Facilitator / Organizer
Ned Hayes
Ned Hayes is the Managing Partner and VP for Strategic Alliances for Forum sponsor Darwoft.
He is an investor and strategic advisor in AI and healthcare.
Overview
Ned Hayes is the Managing Partner and VP for Strategic Alliances for Forum sponsor Darwoft. He is an AI angel investor and strategic advisor, and has served in an advisory capacity to a variety of healthcare and technology startups. He is an investor in Velma, which provides dementia healthcare services using AI and also currently serves as Board Chair for Forum co-sponsor Human Intelligence™ Institute.
Ned has extensive experience in the AI field – he was a core leader at Vulcan, Xerox PARC, Adobe, Microsoft, and AI-powered customer service leader ASAPP.
At Intel, he was a business director and a technical manager, with responsibility for software development kits (SDKs) and public-facing marketing for these deployments. Products he helped launch at Intel included the OpenVINO computer vision toolkit and the Intel Context Sensing SDK, now deployed on hundreds of millions of IOT devices worldwide.
He holds multiple graduate degrees, with executive education through the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has also studied ethics and AI at the Graduate Union at U.C. Berkeley.
He is a regular speaker at technical and business conferences, and his books have appeared in 10 languages worldwide.
Expert Panel
PANELIST
Dr. Brooke Cowan
VP, Applied AI
Cambia Health
Dr. Brooke Cowan is Vice President of Applied AI at Cambia Health Solutions, where she leads enterprise-wide AI strategy and oversees the development and deployment of AI solutions across core health insurance functions.
PANELIST
Kishore Bhattacharjee
CTO
Skypoint
Kishore is a seasoned technology executive and currently serves as the CTO at Skypoint.ai, where he leads the company’s vision and execution in AI-driven healthcare transformation.
PANELIST
Lynn
Comp
Intel AI & Healthcare General Manager
Lynn is the Global Head of Sales for the AI Center of Excellence at Intel and a board member at NeuReality, a startup that develops AI hardware solutions to accelerate the AI accelerators.
PANELIST
Dr. Ruchi Thanawala, MD
OHSU, Firefly Lab
Dr. Ruchi Thanawala, at Oregon Health & Science University, is regarded internationally for her innovative approach to AI in surgical education, skills assessment, applied decision science in learning science, and workflow optimization and in healthcare broadly.
MODERATOR
Dr. John Harkness
CEO and Founder,
Rewire AI
Dr. John Harkness is an AI Systems Architect specializing in strategic AI system and model development, working in industries ranging from drug discovery to defense. He is the founder of Rewire.ai.
John holds a PhD in Neuroscience and spent 14 years as a neuroscientist.
FACILITATOR
Ned
Hayes
Managing Partner, Darwoft
Ned Hayes is the Managing Partner and VP for Strategic Alliances for Forum sponsor Darwoft.
He is a healthcare AI angel investor and strategic advisor who has led teams at Microsoft, Adobe, ASAPP, Xerox PARC and Intel.
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