On Tuesday, September 8 at 9:00 a.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative hosted a public discussion on the future of AI-enabled healthcare and the global environment shaping its development.

AI is transforming drug discovery, clinical trials, precision medicine, and healthcare delivery. But realizing the full potential of AI in healthcare requires access to high-quality data, computing power, energy, and digital infrastructure, as well as the ability to navigate evolving regulatory requirements. How can global healthcare and pharmaceutical companies build and deploy AI at scale while protecting patient trust, privacy, security, and sustainability?

This discussion—part of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative’s Data Rules Project, supported by Pfizer—brings together leaders from the biosciences industry, government, and academia to examine the future of AI in healthcare. The discussion also considers how the United States, China, and other major technology markets are approaching these challenges, and what their different policy and infrastructure choices mean for pharmaceutical research and development, patient outcomes, and US competitiveness.

Jenna Ben-Yehuda
Executive Vice President,
Atlantic Council

Ranjit Kumble
Vice President, Trusted AI
Pfizer

Stephen Moon
Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO), 
Snowflake

Daria Bahrami
Head of Policy, 
Dreadnode

Gil Alterovitz
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School;
President,
Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation

Graham Brookie
Vice President, Atlantic Council Technology Programs,
Atlantic Council

Trey Herr
Assistant Professor, School of International Service,
American University;
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Atlantic Council

Safa Shahwan Edwards
Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative,
Atlantic Council

Agenda

9:00–9:05 a.m. | Welcome remarks

Featuring

Jenna Ben Yehuda
Executive Vice President,
Atlantic Council

9:05–9:30 a.m. | Fireside Chat: Building AI for healthcare in a fragmented data environment

Featuring

Ranjit Kumble
Vice President, Trusted AI,
Pfizer

Moderated by

Graham Brookie
Vice President, Technology Programs and Strategy,
Atlantic Council

9:30–10:00 a.m. | Panel discussion: Navigating divergence

Speakers

Ranjit Kumble
Vice President, Trusted AI,
Pfizer

Stephen Moon
Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer,
Snowflake

Daria Bahrami
Head of Policy,
Dreadnode

Gil Alterovitz
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School;
President,
Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation

Moderated by

Trey Herr
Assistant Professor, School of International Service,
American University;
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Cyber Statecraft Initiative
Atlantic Council

10:00–10:25 a.m. | Audience Q&A

Please submit your questions using this link.

10:25–10:30 a.m. | Closing remarks

Featuring

Safa Shahwan Edwards
Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative,
Atlantic Council

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