CEO at Longenesis Ltd., Latvia

Sergey Jakimov is a founder and advisor to multiple growth-stage startups in Europe and Asia. His main field of expertise is the industrial integration of digital health solutions and novel biomedical technologies.

After graduating with merit from Central European University and Riga Graduate School of Law, Sergey put his knowledge and competence to accelerate the growth of Koatum – a biomedical technology company that develops targeted drug delivery systems for dental and orthopedic implants, that is currently in the last round of validation before being launched as a commercial product into the US market.

Using his experience in the field, Sergey, as a CEO of Longenesis – a digital health tech company, provides the R&D industry with tools that facilitate the clinical trial process in multiple research and healthcare institutions around the globe.

Sergey is also a guest lecturer and co-author of the study program on product commercialization at the University of Latvia and a guest lecturer in Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia).

Session: Accelerating clinical research through biomedical data curation.

Ecosystem for accelerating collaborative research – Identification, Engagement, Onboarding

Every healthcare institution accumulates a lot of data with no ability to effectively utilize it for clinical research. Data privacy regulations do not make this process any easier.

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, there is a need for solutions that would enable researchers and specialists to effectively share the disease-related data and engage patients and population in the research process.

The session will cover developed solutions in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Learning outcomes:

• Insight into regulation-compliant biomedical data utilization.
• Creating a “handshake” between sponsor and investigator.
• COVID-19 impact on R&D – positive and negative effects.
• Participants will learn about the problems in patient identification and engagement.

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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Researcher at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Falko Schmidt is a soon-to-graduate PhD student at the Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg. In his research he employs optical manipulation to drive novel micro- and nanomachines.

Finding real world applications for ideas and technical solutions developed during his time as a PhD student has driven Falko for a couple of years already. After exploring different ideas and some initial set-backs he founded his own startup company, Lucero AB. Their aim is to develop automated optical manipulation solutions for single cell analysis with applications in research on longevity, viral diseases and in the pharmaceutical industry.

Falko’s role at Lucero AB is in technical development with a focus on laser optics. In addition, he also enjoys giving seminars on entrepreneurship where he focuses on idea finding and validation as well as on the process of creating a startup company.

Session: Biotechnology and AI

Fully automated optofluidic manipulation of single cells for advancing the global healthcare industry towards personalized medicine

Covid-19 has shown us that individuals are affected very differently by the disease. Now more than ever the healthcare industry is transitioning towards personalized medicine. In this talk we will show how cutting-edge technology can be used to understand how such complex diseases differ at the single-cell level. We combine three core technologies, artificial intelligence, microfluidics and optical manipulation to create an automated and user-friendly tool for researchers across various disciplines.

Learning outcomes:

• Get to know why biologists and pharmaceuticals currently struggle with population studies and how single-cell studies could be the key
• Gain basic understanding of contactless and non-invasive methods for single cell manipulation
• Learn about how AI algorithms can automatically recognized and classify different cell types
• Gain insights into how three different technologies; photonics, microfluidics and AI can be seamlessly integrated into a single fully automated platform

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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CEO & Founder of Digital Plus, Serbia

Jelena Milentijević is an expert in digital marketing, specialized in the field of medicine. She has done
over 1,000 successful campaigns on social networks for famous hospitals in Serbia.
Her presentation deals with the use of emotions in the representation of medical services, raising awareness about prevention, creating a loyal community and, as a crown of everything – raising the sale of medical services. She believes that the emotional segment in creating content for social networks is basic for achieving success, and that other aspects of marketing, as well as all related technological possibilities, are an important and useful upgrade. You will find out how Jelena achieves success in selling medical services through social networks in her lecture.

Session: Why emotional marketing sells best on SM in medical field

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VP – Growth & Innovation at DailyRounds, India

I am empowering Healthcare professionals to learn anytime, anywhere & practice evidence-based medicine on DailyRounds platform. Scaled the user base of DailyRounds to 1 million healthcare professionals in 3 years. I count Product based innovations & executing growth strategies in healthcare as my core expertise. With an attitude to learn it all and implement the learnings to solve real-world problems to create a healthier society is my core motivation.

Also, find joy in mentoring various healthcare startups. In the past I have mentored at MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack SF 2019 & member of the judging panel for UCSF Digital Health Awards 2019, 2020.

I am passionate about merging healthcare & technology. I am a fan of newspapers, science fiction & travel.

Session: Lead your organisation in the digital age

Covid19 has accelerated the transition to a digital world and it has affected all industries including healthcare. This session will empower all stakeholders in healthcare to embrace the new normal and pave way for the future in a thoughtful manner.

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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UX Consultant at Panacea Digital, United Kingdom

Marta Denkiewicz is a UX design consultant and researcher specialising in digital health applications. She works with healthcare startups to help them build digital health and wellness applications that successfully engage users, increasing the benefit for both users / patients and the business.

She conducts independent user testing of health applications to create guidelines and best practice recommendations for user-friendly health apps.

Previous projects included design and research for apps in personal health record management, prescription and medication management, nutrition, mental health, activity and female health tracking.

Session: 5 principles for creating digital health apps

users love and engage with

User engagement is a critical factor for the success of any digital health tool. After all, even the most successful digital interventions won’t make any different if people don’t use them. Based on independent user testing of 20 health and wellbeing applications, the session will present 5 principles for creating digital health apps that users love and return to every day.

Learning outcomes:

• Why user experience is critical for the success of digital health tools
• 5 principles for engaging and user-friendly digital health apps

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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Strategy & Ecosystems at Digital Hub Initiative Germany – 5-HT Digital Hub Chemistry & Health, Germany

Marco R. Majer is currently working as a Senior Manager for Strategy and Ecosystem Development at the German Digital Hub initiative ‘de:hub’ of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within the Digital Chemistry & Health cluster, 5-HT Digital Hub. He completed the Master program MSc Business Innovation and Management Consulting at Munich University of Applied Sciences and participated at the Chinese Language Enhancement Program and Chinese Culture & History module at Peking University. Majer was working for BASF’s Digital Innovation team, mainly focusing on startup collaboration activities and innovation consulting in the area of digitalization. Before, he was with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Advisory – Management Consulting team, focusing on organisational development and digital transformation. He completed his bachelor’s in Business Administration and International Trade at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University and Nanyang Polytechnic – School of Business Management in Singapore. In addition, he is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in London.

Session: Open Digital Innovation / Startup Engagement

Roadmap for pharma companies to successfully engage with tech startups

Today, we are seeing more and more digital technologies evolving from the research stage towards market readiness. This also applies for the pharma industry, where high innovation pressure led to large R&D budgets. Startups, especially with digital solutions, can act as an important driver for innovation, but collaboration between pharma companies and startups are often difficult. In this session, we dive into successful engagement models.

Learning outcomes:

• Participants will see the necessity for external innovation drivers
• Participants will better understand the startup requirements
• Participants learn how to successfully engage with startups

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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Digital Health Lead at ABHI, United Kingdom

Andrew is responsible for working with partners to ensure that the UK maximises the opportunities for citizen health and economic wealth by appropriate investment in data driven healthcare.

A vital element of this is building on the unique opportunities delivered by the NHS to enable industry to access robust, well curated data within a strong ethical framework. Coupled with close engagement with national bodies to evolve regulatory and reimbursement systems the aim is to create a strong infrastructure and commercial environment that can support the development and wide-spread adoption of the best HealthTech solutions.

Andrew has over 25 years experience in the medical technology sector having worked within MedTech divisions of household names such as Thorn EMI, Philips and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has held roles covering UK and international marketing, market access and business development across both capital and consumable equipment.

He has a degree in Applied Physics and a post graduate diploma in marketing.

Session: Digital Health Technologies: data access and regulation

Digital health is an umbrella term that is used ubiquitously and there remains little coherent central strategy for delivering the more accessible and cost-effective modes of care that are promised. There are 3 key factors that need to be addressed:

1. Public dialogue on the sharing and use of health data
2. Regulation of technology, service and data
3. Access, interoperability and commercial aspects of data sharing

The talk will cover the situation in UK and NHS

Learning outcomes:

• Understand barriers to adoption.
• Learn the environment and key processes in NHS.

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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Director Business Unit at GETZ PHARMA, Pakistan

A Pharmaceutical Business Professional with the expertise of “Portfolio alignment, Product Launches, Pharma Digital Marketing , Sales Management, Commercial operations, and Business Process Automation”.

Session: Digitization in Healthcare

Digitization in Healthcare

Covering the need of use technology in connection Physicians with Patients.

Learning outcomes:

• Use of Social Media in Healthcare
• Use of Digital Health
• Global Digital Health Market
• Use of Health Apps

Additional information and International Digital Healthtech, Healthcare & Pharmacy Conference programme – here

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AI Manager/AI Team Leader at Carbon Consulting, Turkey

He is currently AI Manager/AI Team Leader at Carbon Consulting, Turkey. His research interests and working area includes deepNLP, natural language processing, deep learning and machine learning. Currently working on various AI projects ranging from image processing to natural language processing at akbank bankacilik merkezi on behalf of adesso turkey. He is also participating in various research in collaboration with Microsoft Research, Google Brain and SnapChat researchers.

Session: Deep Learning and Covid-19

Deep Learning and Covid-19

Application of deep learning on the covid-19 in early detection of areas with infection rate or using it to automate the diagnose process from computer vision and NLP perspective got the attention of researchers recently. This assistive technology helps the health care system to automate or predict the nature of disease while it also helps people by using computer vision to keep their distance. Many researchers are actively working in this field because of the importance of this incident and pandemic nature of it. The way Covid-19 has changed our lives, adds another important key point to this research.

Learning outcomes:

• Computer vision
• NLP
• Deep learning
• Application of deep learning on covid-19 pandemic

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EPR Consultant and Researcher at PeopleSource, United Kingdom

ver 35 years’ experience in the UK healthcare IT sector with deep expertise in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems. Previously held CIO and Board Director positions in the NHS. Experience of working at 18 NHS hospitals (as employee or contractor). Implemented 6 EPR systems in NHS hospitals (including Cambridge, UCLH and Chelsea & Westminster). London Regional Implementation Director for National Programme for IT. Experience of Cerner, Epic, InterSystems, Meditech, System C, GE, Allscripts and TPP. Researching and writing articles on the EPR market. Worked in primary care, acute care, central government and private health. Led PWC’s UK health IT consulting practice. Expert in EPR strategies, business cases, infrastructure, transformation, procurement, commercials and programme management. Worked in the US at NYU Langone Health, Mt Sinai Hospital, US National Health Service Corps, Public Health Research Institute, and as a Computer Science lecturer at New York University.

Session: Electronic Patient Record Systems in the UK

Integrated Electronic Patient Record Systems for Integrated Care Post-COVID-19

COVID-19 has demonstrated that high quality patient data is essential to support proper health and care responses to pandemics across populations. High quality patient data depends upon truly integrated electronic patient record (EPR) systems being used routinely at the point of care by clinicians and care teams. Our research has shown that only 62% of acute hospitals in the UK have integrated EPRs. The remaining 38% either have no EPR and still rely on paper records, or they have “best of breed” systems which rely on stitching together disparate clinical systems that were not designed to work together. So-called “interoperability” standards have not been seen to work at scale to integrate systems to form truly integrated EPRs. They entail passing small subsets of EPR data from one system to another and are fraught with data quality, out of date and single point of failure risks. This talk will present evidence to show the EPR market trend towards integrated as opposed to best of breed EPRs. It will also present the case for deploying EPRs across care settings to enable true patient-centred integrated care.

Learning outcomes:

• Learn how to engage clinicians and executives in the business case for integrated EPRs
• Learn how to create the vision for single integrated cross setting EPRs for their local populations
• Learn how to move CIOs from best of breed to truly integrated EPRs
• Understand which EPR vendors to follow when testing the EPR market for solutions

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