Leading healthcare futurist, professor, and keynote speaker transforming the industry - Koen Kas.
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Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist, professor, keynote speaker, and founder of Healthskouts, a digital health advisory company.
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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.
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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”.
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 complee 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.
Koen studied at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Utrecht University in The Netherlands and he was a Harvard fellow.
See keynotes with Koen KasIn 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.
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.
Disease & delight aren’t easy bedfellows. Disease is the very opposite of delight, it’s the ultimate friction. We developed delight thinking as the essential means towards sick no more. That’s exactly why we believe delight should be in the heart of healthcare, why every healthcare company should have Chief Delight Officers, and why delight should be part of the DNA of every employee and health worker. We’ll shower you with inspiring examples and insights to help you create patient experiences that come closest to magic, but are real. Welcome to extreme patient and citizen delight.
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?
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.
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!
Koen is an energizing and engaging speaker. His thought provoking vision on healthcare is inspiring for any audience.
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