Koen Kas

Prof. Dr. Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, delight thinker, curator of the global db of digital health tools and preparing a new way to deal with health data on a novel version of the internet.

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At a company event, Koen showcased the potential of Digital Innovation in Healthcare and took all attendees on a journey to the future of healthcare.

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Koen is a leading international keynote speaker who can provide insightful and inspirational talks on healthcare innovation, digital health, and patient/organization delight. He can deliver presentations that engage and inspire audiences with his unique perspectives and thought-provoking insights. Koen curates the world's global database of digital health apps. He developed the concept of a "digital triplet" (next-gen digital twin).
As a healthcare futurist and professor of Molecular Oncology & Digital Health, Koen has a wealth of expertise in the healthcare industry. He discovered the basis for two types of cancers and he developed a drug for brain cancer in children. He is a trusted voice for pharma & life sciences companies and can provide valuable insights.
Koen has worked with global pharmaceutical companies, technology companies, hospitals, and governments, providing him with a unique perspective on the industry. Koen’s experience, and unique delight thinking methodology, can help organizations understand the complexities of the healthcare landscape and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of patients and customers.

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Leading healthcare futurist, professor & keynote speaker transforming the industry

Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, professor, keynote speaker, and founder of Healthskouts. He is known for his vision of transitioning healthcare from reactive sick care to proactive, predictive, and personalized care. With a diverse background in molecular oncology, drug discovery, and biomarker discovery, he has studied at prestigious institutions such as Karolinska Institute, Utrecht University, and Harvard University.

Prof. Dr. Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, delight thinker, professor of Molecular Oncology & Digital Health, and leading international keynote speaker addressing healthcare innovation, digital health and patient / organisation delight.

He published his vision in two 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”. Koen will soon launch his third book, EPIC — exploring the idea that health is not merely the absence of disease, but the foundation for purpose, performance, and legacy. It weaves together healthtech and AI, longevity science, and the power of art and creativity to become truly Epic.

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 – a complete reinvention of the internet); 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.

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At a company event, Koen showcased the potential of Digital Innovation in Healthcare and took all attendees on a journey to the future of healthcare.

Guy Van den Meersche Director of Business Technology, Pfizer

Your speech on how AI can be used to make us healthier was enlightening. Look forward to learning more about the AI applications in pharmaceutical R&D.

Mark Ma Head of Translational Clinical Science, Rallybio (US)

Based on a thorough understanding of clinical care processes, advances in technology and the science of medicine, Koen expresses a captivating vision of tomorrow’s healthcare.

Luc Thijs President, Agfa HealthCare

Koen Kas delivered the key note presentation during our Healthcare partner event with more than 150 attendees. Koen’s vision for the future of healthcare, combined with his excellent presentation skills made it one of the highlights of the entire event.

Carlo Ciapparelli IQVia (formerly QuntilesIMS) Vice President, NEMEA

Koen is an energizing and engaging speaker. His thought provoking vision on healthcare is inspiring for any audience.

Jan Denecker Marketing Director UPS

Prof. Kas inspired me with his engaged discussion about a deeply thought through, practical vision on how healthcare is starting to look like, might look like and should look like!

Wim Vandenhouweele Commercial Innovation Lead MSD international, USA

Keynotes

Keynote by Koen Kas:

Unlock the Epic Life: The Future of Health, Purpose, & Human Potential

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, ambitious, and fully alive. Immediately applicable the day after.

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

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Keynote by Koen Kas:

Creating the Future of Health with Delight Thinking

In ancient China doctors were paid to keep people healthy. In this keynote, Koen will catapult you back to that future of healthcare. Koen will show how Delight Thinking moves us away from current curative healthcare to precise, preventive and even augmented healthcare. To create health from a white page. Koen cannot predict the future, but he can help you create this novel future. A world where one gets ill no more. Where prevention becomes a viable business opportunity. Full circle.

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Keynote by Koen Kas:

'Never Sick Again': A new Look Into & Beyond Prevention

While a significant portion, possibly even half, of global health issues are preventable, there's a predominant emphasis on curative methods over prevention. This focus may seem justified since simply nudging people to adopt healthier lifestyles is often not enough.

In this presentation, we will explore how we can take a more proactive approach towards a 'never sick again' future, employing innovative prediction and personalized prevention methods that may be completely new to you. Prepare for an enlightening journey through a range of unique and thought-provoking concepts like 50 shades of Pornhub, Ronaldo, collecting rewards and even flying drones.

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Harness the Power of Your Data: Unlock Citizen-Centric Solutions with AI

We’re on the verge of a major shift in healthcare, fueled by citizen-centric data platforms. This advanced technology will help you take charge of your health data. Imagine apps that don't just access but intelligently use your data to provide care that's as unique as you are. It's a transformation that is poised to reshape the roles of healthcare providers, from your local doctor to the big pharma giants. Whether you're a healthcare professional or a curious citizen, Koen will help you navigate the twists and turns of this rapidly changing landscape.

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Keynote by Koen Kas:

Genomic Delight: How to Capitalize on This Revolution

The digital revolution was just the beginning of something bigger. It’s time to get prepared for the biology revolution. Genomics, gene-editing and synthetic biology spearhead the arrival of personalized medication, nutrition, care and wellness. By highlighting the latest science and the most innovative new applications, Koen will give a thought-provoking session on why it is becoming ethically unacceptable to be ignorant of your own genome.

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Keynote by Koen Kas:

Creating the Future of Oncology with Digital Delight

Cancer and delight – strange bedfellows. And yet, digital and bio breakthroughs in oncology and beyond promise vast improvements in precision diagnostics and therapies, personalised prevention and screening, self-management and at-home care, clinical trials and even cancer drug discovery.

Koen will inspire your audience with an avalanche of innovations and illustrate how life sciences companies and providers can stitch such innovations together to provide the cancer patient with the best possible, delightful care, physically, mentally & beyond.

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Creating a Delightful Hospital ready for tomorrow

So how can we create an “agile” hospital, one that is fundamentally flexible and open to change and innovation? Where the evolutionary process is built-in the heart of the organisation and infrastructure. What can hospital leaders do today, to bring the engine of innovation and delight inside the walls of the hospital, while at the same time bringing the hospital to the homes of patients? And do this all pragmatically, cost-effectively, and with a wave of staff enthusiasm and support?

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Achieving breakthroughs in creating the healthiest nation

We inspire health policymakers to create a nation where people live healthy productive lives well beyond their 90s. That’s an intrinsic good of incalculable value, but economists will applaud too for increasing the ROI on society’s investment. We’ll depart from 1st principles to reinvent policy for impact. Learning from science and innovations, from here in the west to the Arabian megaprojects and the leapfrogging initiatives in developing nations.

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