Events
Upcoming health-related events within and around the Greater Helsinki health ecosystem
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Organiser: Business Finland
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
Team Finland Turkey and the Turkish Foreign Economic Relations Board’s (DEIK) Health Business Council are pleased to invite you to the Innovative Digital Health Care Solutions from Finland webinar. The webinar is followed by a pitching session for selected company participants.
Private healthcare providers in Turkey have increased their market share steadily, by investing in increasing their capacities and concentrating on operations with higher complexity. The number of hospital beds in private hospitals is on the level of ca. 50.000 currently, five private hospital chains are dominating the market and actively looking into new technologies to improve their operations.
Organiser: Business Finland
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
Come and join the first Health Tuesday event in 2021 presenting what is new in Finnish Cancer expertise – from ground-breaking research to novel care. Finland is at the forefront with expertise ranging from research, treatment and digital tools for both patients and professionals to solutions for living with cancer. Come and discuss how Finland plays a crucial role in constantly pushing for new technologies and innovations for future-proofing cancer care.
Cancer IO – Translating Immuno-Oncology into Health Actions
Juha Klefström, Research Director, University of Helsinki
Applying laser technology for cancer care
Seppo Orsila, Chairman & CEO, Modulight Oy
Uptake of new research and technologies in cancer care
Ilpo Tolonen, CEO, Docrates Cancer Center
Organiser: Terkko Health Hub, Aalto University, Health Design, Kuopio Health, OuluHealth and Upgraded
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
Welcome to the first event of 2021 from the Health Talks series – health, life sciences and entrepreneurship talks. This event intends to present health startups with an overview of the cybersecurity risks they need to address in order to defend against threats and prepare for the upcoming regulations. Experts from leading cybersecurity firms in the connected health industry will explore the various cyber risks that exist for early stage companies, their software and connected devices.
The webinar will:
Organiser: The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
An inspiring online event discussing the future of data-driven health solutions that focus on fairness for all stakeholders: people, business and the public sector. What is fairness in health? What role does trust play in data-driven health services? What needs to change and who needs to act?
During the 90 minutes you’ll get an introduction to Sitra’s visionary working paper “Towards Trustworthy Health Data Ecosystems” that offers guidelines for a human-centric, fair European data economy. It includes transformation goals of data-based health systems, challenges, a call to action and recommendations for new person-generated data with complementary expert opinions and reviews. The event will be recorded.
Organiser: Business Finland
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
This is your opportunity to learn more on the global market in health robotics and collect information on global players as potential collaborators to Finnish innovators in robotics.
Innovations in automation, cloud computing, touch and motion sensors, and AI are driving new applications for service robots. In addition, rapid technological change and a renewed focus on the healthcare industry is creating new opportunities for robotics in healthcare.
To better understand the transformation, impacts and opportunities in this field globally, Business Finland and Future Watch commissioned a study on the Robotics in Healthcare. This report summarizes the global landscape of robotics solutions in healthcare and wellbeing, as well as in service robotics more broadly. It highlights interesting markets, key players and ecosystems, as well as areas of opportunity where Finnish companies can look for partnerships.
Organiser: EIT Health
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
Welcome to webinar on EIT Health Accelerator opportunities for Start-up companies/SMEs in 2021! The EIT Health Accelerator offers to Biotech, Medtech and Digital Health Startups and SMEs several support options like access to knowledge, markets, stakeholders and finance through its programmes in 2021. Welcome to join, learn and ask questions about the opportunities and how you can participate!
Target audience:
Where: Microsoft Teams meeting – Join on your computer or mobile app
Link to join is found HERE
EIT Health Accelerator Cataloguecan be found from HERE
10-11 February 2021
Organiser: Business Finland, Business Sweden, Embassy of Norway and Swiss Innovation agency
Participation: FEE – contact Business Finland for a discount code
Language: ENG
Swiss Nordic Bio is a high-level partnering and investor conference aimed at connecting healthcare innovations, investor and industry.
Organiser: Sailab – MedTech Finland ry
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
MedTech Europe has long experience and knowledge of value-based procurement in Europe.
This event will clarify why value-based healthcare and procurement is very important not only patients and health care professionals but also for MedTech companies. Which kind of experiments and cases have been done across Europe and what we can learn. Event will be organised during 15.00–17.00.
Organiser: Nordic Proof
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
Unique online opportunity to meet hospital test facilities one2one. Learn about specific needs in the areas mental health and rehabilitation. Nordic Proof invites Health Tech companies to gain insight into initiatives within mental health and rehabilitation through the Finnish partner, Oulu Health Labs, and the Norwegian partner, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital. Both health areas need innovative solutions providing improved health services.
All partners of Nordic Proof will be available for one2one online meetings after the webinar. We aim the event for companies having products or solutions in need of testing in an end-user setting. Even though a special focus will be on innovations related mental health and rehabilitation any medtech or e-health company which need access to test facilities are much welcome to the webinar. We also urge companies already in contact with Nordic Proof to benefit from this one2one opportunity.
Organiser: TEHY ry & Sailab -MedTech Finland ry
Participation: FREE
Language: FIN
Terveysteknologia hoitotyössä ja kuntoutuksessa – mitä hyötyä työhöni? on TEHY ry:n ja Sailab -MedTech Finland ry:n yhteishanke. Hankkeen tarkoituksena on jakaa malleja, kokemuksia ja tietoa siitä, miten hoitotyön ja kuntoutuksen ammattilaiset jo nyt ympäri Suomea hyödyntävät päivittäisessä työssään terveysteknologiaa. Yhteishanke lisää ymmärrystä terveysteknologian ratkaisuista ja mahdollisuuksista. Hanke antaa osapuolille tietoa siitä miten omaa työtä ja osaamista voidaan kehittää ja miten työn kuormittavuutta voidaan vähentää. Tavoitteena on siirtää katse kohti terveyden tulevaisuutta. Tilaisuudet alkavat klo 14.
21.1. Seminaarisarjan avajaiset, Terveysteknologia hoitotyössä ja kuntoutuksessa – mitä hyötyä työhöni?
18.2. Miten hoito- ja palvelupolkuja rakennetaan terveysteknologian avulla?
18.3. Miten hoitotyö, kuntoutus ja terveysteknologia sovitetaan yhteen?
15.4. Miten työssä huolehditaan terveysteknologian koulutuksesta ja osaamisesta?
20.5. Miten johtajuus ja työ muuttuvat terveysteknologian myötä?
17.6. Tulevaisuuden terveys: mitä on luvassa?
Participation: FREE
Language: ENG
The conference aims at raising awareness and knowledge among the healthcare community on the value of patient-centered healthcare. At the conference, good practices and practical examples will be presented by speakers from Estonia and other countries. These ideas will be focused on developing and implementing patient-centred healthcare approaches. Event is virtual.
The conference is co-organised by the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonian Health Insurance Fund, Estonian Cancer Society, The North Estonia Medical Centre Foundation, Tartu University Hospital, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and the Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers in Estonia.
15-19 March 2021
Organiser: Business Finland and Tech Tour
Participation: FEE
Language: ENG
Business Finland and Tech Tour will continue the successful European Healthtech Investment Forum event series in 2021 in digital format. If you are a company within biotech & life sciences, diagnostics & medtech or digital health seeking capital investments or an investor seeking new companies to your portfolio, make sure to save the dates 15-19 March 2021.
A panel of seasoned investor will review all applications and the top 40 ranked companies will be invited to pitch at the event as well as meet potential investors in online 1-to-1 meetings.
Relevant deadlines:
19 April 2021
Organiser: SwedenBIO
Participation: Invite-only
Event language: ENG
A by-invitation-only event through which 60+ selected companies (Rising Stars) within the Nordic life science industry will be invited to pitch before a range of national and international investors, including pharmaceutical venture arms.
60+ Nordic companies will present their pitch within their appropriate track: Bio/Pharma, MedTech/Diagnostics or Digital/E-Health.
Pitching companies will represent the best investment opportunities from the Nordics – companies that have developed well in their home countries and are now looking for further capital to accelerate their development.
All ‘Rising Stars’ invited to attend the NLS Investment Day Digital will benefit from a complimentary registration to attend NLSDays 2021 Digital.
Applications deadline for companies: 28 February, 2021
20-21 April 2021
Organiser: SwedenBIO
Participation: FEE
Event language: ENG
NLSDays Digital: networking and partnering with the best of Nordic life science
NLSDays, the largest Nordic life science partnering conference, is launching in 2021 as a virtual platform, including all aspects of the planned event now in digital format. The mission and priorities remain the same: to encourage Nordic life science innovation, support companies’ growth and create valuable partnership opportunities. In this era, when global interactions are more needed than ever, NLSDays continues to support the whole of the Nordic life science ecosystem.
The new virtual format will enable us to deliver 2 days of live and on-demand educational content (20-21 April) as well as 4 days of partnering (20-23 April) with an expanded 24-hours global time zone capacity.
Organiser: Business Finland
Participation: FEE
Language: ENG
The HIMSS & Health 2.0 Health Conference & Exhibition is the can’t-miss health information and technology event of the year, where professionals throughout the European health ecosystem connect for the education, innovation and collaboration they need to reimagine health and wellness for everyone, everywhere.