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Ravi Kondadadi is an accomplished AI professional with a wealth of experience spanning two decades, specializing in the development of cutting-edge AI and ML solutions. He possesses advanced skills in harnessing state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies like large language models to deliver innovative solutions.  With a primary focus on the healthcare sector, Ravi has established himself as a leading expert in developing advanced AI models, specifically within the clinical and benefits domains. His remarkable ability to build and deploy AI models has transformed patient care and optimized operational efficiencies across the healthcare landscape. 

Ravi is extremely proficient in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and demonstrated remarkable skills in utilizing machine learning and deep learning techniques to develop highly impactful NLP solutions across diverse domains, such as healthcare, legal, and financial sectors.Throughout his esteemed career, Ravi has held distinguished positions that showcase his remarkable contributions to the field of AI/ML. As a senior distinguished engineer at Optum, he played a pivotal role in advancing clinical AI capabilities, while his tenure as a Lead Machine Learning researcher at Nuance Communications was instrumental in driving the development of cutting-edge ML models for clinical NLP. Furthermore, his nearly eight years as an ML research scientist at Thomson Reuters solidified his expertise, as he worked on groundbreaking projects that pushed the boundaries of ML technology. 

Ravi's educational background includes a Master's degree in computer science from the University of Memphis, where he developed a profound understanding of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of AI/ML.

Beyond his extensive industry experience, Ravi's contributions to the field are highly regarded. He holds multiple patents in the domain of AI/ML, attesting to his innovative mindset and ability to develop novel solutions. Additionally, his authorship of over 20 academic papers presented at prestigious AI conferences underscores his thought leadership and unwavering commitment to advancing the field of AI/ML.

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Tina is an experienced leader that has been focused on creating innovative products around Technology Innovation and Healthcare. Tina is adept at bringing Business and IT leaders together to solve business problems while leveraging advanced technologies.  Tina takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development. She intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through an organization, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking, and drives material business advantage. Tina has over 15 years of healthcare and technology experience in areas of new product development, innovation, strategy and advanced technologies.  Tina has been driving digital transformation to enable an omnichannel end to end consumer experience as well as the modernization of technology platforms.   Tina has been published in HealthTech.  She graduated from the University of Tampa with a Bachelors of Science.  She completed the UnitedHealth Group Executive Development program through Stanford Graduate School of Business.  She completed Optum AI for Executive Education Program at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. 

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Ed is a practical innovator with a track record of identifying and driving to realization transformational initiatives within healthcare. Currently, Ed is focusing on Clinical Data and Interoperability between providers and payers where he is managing a portfolio of high value opportunities designed to improve consumer and provider experience while reducing operating and medical costs. During his career, Ed has spent time in the advanced technology space, focusing on AI and graph databases as well as on the business side, managing dental network operations where he led the development of cloud-based provider management platform. Ed started his career with Accenture and Deloitte Consulting working withing travel and financial services industries.  Ed has a BS in Computer Science from University of WI and MBA from Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota

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Customer focused leader with 20 + years' experience driving innovation and leading global technology teams in e-commerce, healthcare, SaaS software, data analytics, product and competitive research, and product management practices. Adaptable executive specializing in bringing leadership vision, user experience, and technical capability together to create products & platforms that maximize business value. Ability to build professional and productive internal teams and external customer relations while providing positive contributions towards the productivity and profitable growth of dynamic organizations.  

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Tim is a high energy technical leader and innovator with an impressive track record of shaping industry standards and driving innovation across diverse technology domains. Proficient in software development tools, middleware, cloud, cloud infrastructure, solution design and enterprise architecture. A visionary leader in the healthcare sector, championing the widespread adoption of open standards to enhance interoperability among healthcare tools, particularly Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

Tim is a passionate supporter and driver of open standards and open technology with a very long history building and leveraging standards to accelerate innovation and integration within numerous industries. Notable accomplishments include delivering Eclipse as an open source platform for software development tools. More recently he spearheaded the development of a groundbreaking standards based technology platform for interoperability which was leveraged as the foundation for an AI powered, clinical reasoning engine, an advanced referrals engine and a platform for managing electronic access to patient data via a 3rd party apps. 

Tim has worked as a product leader for IBM, RedHat, Lenovo, Optum and currently assisting a startup providing cybersecurity for Healthcare and DoD. He has deep healthcare domain knowledge including technologies such as HL7 FHIR. Tim holds a an MS in Medical Informatics from Boston University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers. Tim is also a Navy veteran. He resides in North Carolina and enjoys sailing in his spare time

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 Vivek Goel is a seasoned AI expert with over 25 years of experience in spearheading AI strategies and digital transformations across sectors. As the Chief AI Strategist at Wellness Connection, he's revolutionized patient care and operational efficiency through Generative AI, demonstrating the power of AI in healthcare. As an executive he led the creation of a Generative AI operating model, fostering significant financial growth at a Fortune 500 retailer. His entrepreneurial venture which was built on cutting edge AI showcased his commitment to leveraging AI for societal benefits, specifically in mental health. His role in establishing an AI and Automation Center of Excellence at a Fortune 5 healthcare company further underscores his leadership in deploying AI for enhanced healthcare delivery. He also led the Data and AI product strategy at the world’s largest business services company and lead the AI in hospitality domain for one of the largest privately held corporations. With a solid educational background in Computer Science and an MBA, Vivek’s career is a testament to his ability to merge technology with strategic business growth, making him a visionary in the AI domain. 

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As a collaborative and personable business executive, Chris Ashook has an impressive history of success leading large data organizations in highly complex environments supporting multiple business units.  Throughout his career, he has earned a reputation for resilience and stamina, and conveying that energy to the team—staying focused and motivated to achieve success together.

Mr. Ashook provides extensive industry expertise with all aspects of data in the healthcare industry.  He has extensive experience in dealing with cloud-based tools including design, implementation, and execution in launching new tools driven by industry demand and need to communicate value. He also has extensive experience with C-Suite presentations to internal executives as well as external clients. He is highly regarded for his strong presence and ability to quickly establish credibility as a subject matter expert during client engagements with leaders from HR, Finance or CFO to identify cost saving strategies.  

Mr. Ashook has a proven track record of successfully leading and developing national matrixed teams while building awareness of product enhancements and competitive advantages. Mr. Ashook believes in leading with a strong team culture.  

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Dynamic and savvy Project & Program Management professional and certified Agile Practitioner Coach with deep Agile at Scale experience maximizing value to deliver information systems encompassing the entire development life cycle. An Agilist by heart, passionate about empowering and improving teams. Successful consulting experience of 27 years in the public, private and government sectors, with more than 20 years of Project Management experience with 15 years of Program Project Portfolio Management experience, and 10+ years Agile experience with 6 years as an Agile Team Coach. Jeff has cross-industry experience, including more than 15 years within Health Care and Medical Industry including 10 years with UnitedHealth Group. Jeff has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise Project Lifecycle Management for product innovation and design of information management systems that integrates data, processes, business systems, and people.  Proven ability to manage and deliver complex enterprise-wide blue-chip projects, in matrix environments across multiple locations using the Agile Scrum framework. Jeff is known for his Positive Mindset, High-Energy, High Accountability, attention for Detail and Driver of Business Results.  As a natural collaborator, Relationship Builder and Problem Solver. Jeff can easily bridge communication gaps between business and technical teams. Jeff is a Change Agent at the Transformation Level, a Program Facilitator at the Program Level and a Servant Leader at the Team Level.   

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Ryan is an accomplished health sciences leader and senior informaticist with over 25 years of experience successfully designing and implementing new disruptive data-driven solutions leveraging big data, multi-cloud, AI, and scientific insights and discovery for the healthcare and life sciences industry. Ryan has served Mayo Clinic and over 20 of the world’s top tier providers, over a dozen clinical research organizations, 6 of 10 of the world top Biopharma, 7 world leading laboratories, 3 foreign health ministries, and the world’s largest healthcare organization in addition to owning and operating his own CLIA laboratory and translational health ventures, delivering innovative and transformative solutions particularly at the cross intersection of life sciences and healthcare.  His experience includes serving Danaher Aldevron in plasmid DNA and lentiviral vector manufacturing, GSK R&D Vaccines, Regeneron Pharmaceutical’s R&D as a Senior Computational Biologist and multi-omics SME responsible for scaling NGS, HiFi, and Nanopore sequencing, leading upstream and downstream analysis, and performing a range of quantitative analytical assays to arrive at new and safe drugs and vaccines. Prior to these roles, Ryan spearheaded and helped commercialized at-scale clinicogenomics research offerings for 125M Lives at Optum Genomics and UnitedHealth where he led genomics data science.  Ryan has a Master of Science in Bioinformatics, Integrative Genomics from the John Hopkin’s University, and his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Biology, with a Minor in Biotechnology from NC State University.  Ryan lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife, son, and daughter, and enjoys the great outdoors. 

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 Michael is an experienced leader in the Healthcare Claims and Clinical Data integration space.  He brings the ability to understand and define interoperability requirements at all levels of an organization, from enterprise business drivers to details for specific integrations, and can work and communicate effectively with all levels of an organization.   Michael led the implementation of 8 clearinghouse connections for Great-West Healthcare to meet HIPAA X12 requirements for interoperability.   At Optum, Michael let the implementation of a clinical data acquisition capability that received pathology lab results from national, regional and local labs into United Healthcare in HL7 2.x format and led the expansion of that capability to support non-standard data formats.  While on the Optum Genomics team Michael defined the requirements for a Genomics test request service using FHIR resources.  Most recently, Michael worked with OneOme, a start-up co-founded by the Mayo Clinic that focuses on application pharmacogenomics in patient care, to implement an HL7 2.x based messaging integration between OneOme and the Epic Genomics Module for Pharmacogenomic test results.   Michael received a Batchelor of Science in Computer Science from Regis University.   He lives in Colorado Springs with his wife. 

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Patrick Keran is an accomplished healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience driving strategic growth through product and technology innovation. He is passionate about improving patient access and simplifying care while delivering exceptional client satisfaction. Patrick excels in leading digital transformation initiatives, implementing cutting-edge technologies that enhance operational efficiency and elevate the healthcare experience for patients, providers, and payers alike.

Having held leadership roles at organizations like CoverMyMeds, UnitedHealthcare, and Optum, Patrick has consistently delivered product growth, spearheaded innovation, and driven business development. He has managed complex, high-revenue portfolios, executed strategic partnerships, and played a pivotal role in M&A activities. His core expertise includes product strategy, financial management, change leadership, and scaling healthcare solutions that enhance patient outcomes.

Beyond his executive responsibilities, Patrick is a recognized thought leader and mentor in the industry. He actively contributes to industry panels, podcasts, and executive forums on healthcare innovation. As an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, he has shared his expertise with the next generation of leaders. He is also involved in start-up mentorship programs like the ILT Academy. Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Minnesota, a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University, and has completed executive education at the Wharton School of Business. His extensive experience in fostering innovation, strategic partnerships, and delivering stakeholder value makes him a key driver of success across the healthcare ecosystem.

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