Bringing AI Innovation to the Healthcare Market – a Founder´s Perspective by Dr. Julia Hoxha скачать в хорошем качестве

Bringing AI Innovation to the Healthcare Market – a Founder´s Perspective by Dr. Julia Hoxha

This talk was presented at the Women in Data Science Maastricht 2022. The conference aims at training data scientists and inspiring more women to contribute to the field. Due to COVID-19 measures, the event was held online. Abstract: The digitization of the healthcare system and particularly an artificially-intelligent health Made in Europe remains a difficult undertaking. Grounded in science and highly regulated by the government, health care is a very challenging sector with many stakeholders and hard to navigate. Young and innovative startups are the right mechanisms to bring new technology to the market, but they are confronted with many challenges that make it hard to exploit the big potential of AI. Zana, founded and led by Dr. Hoxha, is one of those startups in the German KI Landscape working to drive digitalization forward in Health. The talk presents the innovative Conversational AI technology of Zana for building chatbot and voice assistant systems that can communicate in natural language and accompany patients on their healing journey. A glimpse is offered to the commercial solutions and the various projects where the technology is deployed. The talk further addresses from the personal experience as founder the challenges of bringing innovation to a risk-averse market, mechanisms that help to overcome such difficulties, and the role Universities play to transform the high quality of European research into a competitive, commercializing approach. Bio: Dr.-Ing. Julia Hoxha is founder and CEO of Zana Technologies GmbH, an AI healthtech startup offering innovative Conversational AI technology for voice and chatbot applications in healthcare. Before founding Zana, she completed her PhD at KIT and performed PostDoc work as scientific researcher at Columbia university in the field of AI and medical informatics. She is now head of the Working Group “Health” at the German AI Association. This event was kindly sponsored by: Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/r... CompuTD https://computd.nl/