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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 three 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”; and Epic shows how a holistic approach to health, powered by new technologies, can help you maximise healthspan over lifespan and live a more vibrant, purposeful and truly epic life.
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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The Epic Keynote
How to design an epic life - where AI, personal data control, and bio-enhancement unlock the next level of human purpose and performance
What if health was not just the absence of disease, but the foundation for purpose, performance, and legacy?
In Epic, Koen Kas invites your audience on a journey beyond healthspan toward epic living. Combining mind-blowing technology, personalized data, and purpose-driven design, Koen delivers a provocative, uplifting keynote that redefines what it means to be healthy,
Your audience will walk away with:
- A roadmap to designing an epic life - personally and professionally
- The role of AI, biology, and data in upgrading human potential
- A new lens on proactive health, vitality, and meaning
- Tools to spark culture change and well-being inside your organization
- Vision for leaving legacy, not just living longer ambitious, and fully alive. Immediately applicable the day after.
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Don’t Just Live Longer. Live Epic
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The Death of Sickcare: A New Era of Purposeful Health
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You 2.0: How to Design Your Digital Twin for Vitality & Legacy
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The Epic Workplace: Designing Cultures of Meaning and Energy
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Data, DNA, AI and Delight: The Science of Becoming Your Most Epic Self
Why Book Koen Kas as a speaker?
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He is a globally recognised healthcare futurist and digital health expert helping organisations understand the future of medicine, wellness and longevity.
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He brings exceptional credibility through leadership roles across biotechnology, oncology, digital health innovation and academic research.
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He is an engaging and visionary speaker who explores how emerging technologies are transforming healthcare from reactive treatment to predictive, personalised and preventative care.
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He combines scientific expertise with practical experience advising pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers, technology firms and governments worldwide.
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His insights equip organisations to navigate the future of healthcare, harness digital innovation and create more human-centred, data-driven health experiences.
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