ANNI ISO-MUSTAJÄRVI

Head of Business Development & Digital Health Platform Lead | Mehiläinen

Anni Iso-Mustajärvi is a builder of digital transformation and enthusiastic about making an impact on people’s health through business. Anni leads the development and expansion of Mehiläinen digital health platform that enables digitalization for health care providers worldwide. She has a background in consulting, leading digitalization and Lean development projects for customers in social care, health care and pharma.

BEN SAUER

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Director of Conversation Design, Babylon Health

Ben Sauer is Director of Conversation Design at Babylon Health, formerly of Clearleft. He's worked with organisations like the BBC, Pearson, Tesco, and TCS to raise their design game. He’s been speaking about and training people on the topic of voice UI for several years; particularly in how to rapidly design conversational experiences. Teams at Amazon and the BBC use his methods, and through O'Reilly, he's trained folks at NASA. 

He’s also spent many hours at home removing the ridiculous things that his kids have added to Alexa’s shopping list.

On the web @bensauer

SAM SHAH

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 Digital Health Advisor and NHS Clinician

He has a background in primary healthcare, public health, research and supporting the digital transformation in England. Sam leads on programmes designed to support citizens accessing health services, development of technology that enables integration and digitisation of urgent and emergency care. He strongly believes the introduction of technology, that leverages the power of insight through data, can improve efficiency, system capacity and clinical effectiveness. Sam and his team work with a number of industry partners, research units and SMEs on digital developments in England. Sam has previously held roles as the clinical lead and commissioner for urgent care as well as overseeing the development of online access to urgent and emergency care in England.

JESSICA SHULL

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European Lead for the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, Digital Health, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute

Jessica Shull is a Strategic Adviser to the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. She is also Digital Health Manager on clinical trials and digital projects for respiratory disease at Bellvitge Hospital in Barcelona. She worked 13+ years with the WHO on digital health for global health system strengthening and epidemic response. Consultancies include World Bank, mHealth app evaluation guidelines for Europe, and EU regulations for US digital diagnostic start-ups. She has a MSc from the Medical College of Georgia (US), an MA form the University of Trento (Italy) and is pursuing a PhD in BioMedicine at the University of Barcelona.

CLAUS NIELSEN

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 Co-founder, Data for Good Foundation

With an impressive career in Denmark, a happy and tech savvy nation, Claus has contributed to national and international projects, and helped make Denmark a global leader of digital health and care tech. He was a pioneer in launching mobile solutions back in the 1990s for health and social care, later promoting political awareness and uptake of IoT, robotics & tech services for citizens, patients and older adults. Today he is a digital nomad, working to enable access to affordable mobile healthcare in Thailand and other countries, and developing a platform to ensure that patients can exercise meaningful control over their data.  Claus survived cancer and daily beats his diabetes with sweat, food and tech. Claus tweets at @deadpoolNET

LIVE BØE JOHANNESSEN

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Acting Director of Communication, Norwegian Directorate of Health

Live Bøe Johannessen is a senior advisor in the Norwegian Directorate of Health. She is responsible for all external communication in the public health field, managing implementations of national guidelines on lifestyle habits such as nutrition, physical activity, tobacco use, alcohol and mental health to the public. Big governmental campaigns are an important part of this work. She has for the last two years worked on digitalizing and gathering self help tools for prevention and lifestyle guiding to support the public and health services in their work fighting habits that contribute to premature death from NCDs. Johannessen is persistent that better prevention of disease is a key factor for a sustainable society. 

RUNE BECH

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Co-founder of Liva Healthcare

Rune Bech is the co-founder of Liva Healthcare, that is selected as a provider by NHS England for its high-profile digital diabetes prevention programme. Liva Healthcare already has a mature market in Sweden and Denmark, and are driving strong clinical outcomes through its platform for lifestyle change with a real human personal coach via an app. Rune Bech is one of Europe’s “dotcom front-runners”. Already in 1998 he co-founded NetDoctor.com, the leading European health information portal. So far he had co-founded and sold three digital health companies in 21 years, with Liva being the latest venture with offices in London and Copenhagen.