March 1-4 I traveled to Las Vegas to exhibit at the largest healthcare IT trade show in the world: HIMSS.
Hitachi, one of our partners, asked my company to be part of their booth for the second year in a row, and I was very glad to share the booth with them and another open source company they recently acquired: Pentaho.
Throughout the duration of the show I had numerous business breakfasts (including a very early one with IBM and their new CEO of Watson Health, who until recently was CEO of Philips Healthcare), lunches and dinners, and was invited to several events, like Microsoft’s party at the Bodies exhibition in the Luxor Hotel, and Lexmark’s party.
On February 25 a group of medical imaging researchers from Microsoft came to our company’s headquarters in Valencia (Spain) for a day-long workshop on bleeding edge medical image software.
I must admit that just a few years ago I would have laughed at the idea of such an occurrence for many reasons. But things change, and now Microsoft is much more open (and convinced) about Open Source software, their researchers have demonstrated exceptional ability in advanced medical imaging analysis algorithms (unlike their failed business strategy around Amalga), and my company has grown and innovated to the point where it captures the interest and even enthusiasm of some of the largest technology companies in the world.
On February 23 Microsoft invited me to an industry event at Sushi Samba, which is located on the 39th floor of the Heron Tower in London.
I have never given a standing presentation right next to a floor to ceiling window with the clouds closer to me than the ground!
The event was nice, as it was the venue. Thank you for inviting me, Microsoft.
Yesterday I was invited to attend the official launch of the Mayor’s International Programme at City Hall, London, where I met some of London`s top entrepreneurs, mentors, and the Mayor (who gave a short speech using 007 as a reference).
One of my companies (Kanteron Systems) has been selected as one of the 35 companies forming the initial cohort.
The programme will support high growth businesses from London’s Technology, Life Sciences and Urban sectors to expand their businesses internationally.
Yesterday we went to see a couple exhibitions at Somerset House, in London.
The first exhibition we saw was “TINTIN: Hergé`s Masterpiece”. Basic but obviously appealing, it was too crowded to be enjoyable.
The second one was “Big Bang Data”.
While undoubtedly interesting, especially for someone who works in, teaches, and loves bid data and technology like myself, to me the most interesting aspect of this exhibition is that everyone who was there had already experienced the subject.
As an international “solo-preneur” you have to be careful about how to invest your time and resources, and what metrics are really key.
My main company (Kanteron Systems) is in the Enterprise Healthcare Software world. Blog posts and books talking about apps, user adoption, and monetization mean nothing to me. Yet most companies in the Enterprise B2B space are big listed multinationals, so their metrics do not exactly apply to me either.
This Tuesday and Wednesday I was invited to participate in Microsoft’s 5th Health Innovation event.
Titled “EmpoweringHealth: the journey towards more personalized, productive, collaborative and predictive health services & systems” it took place at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center in Brussels.
I participated in the round table “Medical Imaging Storage in the Cloud”, moderated by Kelly Limonte (Microsoft UK Healthcare Team), and in the Expert Panel “The future of preventive and predictive health powered by data in the intelligent cloud”, along with:
