Blockchain technology has already disrupted the Fintech industry. How does it apply to healthcare? In this meetup, we will discuss how blockchain is shaking one of the most regulated sectors - healthcare.





AGENDA

6.00 - 6.15 Registration

6.15 - 6.20 Welcome remarks

6.20 - 6.35 Global digital health market overview

6.35 - 6.50 Blockchains, EOS and the growing community in New York

6.50 - 7.05 How does blockchain fit into healthcare

7.05 - 7.50 What will get disrupted in the highly regulated healthcare industry first (panel discussion with Q&A)

7.50 - 9.00 Networking





SPEAKERS

Tjasa Zajc worked as a healthcare and medical journalist prior to joining Iryo as a Business Developer and Healthcare Communications Manager. She researches global trends in healthcare through the production of a podcast Faces of Digital Health. She holds a masters degree in health management and economics, has the expertise and an extensive network in digital healthcare. She is part of different international healthcare organizations such as Startupbootcamp, Digital Health Berlin, and Future for health (FTR4H). Tjaša has organized three international conferences on digital healthcare in Slovenia and participates in various international healthcare events as a speaker and a moderator.

Rick Schlesinger is the Co-founder and Head of Strategy at EOS New York. EOS New York is a blockchain startup aimed at securing the EOS network by becoming a community-elected EOS Block Producer. Rick leads the business strategy and oversees operations across capital investments, governance, finance, and legal. Rick co-founded EOS New York after a successful career in management consulting advising Fortune 500 companies on business strategy and M&A. Rick also worked in the capital markets space where he focused on efficient asset allocation strategies and for a period of time analyzed the Life Sciences sector across healthcare delivery, medical devices, insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Rick has been following blockchain technology since 2010 after learning about the interesting economic incentives the Bitcoin protocol created for its users. Rick is a student of economics and libertarian philosophy and envisions a blockchain enabled world will create freer societies, institutions, and people.

Vasja Bočko is the CEO of Iryo, a Slovenian startup building the world’s first participatory, blockchain driven healthcare economy. He was a product lead at 3FS, an innovative Slovenian IT firm focused on providing digital consulting to Fortune 500 companies, for over two years. Soon after, joined Bitstamp as a senior product manager — one of the oldest and most respected cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. There he gained a deep understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency related processes. He has a background in finance, IT and political science. He briefly worked in the financial industry before diving headfirst into disruptive tech. He worked for a Swiss startup, delivering a music streaming service shortly before joining 3FS, where he was directly involved in supporting the biggest social media network in Mexico. At its peak, the network was supporting more traffic than Wikipedia globally. Vasja has recently worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and strongly believes that blockchain has the potential to revolutionise industries that have traditionally seen little advances through IT. As leader of the Iryo team, Vasja will aim to build the next generation healthcare platform, addressing current downfalls like data security, global interoperability and self-sovereign medical identity.





About the organizer:

Iryo (https://iryo.io/) is a Slovenian blockchain startup centred around improving the state of technology in healthcare. The company is creating a new global healthcare network with an improved, redefined user experience of patients, healthcare workers, managers and researchers.

The Iryo Network is the world’s first participatory, blockchain driven healthcare economy built on decentralising access to medical records. The network will usher in a new era for medical research. Patients will now have the ability to anonymously share their medical history with researchers in exchange for Iryo tokens which can then be used to pay for medical services.

Website: www.iryo.io

Telegram channel: t.me/iryonetwork

Blog: www.medium.com/iryo-network







