Bart de Witte

Bart de Witte, is one of Europe's leading and awarded experts on the digital transformation of healthcare, and one of the most progressive forward thinkers focuses on finding alternative European strategies for the current postmodern world to create a more desirable future with greater social benefits. He is the initiator of the HIPPO AI Foundation project (in stealth) in Berlin, which focusses on creating data commons and aims to make artificial intelligence in medicine a common good. With his mission to use technology for the greater good, Bart has been on a mission to harness the power of artificial intelligence to help to solve current and future inequalities in healthcare. He wrote his first paper on Artificial Intelligence in 1989 while he was on grammar school, and restated his interest in 2010, while working for IBM. He is part of the founding faculty of the European Institute of Exponential Technologies and Desirable Futures, futur.io, an institute that focuses on finding alternative European strategies for today's postmodern world and developing new methods to open the barriers between different possibilities and preferences for a more ideal future with greater social benefits. He is involved as a mentor for dozen digital health start-ups. 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 and lectures at various universities in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and China. He co-founded the Digital Health Academy where he shares his knowledge to improve digital literacy. Prior to focussing on working for the greater good, he worked as an executive for IBM for eight years - most recently as Director Digital Health at IBM for Germany, Austria and Switzerland - and before that for nine years at SAP Switzerland, including as Business Development Director.