Programme
Pre-Conference Activities
Programme site opens Monday, 10 May 2021
Registrants will have access to conference materials and resources one week prior to the virtual conference. We encourage attendees to start engaging in the Futurist Community Forum (discussion groups) one week prior to the virtual conference and throughout the event.
Day 1: Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Times are in EDT
9:00
Conference Welcome
9:15
Interact with the Futurists - Technologies Impacting the
Future of Medical Learning
10:00
Your Futurist Journey - Explore the Magic with the Co-chairs
10:05
A Futurist Mindset
10:55
Human Touch: Lifelong Learning and Evolving Technologies
11:45
Building non-traditional collaborations
12:30
GAME Cafe
Day 2: Thursday, 20 May 2021
Times are in EDT
9:00
Welcome and the Magic from Day 1
9:45
Waving Our Magic Wand - Driving Solutions
10:30
Sparking the Future Journey - The Solutions
11:35
Showcasing Innovation
12:35
Thomas Kellner Innovation Award
12:45
Closing the Magic: Until Next Time
Join participants and futurists for active engagement over
2 half days
The Speakers
Futurist Thinkers

Ignacio Medrano
Consultant Neurologist
Co-founder & CMO at Savana
Co-founder at Mendelian
Specialties in healthcare include: digital health, AI, data, IT, entrepreneurship, innovation, education and research management, health information systems, quality systems, neurology.
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Proven talent for scrutinizing and streamlining work processes through highly analytical thinking.
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Experience in team management and people leadership in healthcare sciences.
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Exceptional communicator who effectively conveys information verbally and in writing.
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Flexible team player with ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent projects.
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Demonstrated relationship-builder with unsurpassed interpersonal skills.
Lucien Engelen
CEO
Transform Health
Lucien Engelen is CEO of Transform.Health and Fellow at the Deloitte Center for the Edge, where he works as the Global Strategist Health(care). He is a Faculty member of Singularity University Exponential Medicine and author of the book Augmented Health(care), the end of the beginning.
Lucien works at the intersection of innovation and strategy and advises boards, governments, companies and professionals. His advice focuses on how to initiate change.
As the former founder and director of the REshape Center at the Radboud University Medical Center and advisor to the Board of Directors (2007-2018), Lucien has extensive healthcare experience. Thanks to his practical approach, he was able to identify and implement necessary changes in a sector that, of course, is bound by many rules. Before that, Lucien had a career in acute care. Over the past three decades, it has brought him to the forefront of healthcare innovation in the Netherlands and beyond.
With more than 800,000 followers on LinkedIn, Lucien Engelen is one of the 100 official LinkedIn influencers.
His presentations are about: creating a sustainable culture for innovation, change management, the future of healthcare, the future of work, digitization, technology, health and healthcare.


Susanna Price
Consultant Cardiologist and Intensivist
Royal Brompton Hospital
Susanna Price trained in both cardiology and intensive care, and is a consultant cardiologist and intensivist at the Royal Brompton Hospital where she is lead for peri-procedural echocardiography and the Cardiogenic Shock Programme. She is Professor of cardiology and intensive care medicine (National Heart & Lung Institute) Imperial College London.
Susanna is a Board member, Councillor and Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and immediate Past-President of the European Society of Cardiology Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ESC ACVC), and sits on numerous additional ESC Committees well as the ALS subcommittee of the RCUK and SCCM US guideline committee. She is a Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal, and an invited reviewer for a number of other journals. She has been a member of numerous Task Forces relating to international guidelines & position papers on the management of cardiovascular diseases including valvular disease, endocarditis, non-cardiac surgery, pulmonary hypertension, pericardial disease, cardiovascular disease in pregnancy and grown-up congenital heart disease, as well as ECMO, and echocardiography in the intensive care setting. She has authored numerous papers and book chapters on cardiology, echocardiography and intensive care, and lectures regularly globally.
The Format
Virtual Conference
The 2021 GAME #FuturistForum conference is 100% online and includes dynamic asynchronous and synchronous educational sessions. While the virtual conference spans two half days (19 - 20 May 2021) it includes pre-conference activities such as the FutureCast "teaser" videos, the Futurist Community Forum, and Futurist Mindset resources, which will become available to registered participants one week prior, on 10 May 2021.
Join us and engage with international leaders and professionals spanning the healthcare industry who are committed to exploring the future of lifelong learning in healthcare.
This year, participants may engage in the Innovation Lab and submit examples that illustrate best practices and align to the core themes of the #FuturistForum. Six projects will be selected for presentation during a Showcase Innovation session during Day 2 of the conference. Click here to learn more!