The Radical Line-Up

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Laura Maaß

PhD candidate, SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen & Leibniz Science Campus Digital Public Health Bremen (Germany)

Laura Maaß has a background in health economics, healthcare research, and public health. Since 2020, she is a PhD candidate at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen (Germany). Here, she is the speaker for the Early Career Researcher Academy, a multidisciplinary and international graduate school. Her research focuses on developing an interdisciplinary instrument to nationally measure digital public health (DiPH) systems’ maturity. The tool will allow policy learning and benchmarking between countries. Since 2021, she has been a steering committee member for the European Public Health Association’s Digital Health and Data section. Since April 2022, she has led the Digital Public Health section at the German Society for Public Health. Laura’s goal is to spread awareness that DiPH interventions must be developed in interdisciplinary teams through participatory approaches together with the targeted population.

Prof. Henrique Martins

Associate Professor, ISCTE-IUL

He has a Medical Degree, Internal Medicine Speciality, a Master and PhD degrees in Management, and a Law Master’s degree. He was the first CMIO in Portugal in 2009-13. At the Ministry of Health he was responsible for setting the agenda for eHealth in Portugal and later presided over SPMS, Portugal’s Digital Health Agency for about 7 years, and co-chair of the EU eHealth Network, the highest policy body on eHealth in the Union. He now works as an academic at ISCTE Business School, FCS-UBI, and Korea University Medicine (Visiting professor) in Digital Health, Healthcare Systems and Transformation, Leadership and Management education for Medical Students and Health Professionals. He offers consulting in Healthcare Transformation and Digital Health (www.henriquemartins.eu). At present he works as Senior Consultant for the WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office and for the Regional Action Plan on Digital Health for WHO Western Pacific Region.

Karolina Mackiewicz, Innovation Director, European Connected Health Alliance (Finland)

Karolina Mackiewicz (MA Political Sciences, MA Futures Studies) has over 13 years of professional experience in international projects in the area of health and wellbeing. She worked for the WHO European Healthy Cities network, leading the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Health in the Baltic Sea Region, and the Development Manager at MyData Global – an international non-for-profit advocating for a human-centric approach to personal data. When it comes to digital health, she is especially interested in how technology and data can support the sustainable health systems of tomorrow, health literacy and socio-economic determinants of health. Karolina has developed and led numerous international projects and cooperated with the EC, OECD, World Bank and other key regional and national stakeholders. Her professional mission is to bring bridges between the different sectors for a more just and sustainable future.

Deborah Maufi

Principal, DPM Health Consultancy (Netherlands)

Dr. Deborah Maufi is a project manager and consultant on women’s health and technology. She holds a decade of experience working with startups and NGOs to bring interventions aimed at improving women’s & newborn health outcomes, especially in resource-limited settings. Deborah is motivated by a strong conviction that improving access to health information and education is the stepping stone toward improving everyone’s health. She has supported women’s health and health technology for low-resource settings over the years, bridging the knowledge and education gap between healthcare professionals and communities, and empowering marginalized groups to attain their health potential as a human right. Dr. Deborah holds a Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). She is recognized as one of HIMSS Future50 Clinical Leaders, a public speaker, and an advocate for women’s health equity.

Myriam Martin

Head of Project management, Ticbiomed (Spain)

Myriam is specialised in the design and implementation of initiatives aimed to boost digital transformation in healthcare by spotting areas of opportunity. Her experience includes supporting Healthcare organisations in the identification of challenges that can be solved with digital solutions and the ulterior adoption of these solutions. Main areas of interest also encompass the assitance to eHealth SMEs to shorten the go-to-market process. She joined TICBIOMED in 2013, which allowed her to actively interact with potential customers and end-users. Myriam graduated in Economics and Business at ICADE in Madrid, and holds a Master degree in European business.

Prof. Janne Martikainen

Health Economist and Professor of Pharmacoeconomics, University of Eastern Finland (Finland)

Prof. Martikainen is a health economist and the head of UEF House of Effectiveness at University of Eastern Finland. He leads a research group with a primary focus on health economic evaluation and outcomes research. Currently, he is participating in the establishment of the Finnish national centre for social and health care effectiveness, which has started its operations in 2023. Prof Martikainen’s research group is conducting several projects e.g., that evaluate the outcomes of health technologies and interventions, with a special emphasis on the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases and memory disorders. The group use a multidisciplinary approach that applies different computational methods and multiple data sources, including electronic health records, genomic, survey, and other real-world data. By leveraging these diverse data sources, the group can provide valuable insights into the cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions and identify the most promising areas for future research.

Adriana Díaz Martín-Zamorano

Communities Manager, ECHAlliance (Spain)

Adriana is the Communities Manager of ECHAlliance and she is currently based in Paris, France. She works directly with ECHAlliance members and ecosystems to bring them on board and promote them as well as to increase the connections between our existing members and ecosystems and create new and exciting content for them. As a background, Adriana is a communications specialist, who has been working as a consultant for more than 4 years offering a wide range of services, such as social media management, creative content development, communication strategy and press relations. Clients have included local and international non-profit organisations from diverse fields such as digital health, women’s, children’s and elderly rights, visual impairment, democracy promotion, EU politics and economic and social development.

Gez Medinger

Author of The Long Covid Handbook (United Kingdom)

Gez Medinger is an investigative science journalist and patient advocate for Long Covid. He was a film-maker and marathon runner when he became ill with Covid in the early days of the pandemic. When he didn’t recover, Gez put his efforts into researching the novel condition of Long Covid, interviewing some of the world’s leading clinicians and turning his YouTube channel into a huge resource for patients, conducting over a dozen patient led studies – which have been quoted in global press including New York Times, New Scientist and Men’s Health. In the process he has built a worldwide community and his films currently have over 5 million views. His book, ‘The Long Covid Handbook’ shot to the top of the Amazon bestseller charts upon its release in October 2022.

Christian Mercado

Head of our Digital Innovation Unit, Health Innovation Centre of Southern Denmark (Denmark)

Christian Mercado is Head of the Digital Innovation Unit at The Health Innovation Centre of Southern Denmark. The organization provides interdisciplinary innovation services and supports hospitals, municipalities, and private companies in their innovation efforts from initiation to implementation and operation. Christian Mercado is also the Chairman of the Danish Interregional Coordination Forum for Telemedicine and has extensive experience with digital innovation and digitalization within the public sector, currently focussing on co-creation across the sectors in the healthcare industry. His mission is to facilitate social change through digital innovation. In addition, he holds several trusted positions in regional, joint-regional, cross-sectorial, national, and international governance and coordination forums, both as a participant and chairman.

Stiliyana Minkovska

Founder, Matrix (United Kingdom) 

Stiliyana is a fully qualified architect by training and a healthcare designer by passion and re-qualification. She gained her Masters in Healthcare and Design with Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art, where she designed a systems and design thinking research vehicle to aid healthcare professionals, experts and service users navigate through the perinatal services, spaces, products and interactions during some of the most life-defining experiences – the moment of childbirth. She founded Matrix, which is a wholesome, wraparound novel use case aiming to turn pits into peaks when it comes to gynaecological assessments and procedures. Matrix starts by redesigning the speculum through a human-centred, tech-enabled and a radical, 21st century evolution and revolution of the vaginal dilator. The speculum has not changed in design and application since the Roman Era and we are going to prove that the future of the speculum is not a speculum.

Kristin Milburn

Chief Marketing Officer, MD Publications & Digital Health Ecosystem, Healthware Group (USA)

A twenty+ year veteran of digital consulting, Kristin’s experience has had a consistent focus on healthcare, technology and the intersection of the two. She is a strategic and innovative thinker, who has held executive leadership roles in strategy/planning and client engagement at various firms with numerous Fortune 100 pharma and tech clients. After launching her own digital shop and rising through the ranks on the agency side, Kristin jumped to the client side and joined the Digital Medicines team at Novartis in 2015. In that role, she accelerated the experimentation and adoption of new digital health solutions to improve the lives of patients. Headspace was one such solution she felt could have significant impact across a variety of disease areas, and joined the team there to integrate mindfulness/meditation into healthcare. Kristin is now the CMO & MD Publications, Events & Digital Health Ecosystem.

Prof. Alexander Meyer

Chief Medical Information Officer, German Heart Center at Charité, (Germany)

Alexander Meyer is Charité´s  Professor of Clinical AI and Data Science, Chief Medical Information Officer at the DHZB, group leader at DHZB‘s Medical Data Science Group and senior resident in cardiothoracic surgery at the Clinic for Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB). Before his career as a physician-scientist, Dr. Meyer worked as a computer scientist and software developer. At the end of 2016, he was selected into the Clinician Scientist Program at the Berlin Institute for Health (BiH) of the Charité, from 2018 to 2020 he was participant of the Digital Health Accelerator program, during which he launched the DHZB spin-off x-cardiac – a digital health company, that provides real-time digital biomarkers for postoperative risk stratification. He is PI in several large collaborative research projects and centers, such as the Berlin Institute of Foundation of Data and Learning. His research field comprises medical data science, big data analytics, applied deep learning / machine learning, medical informatics for heart surgery / transcatheter structural heart therapeutics.

Rob Milnes

CEO, viO HealthTech (United Kingdom)

Rob has over 30 years experience in financing and bringing ground-breaking medical technology and software to global markets, with the past 20 years focussed on women’s health. Co-inventor of 6 OvuSense patents and co-author of several clinical publications, he is also CEO of viO HealthTech Inc., the company’s wholly owned US subsidiary. Rob has worked for Roche, Oxford Instruments, and was formerly a member of the Operations Board of Huntleigh Healthcare following the successful sale and integration of the Sonicaid Fetal Monitoring and Medilog Cardiology businesses.

Anne Moen

Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Adjunct Professor, Norwegian Centre for eHealth Research – Tromsø, University of Oslo, Norway

Anne Moen is full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo and adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Centre for eHealth Research, Tromsø. She is also Director of UiO:eColab, Institute for Health and Society. Her program of research seeks to better understand digital citizen centered services based on opportunities to “collect, curate and control” all relevant, personal health information. She combines in-depth insights in healthcare with design and deployment of accessible digital solutions emphasising citizen empowerment, digital health literacy and overall engagement for health and wellness. Professor Moen has previously served as EFMI representative on the EU eHealth stakeholder group and was rapporteur for a special focus on “Citizens – health data”. She was EFMI President 2014-2016. Professor Moen is elected fellow of ACMI 2015, is a founding fellow of IAHSI 2017, and Honorary Fellow of EFMI 2019.

Lars Münter

International Projects Director, Danish Committee for Health Education (Denmark)

Lars Münter is a dedicated champion for self-care in Europe. Working both across Scandinavia and Europe for 20 years on knowledge sharing and joint platforms to promote health literacy, empowerment, and citizen action – including corporate social responsibility. As Director of International Projects in the Danish Committee for Health Education, he’s works for practical paths and systems leadership, and so acts also as Communications Lead for the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and the Wellbeing Alliance Denmark Hub to help deliver change.

MD, PhD, Laura Mäkitie

Neurologist, Helsinki University Hospital (Finland)

Licentiate in Medicine 1998 University of Helsinki; doctor of medicine 2010 University of Helsinki: The Functions and Regulation of Ornithine Decarboxylase; specialist in neurology 2016 University of Helsinki. Special expertise: General neurology, development of digital services.

Veli-Mikko Niemi

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland)

Dr Veli-Mikko Niemi was appointed as the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland in 2022.Previously, he was Director General at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Department for Com-munities and Functional Capacities between 2020 -2022 (Health and Social services for children, youth and families, services for people with disabilities, services for elderly, medical and social rehabilitation as well as the promotion of social wellbeing, functional capacity and health and prevention of illness.) The department is responsible for the coordination of the Ministry’s state subsidy activities and subsi-dies granted for the promotion of health and social wellbeing from gaming revenue.

He has been Director General and the Head of the International Affairs Unit of the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health since January 2018, (developing, planning and coordinating the Minis-try’s International and EU affairs). Between 2014-2017, Dr Niemi worked as Director General of the Ministry’s Department for Promotion of Welfare and Health. Dr Niemi worked as Director of Food Safety at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry from 2007-2014, and before that as Deputy Direc-tor General. He also worked as a national expert at the European Commission from 1998-2000.

Dr Niemi graduated from the College of Veterinary Medicine (Helsinki University) in 1987 and holds the Degree of Specialised Veterinarian in Food and Environmental Hygiene.

Aline Noizet

Founder and CEO at The Digital Health Connector (Spain)

Aline is a digital health connector. She connects the dots between the different actors of the healthcare ecosystem. With more than 10 years working in the digital health space, Aline has been supporting more than 500 startups and corporations over the years and has acquired strong international experience working with and for startups, investors, pharmaceuticals, payers, medtech, patient associations, regulators etc Aline believes in the power of innovation coming from startups to revolutionize healthcare, improve patient’s lives and support healthcare professionals. She accelerates their impact and time to market. She has a real passion for Digital Therapeutics. Aline holds a Master of Arts (English literature and civilisation) from Lyon 3 University (France) and a MBA (Master of Business Administration) from ESADE (Spain).

PhD Pia Nyman

Development manager, The Wellbeing Services County of Ostrobothnia (Finland)

I work as Development Manager since 1.1.2022 in the Wellbeing County of Ostrobothnia. I´m doctor in Health Science and working in our department Research, Development and Innovation (RDI). We produce and make visible research-based knowledge and make it available together with our partners. We initiate and participate in various development projects and digital services in social and health care. We encourage innovative solutions within our welfare area and create networks both within the organization and outside.

Diarmuid O’Sullivan

Cyber Incident Response, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc, Ireland

Diarmuid O’Sullivan is an Associate Director in Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and leads the global Cyber Incident Response team. Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops, and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for 35 years by physician-scientists, Regeneron’s unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to numerous FDA-approved treatments and product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in Regeneron’s laboratories. During his time within Regeneron, Diarmuid worked as an Incident Response analyst, vulnerability management lead and founded the Cyber Threat Intelligence team, before going back to lead the Incident Response team. Prior to joining Regeneron, Diarmuid served in the Irish Defence Forces. He holds a master’s degree in Forensic Computing & Cybercrime Investigations from University College Dublin and bachelor’s degree in Computing & Software Development.

Fabrice Pakin

CEO, Tech2heal (France) 

Fabrice Pakin has been involved in entrepreneurship and digital health since 2012. He started in digital health innovation in the framework of a research project on early detection of frailty of elderly people at home. He developed a concept based on NFC and mobile technologies in which the home care worker reported on a poster observations made in the person’s home. These data allowed to calculate in real time a frailty score with an appropriate triage by the geriatric service of Toulouse which received this information. This project motivated him to create Ignilife in 2013 to develop one of the very first Saas platforms for primary prevention in Europe. Marketed in six languages in France, Switzerland, Brazil and Belgium, Ignilife has worked with prestigious insurance companies such as Malakoff Médéric, Groupe Mutuel in Switzerland and Unimed in Brazil. Since 2021, Fabrice Pakin has been focusing on a new challenge: Powering Digital Health Transformation with the creation of Alakin’s code-free, interoperable, and fast deployment SaaS platform.

Silva Paananen

Counsellor, Trade & Investment Embassy of Finland in Italy (Italy)

Over 20 years of experience in supporting the growth of Finnish SME companies in international market places. Currently working in Italy, with a strong focus on health sector. Connecting Finnish and Italian stakeholders and companies for R&D&I cooperation, B2B and investments.

Jack Parker

CEO & Co-Founder, AIATELLA, EC2VC Finalist (Finland)

Jack is a Biomedical Scientist who has spent time in Cardiac surgery and in Cardiology departments in the UK. After witnessing how painstakingly slow medical image analysis can be, and the crippling bottleneck it creates in the patient journey, he decided to create the solution.

Nuria Pastor

Co-founder and CEO, humanITcare, EC2VC Finalist (Spain)

Nuria Pastor is the CEO and Co-founder of humanITcare. Background in Psychology (UB) and a Master in Health Research (UAB) and a PM in Business Excellence Scale-up at Stanford (thanks to a fellowship of the Banco Santander). After some years as a Senior Researcher at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, in 2018 she co-founded HumanITcare, a platform to monitor patients’ healthcare information, where she is currently the CEO. She is a Board Member of Catalonia Bio Health Tech. She has 8 years of experience in Digital Health projects and business development in Europe and internationally.

Prof. Thomas Penzel

Scientific Chair of Sleep Medicine Center, Charité – University Hospital Berlin, (Germany)

Dr. Thomas Penzel is a IEEE fellow member, graduated from physics (1986), human biology (1991), and physiology (1995) at the University Marburg, Germany. In 1997 he received a certificate for sleep medicine and a certificate for medical informatics. In 2001 he was awarded Professor at the University of Marburg. He was with the University of Marburg since 1982, in 2006 he moved to Berlin to join the interdisciplinary sleep medicine center at the Charité University hospital and serves as scientific director of the sleep center. In 2001 he received the Bial award for clinical medicine in Portugal, 2008 the Bill Gruen Award for Innovations in Sleep Research by the Sleep Research Society, and 2014 the distinguished development award by the Chinese sleep research society. He authored more than 400 papers with an H-index over 60 and many conference papers. His research bridges biomedical engineering and sleep research.

Andri Peetso

Founder, Conturata, Whomesome (Estonia)

Andri Peetso is a biohacker, author, and entrepreneur with a background in health and a focus on AI. As the founder of both Conturata, a media agency, and Whomesome, an educational platform dedicated to fostering healthy environments and holistic homes, he has combined his passion for technology and well-being. Overcoming multiple sclerosis through self-experimentation, Andri has developed an understanding of chronic and modern-day diseases. (And if needed, you can include something like this: In the panel, Andri will share his thoughts on the intersection of AI and health, drawing from his diverse background and illustrating the potential impact of AI on the health industry.)

Dr. Terje Peetso

Chief Medical Innovation Officer, North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation, Estonia

Dr Terje Peetso is a Chief Medical Innovation Officer at the North Estonia Medical Centre in Tallinn. Among ohter tasks she is also responsible for the coordination of cooperation with other hospitals, clinical partners and International organisations. Dr Peetso worked from 2003 – 2018 in the European Commission on public health, before joining the North Estonia Medical Centre, she was the Head of Sector on eHealth and Ageing Policy in the European Commission`s DG CONNECT. In 2014 she was the European Commission Fellow in the University of Southern California, USA, where her research focus was on the obstacles which hinder the introduction eHealth in healthcare systems. Dr Peetso holds a diploma in medicine from the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Tuomo Pentikäinen

CEO, VEIL.AI, Finland

Tuomo is an experienced executive of data-intensive growth companies. He has a strong background in growing and internationalizing top-notch technologies and new innovations in Finland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and the US. He has been working with health data and deep-tech for two decades. At his scarce sparetime Tuomo loves to spend time with a good book, to be in the nature with camera, ride his beloved Whyte-bike or to polish his French language capabilities.

Dr. Michael Peolsson

International coordinator, Swedish eHealth Agency (Sweden)

Michael Peolsson has a degree in nursing, biomedical engineering and a PhD in medical social sciences. He has worked in leading roles in university and research positions, innovation clusters, and recently at a govermental agency for ehealth. At the Swedish e-Health Agency, he is international coordinator and programme officer. Currently he leads an international benchmarking study on national digital health strategies. Secondly, he is task leader in the EU4health project “Towards the European health data space”, focusing cross-border sharing and use of secondary health data. He is also in the leading core group for the workstream “policy environment” in the Global Digital Health Partnership and in a WHO-europe working group on national digital health strategies.

Dr. Ronald Petru

Paediatric Intensivist & Clinical Data Scientist, Radboud University Medical centre (Netherlands)

Dr Ronald Petru is a Paediatric Intensivist and Clinical Data Scientist at the Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc). He is an experienced programmer in several programming languages and is certified as an npatient application specialist for the Epic EMR system. Dr Petru studied medicine at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Cum Laude, 1994), Paediatrics (2002) and Paediatric Intensive Care (2004) in Nijmegen. He is the former CMIO and the current theme leader for information security and privacy at the Radboudumc. His main areas of professional interest are artificial ventilation, traumatic brain injury, clinical pharmacology, predictive algorithms and sustainable digital transformation of healthcare. He is a guest lecturer and member of the advisory council for Clinical Informatics at the School of Medical Physics and Engineering of the Technical University Eindhoven and expert advisor to the Health Platform (Helseplattformen) project in central Norway.

Dr. Vito Petrarolo

IT Manager, Regional Agency for Health and Social Care of Apulia – ARESS Puglia (Italy)

Coming from the private sector (1995 to 2007), he collaborated as senior consultant at AReS (Agenzia Regionale Sanitaria) of Apulia (2007 to 2018), Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italian National Health Care Institute), Rome (2019), at the italian National Agency for Regional Health Services (AGENAS), Rome (2013) and in the Local Health Company of Foggia province in Apulia. Covered the role of IT Manager and DPO in Taranto Local Health Company (2018-2019). Currently covers the role of Manager of Digital Transition and Privacy Office at Regional Health and Social Agency of Apulia (AReSS) since 2019. Is the Administrative Project Manager of CORēHealth, the Operating Center of Telemedicine for Chronic Conditions and Clinical Networks of Apulia Region.

Carme Pratdepadua

mHealth manager, Fundació TIC Salut (Spain)

Carme Pratdepadua holds an B.Sc in Industrial Engineering and has more than 10 years of experience in leading projects in the technological sector. Ms Pratdepadua is specialized in certification processes for mobile applications and ICT tools, which allow us to promote interoperability between information systems, guarantee compliance with standards (i.e. HL7, DICOM), and controlled vocabularies (i.e. SNOMED CT, CIM-10-MC). Ms Pratdepadua currently leads the mHealth.cat Office at Fundació TicSalutSocial, an Agency of the Catalan Department of Health. The mHealth Office aims to promote the use of mobile technologies across the Catalan healthcare sector, one of the main assets is the assessment model for health-related mobile applications to guarantee the functionality and accuracy that ensures that patients and healthcare professionals have access to secure and high-quality Apps to facilitate disease management throughout the entire patient journey.

Leena Rasa

Specialist, JAMK (Finland)

Leena Rasa is a Senior Lecturer and RDI Specialist in digital health at Jamk University of Applied Sciences Jyväskylä, Finland. Her area of expertise is in acute health care, nursing education and digital health, including RDI work across national and international projects.

Eugenia Rinaldi

Research Fellow “Digital Medicine and Interoperability”, Charité University Hospital,  Germany

Eugenia Rinaldi is a research fellow at the Core Facility “Digital Medicine and Interoperability” of the Charité University Hospital. She is responsible for standardization and harmonization activities in the European Project ORCHESTRA focused on creating a pan-European cohort of patients on COVID-19. She is the spokesperson for the Microbiology Module of the German Medical Informatics Initiative focused on creating a national standard core data set. She is involved in the development of interoperable solutions to support exchange and integration of data at national and international level using international semantic and syntactic healthcare standards; Eugenia also has a long-time experience as project manager (PMP®) for European e-Health projects on interoperability of data across countries.

Heidi Saarinen

Member, Women in Global Health Finland (Finland)

An experienced health care professional (RN, MSc of Social Development and Health), Heidi Saarinen has worked across the globe as a registered nurse as well as in global health projects in developing countries. Her interest towards women’s health and equality started in SRHR clinic in Eswatini over a decade ago. Since then, she has worked in various operating theatres that have covered gynaecological patients. Additionally, she has been involved in projects in Asia and Africa targeting gender equality and women’s health. Currently, she is working in Women’s Hospital in Helsinki and has gained profound understanding on women’s health and pain management.

Dr. Nienke Schutte

Researcher, Sciensano, Belgium

Nienke Schutte is a senior researcher and project manager in the EU Health Information System unit at Sciensano. After obtaining her master degree, she has worked as a scientist in different academic settings (university, academic hospitals, public health (research) institutes) resulting in a PhD degree in behavioral genetics in 2017. In 2018, she started working at Sciensano, the Belgian Scientific Institute for Public Health. Her work focuses on facilitating the exchange of health information across Europe in a FAIR manner, aiming to build a sustainable pan-European research infrastructure to support population health research and evidence-informed policy-making.

Line Sæle

Enterprise Architect, HL7 Europe / Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Norway)

Line holds a Master degree in Technical Cybernetics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and she has over 23 years with digitalization of both the public and private sector, working extensively with international standardization bodies. She now works as an Enterprise Architect at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Her work with HL7 started back in 2009, and she has since been more and more involved both on national and international level. She holds the position as chair of HL7 Norway, Board member of HL7 Europe and HL7 International, as well as co-chair of International Council and Patient Administration Work Group.

Kenneth Salonius

CEO & Co-founder, Vertical (Finland) 

Kenneth is CEO and co-founder of Vertical, the healthcare growth agency. He previously co-founded Upgraded, the premier health & wellness startup association in Finland that merged with Healthtech Finland in 2022. Through these endeavors he has helped more than 500 health startups grow. Kenneth has a passion for exploring the unknown and building new. He is the inventor of several granted patents and he is actively involved in shaping the healthcare to become more people centered, value based and enabled by digital solutions.

Peter Speyer

Head of Data Analytics & AI, Novartis Foundation (Switzerland)

Peter is Head of Analytics, Data & AI at the Novartis Foundation, accelerating the use of data and analytics to further the Foundation’s mission to improve population health and inequities. Peter co-founded Novartis’ transformational data42 program which enables the use of the company’s deep pre-clinical, clinical, and real world data to accelerate and improve drug R&D. Prior to his work at Novartis, Peter was Chief Data & Technology Officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle. He managed the data for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study and created IHME’s global public data catalog Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) and innovative interactive data visualizations.

Begoña San Jose

Clinical Psychologist, Be and Go (Austria)

I inspire and support people wake up to life. I am a Clinical Psychologist with postgraduate studies in Epidemiology and 20+ years of professional experience in multinational insurance companies. I am very passionate and determined to use my professional knowledge and personal experience to make a positive contribution to mental health and wellbeing of people and communities. How do I do it? Through -️ Keynote speeches -️ Online or even more impactful on-site Workshops -️ Books, for grownups to wake-up! -️ Projects with start-ups and established players I trhive when I inspire people to be and go, to wake up to life!

Prof. Duncan Selbie

former Chief Executive of Public Health England, now President of IANPHI (United Kingdom)

Duncan Selbie has over 40 years of experience leading and improving health and care services in the UK and internationally. Currently serving as the Chief Adviser for the Saudi Arabia Public Health Authority since April 2021. Previously worked as the Health Adviser to the Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands from October 2020 to March 2021. Held the position of Chief Executive at Public Health England from July 2012 to August 2020. Served as the Chief Executive of Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals from July 2007 to July 2012.

Has held various executive positions in the NHS, including Director General of NHS Commissioning and Director General of NHS Performance and Programmes at the Department of Health.

Annabel Seebohm

Secretary General, COCIR (Belgium)

Annabel Seebohm is the COCIR Secretary General and DITTA Vice Chair. She joined COCIR from the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), where she held the position of Secretary General. Prior to CPME, Annabel was head of the Brussels office of the German Medical Association (GMA) and legal advisor in the joint legal department of the GMA and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians. From 2007 to 2016 she was also general counsel of the World Medical Association. Annabel studied law at the University of Bonn, undertook her judicial service training in Hamburg and obtained a Masters’ degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is admitted to the Cologne Bar and a Fellow of SCIANA, the Health Leaders Network.

Päivi Sillanaukee

Ambassador for Health at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland)

Päivi Sillanaukee is the Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing at the MSAH of Finland. She served as the Ambassador for Health and Wellbeing at the MFA of Finland 2019-2023 and as the Permanent Secretary at the MSAH 2012-2019. She was the DG of the Department for Social and Health Services 2008-2012 at the MSAH. Previously, she was the Deputy Mayor and Director of Social and Health Services in the City of Tampere. Dr Sil-lanaukee is a specialist in public health and management and doctor honoris causa from the Uni-versity of Helsinki. She has worked on several policies in the EU and at the global level. She rep-resented Finland in the WHO EB and served as its first and third Vice Chair, has also served as Executive President of the WHO RC for Europe. She is Member of the HIMSS Board of Directors and Member of the I-DAIR inaugural Board.

Indi Siriniwasa

CEO & Founder, EdgeUP (Finland)

Indi is a transformational business leader, prior to forming EdgeUP he held many executive positions in large multi-national organisations. He has worked in many countries and transformed businesses to be high-growth and profitable together with winning teams. Indi is a Sri Lankan born Australian. Indi invested and setup EdgeUP in 2021 to address key gaps in the Wellness and Digital wellbeing space.

Anna Schüttler

Project Manager, Gewi-Institute for Healthcare Studies (Germany)

Anna Schüttler is Project Manager at the gewi-Institute for healthcare studies, a non-profit research organisation based in Cologne, Germany. She is working in different research projects focussing particularly on healthy ageing and integrated care topics one of which is the SHAPES project. Ms. Schüttler completed her master’s programme Health Education and Promotion (M.Sc.) at Maastricht University after completing her dual studies of Occupational Therapy (B.Sc.) in Osnabrück, Germany (Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences). Her research-related interests are primarily dedicated to the development and testing of innovative health technologies as well as establishment of integrated care systems.

Bryan Sivak

Managing Partner at Evidenced Capital (France)

Bryan Sivak is the co-founder and managing partner at Evidenced Capital, a private market investment firm, and sits on the Vesta Healthcare and Osso VR boards. He enjoys focusing his time on helping organizations that are fundamentally changing health and healthcare scale to succeed. Most recently, Bryan served on the executive leadership team at Centene as Senior Vice President, Technology, Innovation, and Modernization. During this time, he was responsible for enterprise-wide technology strategy and execution, focusing on next-generation products and services.

Dr. Linda Soikkeli

Senior Specialist, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (Finland)

Dr Soikkeli has a masters from Cambridge University and gained her doctorate from Oxford University. Since 2017 she has worked at several departments of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Before working at the ministry, Linda has worked as the vice-president of Rinnekoti Foundation, as a management consultant at McKinsey as well as at the World Health Organization and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland. Additionally, she has been on the board of directors for various foundations and an Academy of Finland steering group. Most notably, she was on the board of directors of Tampere University Foundation, which merged three universities in the city of Tampere as of 1.1.2019.

Prof. Alina Solomon

Associate Professor, University of Eastern Finland (Finland)

Alina Solomon, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Neuroepidemiology at University of Eastern Finland, working also at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Imperial College London, UK. Prof. Solomon’s primary research area is prevention of late-life cognitive impairment and dementia, including large, long-term population-based studies and clinical trials.

Brent Stackhouse

Managing Director, Mount Sinai Ventures (USA)

Brent Stackhouse is the Managing Director of Mount Sinai Ventures, the venture investment arm of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. His responsibilities include diversifying the portfolio of strategic investments to enhance Mount Sinai’s transition to population health management. He also serves as a Senior Partner at Spex Capital, a UK based early-stage health tech venture fund. His experience includes public health and health information technology, and represents Mount Sinai on the board of several portfolio companies. Additionally, he launched the Strategic Ventures Group, a national consortium of corporate venture investors from nearly 40 hospitals. Outside of Mount Sinai, Brent is on the board of the Italian charity Insegnare per l’Italia and is a member of the Georgetown Angel Investor Network.

Daniela Spiessberger

EU Policy Advisor, Gematik GmbH (Germany)

Studies: Master of Arts Political Sciences (University of Vienna) Master of Science European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Experience: Several years of professional experience in Brussels (work for associations, EU-Commission on health policy) Since 2021 EU Policy Advisor gematik GmbH.

Dr. Alberta Spreafico

Managing Director, Digital Health & Innovation, Healthware Group (Italy)

Alberta is a health innovator, global and digital health expert with 10+ years of experience as senior director, researcher and management consultant in the health and life sciences sector. She co-founded and directed multiple global health innovation programs worldwide, effectively integrating digital health technologies across healthcare systems, care pathways and clinical protocols to enhance quality, access, and sustainability of care. As Managing Director of Digital Health & Innovation at Healthware Group, Alberta leads multistakeholder programs enabling the systemic integration of clinically-validated digital medical devices and health innovations across healthcare systems. She also leads Healthware’s commitment as Knowledge Partner of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance on DTx Policies in Europe. Alberta is a TedX speaker on enhancing access to quality care worldwide; author of multiple scenario and strategic analyses, scientific publications, and policy recommendations. She is also Contract Professor of Development Economics and Social Policies at the University of Pavia (Italy).

Kaisu Sutinen

Senior Business Advisor, Health Capital Helsinki (Finland)

A health tech marketer with background from companies of various sizes. Used to work with engineers and clinicians in an international setting. Now active at Health Capital Helsinki, a health ecosystem strengthening organization of Helsinki Metropolitan.

Teemu Suna

Founder & CEO, Nightingale Health Plc (Finland)

Emma Svenberg

Specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology (Sweden)

Dr Emma Svennberg is an assistant professor and cardiologist working in the department of electrophysiology and cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm Sweden. Dr Svennberg’s main research interests lie within screening for atrial fibrillation, in particular systematic screening, where she has been part of the large population-based screening studies STROKESTOP I & II. Dr Svennberg has received the Swedish Society of Cardiology research award twice, is a fellow of the ESC, and EHRA. She was one of the founders, and subsequently president of the Swedish branch of Cardiologists of Tomorrow. Dr Svennberg has been a member of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) board, and the inaugural chair of the EHRA Digital Committee. She is a member of the European Society of Cardiology’s Digital Health Committee, a deputy editor of EP Europace and part of the steering committee for AF Screen International Collaboration.

Prof. Holger Thiemann

Management Consultant, Lohfert & Lohfert AG Hamburg (Germany)

After studying medicine with a subsequent doctorate at the Philipps University in Marburg, Prof. Dr. Thiemann founded MEDI-LEARN, a training company for medical students, which he managed until 1996. He then went on to work in senior hospital management roles, most recently as CEO of a university hospital for a leading hospital group. Since 2021, Prof. Dr. Holger Thiemann has worked at Lohfert & Lohfert AG, one of the largest clinic consultancies in Germany. Here he advises clients on digital strategy development and implementation. He has proven management experience in both operational and strategic areas, and is very familiar with current management approaches and medical-economic developments. In 2001 he received an MBA from SUNY New York in Albany and in 2018 he was given a professorship for medical management. In 2022 he passed the AHIME CHCIO exam and documented his profound understanding of IT in a management context.

Alberto Tozzi

ESC, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital – Rome (Italy)

Dr Tozzi is a pediatrician and an epidemiologist with experience in vaccines and epidemiology of transmissible diseases. He has worked as a researcher in Public Health for more than 15 years. In 2004 Dr Tozzi moved to the Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, where he continued to work in vaccine preventable diseases and started developing projects on eHealth and digital medicine. Dr Tozzi is currently participating in several international research projects on artificial intelligence in pediatrics and he curated education initiatives in this domain. Dr Tozzi is currently president of the international Society for Pediatric Innovation.

Dr. Razvan Ioan Trascu

Clinical Case Manager, SMART BEAR (Romania)

I’m a medical doctor (graduate of Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania), specialized in general (family) practice (15+ years clinical experience). I also hold a Master’s Degree in Public Health Management – since family doctors are meant to have a keen interest and thorough understanding of public health issues. Quite passionate about computers and information technology (qualified as a level 5 network administrator), smart home systems and gadgetry, programming (YAML/Python) and website design (blogging around for quite a while). With a bit of mass media experience (hosted and produced health TV shows, held management and editorial positions with several medical and patient medical journals) but also quite versed in social media. My publishing record includes (co)authoring several book chapters and over 80 contributions in journals and conferences.

Frank Rademakers

EM Prof., KU Leuven (Belgium)

Cardiologist. Research in cardiac imaging (echo and CMR) and cardiac mechanics. !5 years in management of UZ Leuven, Belgium, university hospital with 2500 beds, of which 10 years as CMO. Responsible for IT @ UZ Leuven and for the development of nexuzhealth, the home grown hospital information system of UZ Leuven and the Flanders Hospital Network.

Lasse Rousi

CEO, Medixine (Finland)

Lasse Rousi has worked as the CEO of Medixine since 2019, bringing digital healthcare market expertise and broad international experience to the company. He has been a respected leader in his earlier positions, achieving significant business results. Before Medixine, he worked as Director of CGI’s Consulting Services for Welfare and Healthcare, where he gained a robust understanding of healthcare demands in Finland and Europe. He has long-standing experience in software development management and delivering customer projects. He also has leadership and development experience from two startup companies before leading Medixine.

Mikael Rinnetmäki

Founder, Sensotrend Oy (Finland)

Mikael Rinnetmäki searches for sustainable business models for digital therapeutics as the founder of healthtech startup Sensotrend, advances interoperability between healthcare IT systems as the FHIR Ambassador of HL7 Finland, advocates for patients’ access to high quality treatment as the chairman of the Regional Network of Diabetes Associations in Pirkanmaa, seeks to advance the adoption of new technologies for diabetes treatment as the vice chairman of the Diabetes Unit of Sailab – MedTech Finland, participates in creation of citizen-centric innovations for living with diabetes in the Nightscout / #WeAreNotWaiting open-source development community, and promotes patients’ access to their own health data through MyData Global and HL7 International. He lives with type 1 diabetes and holds a M.Sc. in computer science.

Jovan Stevovic

CEO, Chino.io (Italy)

Jovan Stevovic, CEO and co-founder of Chino.io. Offering a unique combination of legal-tech expertise and tech solutions to help digital health companies solve data protection compliance challenges. Jovan has over a decade of experience in the health IT industry, including his PhD work at the University of Trento on healthcare and regulations.

Marco Suvilaakso

Co-founder, Nucu Oy (Finland)

Marco, the Co-founder of Nucu. He is an expert, strategist, and innovator in the fitness and wellness industry, with over 20 years of experience in global fitness and wearable tech. Marco was formerly the Chief Strategy Officer at Polar and has been involved with pioneering many category firsts. He has collaborated with numerous international sports and wellness brands and start-ups, with an extensive network of industry leaders.

Manuel Perez Vallina

CIO, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón

Manuel Pérez Vallina is the CIO for the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid. Vallina has more than 32 years of experience as CIO in different hospitals in Spain, including the Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega in Valladolid or Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid. He also served as Associate CIO for Castilla y León Region Healthcare Authority. He used to work as private strategy advisor in the eHealth field for different companies and non-profit organizations, as well as served in different Management Boards at National and International Level, like HL7 Spain and specially SNOMED International being very active in the interoperability and terminology fields. He won several prizes, including in 2011 edition of ComputerWorld Honors Programs (Using Technology to Benefit Society) with the project “Professional Social Network for Tumour Boards”, in 2022 “digital intelligence” IDC 100 Awards for the new Operating Theater Building at Gregorio Marañon, or the 2022 “National Lifetime Achievement and Dedication Award” of the Spanish Healthcare Informatics Association.

Dolores Verdoy

Project Coordinator, Asociación Kronikgune, Spain

B.Sc. in Biology at the University of Navarra (1998) and obtained her Ph.D. in Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (2003). In 2017 she obtained the Certificate as Expert in Research in health services and chronic diseases from University of Alcala. Dolores Verdoy is a Project Manager in Kronikgune, the Institute for Health Services Research from the Basque Country. Dolores joined Kronikgune in 2016 and she has an extensive experience as a researcher in European projects. She currently works as Project Coordinator at Kronikgune.

Prof. Franz Weidinger

President, ESC (Austria)

Franz Weidinger is Head of Department at Klinik Landstraße (former Rudolfstiftung Hospital), a teaching hospital affiliated to Vienna Medical University, Austria. His clinical focus is percutaneous coronary interventions and acute coronary syndromes. Deputy Head of Division of Cardiology at Medical University of Innsbruck (1997 – 2007), Secretary (2006-2012) and President (2013-2015) of the Austrian Society of Cardiology. Member of EAPCI since 2006 (Co-chair and chair, Database & Registry Committee, 2011-2016), EuroPCR Programme committee member, 2006-2009. Member of EORP Oversight committee 2016-2018. Board member of ESC as Councillor for ESC Young Community 2016-2018, Vice President of ESC 2018-2020, President of ESC 2022-2024.

Oliver Weiss

Founder & CEO, Noah Labs, EC2VC Finalist (Germany) 

Oliver is a serial healthtech entrepreneur who previously founded care platform Mecasa. He is a public health speaker, repeatedly raised funds from the EU, and developed a healthcare DIN / ISO standard. Oliver holds a Master’s in finance from Copenhagen Business School and previously worked in Investment Banking.

Agata Wisniewska

Project manager at Medical University of Lodz

Agata Wiśniewska is a sociologist and a works in International Project Department at the Medical University of Lodz. She is a professional project manager capable of managing challenging and complex projects in an international environment in fields such as innovation, healthcare or education. Moreover, she profoundly understands academic, research, non-governmental and public stakeholders. Currently, she is responsible for implementing at MUL Human Resources Strategy for Researchers, Gender Equality Plan and EIP-on-AHA actions.

Tina Woods

Founder & CEO, Collider Health

Tina Woods is a mission-driven social entrepreneur and system architect bringing diverse stakeholders together in shared endeavours to improve health, working at the cross-section of science, technology, investment and policy/government. She is Founder and CEO of Collider Health and works with private, public and third sectors. She is Co-Founder and CEO of Business for Health, a business-led social venture developing a Business Framework for Health, bringing in ‘Health’ into ‘ESG’ mandates to support sustainable innovation and investment in preventative health and care. She is the Healthy Longevity Champion for the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA), aiming to accelerate better health, ageing and wellbeing in the UK and globally; with NICA she is co-leading the Quantum Healthy Longevity Innovation Mission to create the world’s first test bed for health underpinned by growing understanding of the exposome and links between health and climate.

Francesca Wuttke

Founder and CEO, Collider Health (United Kingdom)

Nivedita Yadav

Researcher/ Project Manager at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Nivedita Yadav is a researcher and project manager at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, with a primary focus on the H2020 project HOSMARTAI and the Tumorscope project. Her contributions to these initiatives involve making hospital data accessible to external researchers and developing decision support systems for clinicians using AI technology. Nivedita’s academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, as well as a Master degree in Computer Sciences. She has vast experience working on research projects in collaboration with both academic partners and private companies. Nivedita is passionate about the potential of big data, machine learning, and AI to transform healthcare. She is committed to the broader goal of improving patient outcomes through innovative technology.

Wintom Zecarias

Innovation Researcher, Aalto University (Finland)

Nivedita Yadav is a researcher and project manager at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, with a primary focus on the H2020 project HOSMARTAI and the Tumorscope project. Her contributions to these initiatives involve making hospital data accessible to external researchers and developing decision support systems for clinicians using AI technology. Nivedita’s academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, as well as a Master degree in Computer Sciences. She has vast experience working on research projects in collaboration with both academic partners and private companies. Nivedita is passionate about the potential of big data, machine learning, and AI to transform healthcare. She is committed to the broader goal of improving patient outcomes through innovative technology.