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Keynote SpeakerBertalan Mesko

Medical Futurist, Director of The Medical Futurist Institute

Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD, known as The Medical Futurist, is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute. He specializes in analyzing the impact of science fiction technologies on global medicine and healthcare. As a geek physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top 100 author and... Read more

Biography

Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD, known as The Medical Futurist, is the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute. He specializes in analyzing the impact of science fiction technologies on global medicine and healthcare.

As a geek physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top 100 author and serves as a Private Professor at Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Mesko has delivered over 900 keynotes at prestigious institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, as well as organizations like the WHO and the world’s top 10 pharmaceutical companies. His insights on healthcare technology have made him a leading global voice in the field.

Featured by major media outlets including CNN, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times, Dr. Mesko regularly shares his analyses on medicalfuturist.com. His research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence and digital health technologies in shaping the future of care. He is a member of the “Committee on Future Research” of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Dedicated to pioneering medical futures studies as a scientific discipline, Dr. Mesko aims to make futures methods widely accessible in healthcare.

He is a Certified Superforecaster for Good Judgment, Inc.

"Dr. Mesko delivered a very compelling keynote presentationthat resonated with our audience. In our own feedback survey of the event he received the highest ratingfrom our attendees." Innomar Strategies, a part of AmerisourceBergen
“Thank you Dr Mesko for a breathtaking presentation and sharing your insights and perspectives with us. This was truly a mindset triggering event.” Novartis virtual session
“Our GSK employees absolutely loved Dr Mesko's presentation, we received great feedback. 'Engaging speaker', 'interesting subject' are the top words used to describe the presentation.” GSK DataCon
“Very professional approach and high quality of the session. Clear problem statements and concrete solutions with real examples (both in the keynote as well as the Q&A session)” MasterMinds Live session for Novo Nordisk

Popular Talks by Bertalan Mesko

  • The Evolution of Digital Health

    The pandemic has led to an unprecedentedly quick technological adoption, but the cultural transformation digital health requires is lagging behind. Technologies and concepts from telemedicine through AI monitoring to network medicine, all can now come together in this new norm to shape healthcare forever.

    Key messages:

    ● The story of...

  • How To Predict The Future of Healthcare

    See what it feels like to meet science fiction in your life and learn to predict which technologies will shape your industry through one simple habit: asking the “what if” question.

    Key messages:

    ● Foresight and the futurist mindset

    ● The near future of healthcare

    ● Practical methods for looking...

  • Your AI Prescription

    It is high time to describe how artificial intelligence will impact medicine and healthcare; why this change is inevitable and what we should do to prepare for working and living with it. This narrative aims to transform uncertainties regarding AI into a productive exchange of knowledge between humans and machines....

  • Healthcare Needs A Trip To Mars

    In my keynote, Healthcare needs a trip to Mars, I argue that we need to create a healthcare system that would even keep an astronaut on Mars alive. We need to use our digital health technologies to make patients the point of care, to let them access their own data,...

  • How Will Generative AI Upgrade Healthcare

    Generative AI has taken the attention of healthcare by force showing how a breakthrough technology can contribute to care, shape how physicians practice medicine and how patients can access information like never before. This narrative is a deep-dive into generative AI providing a crystal-clear image about what we can expect...

  • How To Be The Hero of Healthcare

    Digital health is the cultural transformation that brings healthcare to the 21st century. Why don’t you take charge and become the hero to make it happen?

    Key messages:

    ● The impact of technologies on the individual

    ● The patient perspective

    ● What can the average consumer do to improve healthcare