For years, the narrative of Artificial Intelligence has been one of replacement. But in the front lines of high-stakes research and innovation, a more profound reality is emerging: the smartest thing on the planet isn't a machine—it’s a Hybrid Collective Intelligence (HI).
In an era where technology reshapes healthcare delivery, this panel brings together innovation leads from the world's most future-focused hospitals. These experts will share their insights on designing digital infrastructures that prioritize patient care while addressing societal health needs. Topics will include leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, implementing telehealth solutions to enhance accessibility, and creating collaborative ecosystems that engage patients in their own care. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to integrate cutting-edge technologies with human-centric approaches, fostering hospitals that not only heal but also enrich the communities they serve. Join us for an engaging discussion on the transformative power of digital design in healthcare.
AI‑powered wearables are turning individual health data into real‑time, personalised guidance, helping people act on their health long before they reach the doctor’s office. Devices like Oura Ring help people make smarter daily decisions, ease pressure on healthcare systems, reduce chronic disease and free up clinicians to focus on those who need hands‑on care most.
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Recognised worldwide for his pioneering Principia mission with the European Space Agency, Tim Peake made history as the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS). During his 186 days in orbit, he conducted over 250 scientific experiments, carried out a spacewalk to repair the ISS’s power supply, and captivated millions through his outreach work promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
A former Army Air Corps officer and helicopter test pilot, Tim’s career spans a remarkable journey from military operations and flight testing to space exploration and public engagement. His work embodies the spirit of exploration, innovation, and collaboration, values at the core of the health.tech global summit.
At this year’s summit, Tim will deliver an exclusive 20-minute keynote address, followed by an in-depth 40-minute fireside chat, exploring the theme: “Innovation, Human Performance, and the Future of Health in Space and on Earth.”
Digital endpoints—from wearable sensors and mobile apps to connected home devices—are transforming how we measure outcomes in clinical trials, offering higher-frequency, real-world, and patient-centered data. Translating these novel measures into reliable, regulatory-acceptable endpoints requires an integrated approach spanning scientific rationale, device and algorithm qualification, data integrity, patient engagement, and operational execution. The presentation and panel will provide pragmatic, actionable guidance for designing, validating, and delivering digital endpoints in clinical trials, drawing on real-world examples and lessons learned.
How health policy implementation and the secondary use of health data can support preventive care, highlighting the need for a consolidated European digital health purchasing model to ensure innovation succeeds in Europe
Germany is one of the most complex yet opportunity-rich healthcare markets in the world. For healthtech startups — both domestic and international — navigating its intricate system of statutory health insurance, medical device regulation, and digital health reimbursement pathways can be challenging.
Most diseases are detected too late not because technology is missing, but because healthcare is designed to react. While AI can already identify early, actionable signals of disease, this intelligence remains largely unused. This keynote challenges the “Sick-Care” status quo and shows how AI-driven diagnostics can enable prevention at scale—if leaders make the right system, data, and investment decisions now.
As the first AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are released (such as the ASCO Guidelines Assistant), clinical evaluation of these tools becomes more and more important. While researchers have proven that LLM-based agents can navigate complex diagnostic pathways, their deployment is still hindered by an "evaluation gap." Traditional benchmarks often rely on simplistic datasets such as medical exams that fail to reflect the complexity of real-world medicine.
Keepc-AI-ring: Futureproofing Health and Care Systems Safeguarding Health Care Workers in Hospital SettingsHealthcare systems are under growing strain as workforce shortages, burnout, and psychological stress impair quality of care and patient safety. This keynote presents KEEPCARING, a Horizon Europe-funded initiative focused on strengthening the well-being and resilience of surgical teams through responsible, human-centred technology.
Digital endpoints—from wearable sensors and mobile apps to connected home devices—are transforming how we measure outcomes in clinical trials, offering higher-frequency, real-world, and patient-centered data. Translating these novel measures into reliable, regulatory-acceptable endpoints requires an integrated approach spanning scientific rationale, device and algorithm qualification, data integrity, patient engagement, and operational execution. The presentation and panel will provide pragmatic, actionable guidance for designing, validating, and delivering digital endpoints in clinical trials, drawing on real-world examples and lessons learned.
Traditional manufacturing methods can't scale AI-native therapeutics.
With AI entering the R&D space, discovery is now exponential; while manufacturing remains linear, rigid and extraordinarily slow.
Digital R&D can cut timelines by 30–50%. But tech transfer still takes years. Production still relies on manual documentation. Scale up still depends on trial and error. A delayed launch can cost more than a million dollars every single day.
We’ve arrived at an inflection point: Exponential technologies have collided with linear systems.
In this deeply personal keynote, bias and digital information specialist Lexi Mills shares discoveries from her journey through severe illness. She uncovered flaws in healthcare data systems, spotting biases in LLMs, internet search, and care that exceed historical under-study. These ignore women's unique navigation challenges—overlooked by algorithms, underserved in practice.
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'How to guide' - planning for digital endpoints and why they are needed
This session presents the necessary shift in healthcare, from one-size-fits-all approaches to personalized, risk-based medicine. We are entering an era where diseases can be predicted years before symptoms appear, enabling early action and often prevention. This transformation affects the entire care ecosystem: health organizations can allocate resources more effectively, clinicians can focus on maintaining health rather than just treating illness, and patients can take an active role in their own care. The goal is genuine healthcare, anticipating and reducing risk before disease develops.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is one of the most influential figures in modern public health. Over a career spanning more than 50 years, he served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 38 years and acted as a trusted advisor to seven U.S. presidents, helping lead global responses to HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.
Widely respected for his scientific integrity and human-centred leadership, Dr. Anthony Fauci played a key role in shaping global health policy, including as a principal architect of PEPFAR, which has helped save more than 25 million lives worldwide.
Dr. Anthony Fauci will share insights on leadership, science, and preparing health systems for future global challenges and will reply to questions from the audience.
The future of health tech isn't just about code, it's about human rights. It's about justice. It's about ensuring innovation serves all.
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QuantumAI in Life Science
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This masterclass will explore how clinical decision-making algorithms are applied in real-world healthcare settings. Experts from leading organizations in Germany will share first-hand experiences on implementing and using algorithms to support clinical decisions, highlighting both impact and practical challenges.
Toronto Grace Health Centre's RCM program is Canada's largest digitally enabled care model, extending capacity and supporting aging in place for nearly 20,000 individuals. Utilizing integrated safety devices and 24/7 monitoring, it uses alert data to inform clinical interventions, reducing ED visits and hospital admissions. This scalable model offers insights for global collaboration, demonstrating technology's role in modernizing homecare and fostering equitable digital health ecosystems.
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Danish National Healthcare IT relies on OSS for full digitalization, transitioning to OSS platforms for digital autonomy and resilience. This "HealthCloud" offers a chance to efficiently reimplement healthcare systems using mature, license-free services. However, challenges include building expert IT teams, establishing local infrastructure, and creating stable government structures for sustained public-private cooperation beyond political cycles.
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Bringing precision health to the real world: How AI can redesign health access at scale
How do we move the needle on patient engagement in clinical studies, medicine development, during provider visits, as part of healthcare events, etc? Checking in with a patient voice once and then mark the activity as "done" is no longer enough. Patients need a seat at every table that they are the topic of. What can you do to enable this to happen? And what stops you from pulling out a chair for them today?
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As technology advances, the use of consumer health data in personal wellness practices raises important questions about our relationship with health. This panel examines the dual nature of health technology: while it empowers informed decision-making and proactive health management, it can also foster an obsession with metrics that may affect mental well-being. Experts will discuss the implications of quantified self-movements, data privacy, and the psychological effects of constant monitoring. Learn to balance the benefits of health data with the risks of overemphasis on achievement, striving for a healthier, more holistic approach to personal care. Join us as we explore whether our pursuit of health enhances well-being or simply fuels fixation on data.
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Access to affordable medicines is one of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare systems today. Rising costs, demographic change, fragile supply chains, and growing system pressures are placing significant strain on patients, payers, and providers, while the need for innovation in life saving and essential medicines continues to grow.
In an era of ecological dysregulation, the traditional biomedical model—focused on individual pathology—is insufficient. This presentation introduces Planetary Salutogenesis, a paradigm shift that scales health promotion from the individual to the biosphere. Currently being actively developed at Charité Berlin, Planetary Salutogenesis posits that durable human health is contingent upon a healthy planet. The framework moves beyond "sick care" to actively cultivate a "Sense of Coherence" by treating the planetary environment as a primary determinant of individual vitality. By integrating traditional medical wisdom with high-tech research, Planetary Salutogenesis addresses systemic health needs through preventative and restorative practices, often drawn from a vast compendium of traditional, complementary and integrative medical practices. This presentation will outline the intellectual framework for Planetary Salutogenesis, bridging health care economics and planetary governance to move medicine toward a proactive, "all-of-planet" view that fosters resilience for humans and non-humans alike.
This 45-minute panel explores how organizations from Life Science and Healthcare can get started with QuantumAI, today — from strategy to execution. Where should companies begin, and which capabilities are required internally? How can they engage external partners, such as startups, and how to tap into the global ecosystem? The discussion highlights use cases, how to identify them through close alignment with business unit leaders and top management, and the journey from exploration to scaled impact. Finally, we examine whether Quantum and AI are competing paradigms or complementary technologies—and what that means for long-term innovation strategy.
The dawn of adaptive neurotech heralds a fundamental shift in medicine, moving beyond static treatments towards the restoration and enhancement of core human functions, offering a profound glimpse into the future of human-AI cognition and autonomy. This transformation requires personalized systems that can match the dynamic, fluctuating complexity of the brain.
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Hospitals run countless innovation pilots, yet very few ever scale. The barrier is rarely the technology—it’s procurement, governance, and risk management. This session brings together hospital leaders, an innovation procurement expert, and a startup to explore how innovation procurement tools can bridge the gap between piloting and buying. Attendees will gain practical insights into creating smarter pathways for real, scalable adoption of digital health solutions.
In an era where technology reshapes healthcare delivery, this panel brings together innovation leads from the world's most future-focused hospitals. These experts will share their insights on designing digital infrastructures that prioritize patient care while addressing societal health needs. Topics will include leveraging data analytics for personalized medicine, implementing telehealth solutions to enhance accessibility, and creating collaborative ecosystems that engage patients in their own care. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how to integrate cutting-edge technologies with human-centric approaches, fostering hospitals that not only heal but also enrich the communities they serve. Join us for an engaging discussion on the transformative power of digital design in healthcare.
"ChemoBrain" causes significant, under-recognized cognitive impairment in cancer patients. Inspired by personal experience, the Cerebro/BrainBoost digital platform will offer early detection and support for cancer-related cognitive issues through screening, adaptive training, and monitoring. Scalable beyond ChemoBrain to other cognitive vulnerabilities, it champions integrating cognitive health into future oncology care.
In the rapidly evolving health tech landscape, transitioning from a startup to a scaleup is a pivotal moment filled with both exhilarating opportunities and formidable challenges. This masterclass gathers seasoned founders who have successfully navigated this journey, sharing invaluable insights and lessons learned along the way. Participants will explore key strategies for scaling operations, securing funding, and building resilient teams. Real-world case studies will highlight adaptive leadership, innovation, and market positioning, providing actionable takeaways for entrepreneurs at all stages. Join us to unlock the secrets of scaling health tech ventures and to gain perspective from those who have turned ambitious visions into thriving realities.
In the rapidly evolving health tech landscape, transitioning from a startup to a scaleup is a pivotal moment filled with both exhilarating opportunities and formidable challenges. This masterclass gathers seasoned founders who have successfully navigated this journey, sharing invaluable insights and lessons learned along the way. Participants will explore key strategies for scaling operations, securing funding, and building resilient teams. Real-world case studies will highlight adaptive leadership, innovation, and market positioning, providing actionable takeaways for entrepreneurs at all stages. Join us to unlock the secrets of scaling health tech ventures and to gain perspective from those who have turned ambitious visions into thriving realities.
Approximately 30% of clinical trials fail due to safety and toxicity concerns, highlighting the ongoing challenge of delivering effective therapies without causing harmful off-target effects. Despite significant progress in drug development, most current delivery methods still depend on systemic administration, which naturally exposes healthy tissues and narrows the therapeutic window.
This is a hands-on workshop designed to challenge how pharma traditionally approaches finding patients for treatments. We’ll take participants through a structured journey: first auditing the traditional patient finding toolkit, then introducing a symptom-first paradigm, and finally having teams build their own hybrid patient identification programmes in real time.
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Trust is the foundation of every health decision - it determines whether consumers believe a product, a treatment, or a brand can truly improve their wellbeing. Yet in today’s crowded digital landscape, credible health communication is harder than ever to navigate. As the Founder & CEO of 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫, I will share how we are building an 𝐀𝐈-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 to restore credibility and authenticity in the $20B+ health and wellness creator economy.
The idea of a “sentient” machine sounds strange to many of us, but it is already on the threshold of our everyday lives. Can emotions such as compassion or joy even be algorithmized? What happens when machines are able not only to recognize human emotions, but also to respond to them empathetically?
In partnership with GRTHealth, Toronto Grace Health Centre’s Remote Care Monitoring (RCM) program is one of Canada’s largest digitally enabled care models, designed to extend health system capacity, improve patient safety, and support aging in place. Launched in 2020 with two pilot project clients, the program rapidly expanded to serve nearly 20,000 individuals across Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia. Using an integrated suite of safety devices, including falls detection pendants, automated medication dispensers, motion sensors, geofencing technology, and vital signs monitoring, the RCM program connects patients and caregivers to a 24/7 clinical call centre, ensuring real-time monitoring and rapid response to health and safety risks.
This is a hands-on workshop designed to challenge how pharma traditionally approaches finding patients for treatments. We’ll take participants through a structured journey: first auditing the traditional patient finding toolkit, then introducing a symptom-first paradigm, and finally having teams build their own hybrid patient identification programmes in real time.
FAQ YOU: From Community to Care
Early Talks, Better Care in the Age of Health Tech
Despite rapid advances in health technology, patient engagement remains one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges. Platforms scale — but trust does not automatically follow. If we want earlier talks and better care, we must rethink how technology connects with real life.
FAQ YOU: From Community to Care
Early Talks, Better Care in the Age of Health Tech
Despite rapid advances in health technology, patient engagement remains one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges. Platforms scale — but trust does not automatically follow. If we want earlier talks and better care, we must rethink how technology connects with real life.
The healthcare sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation driven by digitalization, workforce challenges, and rising expectations for more efficient, patient‑centered care. Building the Smart Hospital of the future requires more than technology—it demands strong, trust‑based collaboration between clinical partners, industry, and innovative startups. In this joint presentation, Siemens and Kantonsspital Baden (KSB) showcase how such a collaborative ecosystem accelerates real‑world innovation.
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This panel brings together healthcare leaders from Toronto Grace Health Centre (Canada), Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Sweden), and Oslo University Hospital (Norway) to share practical lessons from large-scale remote care initiatives in publicly funded health systems. Panelists will highlight real-world implementations of remote monitoring, virtual care, and hospital-at-home models that improve patient safety, reduce emergency department visits and hospitalizations, and support care closer to home. Through comparative insights across Canada and the Nordics, the session will explore key enablers, challenges, and strategies for scaling remote care while maintaining quality, equity, and sustainability.
Drug Development remains one of the most complex and resource-intensive research activities in modern science, requiring the orchestration of heterogeneous activities from patient stratification, multi-domain analysis, to regulatory writing, often across siloed teams. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled advances in medical imaging, the orchestration of multi-modal, multi-agentic systems, or voice-based conversational AI. The talk explores how NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform empowers these advances to move beyond siloed workflows toward a unified, AI-driven "factory" for clinical innovation, and how NVIDIA’s expansive partner eco-systems utilizes these to accelerate drug development.
No one knows what is already possible today. We are able to read thoughts, giving patients their voice back. Paralyzed people are walking again, and the blind are receiving visual impressions. The technology is real, the clinical data exist, and the potential reaches far beyond the conditions being treated today.
The $200 Billion Blind Spot: Why Endometriosis Can’t Be Ignored
Rapid EU health and digital regulation generates high strategic uncertainty. This keynote shows how Hybrid AI, specifically SILREAL’s Policy Intelligence AI Agent, transforms fragmented signals into actionable foresight. It delivers early warnings, quantifies regulatory risk, and aids evidence-based decisions. The session provides a practical roadmap for adaptive, data-driven regulatory strategies, enhancing EU health governance and digital infrastructure.
Remote Care in Action: Lessons from the Nordics and Canada
Modern healthcare faces a dual challenge: rising demand for chronic care and a global shortage of skilled professionals. Fresenius Medical Care’s Home Digital Ecosystem reimagines how technology can transform the first 90 days of therapy—traditionally a period of high dependency—into a foundation for safe, confident, and autonomous care at home.
Preparing Nurses for Accelerating Technologies: Building Digital Literacy for the Future of Care
AI, once a domain for deep technical expertise, is now widely accessible, though a thorough understanding remains crucial. This masterclass offers a comprehensive tour of AI, from its historical roots to modern machine learning and advanced AI agents. It's for anyone seeking to demystify AI buzzwords. The class highlights the critical need for quality data before applying AI, empowering you to thoughtfully approach solutions rather than simply "throwing AI" at problems.
Healthcare organizations face a dilemma in 2026: having to adopt modern paradigms for patient onboarding, user experience, and agentic AI without sacrificing any aspects of security, privacy, or compliance. Identity sits at the center of this dilemma.
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Personal and Preventative Care
Access to affordable medicines is one of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare systems today. Rising costs, demographic change, fragile supply chains, and growing system pressures are placing significant strain on patients, payers, and providers, while the need for innovation in life saving and essential medicines continues to grow.
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How AI enabled radiology can map incidental findings that could lead to earlier diagnosis
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This masterclass will explore how clinical decision-making algorithms are applied in real-world healthcare settings. Experts from leading organizations in Germany will share first-hand experiences on implementing and using algorithms to support clinical decisions, highlighting both impact and practical challenges.
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Digital health is no longer peripheral to healthcare – it’s how care gets delivered. From patient flow to decision support, the systems we build and use have become the mechanism of modern care itself. But while the pace of digital innovation in healthcare has never been faster, keeping those innovations safe, sustainable, and truly useful remains one of our biggest challenges.
Implementing "Lab-in-the-Loop" for drug discovery faces scientific, engineering, and cultural hurdles, requiring a seamless 'bits and atoms' integration. Panelists will debate the maturity of closed-loop discovery, unpacking real-world lessons, bottlenecks in automation and data, and charting a path for adoption.
As the population ages rapidly, the societal and healthcare burden of neurological disorders is rising.
Today, all corporates leverage startups as part of their innovation processes. Many leverage innovation hubs or accelerator programs to evaluate startups and establish first pilot projects. Despite this structured process, a large percentage of follow-up engagements between corporates and startups do not lead to the desired business impact on both sides. What are the reasons and how can we improve the success rate? What are best practices for value exchange and how can we apply these to new areas like digital health or AI?
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Remote Care in Action: Lessons from the Nordics and Canada
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This 45-minute panel explores how organizations from Life Science and Healthcare can get started with QuantumAI, today — from strategy to execution. Where should companies begin, and which capabilities are required internally? How can they engage external partners, such as startups, and how to tap into the global ecosystem? The discussion highlights use cases, how to identify them through close alignment with business unit leaders and top management, and the journey from exploration to scaled impact. Finally, we examine whether Quantum and AI are competing paradigms or complementary technologies—and what that means for long-term innovation strategy.
Today, all corporates leverage startups as part of their innovation processes. Many leverage innovation hubs or accelerator programs to evaluate startups and establish first pilot projects. Despite this structured process, a large percentage of follow-up engagements between corporates and startups do not lead to the desired business impact on both sides. What are the reasons and how can we improve the success rate? What are best practices for value exchange and how can we apply these to new areas like digital health or AI?
Hospitals run countless innovation pilots, yet very few ever scale. The barrier is rarely the technology—it’s procurement, governance, and risk management. This session brings together hospital leaders, an innovation procurement expert, and a startup to explore how innovation procurement tools can bridge the gap between piloting and buying. Attendees will gain practical insights into creating smarter pathways for real, scalable adoption of digital health solutions.
Our healthcare system is fundamentally broken — it reacts instead of preventing. We run tests, wait for lab results, and start treatment once the disease has already progressed. This reactive model leaves patients and doctors constantly one step behind. But what if we could act before illness takes hold? What if our bodies could tell us when something is going wrong — and we actually listened?
Algorithms are already shaping some clinical decisions, from diagnostics to risk stratification. But what if, in the future, algorithms went further, for example, deciding treatment plans and prescriptions themselves?
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