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Key Note Speaker | Stephen J. Konya III

Chief, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Patient Care Innovation

Laura Nixon

VP, Interoperability Solutions

Clinical Architecture

Stephen Konya serves as the Chief, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition to shaping the Agency’s longterm innovation strategy, he also serves as the primary liaison to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program and manages the agency’s relationship with the external healthcare startup and investor community.

Furthermore, Mr. Konya also leads the Digital Health Innovation Workgroup under the Federal Health IT Coordinating Council, an interagency collaboration community comprised of innovation representatives from 40 other federal agencies. In addition to currently serving as the primary Federal Govt lead and Co-Founder for CancerX, Mr. Konya has previously led several other key federal projects and public private partnerships, including the HHS PandemicX Innovation Accelerator, KidneyX, the national Health IT Playbook, the ONC Patient Engagement Playbook for Providers, the SMART App Gallery, the HL7 FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) Initiative, and is a founding Co-Chair of the Together.Health Collaborative.