Medicon Valley Alliance and Fortrea would like to welcome you to a Good Morning Meeting 6th of November 2024.
Join us for an insightful exploration of the evolving clinical research landscape as our expert speakers delve into how digital health, technology, and AI are enhancing clinical development productivity. Gain a deeper understanding of the positive impact this is having on trial outcomes, and ways in which this is also affecting important measures such as sustainability.
Date: Wednesday 6th of November 2024
Time: 9:00 – 11:30
Venue: Medicon Valley Alliance, Arne Jacobsens Allé 15, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark – Hub 2
Program
| 9:00 | Networking, registration and light breakfast |
| 9:30 | Welcome and introduction to Medicon Valley Alliance David Munis Zepernick, Director, Member Engagement & Communication, Medicon Valley Alliance |
| 9:35 | Technology Advancement: Innovation to Impact Alaric Jackson, Chief Technology and Data Officer, Fortrea will discuss how we are now at the tipping point of impacting development at scale leveraging technology. |
| 9:55 | The Role of Digital Health in Sustainability and Global Health Equality Clare Campbell-Cooper, Global head, Digital Health and Innovation, Fortrea discusses how decentralised elements can be both a challenge and an opportunity and highlights how programme design is critical to success. |
| 10:15 | AI Goes Nuclear: Current AI models consume so much energy that Microsoft has begun funding nuclear power plants to feed them. Are there more energy-conscious models in AI? Will this trend continue? What are some future architecture on the horizons of AI Research? Brian Dolan, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Fortrea will delve into the context of clinical research. |
| 10:40 | Panel discussion Cheerag Shirodaria, VP CV and Metabolic Diseases, Fortrea leads an open discussion with our speakers and audience on key topics presented, company goals and ideas. |
| 11:00 | Networking |
| 11:30 | End of Good Morning Meeting |
Speakers
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Alaric Jackson, Chief Technology and Data Officer, Fortrea
Alaric Jackson is the Chief Technology & Data Officer at Fortrea. Alaric is rresponsible for developing and implementing Fortrea’s enterprise data and technology strategy allowing Fortrea to become the first CRO to be powered by AI. Prior to Fortrea, Alaric has held several Senior Leadership roles at Fern.Ai , GSK and IQVIA. Whilst at GSK he led the digital transformation of the Regulatory, Safety, Quality and Medical organisations. |
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Clare Campell Cooper, Global head, Digital Health and Innovation, Fortrea
Clare Campbell Cooper has 25 years of industry experience across all phases of clinical research, predominantly within CROs. |
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Brian Dolan, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Fortrea
Brian Dolan is a mathematician, inventor and cyberneticist with decades of experience building enterprise grade artificial intelligence products. Brian has 10 years of CXO experience leading multiple companies from seed to growth stage, including Yahoo, Greenplum and Deep6 AI and others. Brian is also a keynote speaker at major industry events such as TEDx, High Performance Computing and Big Data Day LA. |
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Cheerag Shirodaria, VP CV and Metabolic Diseases, Fortrea
Dr Cheerag Shirodaria is an interventional cardiologist with over 20 years of academic and clinical cardiology experience. He is Co-Director of a cardiac CT imaging program and a faculty member at University of Oxford. Dr Shirodaria is also Co-Founder and CDO of Caristo Diagnostics, an AI imaging company and has spent the past 13 years with Fortrea leading our cardiovascular and metabolic medical group. |
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