GE HealthCare
Murat Akturk

Global Sr. Director of Growth and Partnership/AI & Digital Innovation at GE HealthCare

  Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About me

Murat has 25+ years of experience, 14 years in Healthcare and 12 years in Consulting and leadership roles. He currently serves as the Global Growth & Partnerships Leader at GE HealthCare, responsible for driving the commercialization and global growth of Digital Health Solutions & Platforms. He brings a rare end‑to‑end capability set spanning commercial acceleration, lifecycle management excellence, strategic partnerships, digital transformation leadership, and operational execution. His background combines entrepreneurial thinking, technology fluency, and a strong execution mindset, enabling him to translate strategy into measurable business impact across complex healthcare environments and matrix organizations. Murat has led a global Innovation & Partnerships team focused on Digital Health Solutions, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and AI, orchestrating digital transformation programs that modernize operating models, improve lifecycle performance, and enable scalable value creation. He is recognized for driving service and product lifecycle strategies, integrating customer insights, installed‑base evolution, digital services, and advanced automation to maximize margin, efficiency, and long‑term value. He holds a BSc in Computer Science, an MBA, and is an MIT Executive Program graduate in AI Implications for Business Strategy.

Schedule

My Session

Panel Discussion: Advancing Drug Discovery and Patient Care: The Synergy of Emerging Technologies in Pharma-Health Collaboration
  • Why is it important for pharma and healthcare to work together?
  • The changing patient behaviour in the digital era
  • Why is it essential to be prompt in identifying and addressing the patient’s needs?
  • How will digitization help bring patients on board?
  • Progress made by companies so far
  • Strategies to be adopted to increase patient –company data flow

Collaborative and Partnering Strategies
Patient Care and Drug Development

Bruce Hellman

Co-Founder & Chief Patient Officer at uMotif

James Duboff

Strategic Partnerships Director at Genomics England

Karla Viviani Allebrandt

Gl. Sr. Manager / Sr. Scientific Expert at Boehringer Ingelheim

Vicent Benet Gil

Data Strategy Lead at SDG Group

Murat Akturk

Global Sr. Director of Growth and Partnership/AI & Digital Innovation at GE HealthCare