I spent some time with my friend Milind Shah, who leads Strategy and Digital Solutions at Elevance Health, and he drops wisdom and insights on the state of transformation in healthcare and the role of digital and AI. Take a listen, Milind blends business insights with technology applications and goes really deep in some areas!

About Milind:

Milind has been in the healthcare industry for over 15 years now and truly enjoys having the opportunity to be a part of having an impact on the industry and truly leaving a legacy. He currently leading up Strategy & Solutions for Carelon Digital Platforms, supporting the overall vision of transforming the company, with a focus on Digital products & solutions focusing on both the Member and Provider. He is responsible for partnering across the enterprise to define the overall Digital focus aligned to the Enterprise strategic priorities, driving Carelon growth/commercialization, and identifying acceleration opportunities through strategic partnerships, while also partnering with Corp Dev on M&A opportunities. A lot of his focus currently is partnering across the Enterprise on areas like transformation through AI and looking at opportunities to leverage the robust “ecosystem” that is being invested in to help accelerate impact at scale for Elevance Health. Throughout his career, Milind has built and led teams that focus on Transformation, Innovation, and Strategy with an emphasis on Growth Strategy, M&A, Post Merger Integration, and Disruptive/Exponential Product and he’s had some great opportunities to do things like running Innovation Studios at Salesforce to being a part of the Senior Leadership team at Humana to help with several of their transformation initiatives as the company moved to focusing on their Growth Strategy.

Find him at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milinds/

In this episode, I chat with my good friend, Akshay Sharma, Chief AI Officer at Lyric. In this episode, we tackle the topics of AI healthcare solutions and just how the landscape is set to be disrupted by AI. Akshay is a wealth of knowledge and experience in disrupting traditional industries like healthcare and financial services with AI and crypto and he really brought an amazing perspective to this topic. I hope you enjoy this episode, and please like and subscribe!

In this episode, I am joined by the amazing Walter De Brouwer. We dive deep into understanding AI as it co-inhabits our lives alongside humans! It raises new questions, new interaction patterns and new experiences and Walter discussed how to think about AI, treat AI and what AGI will do.

Walter's Bio:

Walter De Brouwer (WDB) has established several AI and deep tech companies (1990-now), 2 of which have undergone public offerings in Europe (LSE, Euronext) and 2 in the USA (NYSE, NASDAQ). His latest AI company merged with Atlanta-based ShareCare [NASDAQ: SHCR] and went IPO at a valuation of $3.9B (July 2, 2021). At Sharecare he serves as the Chief Scientific Officer. WDB holds a PhD in computational semiotics and has been a professor at Stanford University since 2018 where he is the course director of MED-205.

He is an active contributor and beta tester of Generative AI projects, LLMs and Agent architectures. His research interests are in Multimodal Transformers, AGI, GPT agents and 6G. He is the author of 53 patents. WDB is a General Partner at Claritas Capital (Nashville, since January 2022), a $1B PE fund where he runs the Media and Entertainment (Claritas M&E) sector. Walter De Brouwer is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammy’s), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Army and Navy Officers Club of Washington, D.C. He resides with his family in Malibu, CA.

Find Walter here:

Walter's Ted AI talk: https://www.ai-event.ted.com/speakers-1/walter-de-brouwer-/computational-linguist--

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdebrouwer/

X: https://twitter.com/walterdebrouwer