José Morey

Why organisations work with Jose Morey

• He has implemented AI inside an actual clinical and research environment, not theorised about it. As former Associate Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health, he sat at the intersection where the Watson promise met hospital reality.
• He brings genuine NASA insight on how the agency screens emerging health and AI technologies, drawn from his roles as Medical Technology and AI Adviser to NASA iTech and Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative.
• He connects medical, space, biosecurity, and transportation domains in a way that lets boards stress-test their AI assumptions against problems harder than their own. Few speakers can move from radiology workflows to Hyperloop systems engineering with credibility in both rooms.
• He is co-author of Latinx Business Success (Wiley, 2021), which gives him a distinct second register on representation, talent pipelines, and how diverse leadership shows up in technology-driven industries.
• He is a working radiologist and medical society leader, currently President of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation, which keeps the keynote material grounded in operational practice rather than commentary.

Biography highlights

• Co-author, Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity are Driving Some of the World’s Biggest Companies (Wiley, 2021).
• Former Associate Chief Health Officer, IBM Watson Health; former Chief Medical Innovation Officer, Liberty BioSecurity.
• Medical Technology and AI Adviser to NASA iTech and Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative.
• Eisenhower Fellow, 2020/2021 Zhi-Xing Fellows Program.
• Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School; Guest Lecturer, Singularity University.
• Member, Forbes Technology Council; Informatics Leadership Council, American College of Radiology; public volunteer, NIST Generative AI Public Working Group.
• CEO and Founder, Ad Astra Media LLC, a STEAM media production company building role models and educational content for under-represented students.

Biography

Most of the AI conversation inside large organisations is still happening at one remove from where the technology actually meets a patient, a pilot, or a regulator. Jose Morey works at that meeting point. He is a practising radiologist who has built clinical AI tools, advised NASA on which health technologies are worth backing, and helped Liberty BioSecurity think through genetic intelligence and augmented human performance.

His operational range is unusually wide. At IBM Watson Health he served as Associate Chief Health Officer during the period when the platform’s clinical claims were being tested against hospital reality. He has advised NASA iTech on the feasibility and commercialisation of emerging health and AI companies, and serves as a Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative. He sits on the Chief Engineering Council for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and on the Informatics Leadership Council of the American College of Radiology.

The intellectual through-line is translation between domains. Morey co-authored Latinx Business Success with Frank Carbajal (Wiley, 2021), a book built around interviews with Latinx leaders across technology, finance, healthcare and media, and structured around what they call the DIGITAL framework. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow from the 2020/2021 Zhi-Xing programme, an adjunct professor of radiology at the University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a guest lecturer at Singularity University.

He runs Ad Astra Media, a production studio he founded to put serious STEAM role models in front of under-represented students, and contributes as a public volunteer to the NIST Generative AI Public Working Group. The result is a speaker who can take a board from a question about AI hallucination risk to a question about clinical liability to a question about who is actually being trained to build the next generation of these systems, without losing the room.

Key speaking topics

• Artificial intelligence in clinical medicine
• Health technology and the future of patient care
• AI for space exploration and human performance in extreme environments
• Emerging technology and innovation strategy
• Latinx leadership and representation in technology industries
• Generative AI policy and responsible deployment
• Frontier infrastructure: Hyperloop, biosecurity, and the new technology renaissance

Ideal for

• Healthcare boards, hospital executives, and CMIOs evaluating clinical AI deployment and governance
• CTOs, CIOs, and innovation leads in regulated industries who need a practitioner view of frontier technology
• Public-sector and defence audiences focused on biosecurity, space health, and emerging-technology policy
• DEI sponsors and talent leaders looking to connect representation with technical workforce strategy

Audience outcomes

• A grounded reading of where clinical and operational AI actually works today and where it is still marketing
• Specific examples of how NASA, biosecurity, and healthcare institutions evaluate emerging technologies before they buy
• A framework, drawn from Latinx Business Success, for thinking about leadership, talent and innovation in technology-driven industries
• A clearer view of which frontier technologies (AI, biotech, space health, hyperloop-class infrastructure) are converging on the same set of organisational problems
• Direct, practical answers to executive questions on AI governance, regulation, and risk