LIFE 2.0

Harvey Castro, AI Pioneer

Transcript [https://www.life-20.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20240422_Harvey-Castro.pdf]   Harvey Castro, MD, MBA is a remarkable individual who grew up with a single teenage mother in New York City to eventually become a renowned physician, entrepreneur, and CEO of a health system. His journey exemplifies the power of determination and innovation. With over twenty years of experience, Dr. Castro leads eight free-standing emergency rooms, a medical billing company, and a physician staffing firm. He also serves as a strategic advisor for ChatGPT in healthcare, where he plays a pivotal role in integrating artificial intelligence into the medical field. Dr. Castro has developed over 30 iPhone apps and is a frequent presence on live TV, sharing his expertise in both English and Spanish. A proud alumnus of University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas A&M, and a current resident of Dallas, Dr. Castro is not only a dedicated medical professional but also an author with seven books on Amazon, a compelling public speaker, and an educator teaching on AI in healthcare at harveycastromd.info [https://www.harveycastromd.info/]. His vision and efforts are directed toward harnessing AI's potential to foster a healthier, more intelligent world. LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/harveycastromd/]

Matt Sakumoto, Virtual Physician

Transcript [https://www.life-20.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20240308_Matt-Sakumoto.pdf]   Matt Sakumoto MD is a primary care physician in San Francisco who specializes in virtual care. He also completed a fellowship in clinical informatics at UC San Francisco, with a focus on virtual care and clinician efficiency tools for the electronic health record or EHR. In his role as a regional CMIO for Sutter Health in the East Bay, and as a clinician-advisor to many early-stage health tech companies (Clearstep, Nabla, Oncoustics, Carbon Health, Rocket Doctor), he is passionate about exploring and implementing effective and evidence-based AI into clinical workflows, while maintaining digital empathy to better connect with patients and care partners. LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattsakumoto/]

K D Adamson, A New Moral Age

Transcript [https://www.life-20.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/20230703_KD-Adamson.pdf]   Leading visionary and ecocentrist K D Adamson argues that the most important relationship we have is with the future, and the future is stuck in the past. This is particularly on point as her undergraduate focus was on history. Based in the UK, she is an accomplished advisor, keynote presenter, TV host, author, and filmmaker whose high-energy talks [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qk9PoQK70&list=PLMQKdwn-td2VOiYH4ZAq-KaQm3XJblx0h] have been likened to TED talks on steroids. She speaks with fresh insights on new digital paradigms, business value creation, societal movements good and bad, and moral imperatives. In other words, she makes people think. Considered the top female futurist in the world, K D Adamson is an authority on the sustainable transformation of organizations, environmental, social, and corporate governance or ESG, the changing face of modern leadership, and the blue, green, and circular economies. Her stellar client list is a who’s who of major global brands in consumer electronics, media, advertising, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and shipping; as well as multi-nationals, governments, NGOs, and nonprofits. Her books include Shipping and the 800-lb Gorilla [https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-800-lb-Gorilla-K-ADAMSON/dp/0957432550/] and Payload [https://www.amazon.com/Payload-K-D-ADAMSON/dp/0957432526/], a suspense novel, while she has several film projects pending, including Nobleization and The Future You Ordered Is Out Of Stock. www.kdadamson.com [https://www.kdadamson.com/] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdadamson/]

Holger Hoos, Responsible AI

Transcript [https://www.life-20.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/20230503_Holger-Hoos.pdf]   Holger Hoos is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor of AI at RWTH Aachen University [https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/a/?lidx=1] (Germany), Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden [https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en] (the Netherlands), and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia [https://www.ubc.ca/] (Canada), where he also holds an appointment as Faculty Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). He is board chairman of the Confederation of Laboratories of Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe [https://claire-ai.org/] (CLAIRE), vice-president of EurAI, past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAIAC), member of the Advisory Board, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Prof. Hoos leads the VISION coordination mandate for the four European networks of centers of excellence in AI established in 2020. Holger’s research focuses on Human-Centered AI, AI for Good, and AI for All. His goal is to improve the efficiency of AI methods by automatically increasing performance and reducing resource needs; and to broaden access to and use of cutting-edge AI methods. Overall, Holger and his group develop and study AI methods that augment rather than replace human intelligence, and that help human experts to overcome their biases and limitations. Known for his work on machine learning and optimization methods for the automated design of high-performance algorithms and on stochastic local search [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_optimization], Holger has developed – and vigorously pursues – the paradigm of programming by optimization [https://ada.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/papers/Hoos12.pdf] (PbO). He is also one of the originators of automated machine learning [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_machine_learning] (AutoML). Holger works at the boundaries between computer science and other disciplines. Much of his work is inspired by and has broad impact on real-world applications. In 2018, Holger co-founded CLAIRE [https://claire-ai.org/], an initiative to advance European AI research and innovation. Incorporated as an international nonprofit in 2019, CLAIRE promotes excellence across all of AI, for all of Europe, with a human-centered focus. In 2021, CLAIRE received, jointly with the European Laboratory for Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the €100 000 German AI Innovation Prize [https://www.german-innovation-award.de/en/] (Deutscher KI-Innovations-Preis) in recognition of outstanding contributions to development and research in AI. This prize is the largest of its kind in Europe. In November 2021, Holger was selected for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in AI, Germany’s most highly endowed research award, which honors its recipients for their outstanding research record and aims to facilitate long-term and groundbreaking research contributions. Supported by this award and substantial additional resources made available by the university, he started building a new research group at Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen (RWTH Aachen, Germany) dedicated to the advance of Human-Centered AI, AI for Good, and AI for All, in January 2022. He also serves on the board of directors of the RWTH AI Center [https://www.ai.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/fhykx/?lidx=1]. LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/holger-hoos-3a37954/]

Jonathan Brill, Radical Change Agent

Jonathan Brill is a radical change agent who writes, speaks, and advises companies on how to create, manage, and leverage change to their advantage. An expert on technology innovation and strategic foresight, Brill is a leading business futurist. Harvard Business Review recently called Brill “the world’s leading transformation architect.” His visionary, yet pragmatic approach to the future is based on years as the Global Futurist at HP where he directed long-term strategy and planning. He is currently the Managing Director of The Center for Radical Change [https://www.centerforradicalchange.org/], the Senior Fellow at HBR’s China New Growth Institute, and Board Advisor at Frost & Sullivan, one of the world’s largest market intelligence firms, with offices in 46 countries. He is the author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change [https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Waves-Future-Proof-Business-Survive/dp/1264257155/] (McGraw-Hill), the #2 economics bestseller in China. The Economist called it “a very important book for managers,” and Adam Grant called it “an actionable framework for driving change instead of being blindsided by it.” Brill has taught the techniques in it to over 27,000 executives, from startups to the Fortune 500 to the U.S. Secret Service.  Inc. magazine called Brill “A Silicon Valley legend” because his innovation consultancies developed over 350 products and generated over $27B USD for clients like Samsung, Microsoft, Verizon, PepsiCo, and the U.S. government. These projects have ranged from AI, search engines, and metaverse technologies to theme park rides, the U.S. Pavilion at the 2015 World's Fair (Expo Milano), and Taco Bell’s Gordita. He holds a degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute, spent years as a research consultant to the MIT Media Lab, and took management training at Stanford Business School. LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbrill1/]