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Quantum Leap: The AI Revolution Battling Cancer's Reign with Dr Libia Scheller & Grant McGaugh

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Unlock the future of oncology and healthcare innovation with our special guest, Dr. Libia Scheller. An immuno-oncologist turned futurist and venture capitalist, Dr. Scheller brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our discussion. Together, we explore the groundbreaking advancements in cancer care driven by technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and advanced diagnostics. From the evolution of cancer treatment over the past five decades to the emergence of precision medicine, Dr. Scheller offers eye-opening insights into the potential these technologies hold for transforming patient outcomes.

Imagine a world where AI not only accelerates drug discovery but also revolutionizes how we experience healthcare through enhanced remote monitoring and telemedicine. Our conversation highlights the critical advancements in early cancer detection, with promising innovations like blood tests for stage one ovarian cancer that could drastically improve survival rates. We delve into the ethical considerations and the importance of responsible AI use to ensure these benefits reach everyone, while also examining the convergence of AI with big data, robotics, and the Internet of Things to reshape the patient experience globally.

As we journey into the realm of quantum artificial intelligence, we consider its disruptive potential across industries, particularly in healthcare. Dr. Scheller shares her insights on how quantum AI could refine personalized medicine, reducing the traditional trial-and-error approach and ushering in a new era of treatment precision. Her unique perspective as a venture capitalist fuels our discussion on the future of AI-driven healthcare innovations and the importance of cross-sector collaboration. Join us as we unravel a visionary narrative of the future, emphasizing the role of continuous learning and innovation in navigating the ethical challenges of this technological revolution.

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I am your host, grant McGaughan, ceo of 5 Star BDM, a 5 Star personal branding and business development company.

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Now let's begin with our next five-star episode on Follow the Brand. Welcome to the Follow Brand Podcast. I am your host, grant McGaugh, ceo of Five Star BDM, where we build five-star brands that you can follow, and today we bring you cutting-edge insights from industry leaders shaping the future, and we are diving deep into the future of cancer care with Dr Libia Scheller. Dr Scheller is an immuno-oncologist turned futurist and venture capitalist, and she's here to share her vision on how technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing and advanced diagnostics will transform oncology as we know it. We will explore the evolution of cancer treatment over the past five decades and look forward to a future where early detection and personalized care could dramatically improve survival rates. So get ready to learn about groundbreaking advancements in cancer screening, like liquid biopsies and breath tests that could catch cancer at stage one, and the potential of quantum AI to revolutionize drug discovery. Dr Scheller also touches on the ethical challenges healthcare professionals will face as we embrace these new tools, and why collaboration across sectors is critical to ensuring equitable access to these innovations. This episode is packed with powerful insights and a hopeful vision for the future of oncology. So let's get started on the Follow Brand Podcast, where we are building a five-star brain that you can follow.

Speaker 1:

Welcome everyone to the Follow Brand Podcast. I am your host, grant McGaugh. Today I'm going to keep it local. A lot of times I'm traveling. I'm talking to people all over the different countries, sometimes over the world. We're going to bring it down to Miami, brickell Miami to speak. And when you think of Brickell Miami, how can you not think of Dr Lydia Scheller? She has been an iconic figure in the world of oncology and other aspects of that whole spectrum. We're going to talk about the future of medicine, how she sees things from her lens and how we can actually improve in our practices and things that we're doing from a technological lens. So I'd like to get her introduced. So, dr Lydia, would you like to introduce yourself?

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much, grant, for this opportunity. Yes, hello everyone. My name is Dr Lydia Scheller. It's so wonderful to be here. I'm an immuno-oncologist by training, turned futurist and now working in the venture capital area.

Speaker 1:

That's interesting. That's a nice fusion of different aspects. We're going to unpack a little bit more of your story. I was most intrigued when I last spoke with you not too long ago a few weeks ago and you talked about you need to understand the past before we get into the present and the future. Help us understand the last 50 years that's been going on in oncology, to kind of set the stage.

Speaker 2:

Great. Thank you for that question. I you know, as you know, I've been coined as a health futurist and it's very true. In order to understand our future, we need to understand where we were and where we are today so that we can look into the future and take advantage of those things. And you know, when you look at the last 50 years as really it's during my lifetime, your lifetime and a lot of people's lifetimes have been, you know that are listening to this podcast and you know I think it started really in the advent in our lives in the 1970s of the computer.

Speaker 2:

Once we had that computer, it was amazing what everybody could do, and especially in the area of science, because if you didn't have the computer we never would have had the genetic revolution which happened in the 1980s. Now, the genetic revolution for me was extraordinary. That's when the Human Genome Project was launched by our government and at that time, you see, when I started looking at what was going on at that time and I got my undergraduate degree at Yale in genetics because you know, when you're in the school and you rip the little piece of paper it says join the genetic revolution I said, oh, that sounds exciting. So yes, if we didn't have the computer in the 1970s, we never would have had the genetic revolutions. You know, we started looking at the genetic code of what we're made out of, and in finding that genetic code, a lot of advancements in science were made.

Speaker 2:

But then, immediately after that, came the immunology revolution in oncology. Now think about it. An oncologist goes to school. Do they really study immunology? Not really. And so there had to be a convergence and that's the word I want to bring out during this, the convergence of oncology with immunology. And in being able to take advantage of this revolution as a futurist, I launched and started working for a company that educated, created certified medical education for oncologists to teach them immunology. So there's been a lot that came out in the immunology revolution.

Speaker 2:

And then came precision medicine right. So without all of these genetic revolutions, immunology, we never would have had precision medicine, and what that is is that every patient's different. So why are they giving us all the same medications? Why are the clinical trials contain all the same people instead of treating each patient, treating each person the way they should be treated, meaning what their genetic code shows, their protein profile shows, and then, right after that, diagnostics started coming up, right.

Speaker 2:

So I would say, in the 2000s, what's happened is, you know, mri, ct scans and x-rays got a lot better and now we have blood tests to be able to diagnose cancer. However, these diagnostic tests are so suboptimal. You need a lot of cancer cells floating around in your blood so that this circulating tumor cell or circulating DNA can be captured. So you need a lot of. You need a cancer that has a lot of cells floating around in order for you to capture them.

Speaker 2:

However, today the technology is where we are. We can look at circulating tumor cells, but the limitations are it's not as sensitive, right? So, yeah, so, looking at what's happened in the last 50 years, I would say in oncologists, the biggest one is, of course, the advent of computing power. Right, with computing power, we were able to go right into the genetic revolution and get that genome project out, where we did quite well in that area. And then the immunology revolution, now precision medicine, and now it's diagnostics, but I would say suboptimal diagnostics, Because we're going to see some great stuff, and I'll talk about that in the near future.

Speaker 1:

Well, I'm excited. It just reminded me how far we have come. I remember the 1970s. I don't want to date myself too much, but you know you're only thinking about personal computer. Personal computer really took off in the 90s, for the most part the Internet, and you see all these advances that have occurred and you just kind of pull all that together. Now you are known as a futurist in oncology and medicine itself, but I want to know what excites you the most? You know, as we unfold all these different things, and how do you envision this? Let's say, let's fast forward just a little bit. So the next decade, in the 2030s, what do you envision this? Let's say, let's fast forward just a little bit. So the next decade, in the 2030s, what do you see on the horizon?

Speaker 2:

I tell you it is really exciting times. I have to tell you, I am really happy to be here at this time during the scientific revolution here, really, because let's think about what is the definition of a futurist. What do we talk about? What is a revolution here, really? Because let's think about what is the definition of a futurist, what do we talk about? What is a futurist really? And it's really someone who systematically explores predictions and possibilities about the future, right, and how they can emerge into the present.

Speaker 2:

So the question is why is it important for us to even think about like a health futurist? Well, you need to think like a health futurist because of strategic planning. Think about it. Why I became a futurist is I needed to know where I should go strategically right for myself in the industry. Because it's you know, it's you're. You're going to be able to capitalize on the achievements that are coming right Decisions on what you want to do in your career. You know your career, jobs, areas to invest in, your time and your money, and so by being a health futurist, you'll be able to see all this.

Speaker 2:

But what's come up for me is I started, right before COVID started, studying artificial intelligence and I'm saying boy, ai is going to converge and here's the word again into all aspects of our life and, being a scientist myself, I was excited about how AI was going to really impact all areas of healthcare. So let's talk a little bit about convergence of AI. So convergence AI what I mean about that is taking artificial intelligence and merging it with everything like big data, robotics, the internet of things. These are going to be game changers and it's going to shape the future of our world in such remarkable ways and like from enhanced data insights. Can you imagine the data that comes out to smart robotics and personalized user experiences?

Speaker 2:

The potential for like positive impact is so vast across numerous industries. We should all be extremely excited about it, but then also very cautious, right? So embracing these transformative technologies responsibly, right and ethically will undoubtedly open up boundless opportunities for innovation, progress and better quality of life for people around this globe. But again, I'm going to stress that we take these technologies responsibly and ethically, and right now, as you know, there's a lot of issues out there with that. So we're trying to stay safe, focus on cybersecurity, cybersecurity and make sure that AI is going to be in the hands of people that know how to use it and keep it safe for all of us.

Speaker 1:

So so important to understand that we're just at the beginning, where a lot of our new advances that we've all been enjoying or hearing about, especially during the COVID era and then coming out of that era and what we were able to do from a platform perspective a lot of this is writing on cloud computing, mobile compute, things like that. Now what can we do with that and make it more effective in the things that are problems that have been plaguing mankind for a long period?

Speaker 2:

of time Focus there, but I have to tell you that what's going to change the most, I would say, is the patient experience in the healthcare arena. Anything from the minute that you are scheduling to reporting the results of a clinical trial, everything from remote monitoring. Can you imagine if you have a cardiac problem or if you have diabetes, or even if you're pregnant or you have, like, a neuronal disease all of these you can do remote monitoring in the future and just go home and not have to go to the doctor to be tested every time. So I think the patient experience in healthcare is going to change dramatically. As you know, covid while we were in COVID a lot, we really got used to telemedicine, right. And then people realized, wow, this can really work. I don't if I'm sick, I don't have to get up and go to the doctor's office, right, I can do it right from home. So that's a big area that's definitely going to. It's changed already and is going to change dramatically in the future. The other area I would say is the application of artificial intelligence in things like, let's say, drug discovery. Right, it takes many years to discover a new drug, and so on. So the new way is going to be faster, it's going to be more accurate, it's going to be less costly, right?

Speaker 2:

So I will be talking a little bit about drug discovery, but the area that I'm most excited to talk about at the conference and it's a must go to is this think about it is screening and diagnostics. Why? This is the area I'm most excited, because imaging being able to diagnose all cancers at stage one. Just envision that when you're an oncologist catching it at stage one, right? Most cancers have between 90 to 100% cure Cure. If it's caught at stage four except for lung cancer, it's much lower. Stage four except for lung cancer it's very, it's much lower. So if it only sounds like, if you catch the cancer at stage one, no one would ever die of cancer, right? I mean. So why is it that we're spending so much money on therapeutics, right? So instead of spending all the money that the National Cancer Institute has, all the innovators that are out there, why not spend the money that I am?

Speaker 2:

I've been 20 years in looking for drug discovery and looking at new treatments in cancer, and now I am changing, because the advent of AI has totally changed the ballgame, and now I really believe that all these competitions that are going on around the world, people that are applying for grants and so on. We really should give preference to the age of screening and diagnostics. So I will bring up a couple of things during the like, some futuristic finds that I have found. But just to peak, one little thing for you I have found a blood test that can diagnose ovarian cancer at stage one. Now you know it's one at stage one, you know it's 90%, you know to 100% chance of a cure.

Speaker 2:

So can you imagine how many women a year die of ovarian cancer? It's horrible. So you know, with this one diagnostic test, right, and so this is in development. It's not here yet, but all of these are going to be, you know, converging together and trying to find new ways in that we can pick up the cancer. So that's my area. I know that I myself have evaluated a few of those companies working in those spaces and I'm certain that we're going to have an explosion of diagnostic tools in the coming years Ready to elevate your brand with five-star impact.

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Speaker 2:

Let's take a look.

Speaker 1:

Anytime you introduce something new into an ecosystem, it automatically changes other things like a domino effect. Help us paint the picture of the oncology market itself, as you alluded to. Hey, if there's heavy emphasis on therapeutics, there's not as much on diagnostics. I mean, how would that work? Paint a picture for us how you see the oncology market looking in the near future.

Speaker 2:

Sure, sure, sure. So let's start with you walking into a you know, oh, wow, every day. What are you going to do in order to keep your health well? Right? And so most people right now think about I'm going to go to a doctor, I'm going to go to my yearly checkup and see what I have. Well, that's not going to be the future. The future is not going to be that way. You know what's going to happen. You're going to have your own breathalyzer at home and you're just going to blow into the breathalyzer and it's going to say you may have cancer. All right.

Speaker 2:

So just because of things like that, because this is a not a diagnostic, but much of a screening gadget, right? You would then have to find a way in order to go to the doctors and then perform, right, another test that will say yes, you actually do have cancer and how advanced is it. So you need a second level of tests, right? So many of these tests are going to be you just call up a number, right? Or just do it on your computer, a robot answers and they schedule your test. Or just do it on your computer, a robot answers and they schedule your test. You don't even have to see the doctor or anything, because you've already had, you know, a confirming screening test and the insurance will pay for a second one to verify that you have it. So can you imagine that if you have this screening ability, that the payers won't have to pay for all that support that you will need when you have advanced cancer? Here you don't even have a symptom right and you don't even know you have it or you have anything right, and so then when you go and you get your blood test and you get the results very quickly, you have cancer and it's most likely going to be very early on.

Speaker 2:

So when it's early on, there's different ways of treating those kinds of cancers in today's world. In today's world you're either going to get a chemotherapy, maybe a targeted agent or immunotherapeutic agent and so on, but in the future they're going to be able to take your cells along with whatever treatment it is, and they're going to tell you what you will respond to instead of giving you whatever agent possible. So if you catch it early enough right, cutting it out of your body surgically is one of like the most, the best options that you get in stage one by just taking it out and then you don't have to get the chemotherapy or targeted agents. But, um, targeted agents let's talk about those. Targeted agents means they looked at your dna and they see that you may have a specific anomaly that nobody else has. So they may be able to target it with a specific entity that will target your own cancer. But we have to remember cancer is very smart. You hit it in one spot, it's going to upregulate in another spot. So again, you're going to get a certain kind of treatment, but it's going to be focused on what your needs are, not, in general, what the tumor type is right.

Speaker 2:

So here's the other thing that's incredible is that, let's say, you get surgery, you're going to be able to get surgery, but you will not have to. You will not have to. What do you call it? Go home, you'll have a whole monitoring system. You won't be having to stay in the hospital, they'll just monitor you while you leave the hospital. You have a whole monitoring. It's almost like a jacket that you wear and it monitors all your vitals and everything. So if anything is in a wrong place or any level is not right, your doctor will know and there'll be nurses and doctors monitoring on the other end.

Speaker 2:

The other thing that is going to be happening is that, in order for you to see that, let's say, you're clean after your treatment, there is now and I know a few companies that are developing a circulating tumor cell assay that can determine whether you have a circulating tumor cell or DNA in your blood by a minute amount at stage one. As I mentioned to you before, circulating tumor cells you have to wait for them to be bulky and lots of cells floating around. Now the level of sensitivity using artificial intelligence and all can determine. So in such little sample can determine a lot of information. So you will have remote monitoring in the sense of your blood analysis like, oh, your cancer is back or or not you know. So this remote monitoring along the way, and you just don't have to go to the doctor all the time. Um is so a lot of these gadgets that you see and I call them gadgets. These bio gadgets are incredible what they do. So I'm really looking at that.

Speaker 2:

And then some patients might want to go on to a clinical trial, because there's some exciting treatments in a clinical trial. So now think about it. With the use of AI, there's going to be AI software that will be able to. If you're a company trying to do a clinical trial, they'll find the patients for you and they'll develop a diverse population, meaning it'll break all the barriers when it comes to what color is your skin, what your age is also your socioeconomic backgrounds, your access to have these treatments for all patients. So the whole clinical trial program is going to be totally changed with the advent of AI, if it hasn't already.

Speaker 2:

And then there's going to be a whole program on surviving cancer, meaning the doctors will be prescribing for you a lot of wearables that you will be noticing what your nutrition is, how your emotions are doing, because it takes a lot of stress for a patient to you know once they finally know they have cancer and they have to go through this treatment. And then you know support. And so these wearables that people are using everything from a ring to a watch to a girdle, to whatever it is that they'll have they'll be able to monitor from far away and if something comes up, the red light goes up and then you know you can do about it. So early diagnosis for me is the most exciting thing that's going to happen in the area of oncology. So that's what it?

Speaker 2:

looks like in the future of oncology. So that's what it looks like in the future Very exciting.

Speaker 1:

Hey, I love the early onset diagnostics, the real-time monitoring aspect and the precision so important and I see this from and you mentioned that you're into the finance world as well as how you save money. I mean, right now, the healthcare industry as a whole is almost unsustainable from an economic standpoint. They've got to find ways to reduce costs. These are ways.

Speaker 1:

What I'm hearing from you now is a key disruptor. These are could be major disruption in how the healthcare in the oncology world is delivered to patients and then they get to prescribe something that's personalized directly to them and they kind of know. Instead of that trial and error that's what I'm listening to you say instead of just trial and error, you pretty much have a level of certainty of outcome as opposed to well, let's just wait and see what happens and try something else if that doesn't. I like these things Now as a disruptor. Think about this, dr Livia when you just painted for us a future, and then when you see as the current delivery model and all the companies that are involved in all these things, the entities, the government that's involved, the systems, the facilities, all this could be potentially radically different in the future, how do you see this all playing out.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, yes. Well, I have to tell you, you know the the the future. A lot of people say the future is artificial intelligence, right, but I say the future is not artificial intelligence. The future is quantum artificial intelligence. And here we have convergence happening again. Artificial intelligence, right? Uh, it's so a quantum artificial intelligence. What it is is the marriage. Here we have convergence happening again. Artificial intelligence, right. So quantum artificial intelligence. What it is is the marriage of quantum and AI, right? And people say, oh, my goodness, there's something else I have to learn. Well, not really.

Speaker 2:

Classical AI has made remarkable strides, right, as I mentioned, in recent decades. It has its limitations and this is very important for us to know. We've learned about the limitations that we have with AI the requirement to process vast amounts of data simultaneously or to explore numerous populations all at once. You need quantum, right. So quantum will allow the ability to perform parallel computations and tackle problems that would take classical computers eons to solve. So the future, right? The key disruptor was artificial intelligence, but we have realized that there are limitations. So the key disruptor that's happening right now, in the near future, is quantum. So quantum and AI. So I call it QAI and you'll be hearing a lot about this. You hear it all over the news now about this key disruptor. It's going to inform how we tackle future problems.

Speaker 2:

Can you imagine computing, all this data that's going to come out of everything, everything from fintech, everything with the banks, everything from health, everything from neurology, everything like art, neurology, everything like art. The data that all of this spews out is going to tell us how people think. What are they doing, what are the best cures, what's the best way to go about this? And so having quantum there is going to show us an enormous amount of trends that we were not able to see before. Can you imagine the world of marketing? Oh, my goodness, that's going to open up a can of worms, right? Because you're going to know what people think. So I really believe that quantum artificial intelligence is going to change the way we do things as the human race.

Speaker 2:

Why do I say this? This key disruptor is going to show that we've been so bogged down doing menial work that, as a human, we shouldn't have to do, right, you know, when you look way back in the day, when it comes to your culture and your, let's say, you're growing corn, you're working hard in the fields and so on. Well, there's machines that can do that. Now Some people say, well, I like to garden. Okay, that's one thing, but if you have a career of some sort, do you want to be bogged down with all of this menial things between typing, making slides, giving a talk, all these things? With quantum artificial intelligence, you're going to garner an enormous amount of information, and the future is going to be a lot closer than we think. Quantum artificial intelligence is the key disruptor of now. So, so let's all take part of the curve, right All right, we're in the midst of it.

Speaker 1:

We are in the midst of what I have talked about in some of my talks previously as a renaissance, meaning moving from information technology to intelligent technology. This is a huge game changer. A lot of us have all been familiar with Star Trek, Star Trek series. You say Star Wars. This is all coming out of the human imagination. But now our imagination is things that we daydream about becoming very, very real. And what is that going to look like? So a lot of people, especially if you were born, let's just say, when we started this discussion in 1970, started this discussion in 1970.

Speaker 1:

You've gone through a lot of technological change just in that 50-year period of time. And if you were even older than that you're in the baby stage you could be 67 years old. You're like, wow. I remember when television first started and now look at the disruption of how our economies have changed just from an invention like television. Or look at the radio. And then what you talked about computer. Because of now computer, we're able to tackle problems in cancer that we could never do that before, because now we understand the human genome.

Speaker 1:

Now there's a lot of people that are still concerned like is this going to displace me? Is this going to replace me? Is this going to totally disrupt the entire industry, how I do things day to day? And I honestly have to say yes, because if you look at how you did business 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, you know what were you doing before mobile compute, what were you doing before social media. Yeah, all these things will change things, but our people and that's what they would ask you I'm going to take the face of my audience right now, dr li Olivia. What's in it for me?

Speaker 2:

Yes, you know, one of the things that's going to be very important for every person is you need to read, you need to study what is artificial intelligence and think about what it is you love to do. Right, let's say you like to garden. Well, it's interesting. You could use artificial intelligence off your computer as like how do I keep these bugs off my whatever you know? So, whatever it is that you love to do? Well, guess what? The way it's being done today. Yes, it's going to be displaced, but we need to remain very flexible. Why? But we need to remain very flexible? Why? Because you will not be doing the menial jobs that you did before. That bogged down that area of study.

Speaker 2:

Let's say I want to speak right now to the oncologists out there. A lot of people are maybe not going into being a doctor anymore because they say, oh, you're going to be replaced. I tell you this is not true. You need a human in place for sure. However, doctors need to learn more technology, and here we have, like I said, the revolution of genetics and then the revolution of immunology. Here we have the oncologists who didn't know immunology. Now there's going to be a convergence of medicine and technology. So if that's the case, the curriculum that you see today in medical schools is changing. Right now, I just saw a college that, a school that showed their curriculum. It doesn't look anything like it did in the past, because the past was how do you diagnose that and then what drug do you give them? Now it's not that way at all. You really need to learn technology as a doctor in order to stay current, right, and many doctors are getting out of their practice because they don't. You know the people who are in the 60s, 70s year old that they're like yeah, I don't want to learn a new, whole revolution, a whole new technology. So you'll see, a lot of doctors are selling their practices, right, Because they don't know how this is going to affect them, which gives room for a lot of the younger people to walk in and really start practices that are really with great innovation and so on.

Speaker 2:

So if I could say anything to the oncologist out there, read study your technology, stay on top in front of the curve, be that futurist, because I'll tell you it is so exciting to be a doctor right now. Well, not just the doctor, just anyone using artificial intelligence. Life has become a lot easier for us, but then, at the same time, it's become easier in some aspects. However, we are now part of the information age. We really need to read, read, read, stay on top of the curves, look at those trends.

Speaker 2:

So you know, as we embark in this you know, exciting journey, we really need a collaboration between lots of different people, right, in order to move the bar. So we really need to have the policymakers in hand, the industry leaders, the technology experts right, we need this collaboration. It's going to be critical because, you know, harnessing the full protection potential of this convergence for the benefit of humanity right. We need all hands on and, for instance, the way we do clinical trials today is so suboptimal and should represent our population. It doesn't. And we need to push the regulators to approve more diagnostics for cancer and to give the patients so you give the patients the best fighting chance right, and we need to get these payers to agree to cover these diagnostic tools, right. So, through collaboration between these visionaries and the various stakeholders, I know that we can harness a full potential of this convergence and I really know that we can create a brighter and an AI-driven tomorrow if we all do that today. But we all got to work together to get on that quantum AI track.

Speaker 1:

I'm with you. I'm with you. I applaud what you just stated. I've been utilizing the alternative AI now for the last couple of years of AI now for the last couple of years, and it has exponentially improved or increased my own intelligence because of the speed that I can get answers where before it would take me a lot more time, a lot more research to get you know. It's not like the machine is thinking for me, it's just giving me what I need quicker, just like a calculator. Right? The calculator didn't replace math. As far as I know, you've got to still understand math. However, you can get the answers quicker and that's what's so important and you can communicate much better.

Speaker 1:

As you alluded to when you talked about it from a marketing standpoint, I understand my client better. I understand my students better. I understand what's happening because we're all within a context-aware fabric that we call the internet. That's now evolving because it's been around for 25 years and that fabric is evolving rapidly and now we have the best network of intelligence. And when you just alluded to the quantum factors of all this, this is all helping us to evolve as a species, to be better and how we can take care of ourselves and let go of some of these smaller.

Speaker 1:

I love how you said that, the tasks, those minions I don't know anybody. I just love data entry. Let's go do some data entry. I mean, put it in there for me so it comes in pretty automatically. So some things do need to be automated. But I love also how you said you cannot take the human out of the equation. There's still like right now we're talking, we have a technological platform between us, but it's the human-to-human interaction that has the power, that has the exponential growth. As we share knowledge and share ideas and share things, we all get better. I love this. So before I let you go, that you've got to let the audience know how to contact you. And before that you mentioned something. I don't think you really doubled down on that, but I want to get that out. You mentioned something around. I think it was finance, f, fintech, health, startups. What are you doing in that field?

Speaker 2:

Yes, so okay. So I have two companies. I am the founder and CEO of Miami AI Ventures. Miami does not really stand for Miami Florida. Miami stands for we are masters of innovation, acceleration, monetization and investments. So that's what Miami stands for and we do mostly business development. We help a lot of startups take their ideas and make them look attractive to venture capitalists and to raise capital.

Speaker 2:

I have to tell you, I got into this arena, which is very different than everybody else. Most people go to school and they get their MBA and they become a venture capitalist right, or they go into business. Me I became a scientist. You know I'm an immuno-oncologist, made, you know, launched many drugs in my lifetime, had two biotech companies and exits. But I love innovation and you know.

Speaker 2:

What's happening now is that I've changed my thoughts and I really want to go into the venture capital world because of the advent of AI. Venture capitalists don't even know how potent this is going to be, not only in their area, but all over the world in other areas. I know that as a visionary, I can see how that innovation can be applied in other areas, which makes that company then much more scalable and much more profitable. Company then much more scalable and much more profitable. So, being a scientist and now turning into a vc, so I have an mba as well um and uh in international management of science and I I said you know what I'm going to do my own convergence I'm going to converge the areas of oncology, immuno-oncology, I'm going to converge them with AI quantum AI as well, you know and venture capitalism why?

Speaker 2:

I really believe that the making of a venture capitalist, if you come from a scientific background, gives you an edge in this arena. So this is why I'm looking at all things AI, not just in the healthcare, healthcare area, but I'm very passionate about healthcare that I did start my own fund with two of my partners Future Fortune Fund. It's a $50 million fund where we're raising capital to invest in these really incredible some of the companies that I've mentioned a little bit to you about on this podcast and some of the companies I will mention in the future. And if you're someone who likes to invest in something new in the future or wants to get involved in futurism or involved in how you can better study the future, to make decisions for today, you know, be happy to talk with you as well.

Speaker 1:

So well, man, I tell you you got the quadruple threat there. That is wonderful. Love your brand, Love what you're doing. Very exciting times, Very exciting. So what is the best way to get in touch with you? I'm sure a lot of the audience will be tuning in. They'll look at this like all right, I got to send her a note. How do you do that?

Speaker 2:

Sure, yes, I'm on LinkedIn. Linkedin is my favorite platform. People from all over the world reach out to me to give talks on the future of medicine, but also future of different aspects. One of the areas I did not talk about on this webcast is I'm very passionate about longevity medicine. You know we're all focusing a lot on our health, right? You know this conference that we're going to is about disease, right? We already have the disease and we often forget about prevention. So I've become what a lot of people out there call a biohacker, but I do call it. Instead of biohacking, I call it longevity medicine, and there are quite a few things that you can do.

Speaker 2:

Take feel experience that can really mobilize your stem cells in your own body, like, for instance, eating chocolate. Eating chocolate mobilizes your stem cells in your own body, like, for instance, eating chocolate. Eating chocolate mobilizes your stem cells. So, certain foods that you eat, certain things that you think yoga, different parameters, things that'll keep us healthy not eating processed foods all these things that will be part of our future.

Speaker 2:

A lot of people are taking it serious now, but in the future you'll see there are wearables coming out that you can test your own blood to see if you have all the desired elements that a blood test from your doctor today will not test. Why? Because it's the payers that govern what they test in you. Well, you should be able. I want to know if is my vitamin D too low? Why do I have to go to the doctor for that? You know? So you can, you're going to have your own tests and there's a lot of order tests that are going on now that you can do this right now, but a lot of these are going to give you solutions on how to fix it. You know, and it's all remote from your your phone We'll be able to do that and your wearables. So longevity medicine is another area that is really hot in the future. I really think that all the doctors that are out there that decide to go into a field I think longevity medicine is where it's at.

Speaker 1:

We need to get our arms running. Our arms running. What you just discussed today is we call it mind blowing, but we all know because where we're at now and our experience level has grown that this is not so far off. This is something that could be right around the corner the next 18 months, 24 months we're just doing these things by the end of the decade it's just commonplace. This is a true game changer. I want to thank you again for being on the show. I want to encourage your entire audience to tune in to all the episodes of Follow Brand at 5 Star BDM. That is the number 5, that's Star BDM and that stands for BrandDevelopmentMasterscom. Thank you so much again for being on the show.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much.

Speaker 1:

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