Digital Health Kick-Off
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Associate Director, Advanced Solutions
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MSD
CEO and Co-founder
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AdhereTech
CEO
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MapMyGenome
Did you know that digital health continuously receives the 3rd largest amount of Angel and VC investments and it’s one of 16 perspective categories Andreessen Horowitz is looking at? We want to introduce the topic from the founders and technologists perspective. Why you should consider digital health as your next startup idea?
We will share with you our view of digital health, we will bring founders of several digital health startups and we will have a discussion about how technology is changing healthcare, from genomics sequencing to visiting doctors.
Josef Holý, Associate Director, Advanced Solutions at MSD
Josef Holý has an experience with both corporate and startup environments. Throughout his career, he has been focusing on the user-centered design, personalisation and lean product development. He was a Java programmer long time ago, then joined Sun Microsystems (today Oracle) as an Interaction and Social Network Designer and finally co-founded his own mobile commerce startup proactify.com. He has been with MSD since May 2014 and has been leading the UX team here. He is also responsible for Emerging Platforms (focusing on a personalisation and knowledge management).
Josh Stein, CEO and Co-founder at AdhereTech
Josh Stein is the CEO and Cofounder of AdhereTech, a company that makes patented smart pill bottles to track and improve medication adherence in real-time. AdhereTech is currently being used by top pharmaceutical companies, health systems, and clinical researchers to increase adherence for specific medications and improve outcomes for patients. AdhereTech has received numerous awards from top healthcare organizations, including: The Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Jannsen Healthcare Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim, The Henry Ford Innovation Institute, The LIVESTRONG Foundation, The NYCEDC, and more.
Josh has been a featured speaker at TEDMED, The National Institute of Health, SXSW, Stanford Medicine X, Health 2.0, The Wharton Health Care Business Conference, and many more. Josh has an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Anu Acharya, CEO at MapMyGenome
Anu is the CEO at Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company for people who are proactive about their health. Mapmygenome's products include prognostics and diagnostics tests. Before that she was CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions which is bioinformatics big data company. She was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum(WEF) for its class of 2011 and serves on the WEF's Global Agenda Council as a member of the Personalized and Precision Medicine. She also won several awards - Red Herring Magazine's list of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006, Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2008.
Chris Benko, CEO at Koneksa Health
Chris Benko is the CEO of Koneksa Health which is focused on lifestyle and environmental data, their transformation and understanding of the factors that determine health. Chris is a part of leadership team for four years in roles supporting, R&D, commercial and M&A. Previously he gained his experiences (almost 20 years) as executive at Merck. He recived his MBA at Duke University and BA at Bucknell University.
Jiří Ettler, CEO at Pillmo
Jiří became an entrepreneur when he was 20. Kick-started his career in finance and later moved on to expand a concept of self-service petrol stations. Currently he's committed to improving people's health and well being with his company Pillmo. Developing a medication organizer and an accompanying mobile application got him accepted into business accelerating programme StarCube sponsored by South Moravian Innovation Centre. On the side, Jiri and his team is finalizing a crowdfunding campaign to boost pillmo's progress.