Speaker Profile
M.D., Global Head of Digital Technology & CMIO, Roche
Biography
Okan Ekinci, MD, MBA, is the Head of Digital Technology and Chief Medical Information Officer at Roche Information Solutions. He joined Roche in 2018 and served as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing & Innovation for the digital health business. Before that, Okan held various positions at Siemens Healthineers, including Chief Medical Officer and Head of Healthcare Consulting. Drawing on extensive experience across imaging, diagnostics, and pharma, he has advised healthcare institutions and governments on strategies for digital transformation, personalized healthcare, and artificial intelligence. Okan is a cardiologist by training and an adjunct professor of medicine at the University College Dublin.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford (Pioneer)
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI (Luminary)
• Daphne Koller, insitro (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford
• Andrew Ng, Stanford / DeepLearning.AI
• Daphne Koller, insitro
• Andy Beck, PathAI
• Germán Corredor Prada, Emory / Georgia Tech
• Drew Williamson, Emory
• Marina Sirota, UCSF
• Pranav Rajpurkar, Harvard
• Okan Ekinci, Roche / Navify
• Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
• Sharat Israni, UCSF
Beyond the Glass Slide
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AI-Enabled Companion Diagnostics
From biomarker discovery to patient selection.
The Precision Oncology Operating System
Wiring multimodal AI into the oncology workflow.
AI and Omics Foundation Models
Modeling translational biology across omics, pathology, and clinical data.
From Pilot to Standard of Care
Scaling AI diagnostics in real clinical practice.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
