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President
Andreas Ostendorf
Ruhr Universitaet Bochum LAT
Vice President
Christian Stephan
Managing Director at Kairos GmbH
KAIROS - an IQVIA business
Selection Panel
Pedro Castel-Branco
Armilar Venture Partners
Mathieu Chaffard
Biomedical Engineer and Healthtech Podcaster
Impulse - Meeting Healthcare Pioneers
Coenraad Davidsdochter
Senior Consultant at Qserve Group, Software lead
Qserve Group
Antoine D'Hollander
Investment Manager - Capricorn Partners
Capricorn Partners
Jana Drechsler
Project Manager Corporate Development/M&A
EWG - Essener Wirtschaftsförderung
Jan Engels
Investment Manager
High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF)
Nicolas Guggenheim
Independent Board Member and Strategic Investor in Healthcare
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Tyler Hayes
Principal @ Thuja Capital | Early-stage healthcare VC
Thuja Capital
Juho Immonen
Data Science @ Bayer Global R&D | Life Sciences Advisory & Investments
Bayer
Alper Karagoz
Partner, CFA
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP)
Bernard Kirsch
Head of Data Privacy and Investor
Angels Santé
Philippa Köhnk
BRYCK
Philipp Kopp
Life Sciences/Healthtech VC investor
bmp Ventures
Lauri Kuronen
Enabling use of sensitive data
LKP-Invest
Steven Leuridan
Tech/Medtech investment professional
Qbic
Marco Mohwinckel
Director Magnolia Health Advisors
Magnolia Health Advisors
Antonio Murta
Managing Director
Pathena
Nicolas Olberg
IT Investor & Managing Director
Twip Impact Ventures
Xavier Pardo
MedTech Executive with a focus on Leadership, Commercial Excellence and Innovative Technologies.
Xerpa
Dietmar Schlößer
Director Digitalization & Innovation | The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
TÜV NORD GROUP
Remi Spagnol
Healthtech investor at Supernova Invest
Supernova Invest
Ralph BMH van Aken
Medtech Entrepreneur: Advisor / MBI
Wolf Nose
James Wilson
Vice President
Silverpeak
Expert Jury
Jan Gräfe
Managing Director
Gründerfonds Ruhr
Brian Hashemi
Salus Partners
Claas Heise
Executive Director
NRW Bank
Jannis Heuner
Managing Director
ruhrHUB
Jörg Holstein
Health IT Entrepreneur and Business Angel @ Health Campus Bochum
Meerkat Holding
Mario Huyghe
Bringing disruptive deeptech medtech and digital therapy innovation into real world use for better p
imec
Dan Kirkland
Co-founder, NED and tech advisor with experience of building teams and SaaS platforms for internatio
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
Nihat Koc
Venture Manager @Spotlight! Ventures
Spotlight! Ventures
Sebastian Merkel
Junior Professorship for Health and E-Health
Digi Health Start
Hermann Monstadt
Vice President Corporate Innovation & Strategy, WallabyPhenox and Managing Director, ATIMON Invest G
WallabyPhenox
Johannes Peuling
Head of Technology & Innovation at Bochum Economic Development, Managing Director BO Institute of Te
Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Kustaa Piha
Investor in Healthcare and Medtech
Athensmed Oy
Maurice Reinhard
Investment Associate
Gründerfonds Ruhr
Benno Tieke
Philips Ventures
Nicolas van de Kerkhof
Business Creation Manager
EIT Health
Vanessa Vaughn
Building international start-up ecosystem networks and coaching university start-ups @Ruhr Universit
Ruhr Universitaet Bochum LAT
Aiswarya Kishor
HealthTech Venture Capital @ RYSE
RYSE
Nils Wuytens
Program Director VITO4STARTERS // corporate venturing / spin-offs / tech transfer / open innovation
VITO
Keynote Speaker
Matteo Berlucchi
Healthily (formerly Your.MD)
Gunjan Bhardwaj
Founder & CEO - Partex NV
Partex NV
Larissa Gajewski
Innovation, Startups, Female Founders & Entrepreneurship
BRYCK
Klaus Gerwert
Professor @ Ruhr University Bochum /// Founder & CEO @ betaSENSE
betaSENSE
Jörg Kemna
CEO Business Metropole Ruhr
Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Group Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Thomas Wollinger
CEO I Bochum Economic Development
Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Anastasia Liapis
Global Head of Strategy & Partnerships
HP Health Solutions
Michael Friebe
Founding Partner
5P FUTURE OF HEALTH
Martin Paul
Rector
Ruhr Universitaet Bochum LAT
Thora Markert
Head of AI Research and Governance
TÜVIT
Presenting Companies
Carlotta Altringer
VitrofluidiX
Michelelia Amodio
Founder's Associate at StratifAI
StratifAI
Jonathan Apasu
I’m a passionate, driven individual with a deep fascination for health and fitness, shaped by my mul
Adon Health
Bartosz Borucki
CEO & Co-founder
Smarter Diagnostics
Paulus Carpelan
The value of innovation realizes through productization
Adamant Health oy
Sune Darkner
CTO and Professor in Data-Driven Simulation
DARERL ApS
Soumya Dash
Accelerating the healthcare ecosystem's transition to wireless sensing
Sleepiz AG
Omar El Nahhas
StratifAI
Eva Garcia Ramos
With more than 25 years experience in Tech and Business I create my own company WVI to help with tec
e-HEALTH TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS SL
Bart Geerts
Entrepreneurial physician enabling health care providers to deliver care more proactively with suppo
Healthplus.ai
Nedelcho Georgiev
CEO Smart Soft Healthcare
Columbo
Ioannis Gkouzionis
I'm Ioannis Gkouzionis, an entrepreneur and researcher with a background in machine learning and cli
Aisthesis Medical
Noushin Hadadi
I am a Biomedical Data Scientist with a Ph.D. from EPFL, specializing in computational biology, bioi
Novigenix SA
Torsten Heerdegen Jepsen
Second time founder, 15 years of leadership experience in life science industry
Aiomic
Georgi Kadrev
Co-founder & CEO of Kelvin Health, Advancing the standard of vascular care via accessible & rapid no
Kelvin Health
Maarten Larmuseau
Passioned about data science and its potential to make healthcare better and safer.
Nuclivision
Daniel Leite
Applying AI to medical imaging
AI4MedImaging - Medical Solutions S.A.
Alex Loleyt
Building a new realm of healthcare research
Traverse Health
Kirill Lopatin
CTO & Co-Founder xAID
xAID
Czuee Morey
CEO and co-founder at Xena Dx | Biomedical scientist | Digital Health
Xena Dx
Samuel Müller
CTO of ATLAS medical technologies GmbH
ATLAS medical technology GmbH
Peter Nestorov
Passionate about precision medicine and value-based healthcare: quality over quantity.
Scailyte AG
Manuel Opitz
deepeye’s CEO Manuel Opitz (MSc & MBA) is a serial healthtech entrepreneur. He raised 8-digits and r
deepeye Medical GmbH
Tuomo Pentikäinen
CEO of VEIL.AI - a deep tech startup that guarantees that sensitive health data can be used for phar
Veil.ai
Steffen Preuß
Steffen Preuß, founder of icho systems, leverages design and technology to revolutionize therapy for
icho systems
Stefan Raue
Nooku
Thomas Roth
Co-Founder & CEO - Inzipio GmbH
Inzipio GmbH
Jacco Schutte
With over 15 years of experience in hospital management, digital transformation and co-founder of th
Autoscriber
Mehrdad Seirafi
Co-founder | Alpha Brain Technologies | Neurotech
Alpha Brain Technologies
Max Sieghold
Co-Founder Sleepiz AG
Sleepiz AG
Lauri Sippola
Co-founder and CEO of Gosta Labs
Gosta Labs
Marc Sommer
Founder & CEO of spexa GmbH
spexa GmbH
Natalie Sporrer
Elixion Medical
Madhur Srivastava
Tech entrepreneur using technology to deliver accessible, effective, and personalised healthcare.
DocHQ Ltd
Philip Taillieu
Serial entrepreneur with a proven track record in scaling businesses with a data-driven value propos
Cascador health
Jukka Tapaninen
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aiforia Technologies
Aiforia Technologies Plc
Nikolay Todorov
A professional with more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector.
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Corina Turner
Driving Innovation in AI-powered Digital Pathology | Head of Marketing at Smart In Media
Smart In Media AG
Anna Maria Ullmann
Co-Founder & Entrepreneur, interested in FemTech, DEI and sustainablility
Yeda (former YoniCore) by CoreCreation UG
Tom Van De putte
Bingli
Kristof Van Emelen
Developing next-generation antibiotics in the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance
Obulytix
Corinna Weber
The future of human-machine interaction
SNAP DISCOVERY AG
Celia Antonio Schell
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
MultiOmic Health Limited
Vasilis Dimakopoulos
Co-founder, CSO
Aisthesis Medical
Ludwig Fendt
Co-Founder & CEO
Elixion Medical
Danny Kane
CEO
Nooku