Raajen Patel serves as the Executive Vice President of Innovation at Medical Informatics Corp. His team builds and maintains Sickbay research products used in over 100 publications, posters, and presentations, and helped secure more than $10 million in grant funding. Raajen and his team develop next-generation algorithms from physiologic data, powering Sickbay applications that provide novel patient insights for clinicians. Notably, Raajen has co-authored 14 publications, 3 patents, and has presented on AI as an invited speaker. His teams have dressed up like him at least once.

At home, Raajen leaves instruments out in the living room in the hopes that his kids start playing them, so he can form the family band he’s always dreamed of.

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Akhila Aiyer serves as a principal Solutions Architect for private cloud AI at HPE. With a background in Data Science and AI, Akhila is a leader with extensive experience driving digital transformation at scale, having led impactful AI initiatives that helped transform customer engagement.

With expertise in AI/ML architecture, large language models, knowledge graphs, and real-time data orchestration, Akhila bridges cutting-edge technology with practical business outcomes. This leadership has delivered measurable results, Akhila is recognized for advancing responsible AI, data governance, and enterprise innovation.

When not navigating the world of AI, Akhila enjoys getting her hands dirty as an avid gardener and genetic tinkerer—always on the lookout to create the next amazing plant cultivar.

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Kent Snider is a Director within NVIDIA's Healthcare and Life Sciences organization, leading strategic engagement with academic medical centers, payer organizations, and healthcare providers across the United States. He partners with executive leaders, researchers, clinicians, and IT teams to accelerate AI adoption and build enterprise-scale AI platforms that improve patient care, operational efficiency, and scientific discovery. Kent collaborates closely with NVIDIA's ecosystem of OEMs, cloud providers, global systems integrators, ISVs, and channel partners to deliver accelerated computing, networking, AI software, and domain expertise into practical healthcare solutions. His focus includes AI factories, agentic AI, generative AI, precision medicine, digital pathology, medical imaging, genomics, drug discovery, and enterprise AI. With nearly a decade at NVIDIA, Kent has helped many of the nation's leading healthcare organizations develop AI strategies and deploy production-ready infrastructure powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking, AI Enterprise software, and developer frameworks. He is passionate about translating AI innovation into measurable clinical, research, and operational outcomes by connecting customers with NVIDIA's technical experts, scientific researchers, and partner ecosystem.

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