Kirsten Mathieson is a Deputy Director and Policy Lead at the Transform Health.

She is an international development professional with a proven track record in advocacy, policy engagement, research and project management. She has extensive experience working in the non-governmental sector and with the United Nations, both at headquarters and country level. Kirsten has experience in the areas of health (UHC, primary health care, digital health, data governance, immunisation), gender, social equity and rural livelihoods.

Mr. Rudy Kurniawan is the Lead of the Innovation and Health Financing Team at the Center for Data and Information Technology, Ministry of Health, Indonesia.

A specialist in scaling digital ecosystems, Mr. Kurniawan oversees the end-to-end digitalization of health financing systems to ensure seamless data integration and fiscal transparency. He is the driving force behind the National Digital Health Sandbox, a regulatory framework designed to test and validate emerging health technologies before they are integrated into the public sector.

Jennifer Nelson, MPH, is a Senior Digital Health Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. She spearheads the Health, Nutrition, and Population (HNP) strategy for digital health transformation and leads IDB’s Digital Health Team, providing strategic and technical guidance to help public sector partners leverage digital tools to enhance quality, access, and equity in healthcare and public health across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Junghwan Park is the Director of the Division of Healthcare Data Development at the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in the Republic of Korea.

With over 15 years of experience spanning government policy, software engineering, and public health research, he specializes in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, healthcare data ecosystems, and digital health policy.

In his current role, Dr. Park leads national strategies for Health AI adoption and the development of large-scale medical data infrastructure.

Dr. Karthik Adapa is a distinguished physician-scientist specializing in digital health, governance, and artificial intelligence, with a career spanning government, academia, and international organizations.

Ms Mengji Chen serves as the technical lead for the Research, Ethics and Innovation (REI) unit within the Division of Data, Strategy and Innovation of World Health Organization. In this role, she leads a team dedicated to strengthening research and AI ecosystems to advance health equity across Member States. She oversees the development and dissemination of guidance, tools, and resources on research governance and AI for health research for national research committees and analogous bodies.

Dr. Sankalp Khanna is a Senior Principal Research Scientist and leads the Health Intelligence team at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. His research is focused on applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to model, analyse, predict, simulate and optimise patient flow through Australian public hospitals; and develop explainable algorithms for delivering decision support that clinicians can interpret and trust. Solutions developed by Sankalp have helped reshape workflow and policy in hospitals in Australia and overseas.

Dr. Natarajan Rajaraman (Raj) is Managing Director of Equitech Collective. It is a Singapore-based nonprofit technology and global health organization dedicated to improving health equity through practical digital innovation. They partner with community health providers, governments, and nonprofit organizations to deploy digital tools that strengthen primary healthcare systems serving vulnerable populations. Their work focuses on low-resource and underserved settings across Southeast Asia and the West Pacific.

Dr Nor Fariza Ngah is the Deputy Director-General of Health (Research and Technical Support) at the Ministry of Health Malaysia. She is a senior consultant ophthalmologist with subspecialty training in medical retina and uveitis from Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, and previously served as the National Head of Ophthalmology Services.