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Keynote Speaker

Vanessa Chan

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Security Solutions Advisory – Microsoft Canada

Vanessa spent over 18 years as an account executive, in the last 11 years she has focused on Security solutions with experience selling to financial services, commercial, healthcare, and public sector accounts. Currently at Microsoft Canada as a Security Solutions Advisory. Prior to Microsoft, she was a Partner in Deloitte’s Cyber Detect & Respond Services, leading a business development team and National Cyber Alliances Strategy. She helped develop and execute growth strategies across Cyber Alliances, Advisory and Managed Security Solutions and helped clients build cyber defenses into their technology transformation programs.

During this time, Vanessa led a collaborative business development team that delivered a focused approach on growing Deloitte’s Security Services. Key areas of focus included Security Technology Roadmaps, Endpoint Detection & Response, Firewall, Email Protection, Incident Response, SIEM, and qualifying new Cyber Alliances to contribute to Deloitte’s key market growth offerings.

Vanessa and her two girls live in Toronto and she is passionate about yoga, travelling, spending time with family and friends, exploring new restaurants the city has to offer and learning new things.

Panelists

Helen Chen, MS, PhD

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President, CPHIN. Professor of Practice & Amp.
Director, Professional Practice Centre In Health Systems
at University of Waterloo

Dr. Helen Chen specializes in health data analytics, health systems interoperability, and mobile health. Her research focuses on developing interpretable machine learning models and explainable AI algorithms to accelerate real-world data extraction and real-world evidence generation in the healthcare and public health domain. She also co-led the Professional Practice Centre for Health Systems at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Chen has several impressive achievements throughout her career, including leading a multi-disciplinary team to build the Clinical Analytics for Real-World Evidence (CARE) Platform, leading the mECG project which is set to break new ground in mobile lab data collection and data management, establishing Research Collaboration between the University of Waterloo and Multi-Organ Transplant Institute in the University Health Network, designing Canada’s first patient radiation monitoring platform to aggregate data from clinical practices, and co-founding the national coalition for patient radiation safety “Canada Safe Imaging”.

Helen obtained her BA (Hon.) and MSc in Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and her PhD in Computational Biomechanics at the University of Waterloo.

Michael Duong, PhD

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Chair of the Board of Directors, CPHIN
Head of Innovation, Hoffmann-La Roche Canada

Michael is the Head of Innovation for Hoffmann-La Roche Limited across all of its Canadian
divisions, including Roche Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics, and Roche Diabetes Care.
Michael also leads the Roche Innovation Hive – which is the creative space where the future of
healthcare is being imagined and co-created between Roche and its external partners. Michael
is also a founding board member of the Canadian Personalized Healthcare Innovation Network
(CPHIN) which is a not for profit corporation representing a consortium of members from both
public and private sectors focused on the acceleration of personalized healthcare for
Canada.

Michael received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Pharmacology and a Ph.D. in
Medical Sciences with a specialization in Neuroscience, both from McMaster University.

Bing Hu

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Data Associate, CPHIN
Generative AI Researcher, PHAC
Computer Science PhD Candidate, University of Waterloo

Bing Hu is a Generative AI Researcher at the Public Health Agency of Canada, focusing on using LLMs to screen and review literature for Health Canada, WHO, and Imperial College London. He previously developed synthetic data pipelines for HC initiatives. Concurrently, he is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, researching AI for drug discovery and in-silico clinical trials.

Dan Zimskind

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Manager, ZS

Dan is an innovative analytical leader who uses data-driven methods to bridge the gap between analytics and strategy to solve complex problems. With a passion for integrating diverse perspectives to drive significant change, he has been instrumental in addressing healthcare data challenges. Currently, Dan is a Business Consulting Manager at ZS, where he has been working for over nine years. Dan's expertise and dedication make him a key player in transforming healthcare data strategies.

Dignitaries

Shengli Shi

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Lead Data Scientist at Ontario Public Service
Ontario Ministry Of Health And Long-Term Care
Health Data Science PhD

Ching Huang

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Manager – Health Data Science Branch at
Ontario Ministry of Health

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