Lorena Monzon
Panel: 11:20–12:00. Chair: Brian Hanly, Brightbeam.
Irish Medtech Skillnet, Irish Medtech and Brightbeam developed the Playbook with participating MedTech companies in Ireland. It provides a practical guide to where and how generative AI could support operations, improve efficiency and extend the contribution of skilled people. It starts with recurring operational problems and keeps expert judgement and accountability central.
Introduce the Playbook, help attendees recognise opportunities relevant to their own work, and connect industry experience with the national supports available for adoption.
Following the Playbook introduction, connect the first three value streams to everyday practice. The discussion should draw out useful problems, barriers to adoption and the conditions that help teams make progress. Your perspective across digitalisation, automation and insights can help explain how companies move from an idea to something useful in the workplace.
Quality information often exists across several systems, making it difficult to assemble for investigations and audits. Participants prioritised deviation management, audit readiness, risk review and finding relevant quality knowledge. AI could assist search and preparation while experts assess the evidence and make decisions.
Teams identified opportunities to reduce paperwork and make operational information and experienced technicians’ knowledge easier to use. Priorities included performance reporting, knowledge capture and shift handover, helping people understand what is happening and respond with the right context.
Teams need to track changing requirements and understand their implications for site procedures. Opportunities include monitoring regulatory developments, tracing their impact and assembling auditable sustainability evidence, including energy and emissions data. The aim is more continuous readiness, supported by traceable information.
Choose whichever questions suit your experience, or suggest alternatives for Brian. These are optional prompts for discussion.