​Dr. Alexander Itskovich is a senior healthcare executive, hepatobiliary surgeon, and physician scientist. He currently serves as the medical director of oncology services at CentraState healthcare system, an Atlantic Health System partner. Under his leadership, the organization’s Statesir Cancer Center has transformed from a community program to a tertiary cancer center. In his clinical practice, Dr. Itskovich specializes in the surgery of the liver, pancreas, and gastrointestinal tract. In 2024, he was recognized in a resolution by the State Senate of New Jersey for his work on cancer care delivery in the region. Most recently, he was the recipient of The NJBIZ magazine 2025 Physician of the Year. Dr Itskovich has a special interest in AI safety and patient-facing AI implementation. He serves as an advisor for startups seeking to navigate partnering with healthcare systems.

​Jennifer Polo, BSN, RN, OCN, is the Nurse Coordinator for the Cellular Therapy and Transplant Program at Pennsylvania Hospital. In this role, she provides care coordination, nurse navigation, and patient education for patients undergoing stem cell transplants or CAR-T Therapy.  She is passionate about quality improvement in patient oncology education and care coordination.  Most recently, she worked to advance the delivery of electronic platform patient education for autologous stem cell transplant and CAR-T patients, and was awarded an Innovation Accelerator Grant from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a published academic, with her work appearing in the Clinical Journal of Oncology, and has presented her work both locally and nationally at the Oncology Nursing Society Congress and the ASTCT Tandem Conference. She is an avid fan of technology, using tools such as ChatGPT to help patients with insurance denials and data tools to help improve healthcare efficiency and delivery.

​Dr. Indraneil Mukherjee, MBBS, MD, FACS, is a Licensed and Board-certified faculty surgeon practicing as a Minimal Invasive – Abdominal wall, Foregut and Hepatobiliary Surgeon at Staten Island University Hospital – Northwell Health. He is the Program Director of Advance Gastrointestinal and Minimal Invasive Surgery Fellowship. He is the Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program.  He was the clerkship director for the medical students and is a Clinical Associate Professor involved in training students from various schools.  He also holds various administrative positions for the department, hospital, and the health system, including the Blood Avoidance Program, Surgical Research, and Faculty Development.

​George Mathew, M.D. M.B.A. FACP has worked at the intersection of healthcare, business, and technology for the last 25 years.

​His experience includes consulting, technology development, and business development work at GE, Goldman Sachs and Co., WebMD, Pfizer, Medidata Solutions, Aetna/CVS, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services, and DXC Technology. Dr. Mathew’s career has always emphasized innovation in healthcare, having founded a healthcare technology start-up earlier in his career, and having advised several novel healthcare startups until co-founding Times Health, a privacy-based generative AI chatbot.

Sergei Polevikov has decades of deep experience in math, statistics, and AI, with four graduate degrees spanning mathematics, economics, finance, and machine learning. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and manuscripts. His work is driven by a relentless pursuit of brutal truth in healthcare. That mission has led him to become not just a founder of successful healthcare AI and digital health startups, but also a healthcare fraud investigator. Today, Sergei is focused on health AI education and truth-telling. He runs the podcast “Digital Health Inside Out” (with his co-host Alex Koshykov) and the Substack “AI Health Uncut“, which has grown rapidly to over 8,000 subscribers in just a few short months.

​Bart Carlson is a proven business leader who has helped large enterprises adapt to changes in market dynamics, capitalize on innovation, drive revenue, and reduce operational costs. He has led his company, Azuba Corporation (formerly called Napersoft), into an elite provider of Communications Platform solutions that improve operational efficiency in document creation, management, and distribution to everyone in the USA and beyond in 86 different languages.

Bart has also fueled a mission to improve health outcomes throughout the United States by serving on the HHS Blue Button Committee 2010-2013 with 67 members (e.g., 66 doctors and Bart). And, while serving on the Committee, Bart and five (5) of the doctors led the effort to get a new Federal “Rule” enabled in the Office of Civil Rights to empower patients with access to their digital health records on January 1, 2013.  Subsequently, Bart joined with a number of other congressional efforts to include patient access rights to their clinical health records permanently with the creation and eventual approval by Congress and the President on December 13, 2016, of the 21st Century Cures Act.

​Once these foundational patient rights of digital access to their health were completed, Bart then led his team to design and develop a new national Health Platform that automatically aggregates, cleanses, stores, and enables Providers (Doctors/Hospitals/Clinics), Payers, and Patients with access to the patient’s clinical records from all of their health providers.  In addition, the Health Platform also enables Patients/Caregivers with secure, real-time access via approved Mobile Health Apps.

​Rami is a neuroscientist turned entrepreneur who has been on many sides of the medtech table – he’s worked in venture in Spain, biz dev and strategic partnerships for tech accelerators in the UK and EU, corporate strategy & innovation in NY, M&A in Germany, venture development at a venture studio in the Bay Area, user experience product mgmt in SF and Austin, and has been an entrepreneur and advisor across the US, UK, EU and ME. Throughout these roles, he’s learned that the path to success is (mostly) knowing how not to die along the way.

​In this talk, Rami will share the hard lessons for partnering, piloting, scaling, and being acquired by major multinational medtech and tech companies such as Siemens, Boston Scientific, GE, Microsoft/Nuance, Google, as well as hospital systems like HCA, Providence Health, Cleveland Clinic, and many others. We’ll make sure to leave time for questions and for others to share their learnings on how to survive long enough for your product and company to find the right market, users, business model, and partners to succeed.