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The virtual summit takes place on Wednesday, November 15 from 8.45 am to 4.00 pm EST.
Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Scrum, Embedded Software, Object Oriented Design, SQL, and Medical Devices. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Product Development from Rochester Institute of Technology.
N. Blair Butterfield has over 30 years of experience in health IT. He has held board level and executive roles in public and private companies, and served on the leadership team of multiple organizations ranging from startups to multinational market leaders. He has held senior roles in general management, new market and business development, government initiatives, strategic marketing, and product strategy. Mr. Butterfield is currently Chairman at Wind River Advisory Group , a boutique health IT consultancy. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the Healthcare Services division of global consulting firm LEK Consulting . From 2013-2019 he served on the Board of Directors at Spōk (NASDAQ: SPOK), the global leader in clinical communication and collaboration solutions. Previously, he was President at VitalHealth Software , a Mayo Ventures company now part of the population health portfolio of Philips Healthcare . He also held the position of Vice President of International Development at GE Healthcare , managing large national ehealth infrastructure engagements in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Prior to this he was a member of the leadership team at Vital Images, Inc. , now a Canon Group company, the leader in 3D medical image processing software.
WBAF World Excellence Award-Social Entrepreneurship 2021. Top 20 Global Leaders in Digital Twins Technologies. Top 50 Global Leaders in Health Tech. Top 100 Visionary In Education Award 2021. Top 100 Global Women in Leadership Award 2021. Top 100 World Women Vision Award 2021-Innovation & Tech. Top 100 Women in Social Enterprise 2021 ( nominee). Nations of Women Change Makers Award ( finalist). Top 100 Healthcare Leader 2020.
Surviving? Learn-Unlearn-Relearn is the only way for a CTO. With four decades of IT experience, Murat Ozturan is a technology strategist and keynote speaker who has lived in eight cities on four continents. Extensive background in IT and leadership, his career expanded over several industries, including finance, healthcare, and automotive. While a geek, he is known to solve business problems without geeking on technology. He started his career building IT solutions in Renault France for their Formula 1 team and moved to finance to develop award-winning solutions. He is a thirty-year veteran of Microsoft who worked in engineering, corporate and field technical leadership, focusing on databases, development and AI. He was part of the early development of business solutions on the cloud; he set the direction for the architecture of high-priority customer projects, developed and executed early technology adoption programs, built and supported technical communities, driving IP creation and usage, as well as contributing to overall quality assurance. Murat was involved in culture and methodologies since the beginning of Microsoft Services; he was instrumental in developing and adopting foundational principles which ultimately contributed to technology-aspired culture. Additional to his speaking engagements, he is the technical advisor to several startups.
David Yang, Ph.D. – a Silicon Valley-based serial entrepreneur with a focus on AI. He is the founder of ABBYY, a world-renowned developer of AI and Content Intelligence solutions with 50 million users worldwide, and Newo.ai, the drag-and-drop platform for creating “Digital Employees”/Non-Human Workers/Intelligent Agents with low or no code. Dr. Yang is also a member of Band of Angels and has founded 13 companies. Dr. Yang is known for his TEDx and keynote presentations (Will robots ever become part of the human family, 5 Leadership Styles to Success, etc.). Additionally, Dr. Yang is a well-known philanthropist and co-founder of Ayb Educational Foundation, he supports various scientific, charitable, educational and art initiatives. He is also the author of numerous articles and patents. The World Economic Forum in Davos named him as one of the top 100 World Technology Pioneers, Best Startup US named Dr. Yang as California’s 100 Top Founders in the Big Data Space.
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