Paul Epping

Consultant / Ambassador at ExO.lever

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

As principal consultant at Philips, Paul is responsible for delivering strategic and innovative healthcare management consulting within the Europe, Middle-East, and Africa (EMEA) markets for the Healthcare Transformation Services business. Before joining Philips he was a lecturer and entrepreneur in the Netherlands.

Paul provides strategic and innovation consulting to help hospitals and healthcare systems optimize their clinical outcomes while reducing costs and improving efficiency across their clinical and business processes, using latest insights of (exponential technologies such as AI, Genomics, Biotech, Robotics, Blockchain, 3/4D Printing). He is member of the corporate artificial intelligence workgroup of Philips.

He has led projects spanning innovative design, enhanced functionality specification and localization, organizational transformation, large-scale implementation, infrastructure design, and benefits realization of enterprise-wide and departmental clinically- focused systems in multiple continents. He brings expertise in the area of information technology (IT) program management for new, merging, and relocating hospitals, innovation, disruptive technologies, organizational transformation and department facilities. He has also provided strategic consulting for several EU-funded projects and was responsible for bringing specific telemedicine solutions to the Dutch market.
Paul has worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Studies in Leiden and worked as a part-time associated professor in information management, foreign healthcare systems, and innovation at the University for Applied Sciences in Neu-Ulm and Hannover, Germany. He presents and lectures about healthcare informatics, AI, innovation, eHealth, standardization, education and has been a guest speaker on these topics internationally. After completing studies of technological exponentials at the Singularity University, in Silicon Valley (USA), he developed as a thought leader and active in a global network of innovators and futurists. He presented at numerous conferences and panels including United Nations, Commonwealth International Fund, Exponential Medicine, Science Festivals, SME Summit, Shanghai Forum, EU. He lectures about entrepreneurship at several universities in the UAE. He mentors a variety of startup companies as well as SMEs. Member of the AI advisory workgroup for the ministry of AI UAE.

He holds a nursing degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands and a Master's degree in social sciences and philosophy from the VU Amsterdam, Information Technology at Open University, Heerlen. Completed advanced coursework in areas of organizational management, project management, innovation, and enterprise architecture including ExO.Lever to guide the change of corporates to become more exponentially (adaptable to the rapid changing world).

Available For: Consulting, Influencing, Speaking
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