Jim Carroll delivered the keynote address at the Linde Health Group Summit in Munich, Germany in mid-2011, speaking to senior executives of The Linde Group — one of the world’s largest industrial gases and engineering companies, with a significant global presence in healthcare gases, homecare, and medical technology. The summit brought together Linde’s international healthcare leadership to explore the strategic opportunities created by major global trends in medicine, aging populations, and connected health technology. Carroll’s keynote explored the transformational forces in global healthcare that would create growth opportunities for companies with Linde’s unique combination of industrial infrastructure, medical expertise, and international scale — challenging the leadership team to connect their deep operational capabilities to the wave of healthcare innovation driven by genomics, remote monitoring, and a rapidly aging global population. The engagement reflected Carroll’s growing international keynote work with European industrial and healthcare organizations during this period.
