Jane has the best blog in health care—Health Populi, and also writes a monthly online column in iHealthbeat. She has written several groundbreaking reports for CHCF including the The Connected Patient and of course most recently The Online Couch: Mental Health Care on the Web. Today she's sharing her insights and findings on a paper she's written for the California HealthCare Foundation on "The Health Care Automat."

George K. Mathew is president and Chief Operating Officer of Alteryx where he oversees marketing, products, and strategy for the company. Most recently, George was the group vice-president & general manager for Business Intelligence (BI) at SAP BusinessObjects, the fastest growing business in SAP's diverse portfolio. During his leadership tenure at SAP, George led the Business Objects Explorer team, introducing pervasive, in-memory analytics to the market. Prior to this achievement and through SAP's acquisition of Business Objects, he managed SAP's portfolio strategy in the Office of the CEO. Prior to SAP, George was an early member of salesforce.com where he focused on technical account management, M&A, and field services. George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University.

Matthew Holt, Health 2.0 Co-Chair, spent the 1990s learning from the best to be a health care futurist at Institute for the future, and a survey researcher at Harris Interactive. In the early 2000s he spent time at a PHR start-up, but since he’s been the author of The Health Care Blog, and co-founder of the Health 2.0 Conference —roles for which he was mostly self-taught! Amy Cueva is Founder, Chief Experience Officer and health care principal at Mad*Pow, a design agency focused on improving the experiences people have with technology, companies, and each other. Amy is a true believer in the power of research-inspired methodology to address the challenge of competing business goals, customer needs, and technology requirements. With the state of health care in our country rapidly approaching a crisis point, harnessing that power has become even more critical. Amy formed the Health care Experience Design LinkedIn group and chairs the HxD Conference with that goal in mind, bringing together those invested in the design of healthcare experiences to discuss best practices, trends, challenges and solutions.

Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D., was appointed JDRF's first Chief Mission officer in December 2014 and serves as a key link between JDRF and the broad diabetes community. Dr. Kowalski combines his professional experience as a scientist with his personal experience of living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) for over 30 years to help guide and champion JDRF's programs focused on creating a world without T1D. Dr. Kowalski is an internationally recognized expert in the area of diabetes technologies and has been a leader of JDRF's Artificial Pancreas Research Project, a multi-million dollar initiative that began in 2005 to accelerate the progress toward automated insulin-delivery systems. He has authored numerous articles on T1D research and was a coauthor of the landmark study in The New England Journal of Medicine that revealed the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitors in T1D management. Dr. Kowalski has traveled and spoken globally about diabetes research progress, and is known for his ability to translate science into easily understandable concepts. Dr. Kowalski has presented at many national and international scientific conferences, including the American Diabetes Association Annual Scientific Sessions, and was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Diabetes Technology Society Meeting. He has been a voice for diabetes research in the popular media, appearing on The Martha Stewart Show, dLife, Fox Business, and NPR, among others. He is often quoted in the print media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and People magazine. Dr. Kowalski is a member of the JDRF PEAK Program's expert panel and often speaks about the importance of exercise and diet in better diabetes control. While living with T1D, he has completed 17 marathons. Online, he often tweets (@aaronjkowalski) about exercise and diabetes and how all people with T1D can live their lives without limits.

Healthbox has a dual mission to empower healthcare entrepreneurs while serving as a catalyst of change by exposing the industry to new and innovative solutions. Healthbox is a platform to stimulate early-stage innovation, enabling entrepreneurial success while creating a collaborative global ecosystem to build positive change in the healthcare industry. Our goal is to identify high- potential healthcare technology startups that address the meaningful industry challenges and provide them with the resources, support and network to enable rapid development and growth. We also aim to provide a valuable platform for the wider industry to engage with innovative companies and learn from the broader entrepreneurial community. Collaboration is an essential word in every healthcare industry leader’s vocabulary. The systemic pressures to simultaneously reduce costs and respond to new payment incentives while improving quality have created an undeniable imperative for change. The Healthbox platform is facilitating the formation of unique partnerships where silos once stood. Healthbox launched in Chicago in January 2012 with an inaugural class of ten startups from around the United States and Ireland. For three months, these companies shared space and ideas in Chicago, where they developed their business models and products, created relationships throughout the industry and closed deals with new customers. Less than a year later, we have brought the platform to Boston and London, England. We continue to build partnerships across the industry, both to break down barriers for healthcare entrepreneurs and to create the opportunity for broader system collaboration.