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Bart De Witte's speaking fee falls within range: $25,000 to $30,000
Bart de Witte is the founder of Isaree, the on-device AI platform for healthcare, and the HIPPO AI Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to democratizing medical knowledge through open-source AI. Recognized as one of the first voices globally to champion open-source AI in medicine, he established structural frameworks for open-source AI in healthcare years before open-source LLMs became mainstream.
He previously served as Public & Healthcare Industry Leader for Central and Eastern Europe at IBM, advising governments and organizations on technology policy and the socio-economic impacts of healthcare innovation. Prior to IBM he spent ten years at SAP as a product manager for hospital healthcare solutions. He collaborates regularly with the World Health Organization and the United Nations, and was a member of the Walther Siegenthaler Gesellschaft and the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). His work on AI applications addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals has earned multiple awards.
Health tech expert, Bart De Witte gives us a glimpse at the spectacular opportunities data science and machine learning are creating in health care, and how this will reinvent the field as we know it. One of the most major pivots he notes, is that healthcare will become more data-driven since deep learning's accuracy rate has overtaken that of experts. One of the challenges that the standard knowledge-based healthcare system has long faced is human bias: medical academics may often let their bias, ie, ownership in certain companies, sway what they're publishing. AI, on the other hand, helps remove that bias and gets better results. For example, in a population of 370,000 cardio patients that de Witte discusses, the increased accuracy of deep learning in comparison to the golden standard, would have saved 355 more lives. "That means that knowledge-based systems as we see today," De Witte summarizes, "is going to disappear and it's going to be data-driven and not knowledge-driven."
Digital health pioneer, Bart De Witte draws from 20 years in this emerging field to prepare audiences for the coming changes that will sweep healthcare systems globally. De Witte illustrates the current capabilities and applications of technologies such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Design Thinking, and Open Data. He addresses the barriers to innovation in healthcare, the digital transformation of the sector, and how AI could lead to a universal digital healthcare system.
Bart speaks on how we can create a more equitable society and a sustainable future for all of us, and we can shift from a scarcity towards and abundance mindset. Together with his clients he explores on how to encourage a culture of inclusive innovation, inspire teams to collaborate and innovate, future technologies and news ways to look at the opportunity digital medicine.
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The Clinician as Builder: On-Device AI in Healthcare
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“His insights combined with his humanistic view of the future of medicine were very eye opening”
“Bart’s presentation was remarkably thought-provoking”
“His keynote helped us to push our thinking in new areas for our business but also for society”
“Bart was one of our speakers at XPOMET. In addition to his lecture and participation in the Precision Medicine Alliance Congress, he organized and moderated a panel with top-class speakers on AI. In our survey, Bart was named most frequently in the question of the best speaker. Our visitors described his lectures as “exciting, authentic, realistic and futuristic” as well as “entertaining and with much depth and insight”, “inspiring and interesting” -Lena Geppert, Expomet, Germany
“Bart is an excellent keynote speaker and shows true understanding in regards to the bottlenecks and hurdles of medical dataset acquisition for AI solutions in healthcare. I know for a fact that this is not easy, which Bart seamlessly reflects in his initiatives where the focus lies in enabling medtech start-ups to gain easy access to open datasets.” -Ziyaad Jaber, Medical Doctor, M.Sc. in Neuropsychology and Neuroscience. Entrepeneur, The Netherlands
“Bart is a great keynote lecturer with a lot of knowledge of IT and technology for the healthcare market. He is a real story teller who is able to explain complex insights in a very simple way. Theaudience sticks to his lips” -Rudy Maertens, CEO ALMA, Belgium
“Not only did Bart receive the best ratings with regard to the content and the methodology with his courses, but the personal remarks added to the student evaluations exceeded anything previously seen. “The course has been the absolute HIGHLIGHT of the Master’s program”, as well as “An exciting and new lecture with good prospects for the future” -Prof Peter Mayer, University of applied Sciences, Burgenland, Austria
“Bart de Witte ist eine der mich am stärksten beeindruckenden Persönlichkeiten der aktuell ablaufenden digitalen Transformation. Bart vereint großes fachliches Wissen, eine herausragende didaktische Befähigung und – das ist eben das besondere – eine warme Menschlichkeit. Humanisierung als primäres Ziel der Digitalisierung, Bart verkörpert dieses Ziel! Vorbildfunktion!” -Prof. Dr. Jochen A. Werner, President of the Board at University Hospital of Essen
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