collaborated with renowned researchers utilizing data science techniques to transform a variety of business functions in numerous industries.
Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Pallaw was Head of Advanced Analytics for Customer Services and Support at Microsoft, and Chief Marketing and Analytics Officer at ShopYourWay, a Sears Holdings Company.
Amita Joshi, Ph.D., is an Executive Leader at Genentech with more than 25 years of experience in Clinical Drug Development. Her Clinical Pharmacology team is responsible for identifying the right dose/regimen for Genentech medicines. They apply the principles of quantitative pharmacology and advanced analytics to understand the pharmacokinetics of medicines and better define drug exposure-response (safety/efficacy/ pharmacodynamics) relationships in order to determine the dose/regimen for patients and dose adjustments for special populations (eg: pediatrics, elderly, ethnicities). Amita received the SF Business Times “100 Most Influential Women in Business Award” in 2016, and the “Malle Jurima–Romet Mid-Career Leadership Award" from ASCPT in 2018. Dr. David Nace is Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company that uses its health cloud solution to organize healthcare information and make it accessible, useful, and actionable. Prior to joining Innovaccer, Dr. Nace served as the Chief Medical Officer at MarkLogic and Lantern. Dr. Nace is a national healthcare thought leader who has been involved in healthcare reform and managed care strategies since the early 1990s. Dr. Nace has more than three decades of executive management experience in senior leadership roles including VP of Population Health at McKesson Corporation, Chairman of the Board at Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, and Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles at both UnitedHealth Group and Aetna. Dr. Nace completed his medical education and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he subsequently served as junior faculty in his early career.
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- 05/08/2021 | 10:30 am – 10:50 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall ASpeakers Elizabeth "Lizz" Vilardo, M.D. is president & CEO of the Sutter Health Bay Area Medical Foundations which has more than 2,000 physicians & cares for over 1 million patients with sites from Santa Rosa to Watsonville. Lizz has been a practicing physician & physician leader for 30+ years. She has served in leadership positions at El Camino Hospital & with the medical group, including chairing the board of directors & then as acting president of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Camino Division.
Lizz has served on many nonprofit-boards, including the Sutter Health Board of Directors. She currently serves on the boards of YMCA Silicon Valley, Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), and Silicon Valley Leadership Group. She has been recognized for her community service by Pepperdine University, YMCA Silicon Valley & SF Business Times. Sarah Krevans is President and CEO of Sutter Health, a Northern California based not-for-profit health system that cares for 3 million patients—or 1 in every 100 Americans, in one of the most diverse and innovative regions in the nation. Sarah oversees Sutter’s integrated network of 14,000 clinicians, 24 hospitals, outpatient services, research facilities, and home health and hospice care.
Sarah is chair-elect of the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems board, and serves on The Bay Area Council Executive Committee, American Hospital Association Health Care Systems Council, California Hospital Association Board of Directors, United States of Care Founders Council, and Sutter Health Board of Directors.
She has been named as one of the “Top 25 Women Leaders” by Modern Healthcare, included on Modern Healthcare’s list of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare,” nominated as a “Visionary of the Year” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and named one of the “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times. Dwight French is a proven executive with over 20 years of successful business leadership and experience in the health insurance, provider, and life science sectors. His work serving healthcare includes executive positions at BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), SVP of Enterprise Product Management at HMS Holdings Corp (HMSY-US), Chief Business Development Officer at Santa Clara County IPA (SCCIPA), and co-founder of a population health management software company that a Fortune 20 strategic invested in and was successfully exited. Dwight has been working at the leading edge of healthcare reform since its inception. Described as an insightful leader, his innovative strategies exploit business opportunities that arise from this evolving reform. Dwight possesses the rare ability to craft policies and shape vision into actionable results. He accomplishes this unique skill through developing leaders, solid operational execution, effective communication and intentional relationship development.
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- 05/08/2021 | 10:50 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 25 mins Hall ASpeakers As Sutter Health’s first Chief Innovation Officer, Chris Waugh applies his extensive human-centered design experience to guide the integrated network’s innovation strategy. Human-centered design is a creative approach that personalizes solutions to meet individual needs — understanding people's behaviors, identifying trends and exploring solutions that improve the healthcare experience — making healthcare more usable and accessible for all.
Before joining Sutter, Waugh held entrepreneurial leadership roles at IDEO, a globally regarded Bay Area design and innovation firm, and was VP of design at One Medical Group in San Francisco.
Waugh has bachelor's degrees in international business and French from Fort Lewis College. Mohan Giridharadas is the founder and CEO of LeanTaaS. LeanTaaS is a 200-person predictive analytics company that uses AI and Machine Learning to help hospitals utilize their assets more effectively by unlocking capacity. Prior to starting LeanTaaS, Mohan was a senior partner at McKinsey & Company. During his 18 year tenure at McKinsey, Mohan ran their global Lean Service Operations. Mohan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
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- 05/08/2021 | 11:15 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakers Francis deSouza was appointed President & CEO of Illumina in 2016 and is responsible for directing all aspects of company strategy, planning, and operations. He initially joined the company as President in 2013 and led Illumina’s business units and core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products.
Previously, deSouza served as President of Products and Services at Symantec Corporation, where he was responsible for driving the vision for the company’s market-leading portfolio and served in a variety of executive roles. He joined Symantec through the acquisition of IMlogic, where he was co-founder and CEO.
Prior to joining IMlogic, deSouza was co-founder and CEO of Flash Communications, a provider of corporate instant messaging that was acquired by Microsoft. Following the acquisition, he joined Microsoft and led the team responsible for the development of the company’s enterprise real-time collaboration offerings. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors for The Walt Disney Company.
Francis deSouza received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Track Chairs
Rahul Reddy, SVP Strategic Relations and New Initiatives for Apollo Hospitals, is responsible for exploring, evaluating, and developing strategic relationships as well as new programs that allow Apollo Hospitals to expand its ability to provide effective and compassionate healthcare to a greater number of people. This has included initiating and launching Apollo's International Coordinated Care program, NRI 360, mobile first disease management solution, and international research programs related to South Asian health. Mr. Reddy has extensive experience with IT and healthcare as a CEO, executive, and entrepreneur. He sits on the advisory board for the commercialization arm of the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and is board president of Lake Oswego Community Rowing (LOCR). He has a B.A. from the University of Portland in Business and Computer Systems and is based in the Lake Oswego, OR, USA.
"20 years of experience in providing information technology-based services and solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry as a big 5 management consultant, entrepreneur and a growth executive. He started his career as a management consultant with KPMG consulting. He left KPMG to start a Clinical Data Solutions company which primarily served the life sciences clients. He sold the company in 2016 and worked for the acquiring company for the next 2.5 years launching innovative solutions for the life sciences industry. Sandeep is currently working as the IBU head of Health and Lifesciences in Tech Mahindra, responsible for the West Coast."
Track Advisor
Abhi Gholap
Founder & CEO
OptraSCAN
OptraSCAN
Abhi is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai and Stanford University Graduate school of Business. With 17 international patents and several research publications, including NATURE, Abhi strongly believes in innovating and commercializing for the industry needs. Abhi is chair of TiECon health, member of Sand Hill Angels and board member of EPPIC Global. Earlier Abhi worked for Siemens Medical before his first entrepreneurial venture that was acquired later for $100mn. Optra Ventures is an early stage venture investment in Medical Devices and Digital Healthcare with Optra Systems, Optra SCAN and Optra Health as 3 group companies.
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- Cloud & Security
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- Entrepreneurship
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Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
- TiE Youth
- Healthcare Reimagined
Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
- Future of Work
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Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
- Global Connect
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Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
- CXO Forum
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- Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion
The Diversity & Inclusion track will focus on generating best practices for harnessing diversity and inclusion to drive innovation today and for the future.
- Social Impact
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Cloud & Security
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurship
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Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Future of Work
Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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CXO Forum
The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
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Diversity and Inclusion
The Diversity & Inclusion track will focus on generating best practices for harnessing diversity and inclusion to drive innovation today and for the future.
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Social Impact
Dare to Change the World for Good