The Regulatory Awareness Workshop (RAW) focuses on the medical device regulatory landscape that arises to startups and SMEs in the digital health sector. The RAW helps developers of medical and health-related apps and software to understand the importance of considering the medical device regulatory framework in the digital health sector.

By using case studies, the following issues are explained:
• when medical software falls under the medical device directive
• how to classify medical device software
• which key regulatory standards are mandatory
• the impact of the new regulation (MDR) on medical device software

The workshop will include a presentation (1 hour) and a Q&A section (1 hour).

Meet awesome up-and-coming start-ups, which will make it through our selection process, hear from key investors about their funding strategies and engage with the Experts’ Q&A Panel.

Moderated by: Paolo Borella

Presentations by:

AMICOMED - Giangiacomo Rocco di Torrepadula, CEO & Co-Founder

Binnovate Digital Health Corp - Kirby Binayao, Founder

GAIA - Mario Weiss CEO & Founder

HeartWatch - Guido Magrin CEO & Co-Founder

Kaia - Konstantin Mehl ‎Founder and CEO

Keleya Digital-Health Solutions - Victoria Engelhardt Co-Founder

Oviva - Kai Eberhardt CEO and Co-Founder

QoLware - Ying Huang Finance & Legal

Selfapy - Farina Schurzfeld Co-founder

Sleep.ai - Michiel Allessie CEO and Founder

TOMMI - Valentino Megale CEO and Co-Founder

Meet awesome up-and-coming start-ups, which will make it through our selection process, hear from key investors about their funding strategies and engage with the Experts’ Q&A Panel.

Moderated by: Martin Kelly

Presentations by:

Paginemediche - Marina Peluso, Content & Social Media Strategy

Baze - Philipp Schulte, CEO

D-EYE - Alberto Scarpa, CEO

Infermedica - Piotr Orzechowski, Co-Founder

INNOVITAS VITAE - Alessandro Scozzesi, CEO

Med Angel - Amin Zayani CEO & co-founder

Medicinisto - Guido Axmann, CEO & co-founder

MediLad - Lutz Haase, Business angel

Miamed - Benedikt Hochkirchen, co-CEO

Myontec Oy - Janne Pylväs, CEO

Sky Labs - Jack Lee, CEO

SYMPTOMA - Jama Nateqi, CEO

Diagnosia - Lukas Zinnagl, Founder and CEO

During the meetings, invited startups will have the opportunity to present ideas on how to solve key challenges that Patients, their Caregivers and Physicians are likely to face when living with Hypertension, Angina, and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD).
Please contact the Frontiers Team or Menarini delegates in the Community to get considered for invitation.

aescuvest: a healthy investment

Enjoying awesome food and drinks in excellent company are conducive to great spirits and conversations. This is why you will not want to miss Frontiers Health’s delicious Networking Lunch Break, which informally brings together entrepreneurs, founders, investors, pharma, device makers and insurance executives.

Introduced by: Paul Tunnah

Discover how new pharmaceutical companies are re-inventing themselves as ‘digital first’ and how established players are reinventing themselves through Open Innovation, launching Proof of Concept initiatives with clearly defined business roadmaps and goals.

Moderated by: Marc Sluijs

The current fragmentation of the Digital Health landscape is a barrier to large scale adoption due to a) a lack of end-to-end solutions, b) a lack of large scale evidence and c) the lack of financial bandwidth to fund global Go-To-Market and be a stable long term partner. As digital health consolidation is emerging, we will explore different M&A strategies and their implications for the ecosystem with our panel of investors and (recently acquired) digital health companies. In particular, we will explore the 3 main scenarios for digital health M&A: 1) similar companies merging to create more scale, 2) complementary companies merging to create more complete solutions, and 3) acquisitions of digital health companies by players from other industries.

Moderated by: Frederic Llordachs
Payers and health insurers are playing an increasingly important role in the adoption of Health 2.0 solutions and the general development of the digital health industry in Europe and around the world. After all, they have the most to gain from increased prevention, performant disease management and generally speaking improved clinical and financial outcomes. This panel session, convening the most active health insurers in digital health, will discuss solutions that are designed to be implemented “by” or “through a partnership with” health insurers.

Digital Nutrition: enhancing people’s quality of life through Nutrition, Health and Wellness

1:1 meetings slot for start-up and accredited investors in dedicated lounge

A customer experience workshop

Over the last 10 years, the healthcare industry has gone through several attempts at transforming itself to keep up with the torrid pace of changes in technology and services happening in other industries. While some “digital first” pharma initiatives have achieved good results, the overall success record across the industry is mixed at best. Today, a convergence of motivated consumers collecting personal health data with medical grade wearables, along with advances in data sciences/AI, and startups launching new healthcare models, present real threats as well as tremendous opportunities to traditional healthcare business stakeholders. Intouch Solutions and Healthware have joined forces to show a way forward that seeks to identify opportunities for engagement with today's health consumers by creating and delivering highly valuable customer experiences that integrate the latest innovations in tech and data.

Moderated by: Nana Bit-Avragim

As medicine grows more specialized and data-driven, the need to rethink the current business of clinical trials becomes imperative. The Internet of Things and emerging technologies offer many undeniable advantages to becoming the “new norm”. At the same time, the health industry is moving to a new paradigm, Medical Affairs 2.0, where data mining combined with medical expertise are becoming critical for R&D and commercial counterparts and its role in product launch is getting strategically crucial.
Now, which challenges clinical trials business are facing today? Who are the new players in the clinical trial ecosystem? Can web reset clinical trials?
Leading experts in pharma, medicine, technology, digital health and a patients’ representative will search for answers and discuss how to reinvent and accelerate progress towards networked and patient-centric clinical trials ecosystem.

The Pfizer Healthcare Challenge Award Ceremony is open to all Frontiers attendees and Pfizer guests (entry 4:30 pm, program from 5:00 pm to 6.30 pm, closes in an networking aperitif).

Agenda
16:30 Entry for Pfizer guests and other conference attendees
17:00 Welcome by Pfizer Healthcare Hub, Moderation by Dr. Karsten Neumann (Roland Berger Spielfeld)
17:05 Keynote Peter Albiez, Country Manager Germany, Pfizer
17:15 Presentation of the Pfizer Healthcare Challenge 2017
17:30 Pitches of the finalists
17:50 Ceremony
18:00 Panel discussion with the winners & the jury
18:30 Ending & Networking Aperitif

Conference co-hosts Healthware International and Intouch Solutions are delighted to sponsor the Frontiers Health 2017 Networking Aperitif reception and welcome all speakers and delegates to stick around after the conference activities and have some fun, network and mingle while sipping great wine and enjoying Axica’s award winning hors d’ouvres.

Later in the evening all attendees are invited to show off their musical talents and join-in on stage for the first ever Frontiers Health Blues Jam Session! An electric rock backline will be there to be put to the test, which includes drum set, 2 electric guitars and amps, bass guitar and keyboard!

Want to join the jam? Just look for a Frontiers Health coordinator and ask them to put your name on the list!