Speakers, Special Guests and Organisational Team

Speakers & Special Guests

Christoph Franz

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Roche

"Data are transforming healthcare⁠. It's allowing us to provide more personalised treatment choices for individual patients."

André Hoffmann

Vice-Chariman of the Board of Directors, Roche

"The emergence of real world data will help us to establish the truth. Health is not restored by myths and beliefs but by science and innovation. Patients will benefit from this change”.

Peggy Grueninger

Head of Corporate Donations & Philanthropy, Roche

"You can only measure what has been. Use your time wisely."

Joanne Hackett

Chief Commercial Officer, Genomics England

"Embrace the opportunities that data can offer us today."

Fritz Hauser

Musician and Composer

"While digital data reflects truth only to a limited extent, myths do not claim truth at all. They are based on a mixture of the experienced, the imagined and the dreamed."

Waltraud Gruenbauer

Senior Principal Scientist, Translational Medicine, Roche

"Myths are making our life colorful, data enable us to gain knowledge. To combine both is the art of living."

Helga Rabl-Stadler

President, Salzburg Festival

"We wish to awaken empathy for the myths of antiquity. The mythical tales of old pose the eternal questions of our existence: war, escape, victims, the thirst for revenge, guilt and atonement, and love."

Marco Prunotto

Senior Principal Scientist, Clinical Development, Roche

"While the presence of data in my life is obvious, its actually the myths that drive me."

Maria-Clemencia Hernandez

Expert Scientist, Neuroscience Discovery, Roche

"Although there are myths about big data at the moment, I think in neuroscience collecting and analyzing huge amount of information will produce answers to fundamental questions about brains function in health and disease."