Mastering Artificial Intelligence and Leadership in Healthcare

Professor Dhiya Al-Jumeily

Prof. Al-Jumeily OBE has 30+ years experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In 2020, Prof Al-Jumeily was appointed by her majesty “THE QUEEN to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, “OBE- Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order” for the “Services to Scientific Research”- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3703557.  Within healthcare field Prof Al-Jumeily developed SMART applications for disease diagnosis and management that are currently used by patients in the UK, UAE and Iraq. On the scientific community level, Prof Al-Jumeily established the eSystems Engineering Society (eSES) that has contributors from researchers and scientists at worldwide. The eSES activities include intelligent patient management system; datasets and databanks; DeSE annual and international conference; accredited professional courses; and the International Journal of Data Science and Advanced Analytics. On the research funding level, Prof Al-Jumeily attracted more than £7.5M of funding and published >350 publications. His vision is to spread research openly to everyone who needs it at global level.

Professor Hongmei (Mary) He

Prof. Hongmei (Mary) He (FHEA, SIEEE) is Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Robotics in the School of Science, Engineering, and Environment at the University of Salford (Mary He | University of Salford) and Turing Liaison Academic for membership of the Salford Turing University Network. She is a passionate advocate of AI and an expert in human-centred AI for trustworthy robotics and trustworthy autonomous systems (TRAS). She has also done a lot of research in cognitive cybersecurity, data science, computational theory and optimisation. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough University, UK in 2006. She was a senior embedded systems engineer at Motorola Design House in China. Mary is Chair of the task force of AI and Edge Computing for TRAS on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Technical Committee on Adaptive and Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning and Chair of the IEEE UK & Ireland RAS Chapter. PhD in Computer Science, Loughbirough University, UK, 2006.

Professor Allam Ahmed
Professor of Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development; Co-Founder of SMART KM MODEL: An Integrated Knowledge Management Framework for Organizational Excellence and led the implementation of the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Knowledge Management Framework (KMF) Musharaka. Founding President of World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD); Founding Director of SDGs Universities International Initiative (SDGsUNI); Founding Director of Middle Eastern Knowledge Economy Institute (MEKEI); Founder, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair on Transfer of Technology (UNESCOTT), the International Diaspora Initiative/Sudan Knowledge (SK). Fellow Faculty of Public Health (FPH), UK; Fellow Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), UK; and Fellow (FAWB) Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development (AWBMMD) Australia. Early 2022, Professor Ahmed joint Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry as a Honorary Professor and Senior Policy Fellow at Queen Mary University of London Global Policy Institute (QMGPI). Prior to Queen Mary, Professor Ahmed spent 15 years (2004-2019) at the University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) (1st science and policy think tank in the UK) where he established and led Sussex’s most successful postgraduate programme MSc International Management.