BLOG

An interview with Siddartha Jha, AI/Digital Program Manager at Fondation Botnar

Posted by Intelligent Health on Aug 20, 2020 10:29:57 AM
Intelligent Health

We spoke to Siddartha Jha, AI/Digital Program Manager at Fondation Botnar, ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health (9-10 September 2020, Online), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

 

Siddartha, what excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?

 

The potential of benefiting from the experiences of 100's of thousands of healthcare and medical professionals to bring state of the art health care to everyone, everywhere, whenever it is needed.

What’s your biggest fear about the application of AI in health/medicine?

 

That we do not engage everyone in debates around different ethical aspects and neglect it

 

Siddhartha-Jha-Fondation-Botnar-400x400

 

How do you think AI will make its biggest mark in healthcare in the next 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?


It will democratize healthcare and remove inefficiencies

 

 

 

 

How do you think AI will change human contact in healthcare?

 

AI should allow more autonomy to the humans in the healthcare system and should aim to humanize healthcare

 

What does AI mean for the skill requirements of health professionals? How will it change?:

 

Health professionals will need to learn how to use AI in their practice

 

Which 2 people do you admire most in the world of AI in terms of their work?


Andrew Ng, Stuart Russel, Max Tegmark

 

Join Siddartha and the global AI and health community for Intelligent Health 2020 (9-10 Sept 2020, Online) to help create a future with AI in healthcare #withoutborders and #SaveLivesWithAI
 

Find out more and book your tickets at intelligenthealth.ai

 

 

YOUR GLOBAL AI EVENTS CALENDAR


Here is your Global AI Events Calendar where you can meet your fellow 54,000 InspiredMinds community members of business leaders, heads of government, policy makers, startups, investors, academics and media.

 

INTELLIGENT HEALTH 

9-10 September 2020

Online

intelligenthealth.ai

 

INTELLIGENT HEALTH AI WEBINARS

intelligenthealth.ai/webinars

 

WORLD SUMMIT AI WEBINARS

worldsummit.ai/webinars

 

INSPIRED AI SERIES

Sept – Nov 2020

Online

inspired-minds.co.uk/inspired-ai

 

WORLD SUMMIT AI @ INSPIRED AI

14 October 2020

Online

worldsummit.ai

 

WORLD AI WEEK

12-16 October 2020

Amsterdam, Netherlands

worldaiweek.ai

 

INTELLIGENT HEALTH UK

3-4 March 2021

London, UK

london.intelligenthealth.ai

 

WORLD SUMMIT AI AMERICAS

20-21 April 2021

Montreal, Canada

americas.worldsummit.ai

 

 

Topics: AI, Medicine