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The ConV2X Conference: Blending Platforms for Patient and Enterprise Success
I want to make sure you’re aware of an in-person event at which I am speaking – the 8th annual ConV2X Blending Platforms for Patient and Enterprise Success in Healthcare & Life Sciences, September 10 and 11, Quincy, MA, USA.
About the ConV2X Conference
ConV2X is short for ConVerge-2-Xcelerate – an annual event that informs audiences with high-value education, discussion, and information about trends on the horizon.
The 2024 theme is “Blending Platforms for Patient and Enterprise Success.” This is the leading C-Suite conference focused on platforms, AI, and decentralized technology — bringing together global industry authorities to this 2-Day event.
More info about speakers, topics, and the agenda: click here.
Dates and Times:
September 10, from 10 AM – 9 PM ET
September 11, from 8:00 AM – 3 PM ET
Place: Kilroy Square | 1492 Hancock Street | Quincy, MA, 02169 USA
Register here and get a 15% discount!
About My Presentation (September 10)
Title: Your company has a technology platform…but do you have a platform business model and strategy?
Today in healthcare, platforms are understood mostly as technology. That’s not wrong, but it’s limiting and it misses a huge opportunity.
In most other industries platforms are also understood as a business model and strategy. Outside of healthcare, there are 45+ books focusing on this topic.
Platforms are powerful. Four of the top five companies in the world by market cap are platforms.
The North Star of a platform business model is achieving network effects—where users experience more value as the size of the network increases. Network effects are the single greatest differentiator in platform success. Major issues to address include:
- How to solve the chicken/egg (aka cold start) problem – achieving critical mass on both the supply and demand sides of the platform
- What types of network effects are possible?
- What’s the relative strength of different types of network effects?
- How should the platform be designed?
- What’s the optimal monetization approach? Should one side be subsidized?
- How open should the platform be?
- What’s the optimal governance model?
- What are key metrics to measure progress and success?
- How can AI or blockchain function “as platforms”?
These and related questions will be addressed in this presentation. Learn how your technology platform can be turbocharged by understanding the power of platform business models and strategies.
Want more info on this topic? Check out this blog post.
I look forward to seeing you at the ConV2X Symposium!
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