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DHSW19 Agenda

Published on: 25/02/2019

DHSW19 Agenda

Day 1 Tuesday 26 February 2019

09.30am
Introduction & Welcome

• Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance – Presentation Here

9.45am
Panel session – Building Trust

Key topics: Ethical AI, Data governance, Blockchain

Moderator: Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance

• “Emotional, Empathic, and Ethical AI: How AI is radically changing physical and mental health interventions” by Tarek R. Besold, AI Lead & Senior Research Scientist at Alpha Health -Telefónica Innovation Alpha (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Citizen-controlled Data Governance” by Angela Brand, Professor at Maastricht University, Task Force Leader of the Digital Health Society (DHS) (Netherlands)
• “Blockchain and the new economics of health data” by Jason Potts, Director of the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT (Australia) – Presentation Here
• “Practical blockchain as trust-promoter to build the healthcare of your dreams” by Ain Aaviksoo, Chief Medical Officer Guardtime Health General Manager (Estonia) – Presentation Here

10.25am – 11.00am Coffee break

11.00am
Panel Session – Digital Health Innovation in Maternal and Child Care

Moderator: Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance
• “International Patient Summary Standards in Child Care: a Look at Home-based Records” by Catherine E. Chronaki, Secretary General at HL7 Foundation Europe and VP at European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), (Brussels) – Presentation Here
• “Health system perspective: fostering quality and nurturing innovation in mobile health” by Javier Ferrero Álvarez-Rementería, CIO for the Andalusian Agency for Healthcare Quality, Health Department of Andalusia (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “My eHealth Life: a new perspective from an award-winning platform” by Adamis Theodoros, Director, 1st Dpt ObGyn IASO Maternity & Gynecology Clinic Athens (Greece) – Presentation Here

11.45am Keynote Series:
• “The real digital patient: women are digital, men are analogical” by Frederic Llordachs i Marques, Co-founder and Global Business Development Manager at Doctoralia (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Adolescents with behavioral disorder: a comprehensive assistance intervention in a specialized residential environment” by Marc Guilló, Principal of the academic area at Amalgama 7 (Spain) – Presentation Here

12.15pm – 13.15pm Lunch & Networking

13.15pm
Keynotes Series – Data-driven innovation
Key topics: Genetics, precision/personalized medicine, Behaviors, Lifestyle

Moderator: Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance
• “Breaking Down Silos: Achieving Personalized Diabetes Care” by Stephen Ranjan, Vice President, New Product Development at Roche Diabetes Care (USA) – Presentation Here
• “The challenge of delivering quality healthcare at a lower cost” by Darren Ransley, VP Business Development & Product at Infocare (UK) – Presentation Here
• “New models of health & care enabled by emerging technologies” by Martin Jeffries, Chief Marketing Officer at Tunstall Healthcare Group (UK) – Presentation Here
• “Real-world evidence, big data and value-based care” by Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Co-Founder at Open Evidence (Spain) – Presentation Here

14.25pm
Panel session – Urban health and wellbeing
Key topics: Precision/personalized medicine, Behaviors, Lifestyle

Moderator: Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance
• “Big data for Public Health: new opportunities for Smart Cities” by Maria Fernanda Cabrera, Innovation director at Life Supporting Technologies, Technical University of Madrid (PULSE H2020 project Coordinator) (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Sharecare Movement: engaging and empowering people & communities to meet their healthier self” by Julien Venne, Partnerships & Development at Sharecare Europe (France) – Presentation Here
• “Health and wellbeing in cities: a model for health and environment in urban settings” by Jesús Berdún, Project Manager de la Fundació TIC SalutSocial (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Innovative partnerships for digital health: how an urban multi sectoral approach can help tackle NCDs” by Marco Franzosi, Strategy officer at Novartis Foundation (Switzerland) – Presentation Here

15.15pm – 15.45pm Coffee break

15.45pm Panel session – AI opportunities for Health

Moderator: Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance
• “It’s all about person centricity” by Hector Upegui, Worldwide Market Development Executive, Associate Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health (Germany) – Presentation Here
• “Chatbots for Global Health : A Trigger for Integration” by Jordi Serrano Pons, Founder of the UniversalDoctor Project (Spain) – Presentation Here

16.20pm
Innovators pitching session
5 innovators pitching in front of digital health experts

Opening Keynote- Creating novel solutions that make healthy lives a reality for all by Irene Sánchez, Business Creation Manager EIT Health (Spain) – Presentation Here

Moderator: Mike Short, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Trade (UK)
• “eHealthPass: create interoperable shared care plans for chronic disease management and better patient outcomes: the cases of Diabetes and Chronic Pain” by Alexander Berler, Director Consulting Services at Gnomon (Greece) – Presentation Here
• “Artificial Intelligence in practice: personalised adaptive bolus recommender system for Type 1 Diabetes” by Beatriz López, Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Girona University (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “A health related framework for a connected world” by Simone Tonti, Product Development Manager at Ab.Acus s.r.l. (Italy) – Presentation Here
• “Accelerating Clinical Research through IOMED’s Natural Language Processing” by Javier de Oca, CEO de IOMED Medical Solutions (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Wearables and Brain Data: Companions for Digital Brain Health” by Aureli Soria-Frisch, Director of Neuroscience at Starlab Consulting Division (Spain) – Presentation Here

17:15pm Conclusion Day 1
• Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance

Day 2 Wednesday 27 February 2018

Smart healthy cities – PULSE featured workshop

09.45am
Introduction & Welcome

• Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance

10.00am EU Urban Agenda
• “The rise of the Digital City Transformation towards healthier urban environments” by Mika Rantakokko, University of Oulu, Coordinator of EU Urban Agenda Digital Transition Partnership (Finland) – Presentation Here

10.15am
Keynotes
• “Barcelona’s route towards a Healthy City” by Elia Diez, Head of the Preventive Programs and Interventions Service at the Public Health Agency of Barcelona (Spain) – Presentation Here
• “Superblocks’ intervention and PULSE: when local and European initiatives join forces to improve health” by Catherine Perez, Head of the Department of Health Information Systems at Barcelona Public Health Agency (Spain) – Presentation Here

10.45am
Learning from Smart City pioneers

• “The future of health in smart cities” by Janette Hughes, Director of Planning and Performance at Digital health and care institute (UK) – Presentation Here

11.00am – 11.30am Coffee break

11.30am
PULSE solution showcase: Citizen app and tools for Public Health Organizations

• José Gabriel Terius, Researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) – Presentation Here
• Vittorio Casella, Associate professor of Geomatics at the University of Pavia (Italy) Presentation Part 1 here and Part 2 here
• Vladimir Urošević, Research & Development Manager of Belit Ltd. Belgrade (Serbia) Presentation Here

12.00pm
Round Table with Business Council Experts

Moderator: Maite Ferrando, CEO at KVeloce I+D+i (Spain)

• Sylvie Donnasson, Partner Edito Health at eHealth Hub project (France)
• Cristian Pascual, Co-founder and CEO of Mediktor, and President of Barcelona Health Hub (Spain)
• Peter Wu, CEO, ASUS Cloud & ASUS Life (Taiwan)
• Jörg Weißmann, Head of Medical Affairs & Quality EMEA/LATAM at Roche Diabetes Care Deutschland GmbH (Germany)

12:40pm
Conclusions, announcement

• Bleddyn REES, Deputy Chair, ECHAlliance

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