Applied AI Summit
Free online conference | October 14-16, 2025Building Trust in Healthcare AI: CHAI Certification and Pacific AI’s End-to-End Governance Platform [Keynote]
Trust, transparency, and accountability are now essential requirements for deploying AI in healthcare. To meet this need, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has launched a certification program for organizations that provide independent assurance of healthcare AI systems. This program establishes a new quality standard for evaluating model performance, governance, and safety, and enables health systems and regulators to rely on a trusted ecosystem of certified assurance resources.
In this keynote, Brian Anderson, CEO of CHAI, and David Talby, CEO of Pacific AI, will discuss how this certification framework works, why it matters, and what it signals for the future of trustworthy health AI. Pacific AI will then introduce its new capabilities as an end-to-end governance platform built specifically for healthcare. This includes:
- Risk management: central inventory of AI projects, comprehensive governance policies, and model cards published directly to CHAI’s model registry.
- Model testing: automated evaluation pipelines integrated with CI/CD, including MedHELM accuracy benchmarks, medical red-teaming for safety, and robustness testing.
- Model monitoring: continuous oversight of accuracy, bias, and safety in deployed AI systems.
Join us to hear how CHAI and Pacific AI are working together to raise the bar for trustworthy AI — and to see how certification and governance tools are converging to make safe, effective, and compliant AI a reality in healthcare.
About the speaker
Brian Anderson
President & CEO, the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)
Dr. Brian Anderson is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) where he leads a national coalition in the development of technical standards and best practices for Responsible Health AI, including supporting model development, training, validation, and AI governance.
Prior to CHAI, Dr. Anderson was the Chief Digital Health Physician at MITRE where he led research and development efforts across major strategic initiatives in Digital Health, including partnering with the United States Government and private sector organizations. He was responsible for leading MITRE’s efforts in Advancing Clinical Trials at the Point of Care (ACT@POC), an effort that develops digital tools and approaches to support more efficient pragmatic clinical trials in Cancer and other diseases. He was also the co-PI on MITRE’s largest Health R&D effort in Oncology, leading to the development of the mCODE health data standard, in collaboration with the Cancer Moonshot team.
Dr. Anderson is an internationally recognized expert and author in digital health and Health AI; he is regularly engaged as a speaker on digital health innovation, Health AI governance and best practices, health standards development, clinical decision support systems, and interoperability. Prior to MITRE, Dr. Anderson led the Informatics and Network Medicine Division at athenahealth where he launched a new approach to clinical decision support leveraging machine learning models. He has also served on several national health information technology committees in partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC).
Dr. Anderson trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and also practiced at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. He received his MD with honors from Harvard Medical School, and a BA in Social Anthropology, cum laude from Harvard College. Currently he lives in the greater Boston area, with his wife and 3 children.
David Talby
CEO, Pacific AI
David Talby is the CEO at John Snow Labs and Pacific AI, helping companies apply artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems in healthcare and life science. David has extensive experience building and running web-scale software platforms and teams – in startups, open-source projects, for Microsoft’s Bing in the US and Europe, and to scale Amazon’s financial systems in Seattle and the UK. David holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Master’s degrees in both Computer Science and Business Administration. He was named USA CTO of the Year by the Global 100 Awards in 2022, Game Changers Awards in 2023, and ACQ5 Global Awards in 2025.