We're not rubbing it in, but if you missed the in person ConV2X Boston event last month during Boston Blockchain Week, you really did miss a great opportunity to network and learn from the best in the industry.  

Healthcare and life sciences is at a pivotal inflection point. ConV2X showed exactly how AI, blockchain, and platform technologies are essential to this new health economy. A sample of the incredible keynotes appear below. 

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Best of ConV2X Boston 2024
 
The Deliberate Habits of a Bold Risk Taker - Daniel Seewald, Founder & CEO, Deliberate Innovation, and Former Pfizer Head of Worldwide Innovation

Risk taking is at the very core of experimenting and embracing new and emergency technologies.  The interactive keynote by thought leader, Dan Seewald, will include:

• The importance of bold risk taking when it comes to new tech
• What stops us from taking bold risks with emerging tech
• Three (3) deliberate practices to be more bold
• A practical exercise to create your very own boldness action plan

Decentralized Healthcare: Bridging Technology, Society, and Partnerships for Maximum Impact - Hui Huang, PhD, Co-Founder Etheros HealthData Foundation, 
Former Vice President, Head of Global Value & Access Oncology, Hui Huang, gave an insightful keynote on healthcare technologies shaping our behavior and culture including

• The impact of successful technology solutions influencing consumers today and in the future cannot be understated
• Great reference to the recent article suggesting that we should regulate humans using AI, not just the devices themselves
• Prioritize consent, when thinking of AI and using data
• Build strong inter- and intra-industry partnerships
• Strategies for integrating societal factors to drive market growth and ethical innovation
• Harnessing diverse perspectives to create robust, widely adopted health solutions

COMPASS: A Cross-Institutional Cancer Network Powering Precision Medicine Throughout the Patient Journey - Yuri Quintana, Chief, Division of Clinical Informatics (DCI), BIDMC

Showcases the DCI Network’s groundbreaking Cancer COMPASS initiative data integration platform designed to revolutionize cancer care across the entire patient journey. Yuri discusses how COMPASS will connect patient data from screening and diagnosis through treatment and remote follow-up monitoring, creating a continuous, data-driven care pathway. He describes the DCI Network collaborative ecosystem bringing together patients, academics, non-profit organizations, private sector companies, and government entities. This multidisciplinary partnership has been crucial in developing agile architectures that supports precision medicine and lays the groundwork for advanced AI applications in oncology, enabling truly patient-centered care and data-informed decision-making across the cancer care continuum.

Listening to this keynote, you’ll gain insights into the technical challenges and solutions in building a cross-institutional data network and strategies for ensuring data interoperability and patient privacy, and how collaborative ecosystems drive innovation in healthcare technology -and blockchain is used for medical records to securely link across institutions. This initiative highlights the future of cancer care, where integrated data systems and collaborative ecosystems drive significant advancements in both research and clinical practice.

Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2)  - Eliel Oliveira, MBA, MSc, Sr. Director, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

ONC’s HTI-2 implements provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and reflects ONC’s focused efforts to advance interoperability and improve information sharing among patients, providers, payers, and public health authorities. As part of the ONC Task Force at HITAC, Dr. Oliveira will share reflections and recommendations.

Decentralized AI Roadmap - Ramesh Raskar, Associate Director, MIT Media Lab

Be the first to glean insight and guidance for this highly anticipated new roadmap

Your Company has a Technology Platform, but do You have a Platform Business Model and Strategy? - Vince Kuraitis, JD, Founder, Better Health Technologies

In healthcare today, platforms are understood mostly as technology. This perspective misses a huge opportunity. Platforms are powerful. Four of the top five companies in the world are platforms. In other industries, platforms can be a business model and strategy. Learn how your technology platform can be turbocharged by understanding the power of platform business models and strategies as we answer questions below.

• The “North Star” of a platform business model is achieving network effects—where users experience more value as the size of the network increases.
• Network effects are the single greatest differentiator in platform success. Major issues to address include:
• How to solve the chicken/egg (aka cold start) problem – achieving critical mass on both the supply and demand sides of the platform
• What types of network effects are possible?
• What’s the relative strength of different types of network effects?
• How should the platform be designed?
• What’s the optimal monetization approach? Should one side be subsidized?
• How open should the platform be?
• What’s the optimal governance model?
• What are key metrics to measure progress and success?
• How can AI or blockchain function “as platforms”?

Blockchain, Digital Identity, and Proof-Of-Existence: The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund’s Experience and Solution - Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio, CIO, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund and Co-Lead of Dynamic Coalition on Blockchain Assurance & Standardization, GBA

In January 2021, in accordance with its digital transformation strategy, UNJSPF deployed a digital solution based on blockchain, biometrics, artificial intelligence, and geolocalization to transform a legacy process with a global reach (86K beneficiaries located in more than 192 countries). UNJSPF beneficiaries are required to sign and submit a “Certificate” as a “proof of their existence” to continue receiving benefits every year.

UNJSPF award winning digital solution is supported by blockchain, biometrics, artificial intelligence, and geolocation technologies to create, verify, and secure the digital identities of its beneficiaries, prevent fraud, and store identifiers of transactions on an immutable, traceable, and independently auditable ledger, using the Hyperledger Indy platform.

This solution addressed both technical and business requirements, focusing on innovation and technology for social good. Session details include:

• Definition of the problem
• Approach developed for addressing the problem
• Achieved outcome
• Assurance criteria
• Algorithm Audit & ISO Certification
• Technical details on:
• Blockchain
• Biometrics/Facial recognition

Exploring the Potential of Tokenomics Models in Healthcare Employing Zero Trust Frameworks - David Stefanich, CEO, Rymedi

Where can cryptocurrency representations for health information be utilized to incentivize data sharing while maintaining privacy, security, and dynamic access control systems within a ZTA framework. Key aspects to be discussed include:

• Authentication and authorization protocols for healthcare & Life Science professionals and patients
• Securing bring your own device (BYOD) scenarios in medical settings
• Protecting cloud-based healthcare assets and services
• Implementing end-to-end security for health data transactions
• Ensuring interoperability while maintaining strict security measures
• Leveraging blockchain technology for secure, private, multi jurisdictional data exchanges

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈, 𝐗𝐑, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐛3 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 - Rahaf Al Assil, MD MHSC, Founder and CEO, PantridgeDTell

Rahaf discusses how the combination of AI, Extended Reality (XR), and Web3 technologies can create a transformative impact on digital healthcare. These technologies, when converged, enable enhanced patient care, data-driven insights, immersive experiences, and decentralized systems that shift the paradigm of healthcare delivery.

Multi-chain network and process certification: new tools for healthcare web3 applications - Gianluca de Novi, PhD, CEO, Circular Labs

“A cautious optimism was expressed by the panelists. I’m excited to see the innovations on the horizon and the positive global impact these technologies are bringing and will bring to healthcare in the future!”  Dr. Olga Kubassova, President of IMAGE ANALYSIS GROUP

Interested in ConV2X Boston 2025?
Contact Tory Cenaj at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com