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HBKU IE Impact Xcelerator Healthcare and Technology Collider Event

IE Impact Xcelerator, in collaboration with Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), would like to welcome you all to the “Healthcare and Technology Collider” Event, which will be held in Qatar on December 12th, 2023.

For Whom:

  • Professionals to know the players and topics.
  • Academics – to understand and apply for research opportunities in AI aided healthcare technologies.
  • Ventures – meet the industry, understand the emerging opportunities, work with academics.
The topic of Health and Technology is a broad topic to engage with different technologies, such as artificial intelligence, sensors, telemedicine, behavioral analytics, metaverse/digital twins, genomics, and medical devices among many other technologies to improve the healthcare services in Qatar and globally.

In the context of:

  • What would be different if the silos were broken?
  • Where are the problems of today- how can researchers make real-time contributions?
  • What industry trends are we observing?

Panelists:

Agenda: Healthcare and AI/Tech

Challenge: What are the opportunities to improve Healthcare with AI and new technologies?

Start 2:30pm Doha, Qatar

2:30-2:40 pm – Introduction Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu and Dr. Aiman Erbad – Objectives

2:40-3:00 pm – Introduction from Dr. Mounir Hamdi- Founding Dean: College of Science and Engineering, HBKU on “The Future of Health Research”

3:00-3:30 pm – Dr. Pepe Zamorano and Dr. Niko Mihic Keynote address “Challenges in Healthcare” (15min each)

3:30-4:00 pm – Panel: Introductions with 5 min each – goals and perspective


4:00 – 4:20 pm – Coffee Break 

4:20-4:40 pm– Shaun Holt, CEO Alveo 

4:40 – 5:30 pm– Discussion of what if we were collaborating.

Where are the new gaps?

QnA

5:30-6:00 pm- Areas of intersection , breakout session to cross-pollinate and collide, what could be a in a research proposal that could be intersected

6:00 pm- Wrap up with Social Event/ and light snack foods

  • HBKU/Qatar Guests:
  • Bo Wang, HBKU faculty
  • Tanvir Alam, HBKU Faculty
  • Zubair Shah, HBKU Faculty
  • Mowafa House, HBKU Faculty
  • Jens Schneider, HBKU Faculty
  • Marco Agus, HBKU Faculty
  • Adel Omri, HBKU Faculty
  • Dena Al-Thani, HBKU Faculty
  • Amine Bermak, HBKU Faculty
  • Hospital Sidra Medicine
  • Hamad Medical Hospital
  • Additional Stakeholders: Qatar Invest, Qatar Research, Development, Innovation Council
  • Ooredoo

Tech Catalyst Events

Tech Catalyst Forum events include:

  • Catalyst Lectures with trend-changing tech ventures.  Ventures are today’s Advanced Development Labs
  • Collider Meetings to break silos between ventures, industry, and academics
  • Discussions in  technology, business, innovation culture,  design, process, and leadership
  • Y-Combinator style mentoring with Rise Europe to support top deep tech ventures
  • Steering Committee Meetings

Schedule: 2023-2024

  • October 26, 2023: Virtual Asset Regulation-Mini-Collider Event-IE Tower, Madrid/Online
  • December 12, 2023: Qatar, AI and Health Collider 
  • January 16, 2024: Smart Construction
  • February 27, 2024: Bio-Convergence
  • March 26, 2024: Tourism and Sustainability 
  • April 23, 2024: Robotics
  • May 28, 2024: Cleantech

     

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