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Dr. David A. Bray is a Distinguished Fellow and Chair of the Accelerator with the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the non-partisan Henry L. Stimson Center. He is Principal at LeadDoAdapt Ventures and has served in a variety of leadership roles in turbulent environments, including bioterrorism preparedness and response from 2000-2005 and as a senior national intelligence service executive in multiple settings. He serves as a transformation leader for different “under the radar” tech and data ventures seeking to get started in novel situations.

Business Insider named him one of the top “24 Americans Who Are Changing the World” under 40 and he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. HMG Strategy named him an "Industry Genius" in 2023 and he has worked on projects involving multiple flavors of AI ranging from expert systems to deep neural networks for two decades. Dr. Bray previously was the Executive Director for a bipartisan National Commission on R&D, provided non-partisan leadership as a federal agency Senior Executive, worked with the U.S. Navy and Marines on improving organizational adaptability, and aided U.S. Special Operation Command’s J5 Directorate on the challenges of countering disinformation online. He has received both the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award and the National Intelligence Exceptional Achievement Medal. 

David accepted a leadership role in December 2019 to direct the successful bipartisan Commission on the Geopolitical Impacts of New Technologies and Data that included Senator Mark Warner, Senator Rob Portman, Rep. Suzan DelBene, and Rep. Michael McCaul. From 2017 to the start of 2020, David also served as Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet coalition Chaired by Internet co-originator Vint Cerf and was named a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition starting in 2018. In 2019, he was invited to give the AI World Society Distinguished Lecture to the United Nations on UN Charter Day. For twelve different startups, he has served as President, CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, and Strategic Advisor roles.

For two decades, Ben Cushing has been a leader in emerging technology solutions across multiple industries and is committed to radical innovation in healthcare. Before joining Red Hat, he served as the Chief Technology Officer for MDLogix, a behavioral health IT firm supporting Johns Hopkins Medicine. He architected and brought to market a behavioral health cloud platform for use with employer, healthcare, and education markets.

In addition to supporting analytics and operations at the National Institutes of Health for six years, Ben had the opportunity to practice a scaled agile framework with Accenture, where he led the technical architecture and design for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) Electronic Health Management Platform, an industry-leading Health Management and Care Coordination platform serving nine million patients.

His tenure at Accenture began with the acquisition of Agilex, where he designed LSI solutions, developed systems to automate the Post-9/11 GI bill, and supported in-theater data collection and analytics tools. While at Agilex, Ben architected and led the development of a mobile Software Development Kit, still in use today by the VA to produce more than 60 applications.

Pollyanna (Polly) Jones is an experienced health policy and service delivery expert who has successfully advised top-level decision-makers in the NHS and government. Her commercial acumen has developed national commercial efficiencies and innovation strategies within NHS England. She is a recognized expert in designing approaches to streamline market entry and accelerate innovation adoption within the NHS. During the pandemic, Polly played a key operational role in the NHS data team, which enabled the early detection of COVID-19 and facilitated the efficient distribution of vaccinations, saving countless lives.

Previously, Polly served as an operational service manager in the NHS, specializing in digital product development for emergency services. Her entrepreneurial spirit led to creating the FutureNHS platform, the most prominent digital collaboration platform for healthcare professionals. This revolutionary platform empowers hundreds of thousands of staff to collaborate on innovations that continuously improve healthcare delivery.

Polly’s leadership extends to the social impact realm, where she champions the School of Healthcare Radicals and NHS Change Day, driving positive change in the healthcare landscape.

Polly’s expertise extends beyond the NHS, as she actively collaborates with life science companies, health systems, and governments, providing invaluable guidance in developing and implementing innovative solutions, particularly in digital, data, and medical technologies.

As Chief Digital Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Peter O’Halloran is responsible for stewarding the national digital health ecosystem, products and standards. He represents Australia as the Australian Delegate to the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP) and as the Australian Delegate to the SNOMED International General Assembly. Peter is also the Co-Chair of the GDHP Evidence and Evaluation Work Stream.

Peter has been a Chief Information/Digital Officer in the healthcare portfolio in the public services since 2009 and has held senior roles with the National Health & Medical Research Council, the National Blood Authority, and ACT Health. iTnews named Peter Technology Leader of the Year 2024.

Peter is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders, a Senior Member & Certified Professional of the Australian Computer Society, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc is the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation and Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego, where he also serves as Chief Health AI Officer for UC San Diego Health. In these roles, Dr. Singh leads AI initiatives within the Jacobs Center for Health Innovation and oversees AI strategy and governance for the health system.

He completed his internal medicine residency at UCLA Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and a nephrology fellowship in the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital program. He completed his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School and holds a master’s degree in medical sciences in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard Medical School.

R “Ray” Wang is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research Inc. He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast with 50,000 views per episode. He also authors a business strategy and technology blog that has received millions of page views monthly. Ray coined the term "Metaverse Economy" in 2020 and is a leading authority on AI and AI policy. Wang also serves as an advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and is on the board of various exponential startups.

Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of live and virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary. Wang has spoken at almost every major tech conference. His ground-breaking, best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015.

Ray's new best-selling book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, was released in July 2021 by Harper Collins Leadership.

Wang is one of the top technology analysts in the world and is often quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, BBC, Bloomberg, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune.