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title: Interview with Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, Qualcomm & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam
description: We spoke to Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, Qualcomm & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam. Max gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.
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# [Interview with Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, Qualcomm & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam](https://blog.intelligenthealth.ai/max-welling-vice-president-technologies-qualcomm-research-chair-machine-learning-university-of-amsterdam)

 Written by [Intelligent Health AI](https://blog.intelligenthealth.ai/author/intelligent-health-ai) | May 20, 2020 2:46:02 PM

We spoke to Max Welling, Vice President Technologies, Qualcomm & Research Chair, Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam. Max gave us his thoughts on AI in medicine ahead of his presentation on Deep learning for health data at [**Intelligent Health Inspired**](https://london.intelligenthealth.ai/inspired/) (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine.

 

**Q: What excites you most about the application of AI in healthcare?**

 

The enormous potential to improve healthcare services.

 

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

 

That physicians will not adopt it because they are too conservative & afraid.

 

 

 

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

 

Privacy preserving distributed (aka federated) learning on the enormous amounts of healthcare data. Automated diagnosis and treatment planning.

 

 

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

 

More telemedicine, perhaps with virtual reality at some point.

 

 

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

 

They need to learn more datascience skills.

 

 

**Q: Which 2 people do you admire most in the world of AI?**

 

Geoffrey Hinton, Yee Whye Teh

 

 

Max Welling will speak at Intelligent Health Inspired (25 – 27 May 2020), the world's largest online summit dedicated to AI in medicine. Join Max and the global AI and healthcare community to create a future where AI will revolutionize health and #saveliveswithai

 

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