08:00 am Registration
09:00 am Welcome & Opening
- Prof. Dr. Lothar Wieler, Speaker Digital Health Cluster, Chair Digital Global Public Health, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair Digital Health, Economics & Policy, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
09:15 Keynote - The Next Era of Germany`s Digital Healthcare Transformation: Priorities for 2025 and Beyond
- Matthias Mieves, Member of the German Bundestag, Committees for Health and Digitalization, SPD, GER
09:30 am Keynote – Spending $33 Billion Better: Lessons from the U.S. Promotion of Health IT
- Prof. Dr. Melinda Buntin, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and Carey
Business School, USA
09:45 am Keynote - Digital Medical Education
- Prof. Dr. Jochen Klucken, Chair of Digital Medicine, University of Luxembourg, LUX
10:00 am Digital Health Talk - From Social Media to Symptoms? TikTok and ADHD as a Case Study
- Inga Bergen, Founder, Visionäre der Gesundheit, GER
10:15 am Coffee and Networking Break
11:00 am Keynote – What it Means to Care for People in the Digital Era of Medicine
- Margaret Malone, Board Member, Digital Medicine Society, Principal, Flare Capital Partners, USA
11:15 am Town Hall – Clinician-Friendly AI and AI-Friendly Clinicians
Moderation: Thomas Hagemeijer, Founder, HGM Advisory, GER
- Lucy Orr-Ewing, Head of Policy, Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), USA
- Alexandre Momeni, Partner, General Catalyst, UK
- Prof. Dr. Christian Gerloff, Medical Director, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, GER
- Dr. Franz Pfister, CEO, deepc, GER
- Margaret Malone, Board Member, Digital Medicine Society, Principal, Flare Capital Partners, USA
12:15 pm Business Lunch
01:15 pm Keynote & Town Hall
01:15 pm Keynote (Lecture Hall 1): Transforming Healthcare: The Future of Gematik & ePA - From Tech to Insights
- Brenya Adjei, CEO, Gematik GmbH, GER
01:15 pm Keynote (Lecture Hall 3): Building Blocks for Resilient Health Systems: Innovation, AI and Data-Driven Medicine
- Dr. Anke Diehl, CTO, Universitätsmedizin Essen, GER
01:30 pm Town Hall (Lecture Hall 1) – How to Generate Value from Health Data
Moderation: Dr. Alberta Spreafico, Senior Vice President, Health Innovation, Eversana, IT
- Dr. Claire Biot, VP, Life Sciences & Healthcare Industry, Dassault Systèmes, FR
- Dr. Nick Schneider, Head of Division 511 on new technologies and data use at the German Federal Ministry of Health, GER
- Dr. Lipika Samal, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Gloria Seibert, Founder & CEO, Temedica, GER
- Dr. Marcel Nutsua, Data Scientist Architect, SVA, GER
- Brenya Adjei, CEO, Gematik GmbH, GER
01:30 pm Town Hall (Lecture Hall 3)– Entrepreneurial Hospitals and Health Systems
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Lutz Hager, Chairman of the Board, Bundesverband Managed Care e.V. (BMC e.V.), GER
- Dr. Florentine Kaniess, Strategic Advisor to the CEO, Charité, GER
- Daniel Dickens, Managing Partner, KHP Ventures, UK
- Gino Liguori, Department Head - Digital Health & Innovation, Vivantes, GER
- Dr. Erik Lium, Chief Commercial Innovation Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, USA
- Nicolas X. Weber, Head Innovation & Activation, Novartis, GER
- Dr. Anke Diehl, CTO, Universitätsmedizin Essen, GER
02:30 pm Expert Lectures from International Researchers
- “Real World Evidence for Regulatory Science”
- Prof. Dr. Florence Bourgeios, Director, Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science & Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
- “How (not) to Govern AI”
- Prof. Dr. Nicholson Price, Professor of Law, University of Michigan, USA
- “Generative Healthcare: Transforming Medicine in the Age of AI”
- Prof. Dr. Aldo Faisal, Director UKRI Centre AI for Healthcare at Imperial College, UK & Chair in Digital Health, University of Bayreuth, GER
03:30 pm Coffee Break
04:00 pm Town Hall & HPI Research Showcase
Town Hall Opening Lecture – Equity in Health Care: Why Do We Need Gender Medicine?
Prof. Dr. Carolin Lerchenmüller, Chair of Gender Medicine, University of Zurich, CH
Moderation: Katie Baca-Motes, Co-Founder, Scripps Research, GER
- PD Dr. Maike Henningsen, Founder and CEO, Female Digital Health, GER
- Prof. Dr. Carolin Lerchenmüller, Chair of Gender Medicine, University of Zurich, CH
- Prof. Dr. Mandy Mangler, Chief Physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vivantes, GER
- Prof. Dr. Ipek Ensari, Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health, The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, USA
- Silvia Hecher, Co-Founder & CEO, LEVY Health, GER
- Moderation: Dr. Lars Masanneck, Chairmen of the Board, German Society for Digital Medicine & University Clinic Düsseldorf, GER
- Prof. Dr. Girish Nadkarni, Director, The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, USA
- “Fair, Transparent and Accountable AI in Europe”
- Prof. Dr. Sandra Wachter, Chair Technology and Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- “Epigenetics in Precision Medicine: Sequencing-Base Real-Time Cancer Classification“
- Prof. Dr. Helene Kretzmer, Chair Computational Genomics, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- “Wearables + Health Records: Connecting Real-World Data for Health Research”
- Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich, Chair Connected Healthcare, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- “Scalable Personalized Health Using Adaptive N-of-1 Trials"
- Dr. Stefan Konigorski, Head of Health Intervention Analytics Lab, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- “All-in-One Digital Health Platform: ehive”
- Dr. Matteo Danieletto, Associate Director, Digital Health Initiatives, The Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai, USA
05:15 pm Keynote (Lecture Hall 1)- Healthy People can Only Exist on a Healthy Planet - Chances and Risks of Digital Health on our Way to Carbon Neutral Healthcare
- Dr. Andrea Nakoinz, Specialist physician, KLUG - German Alliance on Climate Change and Health e.V., GER
05:15 pm Keynote (Lecture Hall 3)- Capturing Value from Health Data: Platforms, Markets, and the Potential of Software-Defined Healthcare
- Michael Byczkowski, Global Vice President, SAP SE, GER
05:30 pm HPI Hackathon Medical Edition Winner Pitch
05:45 pm Wrap up of First Conference Day and Transition to Cocktail Reception, Dinner, Research Science Fair in Main Building
08:00 am Welcome & Registration
08:45 am Digital Health Breakfast Talk - The Data-Driven Future of Precision Medicine
- Prof. Dr. Amitabh Chandra, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School & Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, USA
- Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair Digital Health, Economics & Policy, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
09:15 am Keynotes & Startup Showcase
09:15 am Keynote (Lecture Hall 1) : German “Health Data Lab” and its Role
- Prof. Dr. Karl Broich, President, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), GER
09:15 am Keynote (Lecture Hall 3): Stanford Biodesign Digital Health - Scaling Access to Care
- Prof. Oliver Aalami, Director of Digital Health at Stanford Biodesign, Stanford University, USA
- Dr. Paul Schmiedmayer, Assistant Director of Digital Health at Stanford Biodesign, Stanford University, USA
- Dr. Vishnu Ravi, Digital Health & AI Architect at Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, USA
- Dr. Aydin Zahedivash, Clinical Informatics Lead, Stanford University Digital Health, USA
09:30 am Startup Showcase (Lecture Hall 3)
Moderation: Dr. Frank Pawlitschek, Director Engine, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- aMStart, Jasmin Mir, CEO & Founder, GER
- Evela, Dr. Valerie Kirchberger, CEO & Co-Founder, GER
- praxipal, Daniel Woelki, CEO & Co-Founder, GER
- every health, Dimitri Bilyarchyk, CEO & Co-Founder, GER
- service • health, Manuel Blechschmidt, CEO, GER
- Noah Labs, David Geyer, Founders Associate, GER
- Nucleate Germany, Nico Alavi, Co-Managing Director, GER
09:30 am Town Hall (Lecture Hall 1) – AI in Global Health: The Challenge of Implementation
Opening Lecture – AI in Global Health: The Challenge of Implementation
Marelize Gorgens, Lead, Digital Human Capital, The World Bank, USA
Moderation: Dr. Tobias Silberzahn, Board Member, Grameen Digital Healthcare Solutions, GER
- Prof. Dr. Lothar Wieler, Speaker Digital Health Cluster, Chair Digital Global Public Health, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
- Dr. Rose Nakasi, Head, Makerere AI Health Lab and Google AI for Global Goals Fellow, Makerere University, UG
- Marelize Gorgens, Lead, Digital Human Capital, The World Bank, USA
- Prof. Dr. Timo Minssen, Director Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Copenhagen, DEN
- Dr. Katharina Ladewig, Managing Director ZKI-PH, Robert Koch Institut, GER
10:45 am Coffee Break
11:15 am Keynote – Launch, Manage and Scale Exploratory and Breakthrough Innovation at Large Multinational Companies
- Betsabeh Madani-Hermann, Global Head of Research, Philips, NL
11:30 am Town Hall – Data Science 2025: Doing What Was Impossible a Decade Ago; Enabling what is Needed a Decade from Now
Moderation: Dr. Paul von Bünau, Managing Director, idalab GmbH, GER
- Dr. Saira Ghafur, CMO and Co-Founder, Prova Health, UK
- Marek Rydzewski, Chief Digital Officer, BARMER, GER
- Dr. Henrik Matthies, CEO, Honic, GER
- Dr. Jochen Lennerz, Chief Scientific Officer, BostonGene, USA
- Eva Weicken, CMO, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, GER
- Eric Sutherland, Senior Health Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, FR
12:30 pm Reflections: Digital Health Policy Innovation
- Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair Digital Health, Economics & Policy, Hasso Plattner Institute, GER
12:40 pm Transition to Lunch and Hands-On Workshops
01:30 pm Workshops (Pre-booking required)
- Dr. Paul Schmiedmayer, Assistant Director of Digital Health at Stanford Biodesign, Stanford University, USA
- MD Vishnu Ravi, Digital Health & AI Architect at Stanford Medicine, Stanford University, USA
- Dr. Aydin Zahedivash, Clinical Informatics Lead, Stanford Biodesign Digital Health, USA
- Jasmin Mir, CEO, aMStart, GER
- Nadja Birkenbach von Kuzenko, Patient Advocate, GER
- Dr. Lars Masanneck, Chairmen of the Board, German Society for Digital Medicine & University Clinic Düsseldorf, GER
- Dr. Anne Sophie Kubasch, Clinical Researcher, Hasso Plattner Institute & Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, TUD Dresden University of Technology, GER
This interactive workshop will review the factors that make innovation and research in digital health unique, present a proven process for patient-centered innovation, and provide a framework with software resources that attendees can use to pursue their own ideas. Much of the workshop will then consist of needs-finding and project ideation exercises in small groups. We will show examples of Stanford Biodesign project-based courses in digital health and highlight digital health applications which resulted from our multi-disciplinary design process and clinical collaborations. We will close with an overview of the open-source software tools we have developed to enable other academic centers to design similar applications and provide a toolkit for attendees to follow as they pursue ideas at their home institutions. The Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign’s Digital Health group aims to scale access to care by integrating cutting-edge AI, connected devices, and data-driven solutions. To accelerate research and translational efforts in digital health and AI, the group has developed Stanford Spezi, an open-source framework leveraging HL7 FHIR standards to enable modular, interoperable healthcare applications. Spezi has flourished through project-based use and open-source contributions, fostering an international development community and now supporting over 20 digital health and AI projects at Stanford and beyond.
- Marc Stussak, Senior Program Lead Corporate Innovation & Design Thinking Lead, HPI d-school, GER
- Robin Mehra, Design Strategist, HPI d-school, GER
In just 100 minutes, you’ll collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to tackle a real-world Digital Health challenge using the Design Thinking process. Take this opportunity to gain new insights, expand your network, and actively shape the future of Digital Health.
Very sufficient coding experience required!
- Igor Matias, Computer Scientist and Researcher, University of Geneva, CH
This workshop explores the evolving role of digital ubiquitous technology in cognitive and mental health monitoring. We will examine how wearable and smartphone-based passive assessments, combined with digital self-reports, are transforming research and early intervention strategies. The session begins with an overview of current and emerging digital health technologies, highlighting their applications in tracking cognition and affective states. Findings from ongoing research at the University of Geneva will showcase how continuous real-world data can provide insights into cognitive function, predict future decline, and potentiate proactive interventions before clinical symptoms appear. Next, I will introduce Model-Twin Randomization (MoTR), an innovative method for individual-level digital health research. Unlike traditional group-based analyses, MoTR allows researchers to disentangle intra-individual variations from broader population trends, offering a more precise and personalized approach to cognitive health monitoring. This session will explore how such advanced statistical techniques can enhance precision medicine and digital phenotyping.
The workshop culminates in a hands-on session, where participants will work directly with real-world longitudinal data from actual individuals. Using Jupyter Notebook, they will apply MoTR to investigate inter-individual differences in cognitive and mental health patterns, gaining practical experience with real-world longitudinal observational data. Finally, the session will conclude with an open discussion on the applications of individual-level research methods in academia, healthcare, and industry, and how digital health research can move toward more personalized, scalable solutions for cognitive health monitoring.