2025 Conference in New Orleans
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 General Session Speakers

 

Jonathan H Chen, MD, PhD- Stanford University School of Medicine

Jonathan H. Chen MD, PhD leads a research group to empower individuals with the collective experience of the many, combining human and artificial intelligence approaches to deliver better care than either alone. Dr. Chen continues to practice medicine for the concrete rewards of caring for real people and to inspire this research focused on discovering and distributing the latent knowledge embedded in clinical data.


Before his medical training, Chen co-founded a company to translate his Computer Science graduate work into an expert system for organic chemistry, with applications from drug discovery to an education tool for students around the world. His expertise is regularly featured in popular press outlets with over 100 publications in leading clinical and informatics venues and awards from the NIH, National Library of Medicine, American Medical Informatics Association, International Brotherhood of Magicians and more.

In the face of ever escalating complexity in medicine, informatics solutions are the only credible approach to systematically address challenges in healthcare. Tapping into real-world clinical data like electronic medical records with machine learning and data analytics will reveal the community's latent knowledge in a reproducible form. By delivering this back to clinicians, patients, and healthcare systems as clinical decision support, he aims to uniquely close the loop on a continuously learning health system.

 

Headshot of Ranjay Gulati in a dark blue shirt against a leafy green background

Ranjay Gulati- Harvard Business School

Ranjay Gulati is a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert on leadership, strategy and organizational growth. Until recently, he chaired the Advanced Management Program, the school’s flagship senior leader executive program. He has authored seven books, including “Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies."

Gulati has been ranked as one of the top ten most-cited academics in the fields of economics and business by ISI-Incite and has received similar recognition from The Economist, Financial Times, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. His research has appeared in leading academic journals of business, as well as major publications like the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy+business, and the Financial Times.

Gulati’s recent work explores organizations and management in three key ways. First, he examines the many challenges organizations face when seeking to grow rapidly in turbulent markets. Second, he has examined how important it is for leaders to build resilient organizations that can scale quickly while also retaining the culture and energy necessary for innovation. Finally, Gulati has studied the skills and behaviors leaders need to steer fast-moving organizations. While scholars have traditionally emphasized the motivational and inspirational qualities of great leaders, Gulati has argued that leaders today must cultivate courage in others, activating a winning mindset centered around priorities, principles and purpose.

Gulati has received a number of awards for his teaching, including the Best Professor Award at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where he taught prior to coming to Harvard. A native of India, he holds a PhD from Harvard University and additional degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Washington State University, and St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi.

 

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Julie Laperouse- Trainer, Speaker, Founder Screaming Peacock 
&
Seth Irby- Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer LWCC

But We’ve Always Done It That Way! 

How do you manage and drive change when it seems like every aspect of the business world is changing every day? Does your team embrace the environmental and flex perks of the WFH revolution or do you need teams in the office to collaborate? Is your leadership ready and raring to embrace AI or scared to death it will take over your industry leaving you in the dust? Does your team come up with a new “disruptive” idea every month or are they stuck in the way you’ve run your business since the 1900s?  
 
Join Julie Laperouse of Screaming Peacock with special guest Seth Irby of LWCC for this interactive keynote/discussion on how to guide change in your organization from processes to people. We’ll dig into planning for and communicating through structured change, reacting to change brought about by market or team member demands, and learn from some of our favorite failed change initiatives.