Joint JLM-BioCity – IGTCloud Online Conference on
“How Big Data & AI Can Fight the COVID-19 Crisis”
Time: Wednesday, September 23th at 20:00 – 21:00 (Israel)
13:00 – 14:00 EDT (Maryland)

The fight against the novel coronavirus is entering a new phase, as people worldwide begin to resume normal life alongside an invisible enemy. To help win this battle, experts are turning to a potentially potent weapon: Big Data & AI.

The panelists will discuss the role of AI and big data in the fight against the coronavirus crisis.

Invited speakers are:
• Prof Paul Rothman, Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine (USA)
• Prof Itamar Grotto, Associate Director General, Israel Ministry of Health
• Dr Kira Radinsky, Chair & Chief Technology Officer at Diagnostic Robotics
• Dr. Tal Tova Patalon MD, LL.B, MBA, Director, Institute for Health Research & Innovation KSM – Maccabi Healthcare Services

After the conference is over, there will be breakout sessions for informal networking and to meet new people.

JLM-BioCity has teamed up with the IGTCloud Israel Cloud Computing Association to organize this event which is sponsored by the Azrieli College of Engineering, AtoBe and Bio-Jerusalem.

The link to the online meeting is https://zoom.us/j/95148596390?pwd=K1l1WmpLd1JjakIyeXlyVzNqS1NsQT09
Meeting ID: 951 4859 6390 Passcode: 11223344

Event program :

* Greetings – Moderators – Dr Hamutal Shahar, CEO, JLM-BioCity
Avner Algom – CEO, ITGCloud

* Short Companies Presentations-
– EDAS Healthcare
– POMICELL

* Panelists on: “How Can AI & Big Data Fight COVID-19”

– Dr Paul Rothman
– Prof Itamar Grotto
– Dr Kira Radinsky
– Dr. Tal Tova Patalon MD, LL.B, MBA

* Panel Discussion

* Breakout Rooms for informal Networking.
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JLM-BioCity https://jlm-biocity.org/ is the largest forum of bio professionals, working to accelerate medical and bio innovation in Jerusalem.

The IGTCloud https://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/ is a leading high-tech technology community (+7,000 members) of top industry companies, startups, ISVs, VCs and academia, focused on Cloud, BIG Data, AI & Data.

About our speakers:

DR PAUL ROTHMAN
Dean of the Medical Faculty for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine, a $9 billion academic medical enterprise and health system. As Dean/CEO, Dr. Rothman oversees both the Johns Hopkins Health System and the School of Medicine.

Dr. Rothman is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

PROF ITAMAR GROTTO
Public Health Physician and an Epidemiologist. Serves as the Associate Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) since 2017. In his previous position starting in 2007, he served as the Director of Public Health Services of the MoH.
He is Professor for Public Health at the Ben Gurion University and an Advisor on Development of Public Health Infrastructure in Europe, at WHO.

DR KIRA RADINSKY
Chair& Chief Technology Officer at Diagnostic Robotics
Dr Radinsky gained recognition after her software predicted the first in 130 years outbreak of cholera in Cuba, based on the pattern identified by mining of 150 years of data from various sources: in poor countries, floods within a year after a draught often follow by a cholera outbreak. The disaster-prediction software was developed while she was an intern at the Microsoft Research during her Ph.D. work at the Technion.

DR TAL PATALON
A Medical Doctor, specializing in family medicine and emergency medicine; as well as a Lawyer and MBA.
Head of KSM Research and Innovation Institute at Maccabi Health Services;
Dr. Patalon is an avid entrepreneur. She has a passionate interest in medical innovation and is an expert in streamlining medical technologies from ideas to products.