Keynotes and panels
Speaking
On building hospitals, and keeping people at the centre of healthcare technology
Speaker profile
Speaker profile
Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul is a physician and healthcare executive who has spent more than twenty years building, commissioning, listing and turning around hospitals across the Gulf and Türkiye. He is Vice President, Healthcare at Scope Investment, where his first priority is a greenfield tertiary hospital in Dubai Healthcare City.
He speaks from the operator’s chair: a USD 500 million greenfield teaching hospital delivered through the pandemic, NEOM’s first hospital commissioned as a tertiary care centre three hours from the nearest city, a USD 764 million IPO on the Saudi Tadawul, and The View Hospital, a Cedars-Sinai affiliate, brought to breakeven and net profit within twelve months.
He is an Honorary Professor at UCL Global Business School for Health, author of Connected Care, and host of The Chief Healthcare Officer podcast. Ranked three times among Forbes Middle East’s top 50 healthcare leaders, he has spoken at the Museum of the Future, the Forbes Middle East Healthcare Summit, HIMSS, Arab Health and the Future Health Summit in Dublin.
Formats. Keynotes, panels, fireside conversations, board and executive sessions, and guest lectures.
For organisers
Speaker kit
For event organisers: approved biographies in three lengths, high-resolution photographs, topic outlines and technical requirements.
Topics
Signature topics
Connected Care
Why the most consequential transformation in healthcare is relational, not technical — and how to deploy digital tools around the clinician–patient relationship rather than in place of it.
AI in the hospital
Governance, workforce and what actually changes at the bedside when hospitals adopt AI — from an executive who has had to make it work in live operations.
Building and opening hospitals
Greenfield projects and rapid commissioning: from design validation and handover to the first complex clinical case, and the decisions that decide whether a new hospital succeeds.
Turnaround and value
Bringing hospitals to breakeven without eroding quality, preparing a group for the public market, and running international academic partnerships on Gulf ground.
Patient experience
Healing environments, multicultural care and the everyday operational choices that patients actually feel.
Selected speeches
Selected speaking engagements
A selection of keynotes, panels and conference sessions across the Gulf, Europe and Türkiye.
Upcoming
The Beryl Institute — Headliner Webinar
Connected Care
Online · November 2026
2024
Future Health Summit
Digitally Enabled Change
Dublin, Ireland
Healing Environment and Patient Experience
Doha, Qatar
2023
Museum of the Future
“Future-proofing the health of nations” panel
Dubai, UAE
Museum of the Future
“Remote” forum
Dubai, UAE
Healthcare Business International (HBI)
The future of the Saudi healthcare industry
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Arab Health
Quality Management Conference
Dubai, UAE
Multicultural Healthcare Services Conference
Istanbul, Türkiye
2022
Forbes Middle East Healthcare Summit
Abu Dhabi, UAE
HIMSS Executive Summit
Dubai, UAE
A New Paradigm of Connected Care
Dubai, UAE
Value Based Healthcare Summit
Dubai, UAE
EHS Patient Experience Conference
Dubai, UAE
MENA Hospital Projects Forum
Dubai, UAE
MENA TeleHealth Conference
Dubai, UAE
2018 – 2021
Pandemic & Digital Transformation Summit
Dubai, UAE · 2020
GCC Patient Experience Summit
Abu Dhabi, UAE · 2018
Global Innovation Summit
Dubai, UAE · 2018