MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM

14:00 – 16:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT – 
12th Healthcare Innovation World Cup® pitch and award ceremony

Moderator: Christian Stammel, Founder and CEO, WT Wearable Technologies Group


14:00 – 14:05 h
Opening and introduction, Monday
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA

14:05 – 14:10 h
Welcome and introduction
Christian Stammel, Founder and CEO, WT Wearable Technologies Group

14:10 – 15:15 h
12th Healthcare Innovation World Cup Pitch
TOP12 Internet of Medical Things Techpreneurs 2020
(12 finalists' pitches)

14:10 – 14:15 h
BeFC – A sustainable paper-based energy source for low-power connected devices
Dr. Marie Berthuel, BeFC - Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells, Senior Scientist & Communication Manager, Grenoble, France

14:15 – 14:20 h
CRIAM - 5G Portable Blood Point of Care Diagnostic device to monitor, control and contain diseases
Vitor Crespo, CRIAM, CEO & Founder, Braga, Portugal

14:20 – 14:25 h
OutSense - Transforming human waste into lifesaving medical insights
Yfat Scialom, OutSense, CEO, Or Yehuda, Israel

14:25 – 14:30 h
MySafetyPatch – Remote vital signs monitoring with alarms
Andrew Mospan, ROWEBOTS / Home Health Systems, Chief Business Development Officer, Waterloo, Canada

14:30 – 14:35 h
SMASH - Sweat metabolite analysis for sports and health
Sirisha Adimatyam, Innovosens, CEO & Founder, Malmö, Sweden

14:35 – 14:40 h
Higo - Revolution in telemedicine
Łukasz Krasnopolski, Horizen, CEO, Warsaw, Poland

14:40 – 14:45 h
inContAlert – A wearable for real-time bladder monitoring
Jannik Lockl, inContAlert, CEO & Co-Founder, Bayreuth, Germany

14:45 – 14:50 h
K'Watch - The first Continuous Glucose Monitoring in a smartwatch
Minh Le, PKvitality, General Manager & Co-Founder, Paris, France

14:50 – 14:55 h
Breather ONE - Pulmonary rehabilitation system
Dr. med. Peter Kozlowski, RespMedical LLC, R&D Director and Co-Founder, Warsaw, Poland
Dr. med. Rafał Agatowski, RespMedical LLC, CEO & Co-Founder, Warsaw, Poland

14:55 – 15:00 h
NeoRhythm - Medical grade technology for stress relief, pain management, relaxation and better sleep
Marko Kadunc, MDCN Technologies, Inc., CEO & Co-Founder, Ljubljana, Slovenia

15:00 – 15:05 h
Mindpax - How to revolutionize neuroscience with digital tools
Pavel Nevický, Mindpax, CEO & Co-Founder, Forchheim, Germany

15:05 – 15:10 h
Yoganotch smart yoga - Quantified wellness
Eszter Ozsvald, Yoganotch, CTO & Founder, New York, United States

15:15 – 15:45 h
Panel discussion: IoMT disruption – How corporates and start-ups can overcome the challenges together?

• Oriana Di Marco, STMicroelectronics, Head of EMEA Health Tech & Well-being Vertical IoT Business Development, Milan, Italy
• Markus Vogt, EBV Elektronik, Director Segment Healthcare & Personal Devices, Munich, Germany
• Thomas Waldmann, Würth Elektronik, Start-up and Venture Manager, Berlin, Germany
• Stefan Winkler, Microtronics Engineering, IoT Evangelist, Ruprechtshofen, Austria
• Andreas Warta, VARTA Microbattery, Key Account Manager, Ellwangen, Germany
• Adriano Basile

15:45 – 16:00
Award Ceremony - Announcement of the TOP3 IoMT Techpreneurs 2020
Christian Stammel, Founder and CEO, WT Wearable Technologies Group

16:00 – 16:05 h
Closing
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA


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14:00 – 16:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT – 
9th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION pitch and award ceremony

Moderator: Dr. Sonja Sulzmaier, Managing Partner, Navispace


14:00 – 14:05 h
Opening and introduction, Tuesday
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA

14:05 – 14:10 h
Welcome and introduction
Dr. Sonja Sulzmaier, Managing Partner, Navispace

14:10 – 15:15 h
9th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION Pitch
Top12 Medical Start-ups 2020
(12 finalists' pitches in health apps, diagnostics, robotics, AI in healthcare)

14:10 – 14:15 h
Speech recognition - Accessible to everyone
Danny Weissberg, Voiceitt, CEO & Co-Founder, Tel Aviv, Israel

14:15 – 14:20 h
diafyt Guide - Fun despite diabetes
Thomas Wuttke, diafyt MedTech, Founder, Leipzig, Germany

14:20 – 14:25 h
AI solutions for MSK radiology
Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, Radiobotics, Co-founder & COO, Copenhagen, Denmark

14:25 – 14:30 h
BeFC – A sustainable paper-based energy source for low-power connected devices
Dr. Marie Berthuel, BeFC - Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells, Senior Scientist & Communication Manager, Grenoble, France

14:30 – 14:35 h
K'Watch - The first continuous glucose monitoring in a smartwatch
Minh Le, PKvitality, General Manager & Co-Founder, Paris, France

14:35 – 14:40 h
Pathology 4.0 - Digitization & automation in the laboratory of the future
Dominik Sievert, inveox, Founder and Managing Partner, Garching bei München, Germany

14:40 – 14:45 h
dermanostic - Dermatologist via app
Dr. med. Ole Martin, Dermanostic GmbH, CEO & Co-Founder, Düsseldorf, Germany

14:45 – 14:50 h
Making the world more accessible for millions of blind people
Christian Erfurt, Be My Eyes, CEO, Tranbjerg, Denmark

14:50 – 14:55 h
MEDIKTOR - The inteligent access to healthcare
Sergio Irayzoz, Mediktor, Business Development Manager, Barcelona, Spain

14:55 – 15:00 h
The new way of home rehabilitation
Nana Kim, H Robotics Inc., Business Development Manager, Pohang, South Korea

15:00 – 15:05 h
Modular exoskeleton technology - Positive assistive solution for rehab limb mobility in the next 10 years              
Anton Holovachenko, UniExo, CEO & Founder, Kyiv, Ukraine

15:05 – 15:10 h
MYLEG - A non-invasive sensory feedback to improve mobility and to promote cognitive prosthesis integration in people with leg amputation
Dr. Giacomo Valle, ETH Zurich, Neural Engineer, Zürich, Switzerland

15:15 – 15:45 h
Panel discussion: Strategies for scaling up and funding health start-ups

• Dr. Caroline Fichtner, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Principal, Bonn, Deutschland
• Dr. Benedikt Zacher, DiGA Factory / DiGA AppStore Co-Founder, CEO, Hamburg, Deutschland
• Muthu Singaram, Healthcare Technology Innovation Center at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Vibazone Business Accelerator, CEO, Chennai, India
• Dr. Andreas Keibel, KUKA, Director Marketing & Communications Business Segment Robotics, Augsburg, Germany
• Bernhard Calmer, CGM Clinical Europe GmbH, CEO, Sankt Wolfgang, Germany

15:45 – 16:00 h
Award ceremony - Announcement of the TOP3 Medical Start-ups 2020
Dr. Sonja Sulzmaier, Managing Partner, Navispace

16:00 – 16:05 h
Closing
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA


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14:00 – 15:00 h

COVID19 – Redefining connected health

Moderator: Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group


14:00 – 14:03 h
Opening and introduction, Wednesday
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA

14:03 – 14:05 h
Short introduction
Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group

14:05 – 14:25 h
Keynote: Perspectives of digital epidemiology - Opportunities, promises and challenges
Prof. Dr. Dirk Brockmann, Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Epidemiologische Modellierung von Infektionskrankheiten, Robert-Koch-Institut, Professor für Theoretische Biologie, Berlin, Germany

14:25 – 14:35 h
Back to school & work - Accurate core body temperature monitoring - Non-invasive and continuously
Dr. Holger Hendrichs, greenTEG, Member of the management board, Rümlang, Switzerland

14:35 – 14:45 h
The future of lung diagnosis and recovery management with wearable ultrasound sensors
Dr. Dave Hughes, Novosound, Founding Director/CTO, Glasgow, Scotland

14:45 – 15:00 h
Medical aspects in digital prevention - How do digital therapeutics work?
Prof. Dr. med. Ralf von Baer, Aalen University - Faculty of Optics & Mechatronics Professor E-Health Technologies / Digital Health Management, University Aalen, Aalen, Germany



15:00 – 16:00 h

DIGITAL HEALTHCARE ACT – Improving healthcare provision through digitization and innovation

Moderator: Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group


15:00 – 15:05 h
Short introduction
Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group

15:05 – 15:25 h
Keynote: Germany's new law for digital health applications – Status, approval of medical applications, and outlook
Dr. Wolfgang Lauer, BfArM, Head of Division 9 / Medical Devices, Bonn, Germany

15:25 – 15:40 h
DiGA app store - Germany's platform for health apps
Dr. Benedikt Zacher, DiGA Factory / DiGA AppStore Co-Founder, Hamburg, Germany

15:40 – 15:55 h
A novel DiGA for telemonitoring of chronic neurologic conditions - First insights & experiences
Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier, University Erlangen-Nuernberg - Department of Computer Science, Professor for Digital Support Systems in Sports and Medical Engineering, Head of Machine Learning & Data Analytics Lab, Erlangen, Germany


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14:00 – 15:15 h

Diagnostics & health monitoring

Moderator: Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group

14:00 – 14:03 h
Opening and introduction, Thursday
Tania Higgins, Moderator virtual.MEDICA

14:03 – 14:05 h
Short introduction
Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group

14:05 – 14:15 h
Wearable breath analysis - The next level of non-invasive diagnostic and digital health
Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Jerichow, VitaScale, CEO, Gelnhausen, Germany

14:15 – 14:25 h
Epigenetic biomarkers - Revolution in precision medicine
Dr. Tomasz Wojdacz, Methyldetect, CEO & Co-Founder, Aalborg, Denmark

14:25 – 14:35 h
Innovative silicone skin adhesives for wearable medical devices
Dr. Alexis Bobenrieth, DuPont, R&D Medical Device Expert, Neu-Isenburg, Germany

14:35 – 14:45 h
Point of care prostate cancer diagnosis using dynamic instrumented palpation
Prof. Dr. Alan McNeill, IntelliPalp Dx, Chief Medical Officer IntelliPalp Dx Ltd, Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Lothian, South Queensferry, Scotland
Femi Johnson, IntelliPalp Dx, Technical Director, South Queensferry, Scotland

14:45 – 14:55 h
AI/IoT measures swallowing - To enjoy eating for even a day
Dr. Eng. Kenji Suzuki, PLIMES, President & Founder, Tokyo, Japan

14:55 – 15:05 h
Untethering patients with wearable medical biosensors
Steve Jones, LifeSignals, Director of Sales and Business Development, California, USA

15:05 – 15:15 h
Clinical-grade wearables, intermediate phenotypes and diagnosis by proxy
Jared Dwarika, Healthcare Originals Co-Founder, New York, USA



15:15 – 16:00 h

WellTech, FemTech and BrainTech

Moderator: Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group


15:15 – 15:20 h
Short introduction
Peter Düking, WT Wearable Technologies Group

15:20 – 15:30 h
Employees' mental wellbeing - Mission impossible?
Mervi Lamminen, Auntie, CEO & Founder, Helsinki, Finland

15:30 – 15:40 h
Innovative connected medical devices for women's health
Dr. Katharina Ehrhardt, Fizimed, International Business Developer, Strassburg, France

15:40 – 15:50 h
Can micronutrients influence COVID-19 severity and susceptibility?
Philipp Merk, LOEWI, Managing Director, Munich, Germany

15:50 – 16:00 h
Early brain disease pattern recognition using AI
Dr. Roland Amba, Evercot AI, Machine Learning Researcher, Munich Germany


[Version: 16 November 2020, subject to change]