
Accexible
AcceXible is a startup developing a speech analysis platform based on AI models to early detect diseases as dementia, parkinson and coronary disease, among others.
AcceXible is a startup developing a speech analysis platform based on AI models to early detect diseases as dementia, parkinson and coronary disease, among others.
Adan Medical Innovation develops integral Allergoprotection solutions to save lives of people who suffer fatal allergic reactions in public spaces, solving the problems of emergency management and epinephrine auto-injectors as treatment.
Air Doctor provides insurers with a global outpatient medical network through which their customers can access the most appropriate care while travelling abroad seamlessly and at no cost to them.
AYO is the innovation leader in personalized light therapy. Their vision is developing breakthrough innovations utilizing superior light therapy to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people worldwide.
Bitac improves the quality of clinical information through the use of standards by providing tools specialized in clinical technology. Bitac is the platform which combines the best of both clinicians and data scientists.
DNX is focused on the elderly care service. It creates a proactive elderly care solution with daily activity tracking for caregiver’s monitoring and elderly’s fall prevention.
Famileo bridges the digital gap between youth & seniors. It is a tool for social networking allowing care home, families and elderly people to keep easily in touch.
Fleksy is a popular AI virtual keyboard for Smartphones with millions of users worldwide. We have the world record for the fastest typing experience according to the Guinness Book of World Records
Goo Medical is helping companies to achieve their digital goals by building their mHealth apps. They work towards offering the latest innovative products with the highest quality, visual design and usability.
HumanITcare is a Remote Patient Monitoring platform that helps doctors have a remote follow-up of patients using medical devices and telemedicine. The platform collects and analyzes real-world data, using artificial intelligence, and generates an alarm when it detects any changes in the clinical state of the patient.
Iomed combines electronic health records database with machine learning to get accurate results, improve research outcome and reduce the time to market by streamlining the clinical trials.
Medify helps patients understand healthcare better, by breaking complex medical information into easy to understand videos.
Mediktor is improving access to healthcare through an AI based chatbot where patient can state his symptoms and AI will recommend the next course of action.
Mediquo brings patients and doctors closer by allowing them to chat with each other. Patients also get to join the ever growing community of more than 65000 patients where they can interact with eachother.
Medxat is an instant messenger for the medical teams, which is changing healthcare communication and revolutionising the patient care by streamlining the communication between different medical teams in the hospital.
Nubentos is greatly pushing the adoption of Digital Health by simplifying the integration of any remote service into any healthcare software, thinking of both the solution provider and the healthcare ecosystem.
Osigu helps customers have a simple and seamless healthcare experience.Osigu is a technology platform that connects all the parties in the healthcare ecosystem, enabling automatization of processes, data analytics, and improved fraud prevention.
Petit BamBou is the #1 mindfulness meditation app in Europe, offering meditations in 4 languages (Spanish, English, French and German). Their purpose is to help people to meditate with their innovative and effective method and help to develop the habit of meditation in a simple way.
Rehand is revolutionising the rehabilitation of hand through gamification and improving functions of different parts of the hand.
SCollect is an Electronic Case Report Form (eCRF) made to measurement designed to collect data from clinical trials and observational studies. Developed by a group of data scientists specialized in medical software, SCollect is the most complete and adaptable tool for any kind of trial or study. Our key methodology allows us to reduce significantly the creation of each eCRF.
Doctor Sherplay is committed to reconnect people inside healthcare. Their solution saves time, improves the decision-making process, positively impacts the outcome of patients and avoids life risking medical burnout.
UniversalDoctor is a social enterprise developing technology solutions for global health. They are breaking the language barriers through customized multi lingual medical records.
Validated ID gathers different areas: cryptography, digital certification, biometry, provision of high availability services, cloud computing, mobility and legal services to solve key problem of customer validation in the hospital and maintain records.
Wellthy Therapeutics is a Digital Therapeutics company that uses a Human-AI hybrid along with clinically proven behavior change models to drive patient health outcomes. Our platform synergistically works with the entire healthcare ecosystem – caregivers, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, payors, doctors, paramedical and hospital systems to provide non-invasive, continual care to patients.
AcceXible is a startup developing a speech analysis platform based on AI models to early detect diseases as dementia, parkinson and coronary disease, among others.
Adan Medical Innovation develops integral Allergoprotection solutions to save lives of people who suffer fatal allergic reactions in public spaces, solving the problems of emergency management and epinephrine auto-injectors as treatment.
Air Doctor provides insurers with a global outpatient medical network through which their customers can access the most appropriate care while travelling abroad seamlessly and at no cost to them.
AYO is the innovation leader in personalized light therapy. Their vision is developing breakthrough innovations utilizing superior light therapy to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people worldwide.
Bitac improves the quality of clinical information through the use of standards by providing tools specialized in clinical technology. Bitac is the platform which combines the best of both clinicians and data scientists.
Cureety improves the everyday care of patients suffering from cancer conditions thanks to a leading remote monitoring platform with strong stakeholder benefits and high engagement levels. We contribute towards the advancement of medical research in oncology and are on our way to become a leading European real-world data platform.
DNX is focused on the elderly care service. It creates a proactive elderly care solution with daily activity tracking for caregiver’s monitoring and elderly’s fall prevention.
Famileo bridges the digital gap between youth & seniors. It is a tool for social networking allowing care home, families and elderly people to keep easily in touch.
Globalfinanz is an insurance broker and consulting company which helps customers to get tailored insurance plans.
Iomed combines electronic health records database with machine learning to get accurate results, improve research outcome and reduce the time to market by streamlining the clinical trials.
Mediktor is improving access to healthcare through an AI based chatbot where patient can state his symptoms and AI will recommend the next course of action.
Medxat is an instant messenger for the medical teams, which is changing healthcare communication and revolutionising the patient care by streamlining the communication between different medical teams in the hospital.
Osigu helps customers have a simple and seamless healthcare experience.Osigu is a technology platform that connects all the parties in the healthcare ecosystem, enabling automatization of processes, data analytics, and improved fraud prevention.
Rehand is revolutionising the rehabilitation of hand through gamification and improving functions of different parts of the hand.
SCollect is an Electronic Case Report Form (eCRF) made to measurement designed to collect data from clinical trials and observational studies. Developed by a group of data scientists specialized in medical software, SCollect is the most complete and adaptable tool for any kind of trial or study. Our key methodology allows us to reduce significantly the creation of each eCRF.
Doctor Sherplay is committed to reconnect people inside healthcare. Their solution saves time, improves the decision-making process, positively impacts the outcome of patients and avoids life risking medical burnout.
UniversalDoctor is a social enterprise developing technology solutions for global health. They are breaking the language barriers through customized multi lingual medical records.
Wellthy Therapeutics is a Digital Therapeutics company that uses a Human-AI hybrid along with clinically proven behavior change models to drive patient health outcomes. Our platform synergistically works with the entire healthcare ecosystem – caregivers, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, payors, doctors, paramedical and hospital systems to provide non-invasive, continual care to patients.
Coffee Session – B. Braun is looking for digital tools, processes efficiency and supply management solutions
Lunch Session – B. Braun is looking for patient journey solutions and delivery care transformation
Coffee Session – Digital Health technologies that drives innovation
Lunch Session – Build and Grow your Healthcare Startup with AWS
Coffee Session – Lowering the tax Bill: Tax benefits for investors and startups vehicles
Lunch Session – Como conseguir financiación para su startup
Coffee Session – Changing the Health Experience with Bayer
Lunch Session – Changing the Health Experience with Bayer
Novartis is a leading healthcare company that provides solutions to changing patient needs.
Coffee Session – Argentinian Digital Health Innovation Demo (First Session)
Lunch Session – Argentinian Digital Health Innovation Demo (Second Session)
Coffee Session – What is DKV Digital health Innolab? Get to know it!
Lunch Session – How technology links health and nature?
Coffee Session – Do you have a disruptive product of service for healthy millennials?
Lunch Session – La revolución millenial de la salud ya está aquí
Coffee Session – The Collider: customised deep tech solutions for corporations
Lunch Session – The Collider Portfolio: presentation of deep tech solutions
Helena Canadell is an event host who has collaborated in many TV shows. Since 2005, she has been part of the teacher´s team of the well known show “¡Mira quién Baila!” from TVE. She won the award Micrófono de Oro (2006) for this. She also worked with many singers in their promotional tours, such as Ricky Martin and Il Divo. In 2009, she started working as an associate, host and presenter for different Spanish TV shows. Nowadays, she is involved in different TV projects as a reporter.
Across the world health systems are looking for ways to better predict health events, improve care quality, introduce operational efficiencies and increase patient engagement. Hear how AWS is partnering with startups and health systems to implement AI and Machine Learning to address these and other critical challenges facing healthcare
Guy Spigelman is the EMEA lead for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role Guy harnesses the technology and people at Amazon to work alongside the investors and founders of startups to accelerate their scientific, engineering and commercial development. Prior to AWS, Guy was VP Portfolio Success at aMoon, Israel’s largest health-technology VC and before that he led a network of accelerators supporting over 100 startups per year. Guy has been part of the leadership team of several early-stage startups, including XMPie sold to Xerox and AposTherapy where Guy launched global operations.
Guy Spigelman is the EMEA lead for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role Guy harnesses the technology and people at Amazon to work alongside the investors and founders of startups to accelerate their scientific, engineering and commercial development. Prior to AWS, Guy was VP Portfolio Success at aMoon, Israel’s largest health-technology VC and before that he led a network of accelerators supporting over 100 startups per year. Guy has been part of the leadership team of several early-stage startups, including XMPie sold to Xerox and AposTherapy where Guy launched global operations.
How can digital tools help tackle a pandemic? Many technological solutions have been used worldwide those past months to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic whether to detect the 1st symptoms, track the virus, carry out tests or support the population in accessing and receiving healthcare or living through this unprecedented time. In this session, we will discuss the role played by technology those past months, the regulatory and privacy challenges associated as well as the consequences on the global healthcare systems and citizens looking at the future.
Carolina Garcia-Vidal is Senior Specialist in Infectious Diseases Department in Hospital Clínic, Barcelona. She has a contagious enthusiasm as well as a powerful dedication to infectious diseases. She won among others the young investigator award for research by the Spanish Society of Medicine (2009) and the young investigator award for research by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2014). She also won the award of the best PhD by the Catalan Society of Medicine. She is currently member of the Scientific affairs subcommittee at European Society of Clinical Microbiology and she has been awarded as ECCMID Fellowship. Her research focuses on immunocompromised host infections and respiratory tract infection. Her work is based on clinical research and covers a large range of topics, including among others severe infections in onco-hematologic patients and transplantation (i.e multidrug-resistant infections), fungal infections, pneumonia, COPD and infections in patients receiving biological therapies. In recent months she has started several projects in artificial intelligence as it applies to medicine, becoming a leading source of reference in this field.
Miguel Muñoz is an economist specialized in the Health Insurance sector and eHealth, and is the Head of Business Development for Mediktor, an AI based symptom checker. He has had the opportunity to lead the Corporate Business Development and Strategic Partnerships team in Sanitas (BUPA) for over three years, and has been involved in international digital health projects developing new ways of delivering healthcare to rural areas. He has also led projects aiming to reduce claim costs whilst increasing customer satisfaction. Since march 2020, he has become responsible for developing and growing Mediktor in Latam, Africa and part of Europe.
Helena Canadell is an event host who has collaborated in many TV shows. Since 2005, she has been part of the teacher´s team of the well known show “¡Mira quién Baila!” from TVE. She won the award Micrófono de Oro (2006) for this. She also worked with many singers in their promotional tours, such as Ricky Martin and Il Divo. In 2009, she started working as an associate, host and presenter for different Spanish TV shows. Nowadays, she is involved in different TV projects as a reporter.
Welcome to a new era of life insurance with on-demand wellness advice and premium rewards for embracing a healthy lifestyle.
Show & Tell are dynamic 4min demos of technological solutions. They are a great way to find out what a solution is all about, how they work and how it could fit with your business or solution!
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Gina Farrús is Chief Communications & MK Officer at Barcelona Health Hub. She has a solid experience in corporate and institutional communication, digital marketing and social media. Gina is an event manager expert in management of Corporate, Institutional and Event websites. She holds a PR and Advertising Degree (University of Barcelona) and a Master in Business Administration (EAE).
Luis Badrinas is CEO of Barcelona Health Hub and Community of Insurance. Before this, Luis was CEO Global Life at Zurich. He was a member of the leadership team at Zurich Insurance, top 100, and Executive Committee of Global Life, as well as board member of several companies at Zurich Group in Spain and Portugal. Previously Luis was CEO at Deutsche Bank Insurance Group and Deputy General Manager at Vitalicio of the Generali Group. Luis holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona, Master in Finance from Deusto Business School, Global Executive CEO program at IESE – Wharton – CEIBS, Pade at ESE and IMD Executive Management.
This is your chance to find out more about what our sponsors are up to and to have 1 on 1 conversations with them. Check out the specific program they are putting together for BHHSummit.
Backed by clinical trials, DTx are proving to be effective therapeutic solutions, used either on their own or coupled with drugs. They can collect large amounts of Real World Data, useful to develop or personalize drugs and treatments. They enable to serve more patients, at a lower cost, from anywhere, 24/7… which resulted useful in the pandemic and reinforced even more the value of DTx for the healthcare systems. Where are we in terms of implementation? What does a successful partnership look like for a DTx company? What can we learn from the German regulation and how can we make it happen in other countries?
Celine Ulmann, PharmD, is the Head of Digital Innovation for R&D and Manufacturing within Almirall. She is responsible for fostering digital transformation by leveraging the work already done in target discovery, clinical trials, digital therapeutics and real world evidence and continuing to bring innovation and efficiency to the R&D and Industrial area. Celine brings over 10 years of experience in broad drug development and healthcare expertise in both the US and Europe. Most recently, she led the development of two digital therapeutics (DTx) assets for MS and schizophrenia as part of the Novartis/Pear therapeutics collaboration. Prior to this role Celine has swiftly progressed through a variety of roles and departments with increasing complexity and seniority during her 10 years at Novartis. Celine is a French national and earned a Pharmacy degree from the University of Strasbourg.
Edward Kliphuis is a partner at Amadeus, focussed on later stage European deeptech companies. Prior to joining Amadeus, Edward was at M Ventures, the €400m AUM corporate VC-arm of Merck KGaA, where he was responsible for health-tech, frontier-tech and sustainability investments. Edward led, among others, the investments in Akili Interactive Labs (the first-ever FDA-approved prescription video-game); Wiliot (battery-free Bluetooth tags with infinite lifetime, enabling a true connected-everything), and Sonde Health (voice-analysis platform for health and wellness inferences for use on self-owned devices). Edward is still active as Venture Advisor to M Ventures. Prior to M Ventures, Edward was in the Life Sciences securities team at Kempen & Co, a pan-European merchant bank, covering listed small- and mid-cap Life Sciences equities. He started his career as an analyst within the biopharma investment team of M Ventures. Edward holds an MSc in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, with a specialisation in pharmacology.
Sanitas will share the latest evolution of their digital health platform and how digital consultations have rapidly evolved in the past months.
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This is your chance to find out more about what our sponsors are up to and to have 1 on 1 conversations with them. Check out the specific program they are putting together for BHHSummit.
Telemedicine is not new and has been around for decades without being fully adopted by patients nor healthcare professionals. But things changed those past months! Telemedicine became the privileged access to the healthcare system, forcing people into trying … and adopting it. Are we finally reaching the golden age of digital health and telemedicine in particular? What will the future look like? What new opportunities will emerge to bring healthcare to the patients even more? Where are we in terms of regulation and reimbursement?
Dr. César Morcillo is an Internal Medicine specialist with PhD in telemedicine and marked interest in eHealth, leading several digital health transformation projects as the Sanitas Digital Hospital. He has had the opportunity to participate as author and editor in 13 books, more than 50 biomedical journal publications and more than 100 national and international lectures about internal medicine topics and particularly ehealth. He collaborates in scientific societies in the field of internal medicine and eHealth, like the eHealth Medical Association of Barcelona, organizing multiple courses and conferences.
Manel Peiró has developed his professional career mainly in the field of academia, but has also occupied managerial positions in public and private health institutions. He is advisor to public and private health institutions and in the area of public services. He has worked as consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (I.A.D.B.) in Washington and has collaborated with various consultancy companies specialising in the health sector. He is author of several publications and has participated as speaker at various congresses and national and international meetings. He is a member of the Scientific Subcommittee of the European Association of Hospital Managers and of the Scientific Committee of the Top-20 Hospitals Conference. For six years he served as Vice-President of the Economic Commission of the Red Cross in Catalonia. He is currently Director of the Health Care Management Programme in Barcelona and Madrid, and coordinates ESADE’s activities in the health sector. He has been Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at ESADE since 1989.
Eloy Gomez is grateful to life for what it has given him: 2 fantastic children, a wonderful travel and health companion to enjoy every day of his professional purpose: to bring the heart to organizations and help create the best contexts/environments – based on respect, trust and recognition – so that people are happy in what we do and give the best of ourselves to others. In more than 15 years of professional experience, Eloy has had the opportunity to learn in different sectors: consumer goods (Avon Cosmetics), pharma (Bristol Myers, Shire, Takeda) and enjoy the opportunity to be part of a startup (Baxalta Oncology). He also has been able to learn in different roles: Supply chain, Finance, Marketing, Sales, in different countries. During these last 2 years Eloy enjoys a lot as part of the Novartis Oncology team, contributing to generate brave smiles to cure cancer. He loves the countryside, the small towns, their people and their experiences. From them he got his hobby as a “viticulturist”. Eloy values the quote “Until you spread your wings, you will have no idea how far you can fly” very much. If you ask him for a phrase, it’s again about people: “Human beings do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”.
With BBA and master’s in international management at Esade, Pablo is currently based in Barcelona, working as global COO at MeetingDoctors, leader in e-health services. He has +5 years professional experience in management roles including COO and Country Manager positions in fast-growing markets. He has worked and lived in 3 different countries (Brazil, Italy and Canada). His experience has focused in setting-up new ventures and scaling them. He has developed business in different sectors such as Banking, Pharma, Health and IT Services. He also has consultancy experience in a BBVA project.
Estefania Oliver is a Spanish journalist who was part of the Economia Digital team in Barcelona for almost five years. In 2015, she decided to move to the USA to move forward in her career and to improve her English. She covered there the 2016 elections for Economia Digital and after that, she was hired by Digital Trends, a tech media based in Portland. She came back to Barcelona in 2018 and one year later she started working for Crónica Global as a journalist specialized in the consumer and technology.
Show & Tell are dynamic 4min demos of technological solutions. They are a great way to find out what a solution is all about, how they work and how it could fit with your business or solution!
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We just closed Q3 and total funding in digital health is already higher than last year. 2020 is set to be a record year in digital health funding. Although the investment world held its breath for a short while at the beginning of the unexpected and unprecedented global pandemic, investment didn’t stop, quite the reverse, seeing the creation of new funds and the 1st deals happening fully remotely. Where do we stand right now? What will the end of the year and the coming years look like? What are digital health investors more interested in? Are investment rules changing? What should entrepreneurs looking to raise money be aware of?
Rocío Pillado joined Adara in 2013 after finishing her MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. During her time in Adara, she has led investments in Enterprise Software, Adtech, and most recently, Healthtech. In her previous life, Rocío worked in three different continents and gained wide experience working in the security field and as a software engineer in an investment bank. Rocío holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and another from the Grande École ENSIMAG. She also holds an MSc in Cryptology, Security and Information Coding from the Institut Fourier.
Lara Koole is Head of Philips’ venture capital activities in Europe and a founding member of the Philips Ventures team. Experienced in investment banking, start-up fundraising and corporate venturing advisory before joining Philips to build the venture capital group. She is a Dutch-national, based in the Netherlands, and holds a Master-degree in International Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Lara is looking for driven entrepreneurs that are passionate and capable to address (part of) the quadruple aim in healthcare, improving outcomes and lowering costs while increasing patient and staff satisfaction. She is passionate about technology, strategic investing and working together with great teams to scale their companies bringing strategic and industry expertise of Philips to the table. Currently Lara is board director of the Philips Health Technology Venture Fund portfolio companies’ LeQuest, DEARhealth, LindaCare and Sweetch.
Miguel Valls is Founding General Partner at Alta Life Sciences. He is an established serial entrepreneur and investor in Spain and Silicon Valley and a former investment banker with several successful investments in life Sciences and Deep Tech companies. Miguel was the co-Founder and CEO of Dadata Capital. Miguel has been the co-founder, investor and advisor to companies like Genotesta, Clear Labs, Genolyte, Spirit Films and Nektria. Miguel is also the co-founder and co-chair of the San Francisco-Barcelona Sister City Committee and Technology Advisor to the Barcelona and Spain Chambers of Commerce. He created the International Technology Forum in 2007, the first program to bring Silicon Valley investors to Spain.
s the media director at StartUp Health, Logan Plaster is responsible for broadcasting stories of progress from across the StartUp Health ecosystem. He’s worked one-on-one with hundreds of Health Transformers to craft narratives of impact for every vertical from social media to video to podcast to the written word. Logan is the founding editor in chief of StartUp Health Magazine, which was recognized in 2019 with a Power Press Award for excellence in reporting. Logan is a journalist and creative director with 15 years of experience covering healthcare, technology, entrepreneurship, global health and emergency medicine. After studying at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Logan worked as the editor of a medical journal for more than a decade. Logan hosted the podcast Health Innovation Matters and is frequently interviewed as a subject matter expert in digital health trends and content strategy. Logan currently lives in downtown Baltimore with his wife and two small children.
Sophie is a Healthcare banker at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in London and focuses on supporting innovative digital health and medical device companies across the EMEA region. Sophie has been working in health innovation for 17 years. She started her career in start-ups working with innovative medical device and digital health companies focusing on global strategy and sales development. She continued her career in Government at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office heading the Healthtech sector at the UK Israel Tech Hub, and then at Samsung Health where she worked on Samsung’s digital health strategy and on external innovation. She is a mentor and judge for Tech Tour, MassChallenge and EIT Health.
Tim Smith started his career on the Guardian’s tech weekly podcast, before becoming a producer at BBC World Service Radio. He’s been reporting from Spain since 2017, working for BBC, Deutsche Welle, Pink News and Radio New Zealand. Tim is interested in how startups and innovation can address big issues like climate change, citizen participation and financial inclusion. When not covering Iberian entrepreneurship, Tim can be found reading, skateboarding, or walking up hills.
The e-Health Investment Forum focusses on telemedicine solutions and is sponsored by Amazon Web Services. There are 2 different categories: Early stage, looking for less than 1 million euros and Growth stage, looking for more than a million euros. Don´t miss the 10 selected pitches!
Helena Canadell is an event host who has collaborated in many TV shows. Since 2005, she has been part of the teacher´s team of the well known show “¡Mira quién Baila!” from TVE. She won the award Micrófono de Oro (2006) for this. She also worked with many singers in their promotional tours, such as Ricky Martin and Il Divo. In 2009, she started working as an associate, host and presenter for different Spanish TV shows. Nowadays, she is involved in different TV projects as a reporter.
Across the world health systems are looking for ways to better predict health events, improve care quality, introduce operational efficiencies and increase patient engagement. Hear how AWS is partnering with startups and health systems to implement AI and Machine Learning to address these and other critical challenges facing healthcare
Guy Spigelman is the EMEA lead for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role Guy harnesses the technology and people at Amazon to work alongside the investors and founders of startups to accelerate their scientific, engineering and commercial development. Prior to AWS, Guy was VP Portfolio Success at aMoon, Israel’s largest health-technology VC and before that he led a network of accelerators supporting over 100 startups per year. Guy has been part of the leadership team of several early-stage startups, including XMPie sold to Xerox and AposTherapy where Guy launched global operations.
Guy Spigelman is the EMEA lead for Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role Guy harnesses the technology and people at Amazon to work alongside the investors and founders of startups to accelerate their scientific, engineering and commercial development. Prior to AWS, Guy was VP Portfolio Success at aMoon, Israel’s largest health-technology VC and before that he led a network of accelerators supporting over 100 startups per year. Guy has been part of the leadership team of several early-stage startups, including XMPie sold to Xerox and AposTherapy where Guy launched global operations.
How can digital tools help tackle a pandemic? Many technological solutions have been used worldwide those past months to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic whether to detect the 1st symptoms, track the virus, carry out tests or support the population in accessing and receiving healthcare or living through this unprecedented time. In this session, we will discuss the role played by technology those past months, the regulatory and privacy challenges associated as well as the consequences on the global healthcare systems and citizens looking at the future.
Carolina Garcia-Vidal is Senior Specialist in Infectious Diseases Department in Hospital Clínic, Barcelona. She has a contagious enthusiasm as well as a powerful dedication to infectious diseases. She won among others the young investigator award for research by the Spanish Society of Medicine (2009) and the young investigator award for research by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2014). She also won the award of the best PhD by the Catalan Society of Medicine. She is currently member of the Scientific affairs subcommittee at European Society of Clinical Microbiology and she has been awarded as ECCMID Fellowship. Her research focuses on immunocompromised host infections and respiratory tract infection. Her work is based on clinical research and covers a large range of topics, including among others severe infections in onco-hematologic patients and transplantation (i.e multidrug-resistant infections), fungal infections, pneumonia, COPD and infections in patients receiving biological therapies. In recent months she has started several projects in artificial intelligence as it applies to medicine, becoming a leading source of reference in this field.
Miguel Muñoz is an economist specialized in the Health Insurance sector and eHealth, and is the Head of Business Development for Mediktor, an AI based symptom checker. He has had the opportunity to lead the Corporate Business Development and Strategic Partnerships team in Sanitas (BUPA) for over three years, and has been involved in international digital health projects developing new ways of delivering healthcare to rural areas. He has also led projects aiming to reduce claim costs whilst increasing customer satisfaction. Since march 2020, he has become responsible for developing and growing Mediktor in Latam, Africa and part of Europe.
Helena Canadell is an event host who has collaborated in many TV shows. Since 2005, she has been part of the teacher´s team of the well known show “¡Mira quién Baila!” from TVE. She won the award Micrófono de Oro (2006) for this. She also worked with many singers in their promotional tours, such as Ricky Martin and Il Divo. In 2009, she started working as an associate, host and presenter for different Spanish TV shows. Nowadays, she is involved in different TV projects as a reporter.
Welcome to a new era of life insurance with on-demand wellness advice and premium rewards for embracing a healthy lifestyle.
Show & Tell are dynamic 4min demos of technological solutions. They are a great way to find out what a solution is all about, how they work and how it could fit with your business or solution!
Virtual Room 1
Virtual Room 2
Gina Farrús is Chief Communications & MK Officer at Barcelona Health Hub. She has a solid experience in corporate and institutional communication, digital marketing and social media. Gina is an event manager expert in management of Corporate, Institutional and Event websites. She holds a PR and Advertising Degree (University of Barcelona) and a Master in Business Administration (EAE).
Luis Badrinas is CEO of Barcelona Health Hub and Community of Insurance. Before this, Luis was CEO Global Life at Zurich. He was a member of the leadership team at Zurich Insurance, top 100, and Executive Committee of Global Life, as well as board member of several companies at Zurich Group in Spain and Portugal. Previously Luis was CEO at Deutsche Bank Insurance Group and Deputy General Manager at Vitalicio of the Generali Group. Luis holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona, Master in Finance from Deusto Business School, Global Executive CEO program at IESE – Wharton – CEIBS, Pade at ESE and IMD Executive Management.
This is your chance to find out more about what our sponsors are up to and to have 1 on 1 conversations with them. Check out the specific program they are putting together for BHHSummit.
Backed by clinical trials, DTx are proving to be effective therapeutic solutions, used either on their own or coupled with drugs. They can collect large amounts of Real World Data, useful to develop or personalize drugs and treatments. They enable to serve more patients, at a lower cost, from anywhere, 24/7… which resulted useful in the pandemic and reinforced even more the value of DTx for the healthcare systems. Where are we in terms of implementation? What does a successful partnership look like for a DTx company? What can we learn from the German regulation and how can we make it happen in other countries?
Celine Ulmann, PharmD, is the Head of Digital Innovation for R&D and Manufacturing within Almirall. She is responsible for fostering digital transformation by leveraging the work already done in target discovery, clinical trials, digital therapeutics and real world evidence and continuing to bring innovation and efficiency to the R&D and Industrial area. Celine brings over 10 years of experience in broad drug development and healthcare expertise in both the US and Europe. Most recently, she led the development of two digital therapeutics (DTx) assets for MS and schizophrenia as part of the Novartis/Pear therapeutics collaboration. Prior to this role Celine has swiftly progressed through a variety of roles and departments with increasing complexity and seniority during her 10 years at Novartis. Celine is a French national and earned a Pharmacy degree from the University of Strasbourg.
Edward Kliphuis is a partner at Amadeus, focussed on later stage European deeptech companies. Prior to joining Amadeus, Edward was at M Ventures, the €400m AUM corporate VC-arm of Merck KGaA, where he was responsible for health-tech, frontier-tech and sustainability investments. Edward led, among others, the investments in Akili Interactive Labs (the first-ever FDA-approved prescription video-game); Wiliot (battery-free Bluetooth tags with infinite lifetime, enabling a true connected-everything), and Sonde Health (voice-analysis platform for health and wellness inferences for use on self-owned devices). Edward is still active as Venture Advisor to M Ventures. Prior to M Ventures, Edward was in the Life Sciences securities team at Kempen & Co, a pan-European merchant bank, covering listed small- and mid-cap Life Sciences equities. He started his career as an analyst within the biopharma investment team of M Ventures. Edward holds an MSc in Biopharmaceutical Sciences from Leiden University, the Netherlands, with a specialisation in pharmacology.
Sanitas will share the latest evolution of their digital health platform and how digital consultations have rapidly evolved in the past months.
Virtual Room 1
Virtual Room 2
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Telemedicine is not new and has been around for decades without being fully adopted by patients nor healthcare professionals. But things changed those past months! Telemedicine became the privileged access to the healthcare system, forcing people into trying … and adopting it. Are we finally reaching the golden age of digital health and telemedicine in particular? What will the future look like? What new opportunities will emerge to bring healthcare to the patients even more? Where are we in terms of regulation and reimbursement?
Dr. César Morcillo is an Internal Medicine specialist with PhD in telemedicine and marked interest in eHealth, leading several digital health transformation projects as the Sanitas Digital Hospital. He has had the opportunity to participate as author and editor in 13 books, more than 50 biomedical journal publications and more than 100 national and international lectures about internal medicine topics and particularly ehealth. He collaborates in scientific societies in the field of internal medicine and eHealth, like the eHealth Medical Association of Barcelona, organizing multiple courses and conferences.
Manel Peiró has developed his professional career mainly in the field of academia, but has also occupied managerial positions in public and private health institutions. He is advisor to public and private health institutions and in the area of public services. He has worked as consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (I.A.D.B.) in Washington and has collaborated with various consultancy companies specialising in the health sector. He is author of several publications and has participated as speaker at various congresses and national and international meetings. He is a member of the Scientific Subcommittee of the European Association of Hospital Managers and of the Scientific Committee of the Top-20 Hospitals Conference. For six years he served as Vice-President of the Economic Commission of the Red Cross in Catalonia. He is currently Director of the Health Care Management Programme in Barcelona and Madrid, and coordinates ESADE’s activities in the health sector. He has been Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at ESADE since 1989.
Eloy Gomez is grateful to life for what it has given him: 2 fantastic children, a wonderful travel and health companion to enjoy every day of his professional purpose: to bring the heart to organizations and help create the best contexts/environments – based on respect, trust and recognition – so that people are happy in what we do and give the best of ourselves to others. In more than 15 years of professional experience, Eloy has had the opportunity to learn in different sectors: consumer goods (Avon Cosmetics), pharma (Bristol Myers, Shire, Takeda) and enjoy the opportunity to be part of a startup (Baxalta Oncology). He also has been able to learn in different roles: Supply chain, Finance, Marketing, Sales, in different countries. During these last 2 years Eloy enjoys a lot as part of the Novartis Oncology team, contributing to generate brave smiles to cure cancer. He loves the countryside, the small towns, their people and their experiences. From them he got his hobby as a “viticulturist”. Eloy values the quote “Until you spread your wings, you will have no idea how far you can fly” very much. If you ask him for a phrase, it’s again about people: “Human beings do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”.
With BBA and master’s in international management at Esade, Pablo is currently based in Barcelona, working as global COO at MeetingDoctors, leader in e-health services. He has +5 years professional experience in management roles including COO and Country Manager positions in fast-growing markets. He has worked and lived in 3 different countries (Brazil, Italy and Canada). His experience has focused in setting-up new ventures and scaling them. He has developed business in different sectors such as Banking, Pharma, Health and IT Services. He also has consultancy experience in a BBVA project.
Estefania Oliver is a Spanish journalist who was part of the Economia Digital team in Barcelona for almost five years. In 2015, she decided to move to the USA to move forward in her career and to improve her English. She covered there the 2016 elections for Economia Digital and after that, she was hired by Digital Trends, a tech media based in Portland. She came back to Barcelona in 2018 and one year later she started working for Crónica Global as a journalist specialized in the consumer and technology.
Show & Tell are dynamic 4min demos of technological solutions. They are a great way to find out what a solution is all about, how they work and how it could fit with your business or solution!
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We just closed Q3 and total funding in digital health is already higher than last year. 2020 is set to be a record year in digital health funding. Although the investment world held its breath for a short while at the beginning of the unexpected and unprecedented global pandemic, investment didn’t stop, quite the reverse, seeing the creation of new funds and the 1st deals happening fully remotely. Where do we stand right now? What will the end of the year and the coming years look like? What are digital health investors more interested in? Are investment rules changing? What should entrepreneurs looking to raise money be aware of?
Rocío Pillado joined Adara in 2013 after finishing her MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. During her time in Adara, she has led investments in Enterprise Software, Adtech, and most recently, Healthtech. In her previous life, Rocío worked in three different continents and gained wide experience working in the security field and as a software engineer in an investment bank. Rocío holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and another from the Grande École ENSIMAG. She also holds an MSc in Cryptology, Security and Information Coding from the Institut Fourier.
Lara Koole is Head of Philips’ venture capital activities in Europe and a founding member of the Philips Ventures team. Experienced in investment banking, start-up fundraising and corporate venturing advisory before joining Philips to build the venture capital group. She is a Dutch-national, based in the Netherlands, and holds a Master-degree in International Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Lara is looking for driven entrepreneurs that are passionate and capable to address (part of) the quadruple aim in healthcare, improving outcomes and lowering costs while increasing patient and staff satisfaction. She is passionate about technology, strategic investing and working together with great teams to scale their companies bringing strategic and industry expertise of Philips to the table. Currently Lara is board director of the Philips Health Technology Venture Fund portfolio companies’ LeQuest, DEARhealth, LindaCare and Sweetch.
Miguel Valls is Founding General Partner at Alta Life Sciences. He is an established serial entrepreneur and investor in Spain and Silicon Valley and a former investment banker with several successful investments in life Sciences and Deep Tech companies. Miguel was the co-Founder and CEO of Dadata Capital. Miguel has been the co-founder, investor and advisor to companies like Genotesta, Clear Labs, Genolyte, Spirit Films and Nektria. Miguel is also the co-founder and co-chair of the San Francisco-Barcelona Sister City Committee and Technology Advisor to the Barcelona and Spain Chambers of Commerce. He created the International Technology Forum in 2007, the first program to bring Silicon Valley investors to Spain.
s the media director at StartUp Health, Logan Plaster is responsible for broadcasting stories of progress from across the StartUp Health ecosystem. He’s worked one-on-one with hundreds of Health Transformers to craft narratives of impact for every vertical from social media to video to podcast to the written word. Logan is the founding editor in chief of StartUp Health Magazine, which was recognized in 2019 with a Power Press Award for excellence in reporting. Logan is a journalist and creative director with 15 years of experience covering healthcare, technology, entrepreneurship, global health and emergency medicine. After studying at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Logan worked as the editor of a medical journal for more than a decade. Logan hosted the podcast Health Innovation Matters and is frequently interviewed as a subject matter expert in digital health trends and content strategy. Logan currently lives in downtown Baltimore with his wife and two small children.
Sophie is a Healthcare banker at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in London and focuses on supporting innovative digital health and medical device companies across the EMEA region. Sophie has been working in health innovation for 17 years. She started her career in start-ups working with innovative medical device and digital health companies focusing on global strategy and sales development. She continued her career in Government at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office heading the Healthtech sector at the UK Israel Tech Hub, and then at Samsung Health where she worked on Samsung’s digital health strategy and on external innovation. She is a mentor and judge for Tech Tour, MassChallenge and EIT Health.
Tim Smith started his career on the Guardian’s tech weekly podcast, before becoming a producer at BBC World Service Radio. He’s been reporting from Spain since 2017, working for BBC, Deutsche Welle, Pink News and Radio New Zealand. Tim is interested in how startups and innovation can address big issues like climate change, citizen participation and financial inclusion. When not covering Iberian entrepreneurship, Tim can be found reading, skateboarding, or walking up hills.
The e-Health Investment Forum focusses on telemedicine solutions and is sponsored by Amazon Web Services. There are 2 different categories: Early stage, looking for less than 1 million euros and Growth stage, looking for more than a million euros. Don´t miss the 10 selected pitches!