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Join Finnish HealthTech Delegation to Israel in September
2023-06-19
Team Finland will organise a HealthTech Trade Mission to Israel on 4-7 September 2023.
During the visit, participants will meet leading public and private hospitals such as Clalit Innovation, Assuta Hospital, ARC / Sheba Medical Center, Hadassah Medical Center and Ichilov hospital. The objective is to find validation, pilot, testbed and business opportunities for Finnish companies.
Registration deadline is 19.6 so secure your spot now!
To find out more about the upcoming visit, check the info webinar recording with hospital representatives.
You can also meet the organisers at Radical Health Festival in Helsinki (12-14 June). Please email Sami Jääskeläinen (sami.jaaskelainen@gov.fi) and schedule a meeting or call time.

4C Accelerator - free qualification program for medtech startups
2023-08-04
Do you have an innovative product idea in the field of MedTech and want to fasten your way into the market? Apply for the 4C Accelerator, an internationally sought-after and free qualification program!
What’s in it for you?

15 workshop days together with top experts
Free and focused training in the 4Cs and Regulatory Thinking®
1 year of individual support by startup coaches
The goal: your business model becomes ”investor-ready”

In addition: You become part of the Medical Innovations Incubator community!
Read more and apply by 4 August! The program starts in October 2023.

DTx New Nordics 2023 conference
2023-08-23
DTx New Nordics conference on 23 August is a gret opportunity to delve into the new ecosystem taking shape in Estonia – DtX Estonia.
DTx New Nordics conference is a part of Estonian Health Tech week, organised for the first time.
More information, program and registration

HealthTech Export Day
2023-08-23 13:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
Organiser: Business Finland and Healthtech Finland
Business Finland together with Healthtech Finland is organising a day of knowledge sharing, networking and collaboration focusing on exports. All export-oriented Finnish companies with health and wellbeing technologies and solutions are welcome!
In the event, you’ll hear export cases from Finnish healthtech companies, get to network and discuss with experts and learn more about Business Finland’s internationalisation services.
See the agenda and register now!

NLSDays Nordic Stars 2023 pitch competition
2023-08-31
Pitch your company to investors and pharma scouts

Small- and medium-sized life science companies in the Nordics are invited to apply for the NLSDays Nordic Stars 2023 pitch competition. 30 selected high- potential companies will have an opportunity to pitch to an audience of investors and big pharma scouts at NLSDays on 29-30 November 2023 on Copenhagen, Denmark.
The companies are competing for two prestigious awards: Merck’s Advance Biotech Grant Program – Nordics consisting of bioprocessing technologies and services to an amount of 45,000 EUR, and the Nordic Stars Award consisting of a cash prize of 10,000 EUR and in-kind services.
Apply for the pitch competition latest by 31 August 2023!

Team Finland visit to Japan
2023-08-31
Under the rapidly ageing society, Japanese pharmaceutical and healthcare companies are in the urgent and critical need of developing sustainable and wellbeing-sensitive remote care and preventative medication. There are solid needs among Japanese companies to seek for possible collaborations with external institutions that have strengths in these areas.
Team Finland network is organising a Business Delegation visit to Tokyo on October 10-13, 2023. Participating in the Business Delegation will give you an unique possibility to both get to know the Japanese health market and to get direct contacts to potential partners/customers. Participating companies will have the opportunity to pitch for Japanese stakeholders, attend matchmaking event as well as visit BioJapan, Asia’s largest partnering event.
Register latest by 31 August

Health Tuesday: Orion, Bittium and TietoEvry leading the way to healthier future
2023-09-05 08:00 - 09:00
Organiser: Business Finland
Business Finland welcomes you to come hear from three selected Leading Companies (Veturi) how to resolve significant future health challenges and build related ecosystems.
We will hear three interesting presentations by Leading Companies in the health sector: Orion, Bittium and Tietoevry.

Frontiers Health Start-Up Discovery
2023-09-06
Showcase your company at Frontiers Health 2023, organised 8-10 November in Rome, Italy!
Frontiers Health is accepting applications from emerging digital health start-ups from seed to Series B. The application to the Start-up Discovery is free of charge and this year each applicant will be granted with a complimentary pass plus an exclusive discount on additional tickets.
Apply by 6 September

HealthBIO
2023-09-06 - 2023-09-07
Turku Health welcomes everyone to the HealthBIO events in Turku on 6-7 September! Please notice separate registration links for the two days. The events are free of charge but registration is required.
6 September
HealthBIO Seminar
Location: Presidentti auditorium, BioCity, Tykistökatu 6, Turku
HealthBIO Get together
Location: Aboa vetus Ars Nova, Itäinen Rantakatu 4-6
Register by 30 August
7 September
HealthBIO 2023 Partnering Day and Pitching Competition
Location: SparkUp premises, ElektroCity, Tykistökatu 4
Apply for the competition by sending a short abstract of your 5 min presentation to tero.piispanen@turkubusinessregion.com by 20 August. The winner will be awarded with a ticket for NLSDays 2023 in Copenhagen.
Register for the Partnering Day

BioFinland Pitching Competition
2023-09-07
Are you a bachelor, master or PhD student in life sciences? Do you have an idea that will solve a problem in health, biotech or pharma?
Submit your application to the BioFinland Pitching Competition! The winner will get a prize of EUR1,000 and will be featured on Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. Pitching competition final takes place on 29 September at Nasdaq Helsinki.
Apply by 7 September

Challenges with access to data in health care: Coffee meeting with industry
2023-09-08 10:00 - 11:00
Organiser: Nordic Proof
The Nordic Proof partners invite stakeholders to an online dialogue addressing challenges surrounding data sharing in healthcare.
The Nordic healthcare sector faces several challenges when it comes to data sharing for innovation and industry development purposes. Privacy concerns and strict data protection regulations pose challenges since EU have a strong commitment to safeguarding individuals’ privacy and ensuring the secure handling of personal data. While these regulations are essential for maintaining trust and protecting patient rights, they can become barriers for development of data driven solutions.
Successful resolution of these challenges necessitates collective efforts. Thus, Nordic Proof invites professionals in the healthcare sector and industry to an online coffee meeting to address the barriers in data sharing. Together, we can foster an environment that facilitates knowledge exchange and enhance Nordic collaboration.

MEDICA Start-up Competition 2023
2023-09-21
Join the MEDICA Start-up COMPETITION and be amongst the Top12 Medical Start-ups 2023! Gain international awareness at MEDICA, the world’s largest trade-fair in the healthcare industry, introduction to potential investors and cash prizes up to 3.500 euros.
MEDICA is searching for the most outstanding innovations in digital health. From health apps to new tools of healthcare data collection and AI enabled analytics, to advanced robotics. A new category of the competition is sustainability. Innovators from around the globe are welcome to submit their solutions for free.
Conditions of submission:

Solutions in Health apps | AI in healthcare | Lab diagnostics | Robotics | Others
Available at least in one market until the end of Q2 2024 and not launched before 2020

The pitch and the award ceremony will take place at MEDICA fair on 14 November in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Read more & apply by 21 September

Reimbursement webinar series: France
2023-09-21 09:00 - 11:00
Organiser: Embassy of Finland in Paris and Business Finland in collaboration with MD101 Consulting
The French reimbursement system for medical devices is evolving as part of the national healthcare reform plan, and opens new opportunities for medtech and digital solution providers.
France has recently launched PECAN, a new fast-track market access pathway for digital health solutions, aiming at accelerating adoption of innovative digital health solutions. It allows for a one-year reimbursement period for digital solutions before entering the standard reimbursement system. Also, after several years of experiments, medical telemonitoring will enter the standard reimbursement system starting July 1st, 2023.
This webinar is a great opportunity for Finnish companies to gain understanding of the French reimbursement landscape and how the French system differs from other countries’ systems.
Register now

Healthcare Innovation World Cup at MEDICA 2023
2023-09-22
Apply now for free and advance your business!
The Healthcare Innovation World Cup® is looking for start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs developing the next generation of smart health devices, medical wearables, digital biomarkers, electroceuticals, intelligent patches, and more. Healthtech and MedTech innovators worldwide are invited to take part free of charge.
If you are a technology-driven innovator submit your solution! The aim of the competition is to promote innovations, to make them visible to the world, and to connect innovators with decision-makers in the healthcare industry, potential partners, investors, and customers. Contestants can win prizes worth over 500.000 USD, incl. 12 pitching slots for the Top12 Health Techpreneurs 2023 in the finals at MEDICA.
The pitch and the award ceremony on the main stage of MEDICA fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, take place on 13 November 2023.
Read more & apply by 22 September

Finnish Pavilion at HLTH 2023 in Las Vegas
2023-09-25
Business Finland has secured a spot for a Finland Pavilion at HLTH 2023, the preeminent event for the US healthcare industry in Las Vegas on 8-11 October. It is the new meeting place for key stakeholders and investors – leading the dialogue and development for the future of healthcare – and companies.
This event is a great opportunity for Finnish healthcare companies to expand their network, explore growth opportunities, and meet strategics, leading investors, and healthcare organisations.
Read more about the Finnish Pavilion and Business Finland’s special discounted registration rate
Interested? Contact Charlie Schick at charlie.schick@businessfinland.fi

Nordic Innovation Fair 2023
2023-09-25 - 2023-09-26
Nordic Innovation Fair, organised 25-26 September in Copenhagen, Denmark, connects Nordic scientists with international investors and businesses.
Nordic Innovation Fair showcases up to 120 business opportunities, offering a free and unique matchmaking and networking opportunity by bringing together all stakeholders across the innovation ecosystem. Researchers and spin-outs from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark will present their inventions with the aim of finding business opportunities for licensing, co-development, research collaboration, funding and/or investment.

Health Talks: How to Commercialise Your PhD in Life Sciences
2023-09-28 09:30 - 11:00
Organiser: Aalto University, HiLIFE from the University of Helsinki, Terkko Health Hub.
Paths that PhD researchers can undertake to commercialise their idea
Doing a PhD often feels like a natural step of a prospecting academic career, which usually leads to a postdoc or a researcher positions and occasionally down the line to a professorship. However, it doesn’t need to be so, and there are many ways how a PhD and the concepts one works on during the programme can benefit the world already now. In the online Health Talks event, you’ll hear inspiring stories of doctoral researchers who decided to follow an unconventional path and take steps in commercialising their promising results.
See agenda and sign up

Y Science Health and Pharma pitching competition at Slush 2023
2023-09-30
Y science, the official side event of Slush for science-based innovations, invites all startups and pre-startups located in Finland and Switzerland to apply for Health and Pharma pitching competition on 30 November in Messukeskus, Helsinki!
The winning team will be granted 5,000 EUR to take their exciting idea further, as well as:

Receive speaker coaching to prepare their pitch
Meet potential investors
Get a Slush ticket

Apply by 30 September!

Trade mission to Munich and Erlangen, Germany
2023-09-30
Business Finland will organise a trade mission to Munich and Erlangen in Germany on 7-9 November, 2023. The visit will give Finnish Healthtech and Digital Health companies an opportunity to meet and discuss with potential customers and business partners as well as to explore related business opportunities and gain valuable information in order to accelerate the market entry to Germany.
The visit is tailored for Finnish HealthTech and Digital Health companies providing solutions mainly, but not limited to, in following fields:

Predictive and prevention analysis
Health data analysis and integration
Decision support
Clinical workflow
In general, AI/ML and data driven digital healthcare solutions

Register by 30 September!

Health Tuesday: AI applications in healthcare
2023-10-03 08:00 - 09:00
Organiser: Business Finland
AI and its different applications hold a lot of potential to help us navigate the ever-changing problems in the field of healthcare. In October’s Health Tuesday webinar you will learn about how AI can be strategically implemented in a hospital setting and what benefits can be reaped with AI.
New technology and applications are needed to meet the global challenges of healthcare – generative, predictive, and ChatGPT solutions could be applicable in the future. In this Health Tuesday session you’ll hear some great Finnish examples of how to improve clinical work with help of AI based solutions on diagnostics, patient monitoring and in daily hospital operations.
See agenda and sign up

Reimbursement webinar: Germany
2023-10-05 09:00 - 11:00
Organiser: Business Finland
Get to know the German medical reimbursement system and the different relevant parties.
Obtaining reimbursement is often a critical step for successful market entry into German market. This webinar is a great opportunity to gain understanding of the German reimbursement landscape and what you need to consider when entering the German market. You will learn about the different reimbursement options, and what it means from a Finnish health tech company’s perspective.
Read more and sign up

Deep Tech Demo at NORDEEP Summit
2023-10-06
Calling all Nordic and Baltic Deep Tech startups! Deep Tech Demo at NORDEEP Summit, 11-12 October in Espoo, Finland, is the best opportunity to showcase your product and vision to the world, attract investors and get valuable feedback from industry leaders.

Criteria: Deep tech startups from the Nordics and Baltics
Selected startups receive a free ticket for the 2-day event and access to the full program.

This can be the platform you need to bring your startup ideas to the next level!
Read more and apply by 6 October

Orion Ecosystem Day
2023-10-06 08:45 - 14:00
Organiser: Orion
Sign up for the first Orion Ecosystem Day, an event to discuss data and AI-driven transformation of drug discovery.
Snippets of the agenda:
Why are we building the ecosystem
Outi Vaarala, Senior Vice President (R&D & iMeds), Orion
Orion’s ecosystem from the academic perspective
Samuel Kaski, Professor, Computer Science, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
A private data and AI driven company from the US – What’s in it for us
Colin Hill, CEO, Aitia
See full agenda and sign up

MedFIT 2023
2023-10-10 - 2023-10-11
MedFIT is a great opportunity to connect with international key innovators in the MedTech, diagnostic and digital health sectors. As the leading European partnering event, MedFIT provides the ideal environment to help industry players to source early-stage assets, to facilitate the emergence of collaborative projects between big players, public research institutions, start-ups and SMEs, to increase licensing opportunities, to obtain funding and to facilitate market access.

LSX Nordic Congress
2023-10-10 - 2023-10-11
LSX Nordic Congress, on 10-11 October in Copenhagen, gathers the founders and CEOs of innovative startups through to publicly listed healthcare giants, and everyone in between. The biotech, healthtech and medtech industry’s c-suite will be joined by the sector’s most active investors, big pharma, big medtech and health technology BD&L teams, R&D leaders, KOLs and top tier service companies who are driving the sector forward.
LSX Nordic tackles the world’s biggest healthcare challenges, and helps answer the question; what’s next and how do we get there.

NORDEEP Deep Tech Summit
2023-10-11 - 2023-10-12
NORDEEP is the world’s leading deep tech business summit organised in Espoo, Finland.
It is the most effective business and commercialisation-oriented event for deep tech in Europe. The focus is on quality networking and discovering opportunities for collaboration between academia, private and public sectors. The 2-day event brings together a focused international crowd of startups, research teams, research institutions, investors, corporates, media, and influencers.

Matchmaking with City of Vienna hospitals
2023-10-12
Business Finland is organising a matchmaking event in Vienna, Austria on 12 October 2023. Finnish companies have an opportunity to present their offering, meet and discuss with potential customers and business partners as well as explore related business opportunities and gain valuable insights to accelerate market entry to Austria.
The day is tailored for Finnish HealthTech and Digital Health companies providing innovative solutions that relieve the burden on medical staff, especially within documentation and reporting automatisation, AI solutions, AI/ML and data driven digital healthcare solutions, decision support, improvements in the self-management and empowerment of patients. The product/solution needs to be market-ready and have a medical device approval.
Read more and register

Webinar: Investor perspectives on Nordic Health Tech - Report launch
2023-10-12 14:00 - 15:00
Organiser: VC Challenge
Healthtech is one of the fastest growing verticals in the Nordics and has attracted over 1,5 BEUR in investments so far in 2023, according to Nordic9. But is this enough capital to develop one of the most important sectors in the Nordics for the decades to come?
Nordic Innovation commissioned VC Challenge to gather investor insights and perspectives on Nordic HealthTech to understand the investment gaps and opportunities and identify action points for a Nordic collaboration.
Join the webinar on 12 October to learn about:

Report Key Findings: A guided tour through the report, highlighting the most critical insights and trends observed from investors investing in Nordic HealthTech companies.
Barriers and Opportunities in Nordic Health Tech: Understanding of where investors see potential and the barriers they encounter when considering investments in Nordic HealthTech startups.
Key Recommendations for Nordic HealthTech companies: Explore strategies for Nordic HealthTech companies to become more attractive to investors, fostering collaboration and growth.

Webinar: IHI contributing partners – who, why and how?
2023-10-12 16:00 - 17:30
Organisations that want to support IHI in a specific area of research (but are not members of IHI’s industry partners) can apply to become IHI contributing partners.
During the webinar, IHI Legal Officer Karolina Gutt-Mostowy and IHI Financial Officer Gaëlle Lanckmans will provide comprehensive and practical information on the IHI contributing partners scheme, including:

Who can become a contributing partner
Benefits of being an IHI contributing partner
How to apply to become an IHI contributing partner including practical tips
What kinds of contributions are eligible
Legal aspects – contractual obligations, financial rules etc. that apply to contributing partners
Common mistakes in applications

Read more and register

Trade mission on Health to Thailand
2023-10-13
Business Finland together with Embassy of Finland in Bangkok are organising an AgeTech Trade Mission to Thailand on 28-30 November, 2023.
This onsite visit is for Finnish companies offering services, products and innovations especially for the senior sector. Companies with AgeTech solutions and services for private-public partnerships and research could benefit of this visit.
Read more about the market in Thailand and register by 13 October
