Today's podcast will focus on the topic of accelerated insights from data for preventative health innovation. The podcast sheds light on industry challenges and expectations as well as innovative approaches to collaboration. 

This discussion is led by Tõnu Esko, BC Platforms SAB Chairman and Vice Director of the Institute of Genomics University of Tartu, where he also holds a Professor of Human Genomics position. He is head of the Estonian Biobank Innovation Center and focuses on public private partnerships and innovation transfer. Dr. Esko is also a research scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard at MIT. He acts as one of the senior leaders for Estonian personalized medicine programs and serves as a scientific advisor for several companies. 

Our speaker today is Michael Geer, the co-founder of Humanity along with Peter Ward. Humanity is a health tech startup that enables you to find your rate of aging, and do what you can do to slow your aging down. Michael Geer is a serial tech entrepreneur, having amassed over a billion users with Badoo, AnchorFree, and even more revenue over his years building meaningful consumer focused technology. He wakes up every day working on how to best enable people with superpowers. 

What is Covered:

- What are the main obstacles to innovation in healthcare

- How to open the access to different data types, and leverage this knowledge in order to build a complex health guide

- The importance of democratization of data, federated access, and differential privacy in making data readily usable by other people

- What scientific insights Humanity uses to build their products

- How Humanity manages the complexity of its data model, and the feedback it provides to their customers

Resources:

- The Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu https://genomics.ut.ee/en

- The Estonian Biobank https://genomics.ut.ee/en 

- Humanity https://www.humanity.health/

- OpenMind https://openmindplatform.org/

- BioAge Labs https://bioagelabs.com/

Connect with Michael Geer:

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeer

Connect with Dr. Tõnu Esko: 

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tõnu-esko-24511524/ 

Connect with BC Platforms: 

- https://www.bcplatforms.com 

- https://www.linkedin.com/company/bc-platforms/ 

- sales@bcplatforms.com