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Our guest is Mr. Hirohito Okuda. Mr Okuda has close to 30 years of working experience in the medical device industry. Currently he is a principal AI engineer at Konica Minolta, Japan where he directs AI engineering across the company, leads generative AI adaptation, helps to establish AI guidelines and is also a member of the AI ethics review committee that reviews all AI products across the company. Prior to that, he was for 2 years an AI R&D division manager at DeNa and for 10 years prior he was a software engineering division manager at General Electric, Japan. Before that, he spent two years as a research software engineer at Yale. The interview was recorded on Dec 6, 2023.

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Our guest is Mr. Bernhard Kappe (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernhardkappe/) who is the founder and CEO of Orthogonal (https://orthogonal.io/), a medical device consulting company. He is also a member of the AAMI working group AAMI SW WG-10 Cloud Computing. This interview was recorded on Nov 16, 2023.

Further Reading:
Kappe B. Accelerating Medical Product Development: Applying Agile Methods to Shorten Timelines, Reduce Risk and Improve Quality [Internet]. Orthogonal; 2020. Available from: https://orthogonal.io/insights/agile/ebook-agile-in-an-fda-regulated-environment/
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). AAMI TIR45: 2023; Guidance on the use of agile practices in the development of medical device software. Arlington VA: Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation; 2023. Report No.: TIR45. https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/aami/aamitir452012r2018?gad_source=1

Agile Lego Game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lA00lDs_R4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKPDScVb5U

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Our guest is Mr Larkin Lowrey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larkinlowrey/). Mr Lowrey has spent the past 30 years in the Software Engineering Product Development space building new product development organizations but also turning around organizations which had fallen into traps resulting in poor quality, execution and products which did not resonate in the marketplace. Most of his career has been in IoT and, notably, he built a telematics platform that was sold to Verizon and now operates as Verizon Networkfleet. Recently he moved into MedTech. He states that there is a lot of overlap between these areas given how medical devices, sensors increasingly make heavy use of cloud analytics platforms. This interview was recorded on Dec
7, 2023.

Further Reading/watching:
Webinar: Crossing the Chasm: Growing Tech Professionals into MedTech Professionals | Orthogonal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB645qIuLFA
Code Generation AI:
• Github Copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Image Generation AI:
• Midjourney https://www.midjourney.com/
• DALL·E https://openai.com/research/dall-e