BOSTON -- Gov. Charlie Baker, whose administration has targeted digital health as a key focus for economic development, will speak at a digital health conference next month to kick off Biotech Week Boston, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council announced Monday.

Baker plans to deliver remarks at the first-ever Digital Health Impact conference hosted by MassBio on Sept. 9, the first of four days of planned events bringing together biotechnology leaders and entrepreneurs.

"Massachusetts is home to a world-leading biotech and digital health hub," Baker, who previously served as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, said in a MassBio press release. "The Mass Digital Health initiative in collaboration with valued partners like MassBio sustains Massachusetts' national leadership in digital health innovation that both drives economic impact and improves healthcare outcomes and costs."

The digital health conference will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will also feature presentations from speakers such as Dana-Farber Chief Innovation Officer Lesley Solomon, CNBC health and tech reporter Christina Farr, Anthem Vice President of Innovation Mariya Filipova and more.

In 2016, the Baker administration launched the Massachusetts Digital Health Initiative, a public-private partnership to support work at the intersection of health care and information technology.

"Massachusetts is the #1 life sciences cluster in the world because of industry’s ongoing partnership with academia and government – something we’re trying to replicate with digital health, as it has the potential to transform drug discovery and development," MassBio CEO Robert Coughlin said in the Monday press release.