MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM

11:00 – 13:00 h

The Internet of Medical Things – Technologies fueling the healthcare's future

Moderated by Navispace

11:00 – 11:05 h
Short Intro

11:05 – 11:20 h
Fast-Track solution for the development of wearable ehealth solutions for clinical research
Pedro Duque, Plux R&D Services, Senior Manager, Almada, Portugal

11:20 – 11:35 h
Smart devices and AI in healthcare: opportunities and threads
Markus Vogt, EBV Elektronik, Director Segment Healthcare & Personal Devices, Poing, Germany

11:35 – 11:50 h
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11:50 – 12:05 h
Empowering independence in medical health
David Richardson, VARTA Microbattery, Key Account Manager, Ellwangen, Germany
Leon Wanless, VARTA Microbattery, Key Account Manager, Ellwangen, Germany

12:05 – 12:20 h
The future of electronics in healthcare
Thomas Waldmann, Würth Elektronik, Start-up and Venture Manager, Berlin, Germany

12:20 – 12:35 h
GDPR-based agile software-defined networks in todays modern healthcare
Jan Buis, Lancom, Vice President Business Development & Head of "Competence Center Public Sector", Amersfoort, Netherlands

12:35 – 12:50 h
Connected medical devices: challenges and solutions for a successful launch
Thorsten Creter, UL, DAP Lead Auditor & Regional Lead Auditor Medical Devices, München, Germany

13:00 – 15:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT: 13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup® pitch and award ceremony

Moderated by Navispace

13:00 – 13:10 h
Welcome and introduction

13:10 – 14:15 h
The TOP12 Internet of Medical Things Innovators 2021 Pitch

14:15 – 14:40 h
Panel discussion: How the Internet of Medical Things will change the future of healthcare
Markus Vogt, EBV Elektronik, Director Segment Healthcare & Personal Devices, Poing, Germany
Thomas Waldmann, Würth Elektronik, Start-up and Venture Manager, Berlin, Germany
Oriana di Marco, STMicroelectronics, Head of EMEA Health Tech & Wellbeing Vertical Strategic Business Development, Geneva, Switzerland
David Richardson, VARTA Microbattery, Key Account Manager, Ellwangen, Germany

14:40 – 15:00 h
13th Healthcare Innovation World Cup award ceremony

15:00 –17:00 h

Robotics – Advancing to surgical precision and efficient processes

Moderated by Navispace

15:00 – 15:05 h
Short Intro

15:05 – 15:25 h
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15:25 – 15:40 h
How robotics-embodied AI shapes the future of intensive care therapy
Dr. Alexander König, Reactive Robotics GmbH, CEO and Founder, Munich, Germany

15:40 – 15:55 h
Hybrid surgery is possible - How does it work?
Jaume Amat, Rob Surgical, CEO, Barcelona, Spain

15:55 – 16:10 h
High precision assistance for eye surgery
Thijs Meenink, PRECEYES, System Engineering & Co-Founder, Eindhoven, Holland

16:10 – 16:25 h
Regain functions of the limbs with a wearable grasping device
Fanny Boria, Existo, Entrepreneurial Project Manager, Milan, Italy

16:25 – 16:40 h
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16:40 – 16:55 h
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11:00 – 12:00 h

Digital prevention – Increasing health and fitness and decreasing chronic diseases

Moderated by WT Wearable Technologies

11:00 – 11:05 h
Short intro

11:05 – 11:15 h
Measuring day and night blood pressure with a wearable device: Improving the diagnosis and management of hypertension at scale
Dr. Josep Sola, aktiia, Co-Founder & CEO, Neuchatel, Switzerland

11:15 – 11:25 h
Benefits from using digital bio-feedback for posture and movement optimization
Harald Freitag, movX, CEO & CTO, Wissen, Germany

11:25 – 11:35 h
Garmin Health – Data-driven collaborations in healthcare
Benedikt Kurz, Garmin Business Development Manager, Garmin Health, Würzburg, Germany

11:35 – 11:45 h
Wearable light - Integration with digital therapeutics and telehealth for management of soft tissue injury
Dr. Chris Castel, CareWear, CEO, Reno, USA

11:45 – 11:55 h
Next-generation wearables for remote monitoring of vital signs
Dr. Ashok Sridhar, Holst Center, Senior Business Development Manager – Healthcare, Eindhoven, Holland

12:00 – 13:00 h

Healthcare accelerators – Enabling future health innovations

Moderated by Navispace

12:00 – 12:05 h
Short intro

12:05 – 12:15 h
Building Taiwan into global biomedical ecosystem
tbc., Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

12:15 – 12:25 h
Transforming healthcare with AI
tbc., Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

12:25 – 12:35 h
Accelerating innovation of AI in healthcare
tbc., Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

12:35 – 12:50 h
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13:00 – 15:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT: 10th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION

Moderated by Navispace

13:00 – 13:10 h
Welcome and introduction

13:10 – 14:15 h
The TOP12 Healthcare Innovators 2021 pitch (health apps, robotics, AI in healthcare & others)

14:15 – 14:40 h
Panel discussion: Collaborative innovation in healthcare - a guide to successful collaborations between startups, corporates and investors

14:40 – 15:00 h
10th MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION award ceremony

15:00 – 17:00 h

Mobile health – Improving healthcare at home and at the point of care

15:00 – 15:05 h
Short intro

15:05 – 15:15 h
Digital care assistance - Always know when you are needed
Natalie Heckel, MOIO, Marketing Manager, Fürth, Germany

15:15 – 15:25 h
Medical electrodes and sensors from laboratory to fabrication
Antti Tauriainen, Screentec, CEO, Oulu, Finland

15:25 – 15:35 h
A revolution in primary care - Comprehensive physical exam and remote diagnosis in 1 hour
Michal Biernat, Higo Sense, CTO, Warsaw, Poland

15:35 – 15:45 h
Robust elastomeric soft dry electrodes for gel free use
Thilo Schmierer, Datwyler, Business Development Manager – Medical, Altdorf, Switzerland

15:45 – 15:55 h
Enhanced therapy management of asthma and COPD with innovative digital solutions
Philipp Kroneberg, VisionHealth, COO, Garching, Germany

16:00 – 16:10 h
Telerehabilitation technologies in physiotherapy during Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 times
Svitlana Malovana, Raccoon.World, CEO & Co-Founder, Berlin, Germany

16:10 – 16:20 h
Filling the monitoring gap in patients pathways
Dr. Johannes Kreuzer, Cosinuss, CEO, Munich, Germany

16:20 – 16:30 h
Accelerating the development of medical wearables with an open sensor platform
Terho Lahtinen, Movesense, Head of Marketing, Vantaa, Finland

16:30 – 16:40 h
Advances in remote monitoring systems
Mikko Savola, Monidor, CEO, Oulu, Finland

16:40 – 16:50 h
The role of connected devices to generalize at-home healthcare
Vincent Vercamer, Withings, Head of Market Access & Public Affairs, Île-de-France, France

16:50 – 17:00 h
Wearable developments in respiratory medicine
Dr. Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades, Nukute, Chief Medical Communications Officer, Oulu, Finland

11:00 – 12:30 h

Planetary and public health - Tackling planetary healthcare in times of Covid-19, pandemic scenarions and climate change

11:00 – 11:05 h
Short intro

11:05 – 11:30 h
Health equity - Digital solutions to tackle a planetary challenge
Prof. Dr. med. Ralf von Baer, Aalen University, Professor for E-Health Technologies, Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany

11:30 – 11:45 h
Access to health services in Africa – how digital solutions can address existing challenges (virtual presentation)
Tolagbe Martins, Helium Health, Head of Regional Public Sector Growth, Lagos, Nigeria

11:45 – 12:00 h
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Janitri

12:00 – 12:10 h
Remote care during Covid-19 in 6 hospitals from Europe
Nuria Pastor, HumanITcare, CEO, Barcelona, Spain

12:10 – 12:20 h
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12:20 – 12:30 h
Powering the future – Energy generation with papers and enzymes
Dr. Jules Hammond, BeFC, CEO & Co-Founder, Grenoble, France

12:30 – 14:30 h

MEDICA DISRUPT - Diagnostics and health monitoring

12:30 – 12:35 h
Short intro

12:35 – 12:45 h
Solutions for 24/7 monitoring of cardio-respiratory parameters
Christophe Verjus, CSEM, Senior Project Manager (Project Office) & Business Development Manager (Medtech), Neuchatel, Switzerland

12:45 – 12:55 h
A significant innovation in non-invasive cardiac monitoring for decades
Ville Ingman, Precordior, Chief Growth Officer, Turku, Finland

12:55 – 13:05 h
Continuous & accurate atrial fibrillation detection using a ring-type wearable device based on deep learning
Jack Lee, Sky Labs, CEO, Seongnam, South Korea

13:05 – 13:15 h
Remote respiratory care beyond symptom tracking
Seppo Salorinne, KAMU health, Chief Product Officer, Helsinki, Finland

13:15 – 13:25 h
A revolution in delivering physical exams of the patient to the doctor
Michal Biernat, Higosense, CTO, Warsaw, Poland

13:25 – 13:35 h
A new way to reduce the exposure of virus and bacteria in the air we breathe
Linus Yman, Nosamed, Key Account Manager Europe, Stockholm, Sweden

13:40 – 13:50 h
A depression detection technology for smart wristband and IoT system
Dr. Keming Zhou, August International, Founder & Managing Director, UK

13:50 – 14:00 h
Remote monitoring of patient health using radar sensor technology and cloud based AI
Abhishek Jayaprakash, Henkaus, CEO, Lappeenranta, Finland

14:00 – 14:10 h
Game-based breathing rehabilitation device for patients with Covid-19 induced pneumonia
Dr. med. Peter Kozlowski, Resp Medical, R&D Director, Co-Founder, Lublin, Poland
Dr. med. Rafal Agatowski, Resp Medical, Marketing Director, Co-Founder, Lublin, Poland

14:10 – 14:20 h
Wearable sleep trackers - A medical perspective
Prof. Ugo Faraguna, sleepActa, President of SleepActa srl and Associate Professor of Physiology, Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

14:20 – 14:30 h
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14:30 – 16:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT - AI/data analytics in healthcare

14:30 – 14:35 h
Short intro

14:35 – 14:45 h
Personalizing cancer treatment with AI
Alex Blakoe, Cievert, COO, London, UK

14:45 – 14:55 h
New breakthrough applications of advanced Artificial Intelligence to MRI evaluation
Welf Wustlich, Planet AI, CTO, Rostock, Germany

14:55 – 15:05 h
How to build a hospital data architecture
Corneliu Malciu, Arkhn, Co-Founder, Paris, France

15:05 – 15:15 h
Leveraging AI to empower patients and collect patient-generated health data
Julien Moussali, Wefight, Head of Business Development, Paris, France

15:15 – 15:25 h
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15:25 – 15:35 h
Artificial Intelligence in smart hospitals: How AI can help with automation and decision support
Dario Antweiler, SmartHospital.NRW, Project Lead, Sankt Augustin, Germany

15:35 – 15:45 h
AI-supported preventive health care paths and actions to minimize hospital days
Aki Kuivalainen, Predicell, CEO, Espoo, Finland

15:45 – 15:55 h
Garbage in, garbage out – Ensuring data quality in clinical studies with modern EDC
Dr. Philipp Pagel, MaganaMed, Managing Director, Regensburg, Germany

16:00 – 17:00 h

Digital Healthcare Act – Improving healthcare provision through digitization and innovation

16:00 – 16:05 h
Short intro

16:05 – 16:25 h
One year of DIGA – Status and learnings
Dr. Wolfgang Lauer, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Head of the Medical Devices Division, Germany

16:25 – 16:35 h
Prerequisites for market entry as DIGA
Dr. Benedikt Zacher, DIGA Factory, Founding Partner, München, Germany

16:35 – 16:45 h
Health apps on prescription - First experiences under the new Digital Care Act
Nora Blum, Selfapy, Co-Founder, Berlin, Germany

16:45 – 16:55 h
Lessons learned as one of the first listed DiGA
Henrik Emmert, aidhere, CEO & Co-Founder, Hamburg, Germany


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11:00 – 12:30 h

Mental health and neuromedicine - Understanding the brain and the mind

Moderated by: Navispace

11:00 – 11:05 h
Short intro

11:05 – 11:25 h
Development of machine learning based decision support for neurointensive care
Dr. med. Nils Schweingruber, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Neurology expert and data scientist, Hamburg, Germany

11:25 – 11:35 h
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11:35 – 11:45 h
Digital neuro-biomarkers enable early detection of cognitive disorders
Laszlo Bax, Braingaze, CEO & Co-Founder, Premia de Dalt, Hungary

11:45 – 11:55 h
21 century's technology for treating brain diseases: the potential of Virtual Reality
Barbara Stegmann, living brain, CEO & Co-Founder, Eppelheim, Germany

11:55 – 12:05 h
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12:05 – 12:15 h
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12:15 – 12:25 h
Digital HRV-feedback interventions to reduce stress in health care settings
Prof. Dr. Bettina Wollesen, Technical University Berlin, Professor for Biological Psychology and Neuroergonomics, Berlin, Germany

12:30 – 14:00 h

MEDICA DISRUPT - Solutions for hospitals and care centers

12:30 – 12:35 h
Short intro

12:35 – 12:45 h
Biometrics and AI – The next most reliable patient and health staff identification?
Antxon Caballero Valencia, Heuristik Health, CEO & Founder, Getxo, Spain

12:45 – 12:55 h
Creating a learning platform for surgeons
Dr. Arne Schlenzka, Osgenic, CEO, Helsinki, Finland

12:55 – 13:05 h
Building a potent ML system for radiologists
Evgenii Nikitin, Celsus, Head of AI, Kaluga, Russia

13:05 – 13:15 h
3D printing at the point of care - An embedded model
Henry Pinchbeck, 3D LifePrints, CEO, London, UK
Michael Richard, 3D LifePrints, Head of Engineering, Oxford, UK

13:15 – 13:25 h
Stimulating the senses - The potential of haptic feedback for the medical domain
Guus de Hoog, Elitac Wearables, Creative Director, Utrecht, Netherlands

13:25 – 13:35 h
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13:35 – 13:45 h
3D design automation for the orthotics & prosthetics industry
Stephen Cook, Taika3D, CEO, Wiltshire, UK

13:45 – 13:55 h
Revolutionary remote monitoring platform of cardiac devices
Thomas Habib, Implicity, COO, Paris, France

13:55 – 14:05 h
A digital health solution for quality-assured infection control
Dr. Tamas Haidegger, HandInScan, Co-Founder, Budapest, Hungary

14:05 – 14:15 h
Reduction of pain, stress and anxiety through distraction with virtual reality modules before, during and after medical interventions
Martin Koppehele, Magic Horizons, CEO & Co-Founder, Neufahm, Germany

14:15 – 14:25 h
Self-operating urine analyzer
Utku Uluşahin, Oruba Medical Technology, Co-Founder & General Manager, Ankara, Turkey

14:30 – 15:15 h

MEDICA DISRUPT - FemTech

14:30 – 14:35 h
Short intro

14:35 – 14:45 h
Psychological online support in women’s health - a hybrid solution for fertility treatments
Sally Aileen Schulze, MentalStark, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Founder, Frankfurt, Germany

14:45 – 14:55 h
Prenatal telemedicine with ultrasound at home
Till Osswald, Connected Healthcare, Owner, Munich, Germany

14:55 – 15:05 h
EMY a connected medical kegel trainer loved by women
Emeline Hahn, Fizimed, CEO & Co-Founder, Strasbourg, France

15:05 – 15:15 h
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15:20 – 17:00 h

Diagnostics & chronic disease treatment

15:30 – 15:35 h
Short intro

15:35 – 15:45 h
Should AEDs be considered as preventative care for sudden cardiac death?
Anthony Verdeja, HeartHero, Vice President of Global Strategy & Sales, Colorado, USA

15:45 – 15:55 h
Using IoT and deep learning in managing patients with COVID-19 and chronic disease
Dr. Lukasz Czekaj, aidmed, CTO, Gdansk, Poland

15:55 – 16:05 h
Mobile connected blood coagulation diagnostics platform with Lab on a Chip
Hasan Urey, Tarabios, CEO, Istanbul, Turkey

16:05 – 16:15 h
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16:15 – 16:25 h
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16:25 – 16:35 h
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16:35 – 16:45 h
The autologous patch - Personalized medicine for the treatment of difficult-to-heal wounds
Alice Michelangeli, Prometheus3D, Chief Strategy Officer, Parma, Italy

16:45 – 16:55 h
Medical travel advice - A new digital approach
Dr. Andreas Kaniewski, Journeyfit, CEO, Leverkusen, Germany
Andrej Schneider, Journeyfit, Managing Director, Leverkusen, Germany


[Version: 07 September 2021, subject to change]