Help Before We Need It: The ethics and pitfalls of designing healthcare services that know us before we know ourselves

In this session, Pete Trainor, CEO of Vala Health will be joined by some very special healthcare industry leaders to discuss the future of data-driven, predictive healthcare.

Joining Pete will be:

Tina Woods: Founder and CEO, Collider Health & Collider Science, Co-Founder Longevity International; Author

Matt Eagles: Positivity Activist , proud Webiter and Twinian, Co-Founder and Frontman of Parkylife

Focusing on the up and downsides, the ethics and the possibilities, this conversation will lead us through whats happened, what’s happening, and where we might end up in the future.

After an initial 25 mins, the audience will be invited to contribute to the discussion with questions and opinions on the topic, as well as share their views of it they are for it, or against it

Pete Trainor - CEO of Vala Health

Pete is an author, strategist, applied Ai designer, technologist, suicide prevention campaigner and CEO of Vala Health. He talks all over the world on creative and social technologies, data, Ai and the physiological and psychological effects on their audiences.

His bestselling, book “Human-Focused Digital” takes a philosophical look at technology and design, challenging us to look inwardly at the self when designing future technologies.

Over the last three years, Pete has helped to pioneer an entirely new approach for Ai-focused products, one that looks at ‘self-evolving systems’ and ‘minimum viable personality’ to help solve societal and human issues.

Pete regularly appears in UK national and international press as an analyst on emergent technologies, and tech markets.

Pete is the former chair of the Ai Think Tank for BIMA (The British Interactive Media Association). In 2017 he was voted as one of the 5 most influential people in the British digital industry in Econsultancy's 2017 report.

He has a very simple philosophy: Don’t do things better, do better things™.