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I am absolutely devastated to hear the news of the death of of my dear brother and one of my best friends for the last 10 years.
John Nosta was simply a wonderful man whom I first met in 2015 in Dubai, and we have travelled together throughout the world, often sharing the same stage giving a dual keynote and presentations and bouncing off each other with ideas.
We understood and complemented each other perfectly and we had enormous mutual respect. I would always reach out to him as a mentor and brother.
We have travelled together. We saw some incredible sights. We have broken bread together from Bolivia to London and San Francisco to Singapore.
From enjoying Ceviche in South America to Sushi in Dubai and Tayyabs in East London.
Many of my stories I tell in my presentations were inspired by him and his original thought.
I quote him in almost every talk that I give.
He was an incredible and prolific writer having been one of the earliest Forbes contributers in digital health and more recently writing for Psychology Today.
His articles were unmissable and always thought provoking.
He launched his book The Borrowed Mind earlier this year but in truth I (and we) have borrowed his mind for the last decade.
He was the most intellectual man I have had the privilege of meeting, and every conversation with him left me with more questions and a yearning to spend more time interrogating his brilliant mind. He would always challenge me but always remained my champion, supporting me throughout selflessly.
John came from a background of marketing as a senior executive at Ogilvy but became a thought leader in digital health and more latterly AI.
At his heart he was a philosopher who could reframe and rethink humanities greatest challenges.
John was a gifted and brilliant speaker that could inspire audiences.
Our last joint keynote was at WHX Tech last year called The Meeting of Minds.
I was fortunate to spend time at his family home in New Jersey and met his wonderful wife and three gorgeous children whom he adored.
We had planned on many trips in 2027 to continue our conversations.
I will miss him
We will all miss him.
Rest in peace
06 Nov 2026
Exploring the Future of Healthcare Through AI & XR!
SRI welcomed leading experts Prof. Shafi Ahmed, Prof. Nora Colton and Professor Sonal Ahuja for the first edition of VRacademi × GEMS SRI Fireside Chats.
An engaging conversation exploring how artificial intelligence and extended reality are transforming healthcare, opening up new possibilities for innovation, learning and the future.
An opportunity for our SRI community to connect with industry experts, ask questions and gain insights into the technologies shaping tomorrow.
Opportunity changes everything.
#GEMSEducation #GEMSSRI #FinestSchoolintheWorld
26 Oct 2026
Transforming Healthcare Through Technology & Education
We’re pleased to welcome Professor Shafi Ahmed, cancer surgeon, educator, futurist and innovator, to the Revive ME 2026 Advisory Board.
Professor Shafi Ahmed is a multi-award-winning cancer surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur and humanitarian. He believes that education is a fundamental human right and has spent his career using exponential technologies to teach millions of students across the world which led to him being dubbed as the worlds most watched surgeon.
We’re delighted to have Professor Ahmed on the Revive ME 2026 Advisory Board, bringing his perspective on how technology, education and innovation can help shape the future of healthcare.
📍 11–12 November 2026 | ADNEC Marina, Abu Dhabi
#ReviveME2026 #AdvisoryBoard #ProfessorShafiAhmed #MedicalInnovation #DigitalHealth #HealthTech #HealthcareInnovation #Longevity
26 Oct 2026
I had the distinct pleasure of visiting the GEMS Science Research and Innovation (GEMS Education) school in Dubai on Friday and gave a talk at the VRAcademi Ai & Metaverse Lab embedded in the school who work as a technology and innovation partner led by Sonal Ahuja.
I found myself asking a question.
What would a school look like if we had a blank canvas and designed it today, rather than 100 years ago?
During my recent visit to Dubai, I had the opportunity to visit the remarkable GEMS School of Research and Innovation (SRI), an institution that is challenging some of our long-held assumptions about education.
I gave a lecture on AI in healthcare to some of the parents.
After a tour of the facilities I came away thinking that perhaps this is what the future of education should look like.
Opened in 2025, the school represents an investment of more than $100 million, with a purpose-built campus covering approximately 47,600 square metres in Dubai Sports City.
The facilities are extraordinary. Robotics laboratories, AI-enabled learning environments, immersive VR and AR spaces, innovation hubs, esports facilities, professional recording studios, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a 400-metre athletics track and a 600-seat auditorium.
But impressive buildings and expensive technology do not necessarily create better education.
What interested me far more was the philosophy behind the school.
What happens when we move from teaching children WHAT to think, to teaching them HOW to think?
The school follows an enhanced British curriculum, but integrates research, digital literacy, creativity, critical thinking and real-world problem-solving into the educational experience.
Artificial intelligence, robotics, coding and emerging technologies are not simply extracurricular activities. They are intended to become part of the learning journey.
The school has also developed relationships with technology organisations including Microsoft, HP, Boston Dynamics and Apple, seeking to connect education with the technologies and industries shaping our future.
25 Oct 2026
200 years of history, 33 Nobel Prize winners and five years of transforming healthcare leadership and now Dubai.
In 1826, University College London (UCL) was founded on a radical idea. That education should be accessible to people regardless of their religion or social background.
At a time when universities were largely reserved for the privileged, UCL challenged the establishment and helped redefine what a university could be.
UCL has been associated with 33 Nobel Prize laureates, including Sir William Ramsay, Francis Crick, Sir Peter Medawar, Sir Paul Nurse and, more recently, Sir Demis Hassabis, whose work on AI and protein structure prediction earned him the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Its history in medicine is equally remarkable.
In 1846, Robert Liston performed one of Europe's first public surgical operations under modern anaesthesia at University College Hospital, transforming the future of surgery.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was Britain's first woman to qualify as a doctor. Her determination to overcome the barriers facing women in medicine reminds us that progress often begins by challenging accepted norms.
UCL ranks in the top ten universities in the world
In 2021, UCL established the Global Business School for Health (GBSH) , the world's first business school dedicated exclusively to health and healthcare management under the leadership of Professor Nora Colton.
The vision was both simple and ambitious. Healthcare does not just need better medicine, science and technology. It needs better leadership, management, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Five years later, that mission feels more relevant than ever.
This week, we gathered in Dubai to celebrate two important milestones: 200 years of UCL and five years of UCL GBSH, bringing together leaders from academia, healthcare, business and innovation across the UAE.
The school also announced the launch of its hub in Dubai Healthcare City and will launch courses in 2027
As an Honorary Professor of Practice at UCL GBSH, it is a privilege to contribute to a school that is rethinking how we educate the next generation of healthcare leaders.
25 Oct 2026
Discussing the future of artificial intelligence in healthcare with Professor Shafi Ahmed at VRAcademi GEMS School of Research and Innovation. #Healthcare #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #longitvity #Innovation
24 Oct 2026
Some guests become part of the story.
A pleasure to welcome Professor Shafi Ahmed back to Uncles, all the way from London, for his annual visit to Cape Town and to our table.
Thank you, Professor, for your continued support and the thoughtful gift of ‘Intelligent’. A privilege to receive, and a read we look forward to.
At The Happy Uncles, we believe the finest experiences extend beyond the plate. They live in the people we welcome, the conversations we share, and the connections that bring us back together, year after year.
Until next time, Professor. Shukran. @prof_shafi
19 Oct 2026
Another year at @Stellenbosch Business School teaching the Health Innovation programme to the MBA class of 2026.
This is always the best week of my entire year of travelling across the world.
I always learn so much from the MBA candidates who are more likely colleagues and leave South Africa richer in knowledge and comfort that the futire of healthcare is safe in the hands of these future leaders.
I have competely rewritten the course after 5 years as innovation runs at warp speed in medicine.
This year we covered:
1. AI and covered many topics from my book
2. Global Digital Health systems
3. The 5 types of Innovation: incremental, frugal, disruptive, radical, open.
4. Creating a business case and learning how to pitch using my new business canvas and pitching to a Dragons Den.
5. Exponential technologies
6. Digital Health and Digital Surgery
7. Real world case studies
8. Personal branding for health which always seems to be the most popular of my teaching modules.
Most importantly we had fun :)
I showcased so many technologies in class, Meta AI display glasses, Keikku ambient stethoscope, Plaud ambient AI, Oura and Gabit smart rings and I even had a drone following me around the room whilst lecturing.
We even shared Krispy Kremes together.
Thanks to my wonderful class.
Ronalee Africa Rahistha Bhagwandin Caitlin Bryla Sibongile Chabalala Leon Coetzee Megan Kim de Vroeg Tapiwanashe Kusotera Sibusiso Mavuso Sibusiso Mntambo Yumna Minty Nivasha Naidoo Ethan Paton Mpho Rahube Christian Rudman Robert Schreiber Rene Seale Angelique Taljaard Bethlehem Tefera MD Lumart Wiechers Kelsey Tombs
Here is our leaving drone shot. Why wouldn't I?
Thanks to Renata Schoeman Tasneem Motala Jako Volschenk Merwede van Tonder for the friendship and hospitality.
17 Oct 2026
A busy couple of weeks travelling down the East Coast of USA with the ABHI International Accelerator supporting Paul Benton and Sophie Green.
It was a pleasure to provide a modicum of clinical leadership to bridge the gap between the clinicians and entepreneurs.
We visited
Boston:
Boston Children's Hospital
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Tufts Medicine
Mass General Brigham
New York
Northwell Health
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Health
Cooper University Hospital
Philadelphia
Rutgers University
Temple University Hospital
Maryland
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Washington
University of Maryland Medical System
Frederick Health
The UK companies all represented themselves very well pitching their solutions to the leadership team and key decision makers facilitating important opportunities to understand and collaborate with these Health systems
VitVio
MEGI Health
Haemoband Surgical
Heim
Open Medical
Mana Medical
Psyomics
TidalSense
Community Dermatology (Map My Mole)
Haigh
This was an extraordinary opportunity for companies to visit so many hospital systems over 2 weeks.
I do recommend any company who wish to understand the US Health system to join the accelerator.
They also have a middle east accelerator.
17 Oct 2026
Congratulations to @the.considered on winning the Boutique Agency of the Year Award. Second award in 2 years having won the Small Agency of the Year Award last year at the @mmmnewsonline awards in New York.
A pleasure to attend the ceremony.
17 Oct 2026
During my visit to South Africa teaching at Stellenbosch Business School , I had the privilege of visiting Mitchells Plain Hospital, where I delivered a talk on artificial intelligence to the medical faculty and healthcare professionals.
We explored how AI is beginning to reshape medicine, from clinical decision-making and diagnostics to education, workflow efficiency and the future of healthcare delivery.
But beyond the technology, I wanted to emphasise something I feel increasingly strongly about.
The real test of AI in healthcare will not be how sophisticated the technology becomes, but who ultimately benefits from it.
I also had the opportunity to visit Langa township, one of Cape Town's oldest townships. It was an important personal journey for me as I have visited Cape Town many times and feel that I often see a sanitised version of South Africa.
It was an incredible and thought-provoking experience.
A reminder of the extraordinary contrasts that persist within our world, often just a few miles apart.
As someone who has spent much of my career working in healthcare systems across the world, including conflict zones and resource-limited settings, I am constantly reminded that innovation cannot simply be about developing more advanced technology for those who already have access to excellent healthcare.
It must also be about addressing inequality, improving access and finding affordable, scalable solutions for communities that have historically been underserved.
South Africa presents both enormous challenges and remarkable opportunities for healthcare innovation.
I left these visits reflecting on a simple question.
Will artificial intelligence help close the healthcare inequality gap, or will it simply make the gap wider?
I often quote the Inverse Care Law and whether we could finally reverse the inequity of healthcare.
The answer will depend less on the technology itself and more on the choices we make as clinicians, innovators, educators and leaders.
My thanks to Imraan Tayob and the team at Mitchells Plain Hospital for their hospitality and engagement.
17 Oct 2026
When an AI tool suggests a diagnosis, who has the final word?
AI is already reading scans & flagging risks. The real debate: where it belongs in patient care.
Intelligence at the Bedside, moderated by Mr. Philippe Gerwill, with Dr. Mazin Gadir, Prof. Shafi Ahmed, Mr. Sakthi Visakan & Dr. Anmol Kapoor.
One stage. Live debate. Day 1. 7 November. Atlantis The Royal, Dubai. Link in bio.
04 Oct 2026
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