Harvey Castro, MD, MBA is a remarkable individual who grew up with a single teenage mother in New York City to eventually become a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of a health system. His journey exemplifies the power of determination and innovation. With over twenty years of experience, Dr. Castro leads eight free-standing emergency rooms, a medical billing company, and a physician staffing firm. He also serves as a strategic advisor for ChatGPT in healthcare, where he plays a pivotal role in integrating artificial intelligence into the medical field. Dr. Castro has developed over 30 iPhone apps and is a frequent presence on live TV, sharing his expertise in both English and Spanish. A proud alumnus of University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas A&M, and a current resident of Dallas, Dr. Castro is not only a dedicated medical professional but also an author with seven books on Amazon, a compelling public speaker, and an educator teaching on AI in healthcare at harveycastromd.info. His vision and efforts are directed toward harnessing AI's potential to foster a healthier, more intelligent world.

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Matt Sakumoto MD is a primary care physician in San Francisco who specializes in virtual care. He also completed a fellowship in clinical informatics at UC San Francisco, with a focus on virtual care and clinician efficiency tools for the electronic health record or EHR. In his role as a regional CMIO for Sutter Health in the East Bay, and as a clinician-advisor to many early-stage health tech companies (Clearstep, Nabla, Oncoustics, Carbon Health, Rocket Doctor), he is passionate about exploring and implementing effective and evidence-based AI into clinical workflows, while maintaining digital empathy to better connect with patients and care partners.

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Leading visionary and ecocentrist K D Adamson argues that the most important relationship we have is with the future, and the future is stuck in the past. This is particularly on point as her undergraduate focus was on history.

Based in the UK, she is an accomplished advisor, keynote presenter, TV host, author, and filmmaker whose high-energy talks have been likened to TED talks on steroids. She speaks with fresh insights on new digital paradigms, business value creation, societal movements good and bad, and moral imperatives. In other words, she makes people think.

Considered the top female futurist in the world, K D Adamson is an authority on the sustainable transformation of organizations, environmental, social, and corporate governance or ESG, the changing face of modern leadership, and the blue, green, and circular economies.

Her stellar client list is a who’s who of major global brands in consumer electronics, media, advertising, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and shipping; as well as multi-nationals, governments, NGOs, and nonprofits. Her books include Shipping and the 800-lb Gorilla and Payload, a suspense novel, while she has several film projects pending, including Nobleization and The Future You Ordered Is Out Of Stock. www.kdadamson.com

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Jonathan Brill is a radical change agent who writes, speaks, and advises companies on how to create, manage, and leverage change to their advantage. An expert on technology innovation and strategic foresight, Brill is a leading business futurist.

Harvard Business Review recently called Brill “the world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is currently the Managing Director of The Center for Radical Change, the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute, and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries.

He is the author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change (McGraw-Hill), the #2 economics bestseller in China. The Economist called it “a very important book for managers,” and Adam Grant called it “an actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” Brill has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, from startups to the Fortune 500 to the U.S. Secret Service. 

Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo, and the U.S. government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2015 World's Fair (Expo Milano), and Taco Bell’s Gordita.

He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab, and took management training at Stanford Business School.

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Based in Melbourne, James Litjens is the head of Emerging Technology at the ARQ Group, one of Australia’s top innovation and technology consultancies that focuses on the trifecta of digital, data, and cloud. ARQ has successfully helped some of the largest and most well-known household brands bring new tech ideas to life. Its clientele includes government and private companies across many industries. ARQ’s mission is to bridge the gap between current and leading-edge technology so companies can build roadmaps for the future. ARQ Group recently became part of Singtel, one of the major telecommunication companies operating in Singapore that provides mobile, fiber broadband, and TV services.

Litjens is also a serial entrepreneur, having studied business entrepreneurship with distinction at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, one of the top universities in the world. One of his startups was JukeStar, a social jukebox app for partygoers where the host provides a jukebox that guests can customize. It’s been quite successful, gaining thousands of users.

In the past five years, however, Litjens has worked mostly in the corporate context with a portfolio that includes flagship mobile apps, virtual and augmented reality, automation, chatbots, and many other interesting projects. In this podcast, Litjens discusses the increasing use of digital twins.

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Matthew Holt is best known as the founder of The Health Care Blog, with 50,000 views a month, and co-founder with Dr. Indu Subaiya of the immensely popular global Health 2.0 conference, one of the first to focus on digital health. Now he runs the SMACK.health advisory service for health tech startups, stars with Jess DaMassa in the weekly show Health Tech Deals, and puts on the What's Next for Health Care conference.

Mr. Holt graduated from Cambridge University in the UK with his Bachelor’s in Social Policy & Society, followed by a Master’s in Health Services Research at Stanford. During his career, he has spent nearly 30 years in healthcare and healthcare IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist, having worked for renowned think tanks like Institute for the Future. At Harris Interactive, Mr. Holt conducted two groundbreaking survey research studies, Computing in the Physician's Practice and The 10,000 Patients Study. Before returning to the consulting life, Mr. Holt was vice president for strategy and business development at i-Beacon.com, an eHealth software company.

Mr. Holt has delivered keynote addresses all over the world and is on the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine, whose mission is to help patients engage in their healthcare.

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Professor Anil Gupta, PhD is a pioneer, educator, and visionary in the field of frugal or grassroots innovation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in agriculture, a master’s in biochemical genetics, and a PhD in management. Dr. Gupta went on to be a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India’s top business school, for 36 years until he retired in 2017.

As a visiting professor, he still teaches a highly popular course in which he takes students to different parts of India to study knowledge systems in local communities. The course was based on his personal odyssey in 1998, when he began walking across the length and breadth of India over the next two decades, a total distance of more than 6,000 km, to talk with numerous grassroots innovators who created useful inventions despite significant resource constraints.

For his innovative work, Dr. Gupta was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s 4th highest civilian honor, by the President of India. He is a recipient of many international awards, a widely published author, speaker at TEDIndia and many major conferences, and founder of the Honey Bee Network, a volunteer organization that disseminates innovative ideas and traditional knowledge from local individuals and communities, while preserving recognition and fair compensation. Dr. Gupta also founded the National Innovation Foundation of India, the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, and the Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network. Professor Gupta is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science and the Indian National Science Academy.

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