Jan-Niklas is a digital health expert with a wide experience in research and corporate innovation. He is an innovation manager at CSS and is the director of the CSS Health Lab, a research collaboration between CSS, ETH Zurich, and the University of St. Gallen, that investigates new technologies and business models in healthcare. Before joining CSS, Jan-Niklas completed his PhD at the University of St Gallen. His research examined how technology can enable and support chronic disease prevention and his findings are published in leading academic journals.

 

Nicolas Loeillot is a seasoned technology entrepreneur. He has over two decades of experience in the field of computer vision, machine learning, technology innovation and international company management.

Back in 2003, after a career in companies like Accenture, Nortel or Gartner, he founded a computer vision company in Tokyo that provided A.I. applications to large companies across Asia, the US, and Japan. His company was eventually acquired by Amazon AWS in 2017.

In 2018, he joined the Swiss health insurer Groupe Mutuel as their Chief Innovation Officer. In this role, he formulated an innovation strategy, accelerated the use of Artificial Intelligence in the company, and developed a data-driven approach to preventive healthcare while opening the company to partners like EPFL thru programs like Tech4Eva.

He was hired by CSS in mid-2022 to help supporting the adoption of digital health in Western Switzerland with the Future of Health Grant program. Since 2021, Nicolas Loeillot contributes to InnoSuisse as an Expert in the domains of Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence.

Born in Geneva in 1954, Philippe Schaller has been a Doctor of Medicine since 1981. In 1988, he co-founded the Groupe Médical d’Onex (GE), where he continues to practice internal/general medicine, while also training in psychosocial medicine and taking an interest in the organization of the healthcare system. In 2000, he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Health from the Université de Montréal.

Since 1992, together with Dr. Marc-André Raetzo, he has run Switzerland’s largest integrated healthcare network with joint budgetary responsibility: the Réseau Delta, which today has over 782 family doctors and 250,000 insured in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Fribourg, Valais and Jura.

Since the early 2000s, Philippe Schaller has been working to meet the challenges facing our healthcare system. Under his impetus, Switzerland’s first Maison de Santé – Cité générations – was opened in September 2012 in Onex (GE). The opening of several other similar homes is planned in the canton of Geneva. Among his many activities, Philippe Schaller is an associate doctor at the HUG, president of the charity association le CARÉ and a member of Pro Mente Sana. He is also a lecturer at the HEdS and the author of numerous scientific articles and publications.

More recently, he has helped to create and promote an integrative medicine project: Le center de médecines naturelles in Petit-Lancy.

Vivian Tan is the Vice President, Strategic Information Management and Global Relationships, working closely with the Chief Financial Officer and the Chairman and CEO. In this role, Vivian provides the strategic leadership for an enterprise data and analytics team in order to support, enable and advance KP’s strategy. Additionally, Vivian manages the partnership with the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Chief Strategy Officer on the broader international strategy. Vivian is responsible for KP insight – an enterprise data and analytics team consisting of 250+ data analysts and scientists–that conducts a wide range of work from complex delivery systems and financial analytics to regulatory reporting. She is also leading data and analytics transformation efforts to move cloud-based platform and enable advanced analytics including AI, machine learning and neural nets.

Prior to this role, Vivian led the multiple transformation efforts driving Kaiser Permanente’s national strategy in partnership with all regions and functions. She identified, analyzed, and interpreted health care trends, organizational strategies, strategic investments and Kaiser Permanente’s overall market and competitive position. Vivian has served in several leadership roles since joining Kaiser Permanente in 2006. She was the executive director and chief of staff to Kaiser Permanente’s Chief Financial Officer, where she was also interim Vice President of Strategic Planning before assuming the job permanently in 2009. She served as the Vice President of Capital Planning from 2011 to 2013.

Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Vivian consulted with senior leadership at Fortune 500 firms in her seven years with Booz & Co., an international consulting firm. She also worked in policy and planning with the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore (national regulator) and was a senior officer with United Overseas Bank. Vivian holds a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science, and statistics from the National University of Singapore, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. She completed the Kaiser Permanente Executive Leadership Program at Harvard University in 2008.