Billionaire Bill Ackman to Attend Tech and Health Conference in Israel
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- Conference focuses on AI integration into healthcare infrastructure and clinical needs.
- Bill Ackman, Yitzhak Kreiss, John Halamka, and Lucy Opetern to speak.
- Event runs October 20-22, featuring hospital tours and Tel Aviv panels.
- Discussions to cover future healthcare models and innovation pathways.
The event will convene healthcare system managers, technology companies, entrepreneurs, and investors from around the world to explore the transition from hospitals where technology offers point solutions to healthcare systems where AI is integral to infrastructure.
The conference will showcase how AI can assist in diagnosis, documentation, decision-making, manage workloads, and connect hospital care with home care. It will also highlight the pathway from clinical needs identified by doctors to the development of companies and economic growth engines.
On October 22nd, panels and lectures will be held at the David InterContinental Hotel in Tel Aviv. Attendees will include senior global healthcare executives, industry representatives, startup CEOs, Sheba experts, Israeli healthcare leaders, and investors. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic's innovation arm; and Dr. Lucy Opetern, President and CEO of McGill University Health Centre.
Discussions will focus on topics such as location- and time-independent healthcare systems, transforming data into insights and impact, the origins of future health companies, the evolving roles of patients and healthcare professionals, and scaling clinical ideas into system-wide solutions. Professor Eyal Zimlichman, Deputy Director General for Innovation, AI, and Director of ARC at Sheba, stated that the global ARC community has convened in Israel for five years, emphasizing that collaboration between hospitals, tech companies, entrepreneurs, and investors drives global medical change and allows for solutions based on real clinical needs.
Zimlichman added that the future of medicine is built not only in tech companies or labs but also within hospitals, driven by the needs of patients and medical teams. He highlighted the conference's aim to transform international connections into joint work and practical solutions.