Rockstart - How AI is Innovating in Healthcare and How to Make It Work

International conference on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & IoT

August 21-22, 2018 Paris, France

Casper Smeets

Rockstart, s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Adv Robot Autom

Abstract :

Rockstart, one of Europeâ??s first multi-vertical startup accelerators, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011 with a goal to provide startups with access to the market, capital, knowledge, and community. Since then Rockstart has become the specialist in building entire ecosystems around specific domains such as Digital Health, Smart Energy, and Artificial Intelligence. Rockstart is actively building up entrepreneurial infrastructures around the world with its acceleration verticals, as well as early-stage startup programs, Rockstart Impact and Rockstart Launchtrack. Since the inception, Rockstart has invested in more than 100 startups and supported them in their journey to raise more than â?¬62 million and hire more than 630 people. Rockstart is an international team of 40+ professionals dedicated to support and empower startups to become scalable and change their world for the better. Applications are open for the second edition of the only AI accelerator in Europe to support the next wave of entrepreneurs to innovate. Our program helps startups build their AI solutions and scale along some of the top leading partners in their industries such as Vodofone Ziggo, NVIDIA, Radbound UMC, JADS University and more.

Biography :

Casper Smeets is the Ecosystem Director at Rockstart for the Digital Health Accelerator. Casper has 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur. He uses this experience to help health startups and healthcare pioneers to scale their health innovations faster, together. In his role at Rockstart he has experienced how difficult it can be to accelerate innovations in healthcare, but also how to successfully implement innovations. Today, he shares his principles of accelerating digital health startups. Additionally, he has co-initiated the Dutch Digital Health Challenge and the Inspire summit to further strengthen the Dutch digital health ecosystem

E-mail: casper@rockstart.com