Dr. Karen DeSalvo is Chief Health Officer at Google where she leads a team of health professionals who provide guidance for the development of health research, products, and services across Google. Karen’s career has focused on improving health and eliminating disparities and she leans on deep experience working at the intersection of medicine, public health, and information technology. Before joining Google, Dr. DeSalvo was National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) in the Obama Administration. During her time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. DeSalvo focused on creating a more consumer-oriented, transparent, and value-based health system. Dr. DeSalvo served as the New Orleans Health Commissioner following Hurricane Katrina. She was previously Vice Dean for Community Affairs and Health Policy at the Tulane School of Medicine where she was a practicing internal medicine physician, educator, researcher, and leader. She serves on the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.

Greg Corrado is a Distinguished Scientist at Google Research. He joined Google to push the frontier of biologically inspired computing, and in 2011 he co-founded the Google Brain Team, which has helped to catalyze the broad adoption of deep neural networks across technology companies worldwide. Within Google, he spearheaded teams which applied deep learning to image recognition, machine translation, search ranking, text synthesis, advertising, and recommendation systems. As an academic, he has published in a wide array of fields ranging across behavioral economics, neuromorphic device physics, systems neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and scalable machine learning. Greg has a deep and abiding passion for applying AI for social good, and presently leads the Google’s Health AI division, whose charter is to maximize the positive human impact of AI technologies in health.

Alan is a surgeon-scientist who leads the healthcare machine learning research group at Google Health in London (and formerly for healthcare at DeepMind).

He led DeepMind and Google’s teams in four landmark studies in Nature and Nature Medicine focusing on AI for breast cancer screening with Cancer Research UK, AI for the recognition and prediction of blinding eye diseases with the world’s largest eye hospital (Moorfields) and medical records research with the Veterans Affairs developing AI early warning systems for common causes of patient deterioration, like acute kidney injury. 

He is leading work on how machine learning approaches can best promote AI safety as the team takes forward its early research into products for clinical care. Alan continues to practice clinically and supervise PhD students as a lecturer in the vascular surgery department of Imperial College, London.

Yossi Matias is Vice President, Engineering & Research, at Google. He leads global teams working on impact-driven research, innovation, and moonshots, advancing AI to solve challenges relating to healthcare, conversational AI, and the climate crisis.

Yossi is the global exec lead of Google’s Health AI, driving research to help transform Health, and help make healthcare more accessible for everyone. He is the global lead of Google’s Crisis Response initiative (SOS alerts, flood forecasting, wildfire detection), and serves on Google’s sustainability board. His work on Conversational AI led to innovation towards ambient intelligence and helped remove communication barriers (e.g., Googe Duplex, Call Screen, Live Caption, Live Relay, Euphonia, Hold for Me, Read Aloud). He is a founding lead of Google’s AI for Social Good, Google for Startup Accelerator (with particular focus on AI & ML), and Startups for Sustainable Development. He pioneered an initiative of bringing online hundreds of heritage collections (including the Dead Sea Scrolls), seeding Google’s Cultural Institute.

Hema Budaraju is a Senior Director at Google, leading Social Responsibility verticals on Google Search. In her role, Hema is focused on helping people connect with authoritative and timely information and make more informed choices across healthcare, civic services, sustainability, climate, economic opportunity and more. Hema is a visionary and empathetic leader, with a deep commitment to creating positive societal impact at scale. With an expansive career spanning 20+ years, Hema has built products and teams in leading technology companies such as Oracle, Nokia, Amazon, eBay, Paypal and Facebook. 

Fred Hersch is a Senior Product Manager at Google Health where he works on data driven mobile first healthcare systems and translational AI research to address health equity gaps. He is a lapsed software engineer, clinical doctor, public health practitioner and “failed academic” with experiences across start-ups, clinical medicine, global health research and digital health start-ups. 

Fred is passionate about harnessing technology to improve access to quality healthcare. He has been active since the very early days of telemedicine back when a 56k internet connection was blazing fast … and has been working at the intersection of health and technology ever since.

In 2018 Fred landed his dream job at Google working within the Health AI Research and Innovation team. He is part of the Open Health Stack team building digital public goods to accelerate development of next gen digital health solutions… and he couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to transform access to care everywhere.