Panel - Disruptive Technologies
Thursday November 20, 2025 10:30 - 11:00 CET Mainroom
Lecturers: Anita Puppe, Ewelina Kurtys, Szabolcs Szeöketba
Lecturers
Anita Puppe Lecturer
Dr.
Director of the Board of Trustees of and Member of the Medical Board of THE HEALTH CAPTAINS CLUB – Dr. Anita Puppe, MD, PhD, MBA
Anita Puppe is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning models in the healthcare sector. She helps companies on their market access and strategy driven healthcare data. She worked in telemedicine and tech companies at the AI campus in Berlin as well as Spain. Now working for IBM iX, as a senior strategic consultant and implementing design thinking for Pharma, Life Science and Hospitals. IBM iX is a consultancy, digital agency, design studio and tech company all in one. With capabilities and partnerships spanning strategy, design, development and operations across a global network of 60 studios, a human-centered approach to business design helps accelerate innovation and transformation at scale. In healthcare, IBM iX creates experiences that matter and have a deep understanding of customers who are data driven and want to improve healthcare.
Passionate for innovation and digital health, Anita also works for start-ups in Berlin who are focusing on patient education (medudoc) and saving surgeons/physicians time in their clinical day. More efficient processes and optimization of surgery departments.
Furthermore, Anita enjoys entrepreneurial Business Processes, Company Structures, Design thinking, International Relations and investment opportunities. Working several years in the healthcare market, she knows the importance of connecting the dots and linking various market participants with each other to design and support healthcare.
Anita studied medicine in the Netherlands, worked in hospitals in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Australia and now in Germany. She obtained her MBA and MSc. degree in healthcare management in Zürich and Brussels.
Ewelina Kurtys Lecturer
Dr.
I graduated in pharmacy and biotechnology in Poland. After having done research projects on different topics (pharmacology, microbiology, and neuroscience) and in different countries (Poland, Belgium and Italy) I decided to pursue a PhD in neuroscience in Groningen, the Netherlands, where I specialised in brain imaging. Since imaging really fascinated me, I continued to work in this field as a postdoc at Kings College in London.
After my postdoc, I decided to leave academia to broaden my options for the future development. My first industry job was at medical imaging service company where I learnt basic skills in business development and project management while still actively using my academic expertise in medical imaging.
The work in imaging services was also a great opportunity for me to learn about the latest applications of Artificial Intelligence since AI is heavily used to optimise imaging data analysis. This is how I became fascinated with technology and realised a broader range of possibilities beyond my current field.
To learn more about AI, I started my first company - consulting service Ekai Ltd, to work on business development in digital technologies. This way I learnt examples of what can be done in diverse industry sectors using software and hardware.
Working in industry thought me the usefulness of combining technical skills with psychology. So, I also shifted from focusing only on technical aspects of my work towards recognising the importance of such things like confidence or managing my stress.
After some time, I started to think on how I can best combine my previous academic experiences, my personal interests and my industry know how and here I am today, my main activities are:
(I) working with biocomputing startup which uses living neurons as computation units. I work mainly on business development for commercial, scientific and investment purposes. This project gives me the opportunity to learn about various applications of signal processing.
(II) building my own startup, Psync (https://psync-app.com/), which is a psychologist in the pocket aiming to bring the latest psychology tools directly into your pocket as a mental wellness app! This is a combination of my main interests: technology, neuroscience, and psychology.
It is a great adventure on creating my own team, product and practicing diverse skills in technical and creative work.
Psync has just opened a service arm, Psync solutions (https://psync-app.com/psyncsolutions/) where we want to apply our multidisciplinary expertise in innovation to solve challenging industry problems. Our mission is to help people work more effectively and take the most advantage of latest developments in automation. We believe it can help organisations to be more efficient and cost effective and will allow us to create more value for a better societ
Szabolcs Szeöke Lecturer
Chefarzt Klinik für Wirbelsäulenchirurgie & Neurotraumatologie, Facharzt für Neurochirurgie
Christliches Klinikum Paderborn
Chefarzt
Seit Apr 2022
Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
leitender Oberarzt
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Wicker-Kliniken
Oberarzt Neurochirurgie
Wirbelsäulenspezialzentrum
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
https://www.wicker.de/kliniken/werner-wicker-klinik/
UKGM MARBURG
Oberarzt Neurochirurgie
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Neurochirurgie Marburg
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
Facharzt Neurochirurgie
Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
Neurochirurgie Tübingen
Ausbildung und dann Tätigkeit als Facharzt Neurochirurgie
Education
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Facharzt Neurochirurgie
Universität Leipzig
Studium Humanmedizin