
Jorge González is the director of Ticbiomed, an association that promotes the adoption of successful innovation results, avoiding the valley of death of pilots. He is the promoter of the impactful innovation movement, an initiative that investigates the barriers that prevent the deployment of innovation and proposes solutions to overcome them.
Ticbiomed is a member of the Procure4Health project, a network of European Healthcare organizations that promote the procurement of innovation. It also coordinates the project PREPARE, which designs policies to promote demand-driven innovation to address regional priorities and challenges.

Marcin Kautsch M.Sc. Ph.D., a lecturer / researcher at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. He is the Board Member (non-exec) of the Krakow University Hospital and the InnoCel Special Purpose Company of the Jagiellonian University. Marcin is also the project coordinator in Poland of the European Commission (EC) funded project: P4H: “Procurers for Health” at the Sucha Beskidzka Hospital and a consultant at the InnoBuyer project (innovative procurement).
He has also been an evaluator at the (EC) of the proposals submitted in the Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe programmes and via European Innovation Council.
In the past Marcin Kautsch participated as a lecturer, a project author and a project leader in many training, research and consultancy programmes (international and national ones) contracted by the World Bank, TEMPUS, PHARE, USAID, the European Commission, Norway Grants and local, regional and central authorities in Poland. These programmes have addressed issues of healthcare management such as leadership, strategy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, innovative procurement, human resources, private sector or brain research, to name the most important ones.
He was also the board member of the European Health Management Association (EHMA). He has extensive research experience and is an editor and an author of healthcare management books. He also worked as a consultant and a facilitator for several healthcare units and local authorities in the field of public health / healthcare management, public procurement of innovation.w ochronie zdrowia i innowacyjnych zamówień publicznych.

Raouf Khalil has 35 years of experience in outpatient and inpatient health care services. Prior to Co-founding Primary Care Group Ltd. in UK, Raouf in 2011 founded TruDoc 24×7 LLC in Dubai with over 3.7 million paid subscribers in 5 countries which he sold in 2023.
Raouf in 1989 founded and served as Chairman and CEO of multiple health care providers including Professional Home Health Services (PHHS), a California company providing Home Infusion, Home Health, Hospice and Durable Medical Equipment. PHHS was sold to Option Care Inc., a national home infusion company in 2001.
Raouf in 2002 developed in the US market an innovative clinical model focused on 24×7 access to doctors home visist for chronically ill patients providing over 40,000 doctors home visits per month in six states. In 2004 Raouf added hospitalist programs in multiple hospitals to link inpatient with outpatient care. Raouf also developed a unique healthcare financial reimbursement model for high-risk patients and engaged in multiple distribution channels.
PCG is a 24×7 Integrated Primary Care network with five integrated 24×7 Healthcare Entry Points connected to our 24×7 Telemedicine Control Center. Entry Points include Integrated Mobile Application when traveling, On-Site Virtual Clinics when at the office, Hospitalist Program when at the hospital, Primary Care at Home with 24×7 Telemonitoring when at home and Urgent Care Center catering as 24×7 Entry Points to healthy, acute, and focued on chronic patients. PCG integrates inpatient and outpatient services as a seamless continuum of care. PCG 24×7’s staff includes full-time Doctors, Psychologists, nurses, Dietitians, Pharmacists, and Case Managers, supported by a comprehensive full-time team of IT Specialists.
PCG mission is to align patients, payers and providers.
Raouf received an MBA from the University of Southern California; he enjoys travel, sailing, diving, and tennis.

Jonathan Erskine is the Executive Director of the European Health Property Network (EuHPN, www.euhpn.eu), an Honorary Professor at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London (UCL, www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/).
The European Health Property Network (EuHPN) is a non-profit knowledge-sharing organisation that brings together health estates agencies, healthcare architecture practices, hospital engineering companies and academic centres, to share evidence and best practice about how to improve the planning, designing, construction and financing of all kinds of health buildings. EuHPN members represent a range of countries across Europe.
The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction is an international centre of excellence in the teaching and research of project management, real estate and economics. It has a substantial group of staff with expertise in researching, developing and evaluating the built environment of healthcare.
Jonathan has also had a long career as a health policy and healthcare infrastructure researcher, first with Durham University (UK) and now with UCL. He has authored and edited journal articles and book chapters on large-scale change in health systems, healthcare capital asset investment, the relationship between the built environment and patient outcomes/staff satisfaction, and the effects of the pandemic on hospital planning and design. Alongside work with EuHPN and universities, he also spent 12 years as a non-executive director on the boards of NHS England commissioning and hospital organisations, where he had responsibility for audit, patient safety, digital strategy and performance monitoring.

Carlos Larrañeta is an industrial professional holding a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s in Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Seville. Throughout his career, he has remained deeply engaged in Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D&I) endeavours. He embarked on his journey as a researcher at the Centre for New Energy Technology (CENTER),
and subsequently assumed the role of R&D manager for 17 years at the Industrial Research and Cooperation Association of Andalusia (AICIA), the largest technology centre in southern Spain. Presently, Carlos serves as the Coordinator of the European Network Procure4Health, a role based at the Regional Ministry of Health of Andalusia. With his focus on fostering procurement of innovation in the health& Care sector. Carlos’s extensive career encompasses active participation in numerous national and European
projects, alongside the formulation of strategies and programs designed to catalyse and fund R&D&I initiatives.