Koen Kas

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Koen Kas

Who is Koen Kas?

Prof. Dr. Koen Kas is a healthcare futurist & delight thinker, entrepreneur and professor of molecular oncology & digital health. He is a renowned international keynote speaker with over 300 international keynotes under his belt, including for a large number of Fortune 200 companies. He has published his vision in 2 books. ‘Sick no more’ describes how we will transition from reactive sickcare to proactive healthcare. ‘Your guide to Delight’ is a roadmap towards that future introducing our personal digital twin that will keep you, and your company, relevant and “young”. He is founding CEO of Healthskouts. Healthskouts delivers the inspiration, insights & connections needed to help eradicate disease & make healthcare delightful. Healthskouts curates the public database of certified digital health Apps & devices, digital therapeutics, and Software as a medical Device (https://www.healthskouts.com/solutionlibs/). Healthskouts has just launched a healthcare education center in the metaverse. Koen is a guest professor at Ghent University in Belgium. He is Chairman of the European Cancer Prevention Organization; Co-chair of the Digital Twin Consortium healthcare workgroup; Advisor to the Digital Therapeutics Alliance; Ambassador of Health House and VITO’s We Are project on decentralized health data; Jury of the Prix Galien; and sits on the advisory board of 5 emerging (digital) healthcare companies and 2 investors/startup accelerators. Koen was CSO Oncology at Thrombogenics (now Oxurion), where he spun out Oncurious and developed a novel drug for pediatric brain cancer. Before this, he was founder and CSO of Pronota, building a protein biomarker discovery platform and pipeline of four diagnostic programs. Prior to that, he was the director of drug discovery at Galapagos. Previously, he set up and directed the cancer drug discovery program at Tibotec (now Johnson & Johnson). He started his career elucidating the molecular basis of two types of cancers.

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    How to get sick no more – a new look into & beyond prevention

    Even though we know that a quarter, perhaps even half of all poor health globally is preventable, prevention strategies are dwarfed by curative approaches. Perhaps with good reason, because nudging people to live healthier lifestyles won’t cut it. In this talk, we show you how we can get serious about being sick no more, through prediction, personalized prevention in ways you’ve never envisioned before. Expect 50 shades of Pornhub, Ronaldo, collecting rewards, and drones flying by.

    Creating extreme patient delight

    Disease & delight aren’t easy bedfellows. Disease is the very opposite of delight, it’s the ultimate friction. We developed delight thinking as the essential means towards sick no more. That’s exactly why we believe delight should be at the heart of healthcare, why every healthcare company should have Chief Delight Officers, and why delight should be part of the DNA of every employee and health worker. We’ll shower you with inspiring examples and insights to help you create patient experiences that come closest to magic, but are real. Welcome to extreme patient and citizen delight.

    Health skills to make the most of yourself

    Isn't it true that developing yourself fully into who you are destined to be is the ultimate delight? Feeling your best to be extravagantly good at what you love to do? To be able to do that, both privately and in your professional life, you need a number of health skills. If the organization, company or educational institution you work for supports you in this, provides the framework, etc., you take that with you throughout your professional life… you become Nobel potential, you lead nations and you have an impact. By betting on a number of markers for a challenging career and a fulfilling life from the start of your adult professional life, you will always remember your time in this company with gratitude! The time where you were pampered, supported, educated into a successful, creative, energetic life where you saw yourself grow. Delight is…. An organization that sees your pitfalls before you see them and gives you the hand you need to jump over them and get out of where you already saw yourself. To be able to do that, a co-creative process with key people from the organization is essential. Knowledge about the organization (vision & mission), employees (needs and wishes) and end-users/target audience ensure that the end result is sublime, tailor-made and even delightful. Self-knowledge, self-care, health education, reminders, nudges, structural adjustments and regulatory actions that create an optimal environment for you so that you can focus on the health or innovation of others… That gives you an example of how to lead a research department, team or organization yourself in the future . One that is bucket list material for the new generation of researchers and students. A talent magnet that supports creation and has an eye for people/employees and their environment…and is therefore unique in the market. The researchers of today are the start-ups of tomorrow and the leading professionals of tomorrow. Those who advise ministers, call on the country to understand and take action to make the world a better place. If your organization or company can lay the foundation stone for a healthy, creative, innovative spirit… let's build many castles together!

“Koen is an energizing and engaging speaker. His thought-provoking vision on healthcare is inspiring for any audience.”

Jan Denecker

Marketing Director UPS

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A day in Koen’s world? High on inspiration, strong on interaction : a true masterpiece of disruptive thinking brought by a visionary and engaging host. The content enlightens, the delivery challenges every individual in the room. As a result, creativity is unleashed for good in your team!"

Frédéric Hoffmann

General Manager Baxter Benelux & France

“This chap Koen Kas is probably the most inspirational fascinating and fun speaker ever. Talks about technology in the future of healthcare … Just brilliant.”

Dave Richmond

Hull City Council, UK

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