The Intelligent Health Conference 2025

Astrid Nylenna is a specialist director at the Norwegian Directorate of Health.

She is a medical doctor, graduated from the University of Oslo where she later received a master's degree in health administration. She is a specialist in public health/community medicine.

Professor Chwee Teck Lim is the National University of Singapore Society Chair Professor and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Founding Director of the Singapore Health Technologies Consortium, a national initiative advancing health technology innovation.

Professor Lim is globally recognised for his research on understanding the mechanics behind human diseases and pioneering novel medical technologies to transform healthcare. His prolific academic journey includes over 500 published journal articles and over 550 plenary, keynote and invited talks.

A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded six startups with one achieving successful IPO in 2018. Professor Lim is globally recognized for his distinguished achievements by the over 100 research awards and honors including the Nature Lifetime Achievement Award for Mentoring in Science, Otto Schmitt Award, Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, Highly Cited Researcher, Asia’s Most Influential Scientist Award, ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award, Asian Scientists 100, Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award and the President's Technology Award.

He is also an Elected Fellow of nine academies including the Royal Society (UK), National Academy of Inventors (US), IUPESM, IAMBE, AIMBE, ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology, Singapore National Academy of Science, Academy of Engineering, Singapore and Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

Clemens Wittenbecher specializes in multi-omics multi-study data integration to uncover the relationship between dietary patterns and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases. His expertise lies in data-driven network analyses, risk prediction, machine learning, and causal modeling techniques, applied to both prospective cohorts and dietary intervention studies.

Through his research, Clemens aims to reinforce the evidence supporting the causal impact of dietary composition on cardiometabolic disease development and to pioneer biomarkers for disease subtyping and precision nutrition strategies.

He is an Assistant Professor in precision medicine and diagnostics at Chalmers University of Technology and Wallenberg Data-Driven Life Science Fellow in Gothenburg, Sweden.

David Kerr, a UK trained endocrinologist, is currently Senior Investigator in Diabetes and Digital Health for All at the Sutter Health Center for Health Systems Research in Santa Barbara, California.

David’s recent research has focused on offering wearable digital health technologies such as continuous glucose monitors to marginalized and historically excluded communities to help understand the potential value of real time physiological data. He has published more than 400 articles, commentaries and opinion pieces as well as co-authoring the first three books focusing on diabetes and digital health.

David’s research has also included the use of “food-as-medicine” for adults with or at-risk of diabetes. He has published the outcomes showing measurable clinical and mental health benefits from the prescription of fresh vegetable produce. David also has an adjunct position in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Rice University in Houston Texas, and recently co-Chair of a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases working group looking at the impact of innovation on furthering research into the heterogeneity of diabetes.

Fredrik Lundvall is a Patent Examiner at the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), where he has worked since 2018. He specializes in examining patent applications within industrial chemistry and related technical fields. In addition to his core responsibilities, Fredrik contributes to shaping NIPO’s patent examination guidelines, ensuring that in-house practices align with both national and international patent laws and regulations.

He is also a member of NIPO’s patent data analysis team, providing strategic insights through patent landscape and "white space" analyses. With a strong commitment to knowledge sharing, Fredrik is an experienced lecturer on intellectual property topics, particularly in the areas of patenting and patent data analysis.

Fredrik holds a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Oslo, with a specialization in functional materials. Prior to joining NIPO, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on functional materials for sorption applications.

Specialist in General Practice and Cognitive Therapist with more than 20 years of clinical experience from primary care, emergency medicine, and community health services. He has served as Chief Municipal Medical Officer, Head of Emergency Services, and Nursing Home Physician, and currently teaches medical students at the University of Oslo as well as general practitioners through the Norwegian Association for Cognitive Therapy.

As founder and CEO of the health tech company Zyberia AS, he is the driving force behind the digital self-care platform HealthB. He also initiated the Ski Injury Database in Trysil. Jeppesen was named Health Tech Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 and today works at the intersection of clinical practice, technology, and patient-centered service innovation.

Jürgen Kasper is a German psychologist and psychotherapist who has been a researcher in health communication for many years. He has developed interventions to improve communication quality and evaluation methods in accordance with internationally consented and evidence-based standards.

He is professor of health literacy at OsloMet and leads the research group health communication.

Kari Anne has solid experience from the municipal sector, where she has worked strategically with innovation, service development, and change processes in the healthcare system.

She is a physical therapist with a master’s degree in management and organization, and has in recent years worked with innovation and service development in the municipal healthcare sector. She has led the department for rehabilitation, learning, and healthy living in Indre Østfold municipality, and was project lead for “Innovative Rehabilitation.”

Kari Anne has solid experience in user-driven innovation, change management, testing, and implementation of technology in healthcare – with a strong focus on user involvement and cost-benefit analysis.

Since 2021, she has worked as a senior project manager at Norway Health Tech, responsible for projects and collaboration with the public sector.

Founder and CEO of Myworkout AS.

Serial entrepreneur with over 22 years of experience in the health and technology sectors. He has built five health companies from idea to profitable operations, two of which have established an international presence. 

Today, he is the founder and CEO of Myworkout MEDICAL, entering both the EU and US markets with software classified as medical devices. Myworkout MEDICAL is part of the Myworkout Group, which in 2024 had 30 employees and a revenue of NOK 76 million. He is passionate about combining technology and physiology to create measurable health effects at scale.

Doctor Leon Brudy works as B2B Business Development Manager at Garmin Health where he is in charge of data-driven collaborations in research and clinical trials for the regions of Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.

Previously he worked as research associate at the German Heart Center Munich and the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the Technical University of Munich where he completed clinical work as part of his dissertation on physical activity, quality of life and cardiovascular risk in patients with congenital heart disease.

Additionally, he’s a published author and holds academic degrees in Health Science, Political Science, and Economics.

Merete H. Bognar is the founder and CEO of iCreative as, a consultancy established in 2013 with a strong focus on driving innovation and business creativity. She brings more than 25 years of experience in innovation, brand building, and strategy, having worked with a wide spectrum of well-known brands as both client and consultant.

Merete has led the implementation of hundreds of innovation projects and is recognized as an experienced facilitator of consumer-driven innovation processes and a skilled moderator. In addition to her consulting work, she lectures on innovation and creativity at Kristiania University College.

Richelle George is a Consultant in WHO's AI & Frontier Technologies Unit, where she develops international frameworks for responsible AI adoption in healthcare—from benchmarking and evaluation to country-level guidance and implementation.

 She has contributed to WHO's positioning at major forums including the AI for Good Global Summit and APEC policy dialogues, and was a lead writer on a forthcoming paper proposing frameworks for AI governance in policymaking.

As part of WHO's representation in the Global Initiative on AI for Health, she coordinates international meetings of regulators and policy experts and helps develop multilateral guidance on AI safety and capacity-building. Her work spans applications in biosecurity, clinical decision support, and cross-cutting governance challenges.

Richelle's approach is informed by her earlier work in WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, where she managed information systems that reached millions during COVID-19—experience that shaped her understanding of how governance frameworks must account for diverse contexts, capabilities, and urgent real-world needs.

Richelle holds a Master's in Epidemiology and a Bachelor's in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Souad El Mghari is a PhD fellow at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences in Oslo, Norway. Her current project focuses on the identity and communication strategies of health opinion leaders and influencers on social media.

With a background in digital marketing and communication both as a consultant and a lecturer, her research interests include social media, influencers, content creation, and digital methods. El Mghari’s work explores how digital voices shape public discourse and audience engagement in online spaces.

Professor Ulven will share her expertise on how AI can be used in precision nutrition strategies for prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Professor Stine Ulven is the Head of the Department of Nutrition at the University of Oslo, where she also holds a professorship in nutrition.

She earned her doctor philosophiae in nutrition from the University of Oslo in 2000 and specializes in nutrition, personalized nutrition, and nutrigenomics, with a focus on randomized controlled dietary intervention studies and lipid metabolism.

Tale Skjølsvik works as a professor of technology leadership at the Department of Computer Science at OsloMet. 

She is a public speaker and lecturer in strategic management, entrepreneurship and technology adoption and hosts the podcast Value Strategy Pod (valuestrategypod.com) and Verdistrategipodden (verdistrategipodden.no). 

Her research interests include strategy and the application of technology among others in health.

Valentin A. Normand is the CEO and co-founder of Ambr Institute AS, where he leads the development of AI-driven, evidence-based preventive medicine solutions for global healthcare improvement.

With a background in neuroscience from the Moser Lab, and in applied mathematics, he is renowned for his expertise in biological data analysis and multidisciplinary team building in health technology.

Valentin has steered Ambr from its inception through product development, market launch, and several scientific collaborations, positioning the company at the forefront of personalized and preventive medicine in Europe.