Ali Y. (Alik Youssef) is an elite healthcare cybersecurity executive, author, and HIMSS Fellow with over 22 years of experience protecting patient safety at the intersection of clinical technology and enterprise risk. He currently serves as the Director of Emerging Technology Security at Henry Ford Health, one of the nation's largest health systems, where he leads the governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance strategies for medical devices, IoT infrastructure, and AI-powered clinical systems. Having transitioned from an early-career biomedical and systems engineer into a specialized technical architect, he spent over a decade leading Henry Ford Health's mobility and digital health architecture before building their acclaimed, model medical device and IoT security programs from the ground up. He holds elite security and healthcare credentials—including CISSP, CISM, HCISPP, and CPHIMS—and is a recognized national authority who serves on AAMI's Healthcare Technology Leadership Committee and Editorial Board. A regular industry speaker and recipient of the 2023 AAMI Best Article Award, his literary contributions to the field include Wi-Fi Enabled Healthcare (2014) and his recent book, Where Matters: Healthcare’s Playbook for Location-Based Services 2.0 and AI (CRC Press, 2025), which introduced the Care Traffic Control operational framework.

Paul Zieske is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and author with over 35 years of experience leveraging IoT, indoor positioning, and agentic AI to optimize enterprise healthcare operations. He is the CEO and Founder of Precursor Agentic, Inc., a company that builds machine-readable "Digital Shadow" models to provide crucial operational context for AI workforces within health systems. A pioneer of the "Care Traffic Control" concept, Zieske is also the Principal of the advisory consultancy Why Where Matters and the author of Where Matters: Healthcare's Playbook for Location-based Services 2.0 and AI. His extensive background includes co-founding Navv Systems, where he served as President and Chief of Product, managing real-time location systems (RTLS) and mobile solutions architecture for over 13 years at Henry Ford Health System, and contributing to the Digital Twin Consortium. He began his career as an electrical engineer, developing and integrating high-reliability radar and sensor systems for Westinghouse and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Todd Frantz is a veteran healthcare information technology leader and solutions integrator who serves as a Technology Strategist at AdventHealth. With a career spanning over 35 years within the health system and its predecessor, Florida Hospital—where he previously served as Associate Chief Technology Officer and MIS Manager—Frantz specializes in technology evaluation, vendor management, and enterprise IT strategy. He functions as a critical translator at the intersection of medicine and technology, helping healthcare executives understand emerging technical frameworks while educating engineers on the complex operational realities of modern healthcare delivery. Known for his deep generalist background and a hands-on approach to piloting novel vendor solutions, Frantz focuses on exploring new tech pipelines and driving strategic IT consulting to solve large-scale health system challenges.