Speakers
Kerry Kirkham, Senior Sales Engineer, InterSystems
Secure Processing Environments (SPEs) are becoming the standard way to give researchers governed access to sensitive health data — but their value depends on what researchers can actually do inside them.
This use case focuses on embedding AI and analytics directly within the SPE boundary: running Python-based analysis and large language models locally, alongside the data, rather than exporting data to external tools or cloud AI services. This approach preserves data sovereignty and auditability, avoids the compliance risk of moving sensitive data for analysis, and still gives researchers modern capabilities like natural-language querying, summarization, and vector search over health records.
Kerry is a Senior Sales Engineer at InterSystems, working with key accounts across the healthcare, telecommunications, and government sectors in Ireland and the UK. He develops and manages strong technical relationships while collaborating closely with internal product teams to deliver compelling solutions for current and prospective customers.
Since joining InterSystems in 2000, Kerry has built extensive experience across regions and healthcare markets in the USA, UK, and Ireland. His expertise encompasses InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health, spanning cloud-based solutions, technology and solution sales, enterprise application integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, and software development.