Frans van Houten

Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention. ”

In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses a year that can be taught in a classroom. ”

Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction. ”

Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals. ”

Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times. ”

Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged. ”

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value. ”

Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world. ”

We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over the European region. Or - and this is my preferred choice - we team up together and are the strong region that we want to be, using each others' strengths and building on our commonalities to become the smartest region in the world. ”

In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other. ”