Dr. Abdulaziz Alhenaidi

Director of Health Insurance Directorate at Ministry of Health

Dr. Abdulaziz Alhenaidi directs Kuwait's Health Insurance Directorate at the Ministry of Health. He holds a PhD in Public Health from the University of Glasgow, brings 15+ years of MoH leadership in health insurance and health policy reform, and is active in regional public health research

Alice Yammine Boueiz

Chief Executive Officer at Arab Hospitals Federation

Ranked among the Forbes Middle East Top 100 Healthcare Leaders, placing first in Lebanon, and honoured with the National Order of Merit of the Republic of Lebanon for her contribution to healthcare. As the leader of the definitive voice of the hospital sector across 22 Arab countries, she has spent more than 25 years uniting hospital leaders, health systems and policymakers to modernise care across the region, and was recently appointed Vice President of the World Council for Medical Tourism. Named Influential Woman of the Year in Healthcare Strategy and Collaboration in the presence of Arab health ministers, she stands among the most distinguished female healthcare leaders in the Arab world.

Prof. Bettina Borisch

Chief Executive Officer at World Federation of Public Health Associations

Prof. Bettina Borisch is an internationally recognised leader in global public health, renowned for advancing health policy, health equity and multilateral collaboration worldwide. As CEO of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology, former President of Europa Donna – The European Breast Cancer Coalition, and Editor-in-Chief of Pathobiology, she has helped shape global public health governance and champion evidence-based policies that improve population health.

Dr. Charles  Alessi

Chief Clinical Officer at Nightingale Health

Dr Charles Alessi is an international thought leader , author and innovator who has been associated with healthcare reform internationally over decades.  He is actively involved in developing the new health care we require for the 2020s and beyond and active at global , national and healthcare provider levels.  he is a physician and lives in the United Kingdom 

Prof. Declan O'Regan, MBBS, PhD, FRCP

BHF Chair of Cardiovascular AI, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences at Imperial College London

Prof. Declan O'Regan is internationally recognised for pioneering the application of artificial intelligence to cardiovascular imaging and precision medicine. As British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular AI and Braunwald Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, he is advancing machine learning to accelerate disease prediction, drug discovery and personalised cardiovascular care.

Dr. Laila Abdelwareth

Chief Executive Officer at National Reference Laboratory

Dr. Laila AbdelWareth is an internationally recognised leader in laboratory medicine and precision diagnostics. As CEO of Diagnostics at M42's Global Patient Care Platform, CEO of the National Reference Laboratory, President of the Emirates Clinical Chemistry Society, and former Chair of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, she has helped shape the future of diagnostic innovation and clinical excellence across the Middle East.

Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite

Chief Executive Officer at HealthAI - The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health

Named 2026 Top Personality of the Year at the Top Health Awards and appointed by the UK Government to its National Commission of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare. Ricardo leads the global agency advising governments worldwide on the responsible governance of AI in health, and founded the UNITE Parliamentarians Network, mobilising over 500 legislators across 120 countries in partnership with the World Health Organization. An Obama Foundation Leader with over 41K followers on LinkedIn, he chairs the Harvard and Charité Global Health Policy Lab and volunteered as a frontline doctor in Ukraine following the invasion.

Dr. Helmut Schuehsler

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at TVM Capital Healthcare 

Dr. Helmut Schuehsler, Chairman & CEO of TVM Capital Healthcare is a true healthcare industry achitect in the Kingdom, the greater region and globally — 4 decades in healthcare investing, $1B+ raised, 50+ IPOs, now driving $500M+ in Saudi healthcare transformation. 

Prof. Jim Campbell

Professor of Practice, Health Workforce at King's College London

The architect of the world's health workforce agenda, who as WHO Director of Health Workforce for over a decade shaped the global strategies, resolutions and standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, the UN General Assembly, the G7 and the G20. Author of more than 250 peer reviewed and WHO publications, he was the conceptual architect of the WHO Academy and led the Global Health Workforce Alliance, building on a career that began with ten years on the frontlines of conflict and humanitarian emergencies across Africa, Asia and Europe. He now leads pioneering work at King's College London on how AI can strengthen, rather than replace, the people who deliver health and care.

Prof. Peter Goadsby

Dean of the Biomedical Sciences Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

The neurologist whose discovery rewrote the treatment of migraine, identifying the role of the CGRP molecule and opening the way to entirely new classes of medicine that have improved the lives of millions worldwide. For this work he was awarded the 2021 Brain Prize, the world's largest and most prestigious award in neuroscience, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022. He now joins King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as Founding Dean of its new Division of Biomedical Sciences, bringing that legacy of discovery to the heart of Saudi Arabia's scientific ambitions.

Prof. Shafi Ahmed

Consultant Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust

The surgeon who brought the operating theatre to the world, performing the first live operation ever streamed in virtual reality, watched in real time by tens of thousands across some 140 countries. Widely known as the world's most watched surgeon, he has pioneered the use of augmented reality, virtual reality, AI and the metaverse to transform how surgery is taught, training clinicians at a scale no operating theatre could ever hold. A consultant cancer surgeon at Barts Health and one of the most influential voices in digital health, he has reshaped surgical education for a global generation of doctors.

Dr. Sami Yusuf, PharmD

Chair of Corporate Development at Mayo Clinic

Sami Yusuf has executed strategic global partnerships at Mayo Clinic, bringing together health care, biopharma, technology, academia, investors, and governments to create nontraditional alliances that accelerate innovation. His work leverages strategic capital, commercialization, and global collaboration to translate breakthrough ideas into scalable solutions that improve patient care and transform health systems.

Prof. Santa J. Ono

Global President at Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford 

The Global President of the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, Larry Ellison's landmark research institute created to translate science into solutions across health, generative biology, artificial intelligence and clean energy. An immunologist by training who rose to lead three major research universities, including the University of Michigan and the University of British Columbia, he has spent his career building the bridges between fundamental science, industry and real world impact. At Michigan he oversaw a $1.2 billion artificial intelligence research initiative and helped establish innovation districts and technology ecosystems across North America.

Dr. Thomas Medveczky

Clinical Director and Medical Head of Service | Consultant Respiratory Physician | Driving Health System Transformation and Strategy at NHS 

A frontline leader of Britain's pandemic response who was among the first consultants in the country to treat COVID patients, personally caring for over 1,500 and receiving a medal for bravery and dedication to the service. As Advisor to the British Thoracic Society, he was instrumental in creating the national treatment guidelines for COPD, and he now directs community adult medical services spanning the vast majority of Sussex, one of the NHS's largest community care footprints. He has treated thousands of patients across a specialist airways service seeing over 1,000 annually, alongside teaching as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at St George's, University of London.

Vishva Mehta

Principal at Blackstone 

Vishva Mehta is a Principal at Blackstone, investing across the capital structure in both public and private healthcare and life sciences companies. Before joining Blackstone, he was previously with KKR and TPG Sixth Street Partners and has deployed $3bn+ of capital over his career. 

Steven Wanyee

President at The Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA)

Steven Wanyee is a globally well recognized digital health practitioner particularly across Africa leading transformational initiatives and investments in digital health right from Community, National, Regional to Continental level. He is the founder Secretary General of the Kenya Health Informatics Association and the current President of Health Informatics in Africa.