Julián Isla

An engineer at Microsoft for almost 30 years, everything changed when his son was diagnosed with Dravet syndrome. He identified the real problem with rare diseases: it is not just medical, it is a system failure: diagnoses that take years and data that is impossible to connect. He founded Fundación 29, a non-profit full-stack AI organisation that created DxGPT, a tool that links symptoms, medical literature and genetics to speed up diagnoses. The result: over a million users, real clinical impact and a single employee. He is also a member of the European Medicines Agency and founder of the European Dravet Syndrome Federation, connecting technology, regulation and patients. He does not talk about ‘AI for good’. He builds AI when life gives you no alternative.