Miloš Táborský
Professor of Medicine, Palackého University, Founder of the National Telemedicine Center, Olomouc (Czechia)
Miloš Táborský is the founder of the National Telemedicine Center in Olomouc and is currently launching his own international multicentre DCM CRT-Reality Study.
Professor Táborský also teaches at the Palackého University of Medicine in Olomouc and his main field of interest in Medicine is Arrhythmology, especially Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, ICD and pacemakers, heart failure and e-Health. He has been involved in several important international studies and registers, and is currently President of the Czech Society of Cardiology and is also active in the structures of the European Cardiology Society.
Anu Siren
Senior Researcher, Danish Center for Social Science Research VIVE (Denmark/Finland)
Anu Siren, PhD, is a psychologist and a senior researcher at the Danish Center for Social Science Research. Her previous affiliations include Danish Technical University, and University of Helsinki in Finland. Her areas of interest are related to the institutional and cultural contexts of ageing, including material/non-material environments, age-related policies, and family arrangements in late life. She has authored over 80 publications and her recent publications include “Socio-economic and lifestyle determinants of giving practical support to adult children in the era of changing late life” in Ageing and Society, “Older adults and the emerging digital service delivery” in Journal of Aging and Social Policy.
Kai Leichsenring
Executive Director, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (Austria)
He has published several books and articles on policies and practice towards older persons in Europe. As a Dr. phil. in Political Sciences and Communication Research from the University of Vienna, Austria, his main field of research involves comparative social policy, ageing and society, new public management and social services and quality improvement in health and social care.
Ana Isabel Arroyo Hernández
Project Manager, Social Technologies Foundation - TECSOS (Spain)
Ana works currently as a Project Manager at TECSOS Foundation, in charge of international projects. She is specialised in the management of technological innovation projects at european level for the improvement of the quality of life of vulnerable groups. Since 2007 she has developed her technical and technological education in the field of the ICTs for social purpose, working for 5 years in Vodafone Spain Foundation. She has a Degree in Technical Telecommunications Engineering, with speciality in Telecommunications Systems.
Stephen Johnston
Co-founder, Aging2.0 (UK/USA)
Stephen is co-founder of Aging2.0, a global network of innovators in ageing. Aging2.0 has 68 volunteer-run chapters across 20 countries focused on eight ‘Grand Challenges’. He is also the founder of Fordcastle, an innovation consulting company. Stephen is co-author of Growth Champions (Wiley, 2012) and an advisor to several organizations including Irvine Health Foundation (USA), Sompo Holdings (Japan) and Music & Memory, a US 501c3 non-profit. Stephen has an Economics degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Jonathan Rutherford
Vice President, Vodafone Business Czech Republic (Czechia/UK)
Jonathan holds Masters degrees in Engineering and Management from The University of Bradford and executive education in IMD, Switzerland and London Business School, UK.
Jonathan started his career as a consultant in ICT with a particular focus on a number of start-up fixed and mobile operators throughout Europe. In Vodafone, he has held a number of senior leadership roles in commercial, marketing, business development and product management across Vodafone UK – running both fixed and mobile lines of business, before becoming Head of Commercial and Marketing.
Prior to coming to the Czech Republic he was Head of Enterprise Customer Solutions at Vodafone Ireland where he was responsible for growing the fixed and managed services business, running solution sales, pre-sales and operations and service management.
Currently, he is the Vice president of Vodafone Business in Vodafone Czech Republic.
Jonathan is a passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion and the transformational power of technology and innovation. He spends his free time with his wife and three kids and relaxes playing football, squash or taking long walks in the countryside. Jonathan hails from Newcastle, UK.
Michaela Stachová
Director, Beauty of Help Foundation (Czechia)
The Beauty of Help Foundation was established in 2008. During last 10 years they have supported dozens of grassroots organizations across the Czech Republic, which help the older people, with the amount of 1,2 Mio EUR. They mostly support homecare services and also volunteer programs. They have also started their own project – Home Without Worry. Within this project, they have helped thousands of older people, so they can live at home and with dignity. Without their support, they would have ended up in institutional care.
The foundation has also run several awareness raising campaigns and significantly helped to change the perception of aging and older people in the Czech Republic. Next to general campaigns they promote healthy nutrition for the elderly, ran a campaign against the loneliness of the older persons or against work discrimination and ageism.
They have organized many round tables and conferences and have greatly supported the exchange of experience among the stakeholders in this field.
Nick Alexander Guldemond
Professor Integrated Care & Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Dr. Guldemond is Chief Innovation Officer at Panaxea health intelligence company and professor Integrated care and technology at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management at the Erasmus University and holds a degree in medicine and electric engineering. He is a key expert on eHealth, integrated and value based healthcare and related business modelling for various international organisations such as WHO Global eHealth Observatory, EU Programmes as Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC) Health and KIC Digital, EU4Dgital, Ambient Assisted Living and the Innovative Medical Device Initiative. He is expert on technology enabled healthcare transformation from governmental to work-floor level across Europe and internationally: e.g. Brazil, China, Russia and Iran. He is a highly wanted advisor for multinational companies in Food/Pharma (Sanofi, Roche, Genzyme, Danone), Medtech (Philips, Medtronic, Siemens, COCIR), health IT (Microsoft, Ascom, Ortec, Vodafone) and finance (Rabobank, Natwest, RBS). Dr. Guldemond was architect of the Dutch eHealth and big data strategy as well as program director eHealth on behalf of the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres. He is coordinator of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Melita Sogomonjan
Project Manager, Smart Develpoment Department, Ministry of Social Affairs (Estonia)
Melita Sogomonjan has been working in the public sector since 2016. She manages several national eHealth projects at the Ministry of Social Affairs. Sogomonjan is currently doing her PhD in Health Policy at the Tallinn University of Technology, School of Business and Governance, Ragnar Nurkse
Department of Innovation and Governance. Her research is focused on the development and regulation of eHealth Policy and Public Health Administration in the EU. She is also giving courses on processing of special categories of personal data and ensuring data protection in the healthcare sector.
Kevin Warwick
Emeritus Professor, Reading & Coventry Universities (UK)
Kevin´s research areas are artificial intelligence, biomedical systems, robotics and cyborgs. Kevin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET who has published over 600 research papers. His experiments into implant technology led to him being the cover story on the US magazine, ‘Wired’. He achieved the world’s first direct electronic communication between two human nervous systems, the basis for thought communication. He has been awarded higher doctorates (DSc) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences. He received the IET Mountbatten Medal, the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
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