Disruptive Technologies: Examining the Challenges and Opportunities of Cyber, AI and Beyond

While disruption is at the center of the digital health transformation, organizations globally are focused on increasing access to care, improving outcomes, lowering costs, and improving the quality of care delivered.  With the rise of AI marking the most disruptive technology of the new century, former U.S. National Security Administration Director General Paul M. Nakasone leads a compelling HIMSS25 keynote address where he centers on the intersection of information technology, cybersecurity, effective leadership for critical times, and the power of information.   During this address, General Nakasone highlights how important it is for leaders to understand this continuous wave of change, while framing cybersecurity as a team sport and underscoring the necessity to recruit, develop, and retain talent that is up for the task of navigating AI integration in the workplace to position themselves and their organizations for the future.

Leading the largest component of the U.S. Intelligence Community in cyberspace for nearly six years, General Nakasone was at the center of the competition, crisis, and conflict in the global cyber domain and draws from his time spent on the frontlines of cyber operations to speak to the intersection of technology and threat actors, Decorated with the Intelligence Community’s highest award, he is an experienced, transformational leader, who succeeded in recruiting and retaining the best and brightest talent; bringing transparency and greater engagement with the private sector; and in developing broader internal and external partnerships to overcome the nation’s most challenging adversaries. Weaving real life leadership lessons learned during his own career, General Nakasone brings meaning to the hair-raising challenges, aligned with the very challenges with healthcare, he faced as a one of the Intelligence Community’s most visible leaders, and to where healthcare information and technology leaders can leverage this knowledge as they work to align their teams and lead them to success.