Dr. Uri Benchetrit has, over 35 years, assumed a wide range of research and development positions in academia and industry in diverse fields, including software development, software architecture, algorithms, robotics, cellular phones, optics, and medical devices. Uri has been working for Philips since January 2010. He has served as the chief software architect for the CT/AMI Business Group at Philips, and then as the head of software engineering research and technologies in the Software Center of Excellence (SW CoE) of the Philips Strategy and Innovation office.

Uri holds a BSc in computer engineering, an MSc in data communications, and a DSc in robotics, all from the Technion. His post-doctorate research was done at the University of Michigan.

J Vijayananda has been in the IT industry for over 22 years. He has been primarily in the medical and healthcare domain. Vijay has been primarily focusing on machine learning and deep learning in the medical domain. Vijay is currently the chief architect and fellow at Philips Healthcare and leads the data science and AI platform at Philips. 

He completed his bachelor's degree in electronics and communications from Mysore University, and also has a master's in computer science from Georgia Tech University.