Two panels, one question: Are we ready for healthcare's AI decade?

Two panels, one question: Are we ready for healthcare's AI decade?

At the Global Health Exhibition - ملتقى الصحة العالمي in Riyadh, I had the privilege of joining (and moderating) two panels at the Global Health Exhibition Riyadh, bringing together top investors and operators to dissect how AI can move from pilot to platform across pharma and care delivery.

From venture capital to workflow integration, the consensus was clear: execution will define the winners of the next wave of digital health. The hard part in AI isn't the technology, but the careful focus on bringing the people with you if you truly want to deploy AI at scale.

The technology is ready for large scale admin improvements, and reshaping the way we discover and develop drugs, but our organisations, from large health care providers to big corporates, often struggle to bring their teams along in the journey.

The key insight: We're not in an AI bubble, we're in a fundamental learning curve.

Rana Lonnen, Christian Lautner, Rishad Usmani, MD, Natasha Naidoo, Stuart McGoldrick, Michael Brenden Davis, Antoine D'Hollander