What Does Disruption in Health Even Mean?

Salesforce RoleResponsible for Global Industry Solutions and Industry Product for Healthcare and Life SciencesCareer HighlightsAmit Khanna brings 20+ years of Enterprise software experience most of it in CRM. He has been at Salesforce for 7+ years as a product leader in Industries.Amit had spent several years in US, Europe and India in various capacities serving customers across several industries like Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Pharma and Financial Services.Prior to joining Salesforce, Amit spent several years at SAP where he led their Consumer Goods Mobile Product StrategyManage senior customer engagements (CXO level) and ran Customer Advisory Boards

Bakul Patel is the Senior Director, Global Digital Health Strategy & Regulatory focused on helping build a unified digital health strategy for Health@Google that is aligned with the global regulatory needs.  Mr. Patel is responsible for global regulatory affairs strategy  and regulatory science engagement with public and private stakeholders for Health efforts at Google and Alphabet. 

Ana Gupte Ph.D is a Strategy, Finance and Innovation Leader and Principal Advisor with over two decades of experience in the field of Healthcare Services, Digital Health.and Therapeutics. She is passionate about strategy, innovation and policy trends in healthcare for improving cost, quality and access, and the public and private capital markets funding such innovation to market. She is also passionate about diversity and devotes much of her time to mentoring women and minority leaders in the field of healthcare. Her current efforts are focused on advising privately backed healthcare tech and digital health companies leveraging Data Science, Predictive Analytics, AI, ML, RPM, IoT and Blockchain to solve critical problems in healthcare, where she brings differentiated knowledge about the Payor, provider and Pharma R&D end markets to bear as also the competitive landscape. She keenly monitors the private and publicly traded equity markets in healthcare across innovation and policy trends and investment opportunities.Dr. Gupte is well recognized for her healthcare equity analyst coverage over a decade on Wall Street bookended by senior Corporate Strategy, Finance & Management Consulting roles. Most recently, she served as SVP, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at Florida Blue Cross Blue Shield & its parent GuideWell. Prior to the Street, she served as Managing Director Corporate Strategic Planning at Aetna, Inc, and also headed up the WorldWide Drug Development Strategy Department at Pfizer. She started her career in healthcare as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company.Her thought leadership on all things healthcare over 12 years of equity coverage in the firms of Sanford C. Bernstein, and Leerink Partners garnered multiple awards including Top 3 rankings by All America Institutional Investor and the FT StarMine Top Stock picker award. She is a frequent contributor on CNBC, and widely quoted in print media including the NY Times, WSJ, and Forbes.She has a B.S in Chemical Engineering from Bombay University, an M.S. and Ph.D in Bioengineering from the Pennsylvania State University and has graduated from the two year Executive Management program in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business.

Hadas Bitran is Head of Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft Israel R&D Center. Hadas and her multi-disciplinary R&D organization focus on building AI technologies for clinical decision support, virtual health assistants and natural language processing for health & life sciences and have shipped multiple products and cloud services for the healthcare industry. In addition to her work at Microsoft, Hadas serves as a Board Member at SNOMED International, a not-for-profit organization driving clinical terminologies worldwide. Hadas also founded the Med4Tech-by-8400 program, a clinical training program for R&D technologists, aiming to advance HealthTech in Israel. Prior to Microsoft, Hadas held senior leadership positions managing R&D and Product groups in hi-tech corporates and in start-up companies. Hadas received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, and her MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Chicago.