Bart De Witte

Bart de Witte is a renowned and award-winning leader on digital transformation in healthcare and one of Europe's most progressive thought leaders in his field. He is interested in promoting and building a more sustainable and desirable future of digital healthcare systems with a focus on accelerating innovation while improving inclusive societal benefits. As the founder of the Berlin-based non-profit the HIPPO AI Foundation, he has been challenging the current data commodification and capitalisation. He inspires us to reimagine our digital economy to build a more equal and sustainable society in which health disparities based on information asymmetries are obsolete. According to Bart de Witte, social progression can be achieved through the democratisation of technologies and has been pioneering open-source collaborations in digital medicine. In 2020, Bart de Witte and his Hippo AI Foundation were nominated finalists for Breakthrough of the Year in the Engineering and Technology category at the prestigious Falling Walls Conference. In 2021, he received Axel Springer's German AI Prize in the Startups category. His first project at HIPPO AI was chosen as one of 100 global projects by the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO to solve challenges connected to the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals through the application of AI. He is an author and advisor to numerous digital health firms and startups, and he often talks at several business colleges in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, and China.