
Peter Szolovits
Peter Szolovits is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Professor of Health Sciences and Technology in the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and head of the Clinical Decision-Making Group within the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research centers on the application of AI methods to problems of medical decision making, natural language processing to extract meaningful data from clinical narratives to support translational medicine, and the design of information systems for health care institutions and patients. He has worked on problems of diagnosis, therapy planning, execution and monitoring for various medical conditions, computational aspects of genetic counseling, controlled sharing of health information, and privacy and confidentiality issues in medical record systems. His interests in AI include knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, and probabilistic inference. His interests in medical computing include Web-based heterogeneous medical record systems, life-long personal health information systems, and design of cryptographic schemes for health identifiers. He teaches classes in artificial intelligence, programming languages, medical computing, medical decision making, knowledge-based systems and probabilistic inference.
Prof. Szolovits has served on journal editorial boards and as program chairman and on the program committees of national conferences. He has been a founder of and consultant for several companies that apply AI to problems of commercial interest. He received his bachelor‘s degree in physics and his PhD in information science, both from California Institute of Technology. Prof. Szolovits was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He also serves as a member of the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

James Benedict
James Benedict has been a partner in a global private equity firm, a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur and has worked in public policy on international trade issues. He is currently a Principal with Kidd & Company, a principal investment and business building firm with a focus on creating transformative strategies that have generated superior financial returns (10 year IRR of 66.3%). James joined Kidd from Spencer Trask, a leading venture capital firm where he served as Senior Managing Director. He has advised and helped launch & finance early-stage ventures in the US, Japan, and Brazil, primarily in the areas of education & learning, environmental sustainability, and life sciences.
James is a member of the Cerego & Long Island Plastic Surgery Group Advisory Boards. He is also a member of the Young Audiences Board of Directors, where he Chairs the Advocacy Committee and is on the Executive and Nominating Committees. He is an advisor to Dr. Bob Bollinger and the Johns Hopkins Medicine Center for Continuing Global Health Education. He has a Ph.D. in International Economics from Columbia University, a B.A. from Baylor University, and a Certificate on Monetary and Fiscal Policy from the Japanese Ministry of Finance. He has consulted to the World Bank and Japanese Ministry of Finance.

Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
Eli-Shaoul Khedouri is a technologist who has co-founded three tech companies, served as Chief Architect of infosec for NYC after 9/11, and previously led projects in telemedicine and datamining of unstructured patient-provided data.
Eli began his career consulting for Sun Microsystems and coding projects for Sandia Research Labs, and in 2012 served as CTO of Everest, a Peter Thiel-backed startup featured by Apple for 45 days at launch. In 2013 he co-founded and is currently CTO of Prompt.ly, building a mobile-first SaaS platform to transform the way individuals and small businesses interact. Eli has advised both startups and the Fortune 500 on improving velocity and quality of engineering project delivery, and serves as an active advisor on tech & fundraising to early-stage ventures in the US & Canada.

MaryAnn Stump
MaryAnn Stump, President of Innovation International, joined Generate Companies, whose mission is to connect innovation leaders worldwide, in January 2011. Previous to that, she served as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer for Minnesota’s largest health plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. Additionally, she was President and CEO of a Blue Cross affiliate company, Consumer Aware. Among the successful healthcare innovations she has been instrumental in evolving are the first Cardiac Centers of Excellence, retail health clinics, such as MinuteClinic, and online health care.
A former cardiac critical care nurse, she is involved in both state and national healthcare quality efforts. She serves as vice chair of the Yale College of Nursing Advisory Board, and is a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Board, and the Anthelio National Healthcare Innovation Council. She was recognized in 2008 as one of the "Top 100" most influential people in Minnesota Healthcare by Minnesota Physicians and in 2009 as a "Women in Business Industry Leader" by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.

Humphrey Polanen
Humphrey Polanen is widely recognized for his experience as a software executive, investor and director of various venture capital and private equity-backed companies. Based in Palo Alto, he has global experience working and living in the United States, Europe and Asia.
He served as General Manager of two software products divisions of Sun Microsystems where he led the Internet Commerce Group and the Network Security Division. He also held executive positions in corporate development at Tandem Computers. Humphrey served as board chair of Edgewave (and CEO of its predecessor company which he took public) from April 2004 to June 2008 and is now chair of the board’s compensation committee.
He was recently also board chair of Argyle Data, a venture capital backed company focused on managing real time live data.As a founder of the Heritage Bank of Commerce, he helped to create a new business bank in Silicon Valley from the startup phase to a successful IPO on NASDAQ. He has chaired the audit committee for over ten years.
Humphrey is a graduate of Harvard Law School and on the board of StartX, Stanford University‘s startup accelerator.

Oded Netzer
Oded Netzer is the Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor Marketing at Columbia University.
Professor Netzer’s research interests focus on customer relationships, preference measurement, and modeling
He has a BSc from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology); MSc and PhD from Stanford University