Matthew Holt is best known as the founder of The Health Care Blog and (with Indu Subaiya) the Health 2.0 conferences, sold to HIMSS a while back. Now he runs the SMACK health Advisory service for health tech start-ups and hosts the THCBGang chat show/podcast on The Health Care Blog.

During his career, he has spent more than 30 (!) years in health care and health care IT as a generalist forecaster and strategist, having worked for renowned forecasting (IFTF) and polling (Harris) organizations, conducted several groundbreaking in-depth studies about many aspects of health care and delivered several keynote addresses all over the world. He knows a few people too.