Maria Palombini
Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Global Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association

June 5, 2:15-5:45pm
Location: Santa Clara II

Speaker for the Workshop on Entrepreneurship & Strategies for AI Startups

As the practice leader, Maria Palombini is focused on engaging and leading a global community of multi-disciplinary stakeholders to openly collaborate and develop solutions to enable trust in and validation of breakthrough technologies/applications that will enable sustainable equitable access to quality care, privacy, and protection for ALL individuals. Working with multidisciplinary volunteer experts from across the globe to drive trust in adoption of new technologies and frameworks in telehealth, decentralized clinical trials, digital mental health therapeutics, food sustainability and security and precision therapeutics. Maria is an entrepreneur having founded various companies including DisruptiveRx™ Media, the first information company to bring awareness of pragmatic uses of emerging technologies and applications within therapeutic development value chain that will enable patient-driven therapeutics. Maria’s professional highlights include global brand and communications leader for one of the world’s largest mining investment platforms in Africa and bringing innovative communication and information products to global markets and various industries including financial, bio/pharmaceutical, agriculture, natural resources, and telecommunications. Maria currently holds an MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Business and a BA and BS from Rutgers College at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.