Sumit Puri is an experienced IT Leader with over 27 years of work experience in conceptualising digital enterprise strategy, enabling governance and operational process transformation in leading organisations in Asia. Prior to his stint as Group CTO, Evercare, he has played role of Group CIO, Max Healthcare and diverse senior global and regional IT Leadership roles at organisations like Prudential Corporation Asia, Prudential Indonesia, Senior Vice President at ICICI Prudential, Global Digitization Leader at GENPACT and Senior management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers .

After his Engineering degree from DEI, Agra, Sumit completed his Master in Business Administration(MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in 1998.

Sumit brings strategic thought leadership to the table on leveraging emerging technologies to create future ready enterprise application portfolio and scalable, cost effective operational processes. He was listed in top 50 CIO’s of Middle East in 2021, CIO Top 100 listing of Asia Pacific region twice and has won multiple awards and honours including CIO of the year (2020) from CXO. IDC Insights award for Pioneer in Digital Revenue generation, Best digital innovation in healthcare for Mobile EHR, Digital Edge award for cyber security, Best Digital Marketing with Best Corporate Website award and FII Asia Innovation award.

Sumit has been a member of NASSCOM India’s National Innovation committee for Healthcare and regular speaker and panelist at several conferences across Asia Pacific region on enterprise digital strategy, cyber security and governance.

Sophie Smith is the Co-founder and CEO of Nabta Health, a hybrid healthcare platform for women providing personalised healthcare to women in emerging markets.

Prior to co-founding Nabta, Sophie worked for Accenture as a technology consultant and then founded several impact enterprises including myZindagi (a doctor-finding platform based in Pakistan) and Le Plastics (a plastic recycling company based in Sierra Leone).

Sophie’s lifetime ambition is twofold: to empower women to manage their health with privacy, autonomy and convenience, and to make healthcare affordable and accessible for all women.

Sophie read History at the University of Cambridge and completed an MBA with Quantic School of Business and Technology.

David Boucher has worked in healthcare for over 40 years and currently serves as Chief of Service Excellence at the corporate level for Aster DM Healthcare. In this capacity, he is guiding the 26-hospital chain through its service excellence journey. Prior to Aster, Mr. Boucher served for two years as Chief Business Transformation Officer at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Boucher previously served 18 years as an executive of BlueCross & BlueShield of South Carolina. From 2006 through 2016, Mr. Boucher also served as President of Companion Global Healthcare, Inc. – the world’s only medical tourism facilitator owned by a major health insurer. Prior to 2000, David served as CEO at several hospitals in the U.S.

Mr. Boucher earned his BS degree from Slippery Rock University (PA) and a Master of Public Health degree (MPH) from the University of South Carolina; he has been named a distinguished alumnus by both institutions.

David has been quoted in over 250 newspapers and journals including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, U.S. News & World Reports. He has been interviewed on NBC Nightly News and Fox Business News. He as delivered lectures on disruptive innovation in healthcare at Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, and Harvard Medical School. He currently resides in Dubai, UAE.

Qutaiba Al Manaseer, is a Public affairs professional drawing on more than 16 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He is the Government Affairs Director for the Middle East and Africa, and he is leading the COVID vaccine supply project in AstraZeneca in this region.

Qutaiba serves in the Emirates Health Economics Society board as the Media and Public Relations Chairman.

Qutaiba holds an MBA from the Swiss Business School, Switzerland and a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Jordan. He is completing a master’s in health economics from Barcelona School of Management.

Before joining AZ, Qutaiba was the strategic market access and pricing lead for GSK Gulf.

Qutaiba is a strong advocate for Diversity and Inclusion, and he was the Global Development Lead in the Executive committee of the Women Leadership Initiative in GSK.

Jenny Scott has extensive experience of UK healthcare services acquired over 32 years of senior management leadership within the National Health Service (NHS). She is skilled in leading complex projects through to successful completion and has a detailed understanding of the significant opportunities and benefits of international healthcare collaborations. Jenny joined UKIHMA as General Manager in April 2020.

Dr Michelle Funk holds a Master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of New South Wales and a Postdoctoral degree in Public Health from the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the Unit Head of the WHO Policy, Law and Human Rights team.

She is responsible for cross cutting work related to policy, planning, service development, human rights and legislation across the mental health, brain health and substance use units of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use.

She leads the WHO QualityRights Initiative which builds capacity of stakeholders to understand and promote human rights and recovery approaches, and supports countries to develop services, policies and laws in line with international human rights standards.

Dr Ahmed Hankir is passionate about empowering and dignifying people with mental health conditions. He leads Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Disabilities and Human Rights at the Institute for Mental Health, the University of Nottingham. Dr Hankir's research interests include global and Muslim mental health and mental health stigma and he has published extensively in these areas.

Dr Hankir pioneered the Wounded Healer, an innovative anti-stigma programme that blends the power of the performing arts and storytelling with psychiatry. The Wounded Healer traces Dr Hankir's remarkable recovery journey from hopeless and suicidal 'service user' to empowered mental health advocate and Royal College of Psychiatrist's award-winning doctor. Dr Hankir has personally delivered The Wounded Healer to over 75,000 people in 18 countries in five continents worldwide and has given Keynote Lectures along Nobel Prize Laureates, celebrities and Ted Speakers.

Esra is the co-founder and CEO of Moodcare, an AI driven self therapy and mental wellbeing app. Moodcare utilizes evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness exercises in order to help users cope with mild depression and other mental health disorders.

Before launching Moodcare, Esra worked at Uber as a Growth Manager in the UAE, in charge of launching new business marketplace verticals, marketing and establishing scalable operations. She has an MBA degree from the City University of London, as a scholar of Coca-Cola Global Women’s Leadership Program.

She dedicated her career for making mental health services accessible for many people by digitizing the traditional treatments.

Ashish Khanna holds a Master’s in strategic leadership from the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is currently working as a specialist and advisor to the CISO of a prominent Dubai Government entity. Ashish’s research interests are in the Technology and AI aspects of cybersecurity – particularly in finding ways of ‘monetizing unforeseen risk’ as well as 'Data Science for Cybersecurity. He is currently managing multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams, towards achieving key strategic objectives.

Ashish has previously headed the cybersecurity consulting vertical for an organization in India. He has worked extensively across the public and private sector for organizations such as Infosys, Credit-Suisse group AG, HCL, Deutsche-Bank, and more. He has been a prominent speaker on diverse cybersecurity topics, presented at a range of conferences, and contributed widely to organizational and national-level strategic programs.

After working for years with one of the listed companies in the United States, I found AGA Medical Billing Company which is one of the leading medical billing companies in UAE. Since I was associated with revenue cycle management, I knew the significance of AI in Healthcare management. Klaim.AI was found more like a vision to resolve the hitches in RCM. Being a co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer, I believe in making Klaim.AI the best software for the Revenue cycle in healthcare management. However, I don’t consider all of this as everything I wanted to accomplish. To me, success is a learning process. And I would want to stay in this process for the rest of my life!