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Derk Arts
Derk Arts is a Dutch physician-turned-entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Castor, a clinical-trial software company he started in 2012 after coding the first version of its Electronic Data Capture platform himself. Trained as a medical doctor and epidemiologist with a PhD, he built Castor to make clinical research more inclusive, patient-centric, and data-driven. The platform now supports thousands of trials across roughly 90 countries and was used by the World Health Organization for its Solidarity Trial. Castor has raised more than $60 million, including a $45 million Series B in 2021, and Arts is a recognized voice on decentralized trials, eConsent, and the responsible use of AI in research.
Joel Morse
Joel Morse is the co-founder and CEO of Curavit Clinical Research, a virtual contract research organization (VCRO) that designs and runs decentralized clinical trials for digital therapeutics, devices and drugs. A mechanical engineer turned serial healthcare operator, he previously co-founded C3i Solutions in 1993 and built it into a global leader in tech-enabled clinical trial services before selling to Telerx in 2014. At Curavit he is betting that trials can be run where patients actually live, stitching together wearables, web recruitment and real-world evidence to reach people traditional sites never see.