Khaldoun Zine El Abidine, Senior Director of Technology, Applied AI Science, IQVIA 

Khaldoun is the head of AI technology globally for the Applied AI Science portfolio in Real World Evidence at IQVIA and has 20-plus years of progressive experience building internet-scale products used by millions of people every day. Khaldoun is driven by IQVIA’s mission to accelerate innovation for a healthier world, and in his current role, he leads AI strategy, applied AI research, and AI product development across Healthcare, Life Sciences and Government. Khaldoun comes to IQVIA from Nuance Communications (now a Microsoft company), where he held progressive leadership positions and launched one of the first and largest virtual speech assistants in the world for mobile and automotive.