Overview
Tea & Jam | Design & Build for Healthcare: Transformation through AI
Exploring how incremental, trusted, and human-centered innovation shapes the future of care.
Hosted by JDI Group, Tea & Jam - Design & Build for Healthcare: Transformation through AI is an exclusive gathering where innovative startups, healthcare institutes, and pharma firms come together to explore how AI and human-centered innovations can shape a better future of care.
We’ll dive into how to build and leverage AI-powered solutions to uplift healthcare quality, raise diagnostic accuracy, streamline logistics, and support clinicians in daily medical practice. Expect deep conversations with AI leaders, where knowledge exchange and collaboration thrive.
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to discover what the real future of healthcare with AI looks like and how you can harness its power.
✨ Fireside Chat Hear from healthcare and AI leaders as they share real stories and lessons on how steady, trusted AI innovations are improving clinical workflows and shaping better patient experiences.
✨ Roundtable Discussions Join group discussions led by healthcare AI practitioners to explore practical ways AI can boost diagnostic accuracy, support clinical decisions, and enhance everyday medical settings.
✨ Networking Over Tea Build genuine connections with founders, clinical leaders, and pharma teams. The setting is intimate, warm, and designed to help you spark collaborations and find new opportunities.
✨ AI Readiness Playbook — Early Access Attendees receive early access to insights, frameworks, and practical AI guidance contributed by our community of business leaders and AI experts.
Schedule
Date: 23 Jan 2026, Friday
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: 18 Jln Tan Tock Seng , 308443
Speakers
Speaker's Profile:
Ms. Iris Tan, Senior Assistant Director, SingHealth AI Office
Ms. Iris Tan is the Senior Assistant Director at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office, SingHealth, where she drives the strategy, operations, and regulation and governance of AI across Singapore’s largest public healthcare cluster. She leads the development and implementation of policies, frameworks, and operational oversight to ensure the safe, responsible, and scalable adoption of AI in healthcare. In her position, she works closely with clinicians, AI scientists, and industry stakeholders to translate AI innovations from concept to real-world clinical deployment. By aligning strategic resources, she supports AI solution development in healthcare, bridging the gap from bench to bedside, with a strong focus on safe, responsible, and scalable adoption.
Moderator's Profile:
Hugh Mason, Entrepreneur, -
Mr. Hugh is an entrepreneur, now focused on health care, with a demonstrated history of successfully building and backing 70+ new ventures valued at $450m+ with 29% IRR. He teaches at Duke-NUS Medical School on the Health Innovator Program, at NTU on multiple innovation and entrepreneurship courses, and at NUS with National GRIP, NUS Enterprise, and the Distinguished Scholars Fellowship Programs. After starting his career as a research engineer with GEC-Marconi, he became an award-winning science film-maker with BBC, National Geographic and Discovery Channel. Mr. Hugh has been a permanent resident of Singapore since 2009 and is recognised for co-founding Southeast Asia's first startup accelerator, JFDI.Asia. He is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Canberra.
