The World Economic Forum, which organizes the exclusive annual meeting on global economics, business, and policy in Davos, Switzerland, is convening its first invitation-only summit on mobile healthcare today at San Diego’s Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa. A key figure driving the event is Qualcomm Chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs, who also is chairman of the forum’s council on the future of mobile communications. More than 75 people from eight countries are expected to attend, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. In a blog on its website, the World Economic Forum says the main objective of the summit is “to explore the creation of a global framework to address the growing need for effective, mobile health solutions over the next three to five years.”
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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