TICKETSSpeakersProgram 
OCT 28–29 | HELSINKI

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Join live with +400 experts and innovators

Innovation Across
Boundaries and Limits

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Partner and learn with leading Hospitals, Companies and Research Organisations across Nordics, Baltics and the wider European ecosystem.

Activities: Keynotes, Panels, Workshops, Side events, Networking, Expo.

Key Topics: AI, RDI, Co-creation, Fundraising, Education, Product & Service Innovation, Sustainability, IP, Regulations, Usability & Adoption.

Special focus areas: Women's Health, Aging population, Mental Health, Pediatric Innovation, Future of Medical Profession.

Health_Spin_ Pitching competion: Up to 200K€ Angel Track and VC Track for #MedTech, #DigitalHealth and #Pharma Spinouts/Startups.

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Learn about:

Partnership and Co-Innovation opportunities
Technology  and Service Innovation
Venture Building and Growth thorugh RDI
IP, Patenting and Regulatory Strategy

Clinical topics:

Women's Health, Aging population, Pediatric Innovation and Mental Health

#Digitalization #Platforms #Mentalhealth

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Venture Building and Growth thorugh RDI

Learn how we can design physical and virtual surroundings that support our wellbeing
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Learn how tomorrows healthcare can be both physical and virtual as well
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#VR #XR #PhysicalReality # Architecture

IP, Patenting and Regulatory Strategy

How to design interactions between patients and healthcare professionals.

How to enable wellbeing at home.

#UX #UI #Applications #HomeCare

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Virpi Roto

Virpi Roto is working as a professor of practice in experience design at Aalto University, Department of Design. She is the most cited user experience researcher in Finland. She is the Chair of Aalto Experience Platform, which facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration in experience research.

Jere Finne

Jere Finne is a Service Manager in Service Center Helsinki. Through technology they can offer their customers a chance to live a good and sociable life in the safety of their home. By utilizing cutting-edge technology, vast liaison network and firm knowledge on healthcare service design they have been able to develop a concept that is internationally renowned. At this year’s Helsinki Design Week they launched this concept as a new ’At Home Concept’, which is a continuum for previous development.​

Nina Karisalmi

Before graduating as M.Sc.(Tech) Nina worked as a pediatric nurse in the Childrens's hospital. Now she is doing her Phd in the usability group at Aalto University. Karisalmi has been involved with the Lapsus research project for three years, studying the patient experience of children.

Saara Hassinen / Chair

Saara Hassinen is the CEO of the Healthtech Finland representing about 200 companies operating in Finland. Health technology is one of the fastest growing high-tech export sectors in Finland.

A favourable operating environment envisages the R&D and production of patient-safe, effective and innovative solutions for both Finland and the world.

Erki Mölder

As Managing Partner at Verge HealthTech Fund, Erki Mölder supports founders in building transformative HealthTech companies. With over two decades of experience in healthcare investment and entrepreneurship, he is dedicated to enhancing the accessibility of quality healthcare.

He co-founded Health Founders to mentor ambitious HealthTech innovators and serves on the Supervisory Board at a leading Latvian hospital, where he advises on strategy and innovation.

Taneli Raivio / Chair

Professor Taneli Raivio serves as the Acting Director of Research and Research Innovations at the Helsinki University Hospital (HUS), and oversees a unit dedicated to advancing clinical and translational research, fostering scientific innovation, and promoting education within the healthcare system in close collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

He obtained his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Helsinki, and did his international postdoctoral fellowship at the Reproductive Endocrine Sciences Center at Harvard Medical School, MA. As a specialist in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology, he also holds the Niilo Hallman Professorship in Translational Pediatrics at the University of Helsinki.

Johanna  Furuhjelm

Is a Director of Karolinska Institutet Centre for AI Innovation and Coordinator of TEF-Health node Sweden

Center for AI Innovation, an initiative aimed at promoting the development and use of artificial intelligence in medical research and healthcare. The center will serve as a collaborative platform for local, regional, national, and international collaborations in AI at Karolinska Institutet.

Sys Zoffman Glud / Chair

Sys Zoffmann Glud is managing director of BioMedical Design Novo Nordisk Foundation Fellowship Programme. Her work is focused on empowering and training talented professionals to create need-driven health innovations as well as developing interdisciplinary collaborations to address health challenges.

She is an academic researcher with a PhD in Nano/Molecular Biology from Aarhus University
(2009), an author/co-author of a dozen scientific research publications and book chapters. She’s appointed member of Assessment Committee for Innovation Fund Denmark and act as Entrepreneurship ambassador for Department of Clinical Medicine.
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Heikki Pitkänen

Heikki Pitkänen, CEO of Lean Entries, provider of regtech e-tools.

Entries is a regtech platform providing explanation, education and instant actionable knowledge on the MDR, IVDR and soon on the AI Act, Data Act and the EHDS regulation.

Pasi Heiskanen

Pasi is the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of Noona Healthcare. He is an digital heath professional with passion for building solutions that work in practice. Pasi combines his health industry and cancer care expertise with deep knowledge in utilizing IT and digitalization to yield value. Ramping up Noona service and Noona Healthcare as a company is his latest mile stone in this path. Pasi’s mission is to build sustainable solutions for cancer hospitals in providing better care to their patients.

Johanna Kaipio

Johanna Kaipio, D.Sc.(Tech.), is working as a research fellow at Aalto University, Department of Computer Science. Johanna has a strong background in user-centered design and usability evaluation. Her areas of research include usability of healthcare information systems, integrating usability into procurement of IT systems for healthcare and social care, and patient experience.

Anna-Maria Henell

is the CEO and Co-Founder of Disior, where she drives innovation and co-creation with Clinicians and Medical Researchers. Founded in 2016, Disior develops a novel way to analyze and model bone fractures and soft tissue for diagnostics, pre-operative planning and treatment optimization. The company brings together clinical needs and product development experience from orthopedics, maxillofacial surgery and latest modelling technology.

Milvi Soosalu

Milvi Soosalu (M.A.) is industrial designer working as Senior User Experience Designer at GE Healthcare. She designs graphical user interfaces and UX for patient monitoring devices.  She also works on product usability evaluation and validation.  Helsinki is one of GE Healthcare’s leading centers of excellence for Monitoring Solutions R&D and marketing. In Finland there are approx. 1,100 employees in 6 sites, 2 manufacturing plants, 2 R&D Centers of Excellence and over 110 years of history.

Program TBA >

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University of Helsinki main building: Great Hall


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Day 2: Dipoli serves as the main building of Aalto University. It is a new type of multi-use building which reflects the skills and knowledge, activities, and people of the University.

Dipoli pictures: Northbay

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Picture: Unlocking the Scalability of Innovation in 2024: Workshop organized by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Biodesign Finland, representatives from wellbeing services counties, businesses, and other stakeholders had a chance to discuss the types of additional expertise and support needed to drive processes aimed at producing innovations that are scalable both nationally and internationally.


New workshops for Health Design 2025 TBA

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OPENING DAY 28th OF OCTOBER

The Program is in English expect select side events.
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Side event: Where is the growth from research, development and innovation? / Kasvun haasteet (FI)
Side event: Wellbeing counties pitch needs for co-creation ideas (FI)
Side event: Startup stories (EN)

12:00 Registration opens at University of helsinki

13:00–14:30 Parallel Workshops:
Women's Health, Aging Population, Pediatric Innovation
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14:00 Health_Spin_ Pitching Semi-finals:
For MedTech, Digital Health and pharma spinouts/startups.
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16:00 Opening Keynote Session:
Innovation Across Boundaries and Limits
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18:00 – 20:00 Evening Reception

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MAIN DAY 29th OF OCTOBER

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All sessions (S) include individualtalks and a panel discussion between the speakers

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8:00 Doors open.

8:30 Expo opens at Dipoli

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09:00 S1: Future of Medical profession – Partners in the next generation of innovation?

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11:00 S2: How wellbeing counties, universities and companies innovate with AI & DATA

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12:30 Lunch, expo networking

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14:00 Health_Spin_ Pitching Competition for Medtech, Digital Health & Pharma Spinouts/Startups

With leading startups and investors from the Nordics, Baltic and wider European ecosystem.

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15:30 Expo and networking

16:00 S3: Patient Centric and Value Base Healthcare for Sustainable future

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17:00 Winners announced & Closing the event

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Main Partners:

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Supporters, Exhibitors & Community:

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Instrumentarium
Science Foundation

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Interested in Partnerships? Learn more!

Main Partners:

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Supporters, Exhibitors & Community:

Main Partners:

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Supporters, Investors & Community:

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29.11.2017  

08.00-9.30. Registration and coffee  
09.30. Welcome to Health Design 2017: Otto Olavinen & Risto Ilmoniemi  

09.40. Designing health technology for patients and customers. Saara Hassinen, Jyrki Nieminen, Sami Niemelä

10.45-11.00 Coffeebreak in Expo space  

11.00. Design that addresses global health needs. Prashant Jha, Zeynep Falay von Flittner

12.00-13.00 Lunch break + Networking  

13.00. Hospital spaces that improve patient life. Pekka Lahdenne, Sakari Forsman

14.00. Coffee break in Expo space  

14.15 Service design and digital health services. Visa Honkanen, Emil Virkki.

15.15 Coffee break in Expo space  

15.30 Markku Mäkijärvi Instrumetarium Science Foundation & Finals of the competition  

16.15 Anne Pitkäranta: Design for the Caretakers (Health and aesthetics)  

16.45 Expo + Cocktails and networking
17.30 Health Design Award Gala + prices for 1-3rd place winners.

20.00 Closing doors

Pitching competition for research teams for innovative healthcare design.    

Semifinals on the 28th of November. Finals on the 29th of November at Health Design 2017
 
Prizes: 50 000  € for implementing the  solution

Even if the team doesn’t win, they have a chance to get valuable feedback from the Health Design jury. Teams also have an opportunity to form new partnerships.

Competition partner: Instrumentariumin Tiedesäätiö sr

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Towards the Future Workshop will be held after the conference. More details to be announced
Host: THL / STM Well-Being and Health AIRO project

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Need & research based pitching competition for innovative #Medtech, #Healthtech, #DigitalHealth and #Pharma solutions

Welcome to the Health Design 2025 pitching competition: Health_Spin_

Do you want to improve and impact human well-being? Do you have a novel health product/service that has a strong clinical and market need?

Investor lead partner: FIBAN

Want to join in as investor contact: otto.olavinen@northbay.fi / +358 40 763 7918
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Apply by 29th of September. The competition is held live at Aalto University Finland on 15th and 16th of October.

Health Design Pitching Competition is open for  Nordic / Baltic startups and university spinouts establishing their companies.

The language of the competition is English. Participants will be pre-selected by a Health Design Jury based on their applications.

Our emphasis is on innovations that address real needs for patinets and clinicians while providing solutions that can scale globally.Wheather you are a spinout from a univiversity of a startup started from a garage you are welcome as long as you provide a solution that creates a real and measurable impact that can also generate a profit for your company and investors.

Previous winners:
2024: Kiwecare (100K€ Angel syndicate winner), Otos (VC track winner), Polku Therapheutics (VC track winner)

2017–2019: Glucomodicum 30K, Afekta 15K, Maculaser 5K, Brain Care 20K, Advaneedle 15K, Resistomap 5K

This year the winners will get investment discussions with Nordic / Baltic Angels and VC's.

For Angels interested to join the pitching syndicate tickets are typically in the range of 20K€-10K€
Inquiries: otto.olavinen@northbay.fi +358 40 7637918

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Criteria

Need: What is the problem? Who needs your solution? What is the outcome they need vs their current state?
Approach: What is your solution and what is the impact you hope to achieve in the future?
Benefits: What are the outcomes and benefits you offer
Competition: Who are your competitors, how does your solution compare?

Team: Why are your team and your working environment uniquely qualified to make all this happen?

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Organisers:

Northbay is a company that builds ideas. A Creative agency that Directs, Designs and Develops. By specializing on research and technology intensive clients, we look to make an impact in a local and global landscape.

Healthtech Finland is is an industry association and part of Technology Industries of Finland. Healthtech Finland is also a community: we foster our industry’s growth and collective knowledge.

Aalto University is a multidisciplinary community where science and art meet technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future.

HUS - The Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa - is a Joint Authority formed by 24 municipalities. The aim is to offer patients in all member municipalities a timely and equal access to specialized medical care.

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