Cal Austin

Cal is a fun-loving innovation enthusiast, currently with Pfizer’s Worldwide Innovation Team, responsible for their North and Latin American Regions. His experience has included many roles in sales, operations, and training. The common thread throughout his career has been a focus on creative problem solving and group facilitation. He has used Design Thinking, Dare to Try, Open Space Technology, Gallup StrengthsFinder, and other tools to help teams find solutions to their most challenging business pursuits.

Dave Meyers

Dave Meyers is Director of Business Development and the National Director for the U.S. Life Sciences Industry unit at Microsoft.  He is focused on business development, strategy and managing the portfolio of solutions in pharmaceuticals, genomics and precision medicine – collaborating with partners and customers to transform their health businesses. He is passionate about the promise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and genomics and accelerating their impact in healthcare and on individuals’ health.

Dave has an extensive background in Health IT Policy and was directly involved in the national policy and technical dialog on the ARRA / HITECH Acts, the Affordable Care Act, worked directly with CMS on the MITA development and has published several whitepapers and spoken at many industry events on the topic of public health and human services transformation.  Dave has also worked with NMQF and PhRMA on data analysis, tools and policy to address disparities in clinical trials; worked with and the FDA and FCC on Rural Broadband policy to support mHealth, virtual health and remote monitoring and more recently has been engaged in the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Dave began his career at Microsoft in 1997 and prior to joining the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences organization, he held various technical, program management, and product development positions and contributed to the development of the following products: Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Site Server and Microsoft Commercial Internet System.  He graduated from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and the Public Sector-Healthcare Program from The London Business School.

Jessica Higgins

Jessica is Chief Operating Officer of Gapingvoid Culture Design Group, a team of inspired individuals based in Miami, Florida, with clients worldwide, including Microsoft, Zappos, Roche, Pfizer, L’Oreal and many others. She and her team deliberately design end-to-end culture solutions that help people connect emotionally to their organization’s most important outcomes. She works in healthcare, Pharma, finance, higher education, governments and Fortune 500 corporations. She is a public speaker, strategist and published author in the future of healthcare, and recently co-authored the keynote talk alongside Pfizer on the Future of Healthcare for DPharm 2017: Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials on the topic of blockchain. She holds a Juris Doctor in Law, A Masters in Business Management Science, and a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma with specialty in Design for Six Sigma.

Percy Lopez

After spending most of his career in the hospitality sector as an IT executive, Percy transitioned to healthcare to focus on helping companies navigate the complexities of Managed Care/Value Based agreements by developing best practices and implementing Population Health analytics software. Percy is the former CIO of a healthcare analytics company where he lead the development and implementation of multiple software products delivered as a SAAS solution to health plans and providers. He has developed a passion for the industry and continues to assist companies in their healthcare analytics journey.

Andrew Satz

Andrew Satz is the Co-Founder and Director of Data Science Consulting at Metrix Labs, a firm specializing in machine learning, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions. Andrew’s work is focused on translating business challenges into data-science-driven solutions in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications. He is deeply passionate about real-world and realistic applications of machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive analytics and the impact AI can have on making life smarter and easier.

Andrew and his team’s work in healthcare at Metrix Labs have included cost and revenue enhancements, scheduling optimization, and patient retention. They have designed business solutions utilizing predictive modeling for hospitals and ACOs, including predicting patient leakage to ensure patients stay within a hospital system, rebuilding the CMS hospital quality metrics algorithm to optimize strategies to achieve a higher star rating, and tracking patient movement through the healthcare system to determine inefficiencies and underutilization of clinical staff.

Prior to co-founding Metrix Labs, Andrew spent nearly 20 years consulting in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. He holds a Bachelor’s in Economic-Philosophy and a Master’s Degrees in Data Science, both from Columbia University. His education and research in behavioral science, algorithms for data science, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, regression models, Bayesian inference, machine learning, neural nets, and distributed files systems allows him to understand both the near-term possibilities and current limits of artificial intelligence.

Murray Izenwasser

Murray has been working on digital, web, and mobile based systems, content, platforms, technologies, and marketing since the mid-‘90s, and is a recognized expert in online, integrated, and social marketing techniques. His clients over the years have included some of the world’s largest and most recognized brands. Prior to AAJ he co-founded and ran a successful digital marketing and technology agency for 7 years, and has held senior positions with some of the world’s largest digital agencies, including both Razorfish and Sapient. He is a frequent speaker at both marketing/technology and industry events.