Artificial Intelligence: Are we there yet?

Dear Health 2.0 Amsterdammers,

Our next gathering will take place at the beautiful Rockstart HQ in Amsterdam on March 9th, preceding Rockstart's Digital Health Demo Day (http://www.rockstart.com/accelerator/digitalhealth/)which will take place in NIjmegen on March 10th.

The theme of the meetup is "The role of artificial intelligence in healthcare: are we there yet?"

Given all the technology advancements as well as tremendous data growth in medical & personal data we, as human beings are generating, it is only appropriate to understand what is currently being done today and what could be possible. How will AI augment our experiences as healthcare consumers either directly or by assisting clinicians, nurses and overall care coordination teams.

Agenda

18:30 – 19:00 Networking (BE THERE BEFORE 19:00)

19:00 – 19:30 KEYNOTE: Prof. Dr. Max Welling (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/max-welling-4a783910), Full Professor UvA "Deep Learning for Health: what is still missing?

19:30 - 19:50 PITCH: Jose Barrios (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/barriosjose), Cognilab (https://www.cognilab.com/)

19:50 - 20:10 PITCH Maarten de Schipper (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/maartendeschipper), Xomnia (http://www.xomnia.com/)

20:10 - 20:30 PITCH: Maarten de Venster (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/maarten-de-venster-5964ab), NewHealth Collective (http://www.newhealthcollective.nl/)

20:30-20:50 Networking Break with #99Shakes (http://99shakes.com/)

20:50 - 21:00 Visionairy Intermezzo Jurjen Söhne (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jurjensohne)

21:00 - 21:25 PANEL: "So will machines replace doctors?" moderated by Eugene Borukhovich

Panelists:

Jurjen Sohne (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jurjensohne) - hackitarian, a believer of hacking with the purpose to create a positive impact in our society.

Kristel van der Winden (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/kristel-van-der-winden-haalboom-6847ab68) - she believes that healthcare and being a good doctor is all about humanity. She thinks that AI can help her being that good doctor she wants to be, but will never replace her.

Tijmen Blankevoort (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/tijmen-blankevoort-a5633a24)- the CTO of the Deep Learning startup Scyfer (http://scyfer.nl/). Tijmen is a machine learning expert and scientific programmer driven by experimenting and applying new technology.

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Speakers' bio

Max Welling

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He has made contributions in distributed Bayesian learning, variational Bayesian learning, learning of Markov random Field models, approximate inference in graphical models, visual object recognition and statistical shape analysis. He has over 100 academic publications. He is an associate editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), serves on the editorial boards of JMLR and JML and was an associate editor for c the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and TPAMI.

Jose Barrios

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Jose Barrios is a Mexican born entrepreneur with a passion for the mind, brains and machines. His deep interdisciplinary knowledge of Psychology and Computer science has lead him to consult for some of the world’s most renowned cognitive researchers, hospitals and universities.


Cognilab (https://www.cognilab.com/) is an online research platform for the scientific study of the human mind. It powers some world’s top research laboratories, including labs at Stanford, McGill, and UCSD

Maarten de Schippe

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With his background and parents in healthcare, Maarten de Schipper is passioned to make healthcare better, cheaper and future proof. At the moment he is getting close to make an impact on healthcare with his artificial intelligence startup, Xomnia. Altough innovation in healthcare is tough, little steps are taken and he believes there is no way back for AI and healthcare.

Xomnia (http://www.xomnia.com/) supports organisations in big data related challenges and opportunities. We convert data into actual business value by applying data mining and machine learning techniques.

Jurjen Söhne (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jurjensohne)

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Jurjen is a hackitarian, a believer of hacking with the purpose to create a positive impact in our society. His passion for artificial intelligence is driven through his ambition to create the homes of the future supported through the vision of ambient intelligence (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jurjensohne). In his Keynote he will touch upon this vision through one of the 21st Century’s greatest social/economic challenge of “Healthy Ageing”. Currently e’s designing a hack event "Robots to the Rescue” with the mission to tackle this challenge with the use of IoRT (Internet of Robotic Things) and A.I.

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I am happy to announce that, Shobhit Dhawan (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/amcventuresmanager)& Yulia Bodnar (https://nl.linkedin.com/in/yuliabodnar) from ACE Venture Lab have joined the co-organizer team of Health 2.0 Amsterdam. Together with them, Hans Dijkstra and myself, we are looking forward to re-igniting this great community. I also briefly wanted to send a big thank you to all of you who have responded in offering venues, ideas, topics and general help - it means a lot to all of us and great to know that this group is alive and well.

Our next gathering will take place at the beautiful Rockstart HQ in Amsterdam on March 9th, preceding Rockstart's Digital Health Demo Day (http://www.rockstart.com/accelerator/digitalhealth/)which will take place in NIjmegen on March 10th. We hope that the international audience coming to Nijmegen would venture out to Amsterdam the evening before to share ideas with our local community.

Quick note on the topic which I have been passionate about - The role of artificial intelligence in healthcare and are we there yet?

At a risk of self-promotion (not the intent :), I recently gave a talk on it at Health 2.0 Wintertech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMV62LwnVys) (~9min video) and enjoyed the feedback from the audience. Given all the technology advancements as well as tremendous data growth in medical & personal data we, as human beings are generating, it is only appropriate to understand what is currently being done today and what could be possible. How will AI augment our experiences as healthcare consumers either directly or by assisting clinicians, nurses and overall care coordination teams.

Please stay tuned for detailed agenda but we will follow our standard "networking, presentations, networking" format. While we already have a few lined up speakers, if you would like to share any additional ideas please reach out to our co-organizer team!

Looking forward to seeing everyone again!