With over 20 years of experience in global digital health across 26 countries, Bart de Witte has been involved in leading-edge technologies and new IT businesses, including intimate involvement as a mentor in the formation and growth of a dozen startups within the healthcare sector. He is passionate about technology and data-driven transformation of healthcare systems brings a wealth of experience and understands well the barriers for innovation in healthcare. During the last five years, he has been focussing on the impact of AI in healthcare, both in his role as Director for Digital Health at IBM, but as well as Chair Faculty for the recently founded European Institute for Exponential Technologies and Desirable Futures, futur.io. As an advocate of open knowledge in medicine, he has founded the Hippo AI Foundation in Switzerland, which an NGO focussing to support Open Sourced Medical AI projects. Bart de Witte holds degrees from different universities in Belgium and has followed several other post-university tracks at national and international business schools, including Harvard Business School and Fontainebleau INSEAD. He is also a faculty member of the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich on digital health and the University of Applied Science in Burgenland Austria, and then Founder of the Austrian Quantified Self Organization.
