- Belgium
Koen Kas Keynote Speaker
- Healthcare futurist and Professor of Molecular Oncology and Digital Health.
- Chairman of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation.
- Leading expert and author in the fields of healthcare innovation, digital health, genomics and patient delight.
Koen Kas's Biography
Prof. Dr. Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, professor of Molecular Oncology & Digital Health, and leading international keynote speaker addressing healthcare innovation, digital health and patient delight.
He published his vision in two books: ‘Sick No More’ describes how we will transition from reactive sick care to predictive, proactive and personalised healthcare. ‘Your Guide To Delight’ is a roadmap towards that future, introducing our personal digital twin that will keep you, and your company, relevant and “young”.
As founding CEO of Healthskouts, a digital health advisory company, Koen works with global pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, hospitals and governments to help them see the digital health landscape with greater clarity, to sharpen strategy and bring delightful products and services to market faster. Healthskouts also curates one of the world’s leading databases of certified digital health solutions.
Koen is guest professor at Ghent University in Belgium. He is Chairman of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation; Co-chair of the Digital Twin Consortium healthcare workgroup; Advisor of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance; Ambassador of Health House and VITO’s We Are project on decentralized health data (using Solid); Jury of the Prix Galien; and sits on the advisory board of 5 emerging (digital) healthcare companies and two startup accelerators.
Earlier, Koen was CSO Oncology at Oxurion, where he developed a novel drug for pediatric brain cancer. Before this, he was founder and CSO of Pronota, building a protein biomarker discovery platform and pipeline of four diagnostic programs. Prior to that, he was the director of drug discovery at Galapagos. Previously he set up and directed the cancer drug discovery program at Tibotec (now Johnson & Johnson). He started his career elucidating the molecular basis of two types of cancers.
Koen studied at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Utrecht University in The Netherlands and he was a Harvard fellow.
Koen Kas's Speaking Topics
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• An inspiring vision on the future of health, digitals and patient delight
Koen will show how biological & digital breakthroughs are moving us away from current curative healthcare to precise, preventive and even augmented healthcare. He will present a radical vision for accelerating and digitizing drug discovery, from bench to bedside. He will show how close we are to being accompanied by our personal digital twin, helping us take effective shortcuts to the right diagnosis and treatment and make the entire experience delightful, almost magical. You will learn: • how to make healthcare delightful ‘by default’, • about the first clinical practice in the Metaverse, • how a small nation is pioneering the shift to a citizen-centric health data platform, • how Koen managed to put his genome data to work, • which digital health tools you can trust and why, • how he’s helping nations make more money by keeping their populations healthy.
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• Creating the Future of Health with Delight Thinking
In ancient China doctors were paid to keep people healthy. In this keynote, Koen will catapult you back to that future of healthcare. Koen will show how Delight Thinking moves us away from current curative healthcare to precise, preventive and even augmented healthcare. To create health from a white page. Koen cannot predict the future, but he can help you create this novel future. A world where one gets ill no more. Where prevention becomes a viable business opportunity. Full circle.
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The latest digital & bio breakthroughs in (your therapeutic area)
The combined power of the digital and biological revolutions are sure to dramatically upend your therapeutic field. Koen loves diving deep in your specific therapeutic area, cutting through the noise to highlight the key scientific, technological, design and business model breakthroughs and exploring their implications for your therapeutic area. Koen will surprise and inspire you with his unique ‘delight’ perspective on the future of your therapeutic area.
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• Creating extreme patient delight
Disease & delight aren’t easy bedfellows. Disease is the very opposite of delight, it’s the ultimate friction. That’s exactly why Koen believes delight should be in the heart of healthcare, why every healthcare company should have Chief Delight Officers, and why delight should be part of the DNA of every employee and health worker. Koen will shower you with inspiring examples and insights to help you create patient experiences that come closest to magic, but are real. Welcome to extreme patient and citizen delight.
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• Genomic Delight & how you can capitalise on it
The digital revolution was just for starters. In this keynote, Koen will show you why you should prepare for the biology revolution. Genomics, gene-editing and synthetic biology spearhead the arrival of personalised medication, food, care and wellness. By highlighting the latest science and the most innovative new applications, Koen will show you why it is becoming ethically unacceptable to be ignorant of one’s genome.
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• Achieving breakthroughs in creating the healthiest nation
In this keynote, Koen inspires health policymakers to create a nation where people live healthy productive lives well beyond their 90s. That’s an intrinsic good of incalculable value, but economists will applaud too for increasing the ROI on society’s investment. We’ll depart from 1st principles to reinvent policy for impact. Learning from science and innovations, from here in the west to the Arabian megaprojects and the leapfrogging initiatives in developing nations.
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• Creating a Delightful Hospital ready for tomorrow
How can we create an “agile” hospital, one that is fundamentally flexible and open to change and innovation? Where the evolutionary process is built-in the heart of the organisation and infrastructure. What can hospital leaders do today, to bring the engine of innovation and delight inside the walls of the hospital, while at the same time bringing the hospital to the homes of patients? And do this all pragmatically, cost-effectively, and with a wave of staff enthusiasm and support? These are the challenges that Koen will address in this super inspiring keynote.
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