ABCP-CDA Joint Webinar: Concepts for Health Care of the Future

Dr Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, Beijing, China.

Dr Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and President of Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was the President of Google China, and senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He is the Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence Council for World Economic Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a famous book author and worldwide speaker.

Professor Yike Guo

Yike Guo, Director of Data Science Institute and Professor at Imperial College London, UK; Vice-President (Research and Development) of the Hong Kong Baptist University, China.

Professor Guo is Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London. He was the founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College, which is one of the six Imperial College Global Challenge Institutes. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Member of Academia Europaea and Fellow of British Computer Society. Since 2020, Professor Guo has been Vice-President (Research and Development) of the Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong, China. In 1999, he founded InforSense Limited, an Imperial College spin-off software company specialised in big data analysis for life science and medicine.

Dr Richard Siow

Richard Siow, Director of Age Research at Kings (ARK) and of the Longevity AI Consortium at King’s College London, UK.

Dr Richard Siow is the Director of Ageing Research at King’s College London (ARK). He is currently a Reader in Vascular Biology, School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences and was formerly Vice-Dean (International), Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s. Richard has previously been an advisor to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and the Westminster Forum on Nutrition and Health. He currently is also a Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Longevity.

Alexander G.Welzl

Alexander G.Welzl, President and Co-founder of China Data Analysis & Research Hub (CDA).

Alexander G. Welzl is the President and co-founder of China Data Analysis & Research Hub (CDA) an independent, non-partisan and non-profit brainport (think-tank) dedicated to Sino-European research and analysis with its headquarter in Vienna (Austria/Europe). With a professional and scientific background in economic research, financial markets, innovation and entrepreneurship as well as sustainability Alex started to teach the first university course in Europe focusing on the National Innovation System of PR China in winter term 2018 at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien (UASTW, Austria). Alex has been invited as guest researcher and visiting fellow at European and Chinese universities (e.g. Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin/Germany, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou/PR China).

Professor Daqing Ma

Daqing Ma, ABCP Executive Vice President and Professor at Imperial College London, UK.

Professor Daqing Ma is Professor of Anaesthesia, Macintosh Professor of Royal College of Anaesthetists, BOC Chair and Head of Anaesthesia Research of the Section of Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine & Intensive Care, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He is currently Executive Vice-President in the Standing Management Committee of the Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP) and also serves as Co-Chair of the ABCP Academic Interest Group on Medicine.

Professor Lars Y. Terenius

Lars Y. Terenius, European Chair of CDA Scientific Advisory Board, Professor at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lars Y. Terenius is Professor at Karolinska Institute, founder and former Director of the Center of Molecular Medicine (CMM) at Karolinska Hospital, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and former Member of The Nobel Assembly and The Nobel Committee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Between 2006 and 2011 he acted as an advisor to the government of PR China (Ministry of Science and Technology, MOST). Lars Terenius is the European Chair of the CDA Scientific Advisory Board.

The Association of British Chinese Professors (ABCP, 全英华人教授协会) is an independent and non-profit association dedicated to increasing its members’ impact and engaging in academic collaboration, in particular collaboration between the UK and China. ABCP members represent the highest calibre of Chinese academics in the UK across many fields. The missions of ABCP are to promote academic excellence in education, engineering, social and physical sciences, medicine and emerging areas; to stimulate academic collaboration between members and beyond; to develop and new talents and provide mentorship to young academics; to promote Sino-UK communication and collaboration in a wide range of disciplines and to provide expert advice to policy-makers both in the UK and China to advance bilateral relations for the benefit of peoples of both countries.

The China Data Analysis and Research Hub (CDA, 中国数据分析研究中心) is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit Sino-European think-tank with a global outreach based in Vienna, Austria. Following its motto “Ex Sapientia Lux” CDA strives to contribute to a peaceful bridge-building between Europe (the West) and China. With systemic and systematic research CDA supports evidence-based decision processes in the public domain and in the private sector. As an international hub of experts from academia, corporations and governance CDA’s focus is on performing academic studies, organising international conferences, webinars and expert events as well as facilitating and contributing to bi-/multilateral projects between Europe and China. Against the backdrop of the Grand Challenges of mankind addressed in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) CDAs international network provides its expertise to make a planetary patriotism and geo-innovation a reality.