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Roberto Ascione CEO at Healthware International

A serial entrepreneur and global thought leader in digital health, he has 20 years of experience in marketing and communications, business transformation and innovation in health and wellness.

Eugene Borukhovich Global Head of Digital Health Incubation & Innovation at Bayer

He’s an Entrepreneur in Residence at Personal Health Solutions (PHS), and a founder of Health 2.0 NYC, Amsterdam & Dusseldorf local chapters. Eugene enjoys mentoring digital health startups and an avid blogger about innovation, digital health and startups.

Justin Chase Executive Vice President/Head Innovation - Intouch Solutions

Early in his career, he launched Hypertonic, an agency that sought to educate pharma on current and emerging social ideas, research, insights, and activations. Chase settled in at Intouch as the agency's in-house innovation guru. He also ranks among the industry's most articulate and enthusiastic evangelists. He has led client innovation labs and workshops and presented at a range of health events, including the Frontiers Health Conference in Berlin and Digital Pharma East in Philadelphia.

Gerry Chillè Health Innovator, Partner at HealthwareLabs

Gerry has spent his life breaking things apart, mixing the pieces up with other objects, and trying to build something new from them. As head of HealthwareLabs US, this dubious talent often yields delightful results for clients trying to solve old problems in new innovative ways.

Megan Coder Executive Director at Digital Therapeutics Alliance

Megan Coder, PharmD, MBA, is Executive Director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Prior to joining DTA, Megan worked with Voluntis, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Iodine, and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.

Giovanna D'Urso Media & PR - Healthware International

Journalist since 2013, Giovanna writes about innovation, digital marketing and communications on various sites: Inside Marketing, Nòva24 - Il Sole 24 Ore and Digital Health Italia. She has been also the Community Advisor for NAStartUp, one of the main communities of innovators in Southern Italy. From January 2017 she collaborates with Healthware for Marketing & Communication activities.

Jessica DaMassa Health Innovation Reporter; Host & Executive Producer, WTF Health; Host, Health in 2 Point 00; Innovation Consultant

Jessica DaMassa has emerged as the ‘it girl’ of health tech interviewing – having racked up more than 500 interviews in just the past three years. She brings an enthusiastic, fun, yet inquisitive style to her interviewing and hosting of conferences, interviews, and videos, including her YouTube series ‘WTF Health – What’s the Future Health?’ and her weekly digital health news show ‘Health in 2 Point 00’ with Health 2.0 cofounder Matthew Holt. Find out more at www.wtf.health.

Melania De Luca Content Strategist, Healthware Group

Strategist by profession, linguist by training, multilingual by natural inclination and volleyball player by passion. Graduated in Communication, in her curriculum also a year of study abroad in contact with the major European exponents in Computational Linguistics. Her many journeys around the world have made her emotional radars extremely receptive to everything that is innovation, technology and new media. Melania has been in the world of digital communication in the health sector for over 10 years. Passionate about semiotics and information architecture, she is currently Content Strategist for the Healthware Group.

Fredrik Debong Head of Research & Development, Co-founder at mySugr

Swedish expat, father of three, #t1d. Cofounder of mySugr. Formerly also of STARTeurope and Pioneers.

Erminio Finelli Creative Technologist - HealthTouch

Creative Technologist presso HealthTouch, lavora al confine fra design e tecnologia occupandosi di UX e sviluppo in ambito mobile. Appassionato di fotografia, calcio e attività subacquee è sempre attento alle nuove tendenze in ambito tech e salute.

Adriano Fontanari

Adriano Fontanari, passionate about digital health and innovation in the health field, is co-founder of a support and guidance service for people suffering from chronic disease. He is a member of the EIT Health Alumni Network, Ambassador and Contributor of Impactscool and a member of the Young Advisory Committee of the European Health Management Association. He writes about digital health and how emerging technologies will change the future of the medical-patient relationship.

Fulvio Fortini Managing Director Healthware International

Born in Libya and raised in Italy, Fulvio began his career working in the family business and pursuing university studies in law. In 1999 he started working in Healthware as CFO, later becoming CEO of the Italian division. With great interest in both sport and the quantified-self movement, he believes that the progress of digital technology can support health and wellness, and improve health care at the same time. His passions led Fulvio to become one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in healthcare.

Pierre Leurent Founder and CEO at Voluntis

He is a specialist of electronic health records and disease management solutions in Europe and the United States. He started his career at General Electric Medical Systems Europe, where he took part in the development of medical imaging software. He also occupied several technical and marketing positions at HealthCenter Internet Services, a San Francisco-based vendor of electronic medical record solutions. He is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris.

Lino Mari Senior Technical Architect, Healthware International

Lino works with international teams and supports clients in identifying the right fit of Software Architecture and Technology in order to develop corporate communications, campaigns, mobile-enabled service portals and AI-based apps. Lino loves Innovation, Agile (Scrum), Big Data, Open Data and Deep Learning.

Francis Namouk Streaming Well & Videum, CEO

F. is a digital video strategist and entrepreneur with a passion for storytelling, digital comms and content strategy. Over 14 years of professional experience in the medical, consumer health sectors.

Donal O’Neill Irish born, independent documentary filmmaker

Donal O’Neill is a former elite-level athlete, and an innovative documentary filmmaker exploring health and nutrition. His first movie Cereal Killers was a cult sensation, and the Killeavy native has since produced two successful follow-up projects, Run On Fat: Cereal Killers 2, and The Big Fat Fix, and has more recently published a best-selling book, The Pioppi Diet, alongside British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra.

Luigi Pavia Ecosystem Engagement & Dev., Frontiers Health

Luigi is a Passionate Facilitator and networker for SMEs on innovation approaches, strategies and partnership building, has taken part of European projects (FP7; H2020; COSME; 3rd Health Programme) and he is also a Digital health copywriter (blog/social media).

Elena Pirofalo Experience Director, Healthware Group

Elena has over 14 years’ experience in healthcare digital communications developed at Healthware in key strategic roles. Today she is focusing on the intersection of Art, Content and User Experience to deliver innovative experiences able to improve health outcomes and transform clients business.

Ferdinando Scala Strategy Director, Healthware International

Ferdinando è un senior advisor nel settore farmaceutico a livello mondiale, specializzato in Strategic & Digital Consulting. E’ un appassionato autore di Wikipedia (21.000+ contributi) ed un esperto di Collaborative&Social Media.

Gabriel Scali Reckon digital, co-founder and Head of Design

Gabriel is an Experience Designer and Innovator active in the media, culture, government, manufacturing, and health industries who has designed digital products and services for major household brands since the early 90s. Today Gabriel works primarily in Product/Service Design and Experience Strategy.

Sara Scarpinati Marketing Communications Manager

Graduated in Classics, after a short but intense work experience in London, Sara arrives in Healthware in 2011 as Content Coordinator and deals with international and Italian projects, in close collaboration with the Creative team, and with a fondness for Social Networking and blogging.

Karen Taylor Research Director of the Centre for Health Solutions at Deloitte

Karen Taylor is the Research Director of the Centre for Health Solutions at Deloitte, which she established in November 2011. The Centre is the research arm of Deloitte LLP’s life sciences and healthcare practices. By using both primary and secondary research and rigorous analysis to drive unique perspectives, the Centre seeks to be a trusted source for relevant, timely, and reliable insights.

Tarmo Virki Storyteller and cofounder at CoFounder

Experienced media professional. Journalist, communications manager, published author. Storyteller by nature. Keen on the startup scene, fascinated by creating something new.