Fireside Chat
Speakers
Médecin-chef de service, HUG • Head of the research group, UNIGE
Christian is Professor of Clinical Informatics at the University of Geneva and chairman of the Division of Medical Information Sciences (SIMED) at the University Hospitals of Geneva. He is a medical doctor board certified in Internal Medicine with special emphasis on Emergency Medicine, master in Public Health from the University of Washington, parallel education in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Geneva, focusing on clinical information systems, clinical data interoperability and medical semantics. Christian played an important role in the Swiss Federal strategy for eHealth and the future federal law for the shared patient record as chair of the standard and architecture and semantics working groups. He is member of the executive board of the Swiss Personalized Health network initiative. One of the focus of his team is on phenotype clinical data interoperability and semantic representation to support research, including a strong lead on Computational Linguistics and tools to use medical narratives and texts. He is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FACMI) and Medical Informatics certified of the German Medical Informatics Association. Christian co-authors more than 150 publications. He is editorial board member of several peer-reviewed journals in Biomedical Informatics, such as the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), PLOS One, Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) and BMC Big Data Analytics. Christian was vice-chair of the board of directors of HIMSS until 2016. He is the president of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI). Christian has participated to several start-ups.
CEO • Trust Valley
Lennig Pedron has expertise in cybersecurity and emerging technologies applied to the digital trust economy. She works in particular for the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation and is CEO of the Swiss initiative Trust Valley, the center of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity. She is co-founder and president of the NGO iCON, representing an international community of over 100 digital trust experts. Lennig Pedron represents iCON at the Council of Europe. She has been Data Protection expert for the Swiss Confederation. She provides advice and training to different audiences such as the police, prosecutors or banks. She has been a judge for the 9/12 geopolitical challenge of the GCSP for 4 years and she has spoken at the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Lennig Pedron is the co-author of the book "The Fundamentals of Cyber Crisis Management" published by Ellipses in June 2022.