Abhijit Gupta
Founder and CEO Praxify
Pune, India
Abhijit Gupta is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is currently the co-founder and managing partner at Abvara Capital, an early stage healthcare focused micro fund. He was the Founder and CEO of Praxify Technologies, a digital health company focused on bringing clinical insights at the point of care to doctors. Praxify was acquired by athenahealth (America’s leading EHR platform) in June 2017 where he launched and headed the company’s mobility efforts. Prior to athenahealth and Praxify, Abhijit was part of the founding team of Azingo, which had created a mobile platform similar to Android, and was acquired by Motorola and eventually by Google. He is also associated as an advisor to multiple government health initiatives along with the Harvard FXB group, and is an advisor to a bunch of startups. He likes to read and travel in his spare time, and loves to spend time exploring new learning platforms with his kids.
Dr.Amit Kharat
CEO and Co-Founder DeepTek
Pune, India
Dr Amit Kharat is the Co-Founder and CEO of DeepTek.ai. He is also the domain expert at DeepTek. Amit began his radiology practice in 2002 and his entrepreneurial journey in 2004 when he commenced a successful teleradiology practise. He is a clinical radiologist (MBBS, DMRD, DNB), researcher (PhD) in Musculoskeletal Imaging, Professor and Guide. He is the Fellow of Indian College of Radiology and Imaging, has a degree in hospital administration and obtained certification for MIT Management School on AI strategy - Implications for Business strategy. In 2018, he co-founded the AI healthcare diagnostics startup DeepTek.Ai. Prior to this he has deeply researched roles of emerging technologies in imaging as multiple indexed publications. Today, he assists in moving AI solutions from the lab to the real world on DeepTeks AI Enabled Radiology Optimization Platform. The key focus for Amit has always been on innovative deployments of impactful AI solutions, research the role of point of care diagnostics in population health”, create IPs, assist development of smart and intuitive imaging reporting systems to boost productivity, improve accuracy, reduce burnouts. Amit has published and presented scientific papers at world-leading radiology conferences, including RSNA, ECR and ISS with 55+ publications and 100+ oral presentations and orations - Ashok Mukherjee Oration, K M Rai Oration. He is an avid reader, enjoys driving, cycling, swimming and wildlife photography.
Kanav Hasija
Co Founder and Chief Customer Officer InnovAccer
San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Kanav Hasija is the Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Innovaccer Inc. He has an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and Master inPatent Law from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. Over the years, he has gathered significant experience in the field of healthcare data analytics and entrepreneurial expertise, which has garnered him widespread international acclaim.
Kanav has been instrumental in building Innovaccers Data Activation Platform with 4 weeks time to value. His continuous efforts in improving and updating the existing technology have resulted in the Data Activation Platform being recognized by Gartner, KLAS, Forbes, Black Book Market Research, and more.
Kanav has been instrumental in building Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform with 4-weeks time-to-value. His continuous efforts in improving and updating the existing technology have resulted in the Data Activation Platform being recognized by Gartner, KLAS, Forbes, Black Book Market Research, and more.
Kanav’s thorough understanding of data sciences, Big Data, medical analytics, and research, combined with his consulting background, has been instrumental in Innovaccer achieving true product-market fitment and has helped in generating over $400 million in savings for its clientele over the years. He has received ‘Franklin Pierce IP Scholar’ for Academic and Research Efforts in the field of IP at Franklin Pierce Center for IP at UNH School of Law.
He has received the ‘Graduate Student Award’ for providing exemplary leadership and global perspective by teaching, learning, or contributing productively to a global legal system at UHN School of Law. He has also received the inaugural Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize for publishing a paper on Patent Damages at Samsung Corporation, Stanford Law School.
Dipty Desai
Head West Coast - USISPF(Jan 2018 - Till Now)
Santa Clara, United States
Dipty is the Head of West Coast Division of USISPF where she works with the US and Indian Government, Enterprises/MNCs and Late Stage Startups supporting their needs for Policy Advocacy, State Engagements and Business to Business interactions for cross border growth across sectors including Healthcare. She was the co-founder and CEO of FalconX, a leading startup engine and investment vehicle focused on building, growing and scaling technology-driven startups. Dipty was Senior Director of Operations and Business Development at TiE Silicon Valley where she helped create programs focused on inspiring, educating, mentoring, incubating, funding and connecting the entrepreneurs. She is also the co-chair of TiE Global Health and TiEcon Healthcare Track. She is an advisor for healthcare startups and has contributed to due diligence, screening and curating of entrepreneurial ideas for pitch presentations and venture investments.
With strong science and business expertise she has been responsible for industry research, company analysis, business development, and thought leadership, which has helped position Dipty at the forefront of disruptions in the tech industry. Dipty carried out her doctoral work on cancer research at the UCSF Med Center and her post-doctoral research in human genomics at Stanford University. She has worked for NASA, Roche and Hoechst in addition to a few startups. Her scientific expertise and peer-reviewed publications are in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, genomics and cancer research. Her passion for innovation and entrepreneurship and solving problems that impact the world has led her to work with entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of science and technology.