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President
Andreas Ostendorf
Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum
Ruhr-University Bochum
Speakers
David Champeaux
CEO
Evidentli
Elina Drakvik
Senior Lead
Sitra
Jana Drechsler
Head of Health & International Affairs
Essen Wirtschaft
Jakob Futorjanski
Founder & CEO
NeuroNation MED
Roger Halliday
CEO of Research Data Scotland; Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow.
Research Data Scotland
Claas Heise
Executive Director
NRW Bank
Hannes Klöpper
CEO
HelloBetter
Marco Mohwinckel
Pharma, Biotech, Health Tech, Med Tech | Executive & Advisor | Strategy, Growth, Innovation
Magnolia Health Advisors
Hartmuth Nowak
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. | Medical Computer Scientist (M.Sc.) | Intensivist | Anesthetist (DESAIC) | AI E
Knappschaft Kliniken Universitätsklinikum Bochum
Peter Ohnemus
President & CEO
dacadoo
Zdravko Peshakov
CCO
Sqilline Health
Johannes Peuling
Head of HealthCampus Agency Bochum
Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Jaanus Pikani
Director, Tartu Biotechnology Park and Chairman
ScanBalt BioRegion
Pedro Ramos
CEO
Promptly Health
Garth Smith
VP, Business Development and Partnerships
Ontario Brain Institute
William Stevens
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Tony Thomas
Strategic Advisor | Driving Global Health Initiatives
Tech Tour
Eeva Salminen
Senior Director at Business Finland | Leadership | Growth companies | Growth funding | Early-stage i
Business Finland
Anastasia Liapis
Innovation Leader | Diagnostics & Digital Health | Translating Science into Scalable Impact
Silvia Schneider
Professor of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Ruhr University Bochum
Mar Rus-Calafell
Professor of Clinical Psychology and Digital Psychotherapy
Ruhr University Bochum
Ion-Gheorghe Petrovai
Director of Innovation and Co-Founder
FreshBlood HealthTech
Alanna Ebigbo
Head of Department, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Interventional Endoscopy
St. Josef-University Hospital, Bochum
Christoph Monfeld
Managing Director Smart Health Hub Ruhr
Quhr
Marta S. Bret
Director
WeMind Cluster
Thomas Wollinger
CEO
Bochum Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Tanja Frankewitz
Vice President Medical Device International
TÜV NORD CERT
Annabelle Beyer
Start-up Coach
WORLDFACTORY Start-up Center
Moritz Roloff
Co-founder
acadim
Frank Speer
Head of Internationalization & Location Marketing
Business Metropole Ruhr
Jörg Kemna
Managing Director
Business Metropole Ruhr
Larissa Gajewski
Startup Programs @BRYCK I Innovation I Female Founders I Network
BRYCK
Janke Dittmer
General Partner
Gilde Healthcare
Selection Panel & Experts
Antoine Blondeau
Founder and Managing Partner
Alpha Intelligence Capital
Golnaz Borghei
Deeptech Investor
APEX Ventures
Pedro Castel-Branco
VC Investor
Armilar Venture Partners
Stefan Deskov
Investment Manager
Sofia Ventures
Caroline Gueissaz
Startup Advisor - Board Member - Management Consultant
Business Angels Switzerland
Mahdi Hamzei
Project Manager
Business Metropole Ruhr
Jörg Holstein
Managing Partner
Meerkat Holding
Mario Huyghe
Senior Venture Development Manager
imec
Margot Huysmans
Investment Analyst
HERAN Partners
Mahmoud Ibrahim
Mission Lead - Data Science & AI Mission Lead
Bayer
Pascal Joncour
General Partner @ Convergence Brain & Mental Health Fund
Convergence Partners AG
Marko Kuisma
Partner
Innovestor
Dominik Leisi
Investment Manager
Atlantic Bridge
Steven Leuridan
Partner
Qbic Fund I Venture Capital
Hermann Monstadt
Vice President Corporate Innovation & Strategy
Atimon Invest
Martin Müller
Venture Capital
Carma Fund
Dereck Ofosu
Venture Partner
MoonStone Venture Capital
Pierpaolo Padula
Investment Manager
Brightlands Venture Partners
Kustaa Piha
Angel Investor
Athensmed Oy
Alessio Piuma
Principal
Panakès Partners
Steve Seuntjens
Partner
PHS Capital
Dick Sietses
Investment Partner Health
Capricorn Partners
Roel Smolders
Valorization Director
VITO
Christian Stephan
Klaus Stoeckemann
Healthcare Investor, Rotarian, Entrepreneur, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Peppermint Venture P
Peppermint Venture Partners
Nicolas van de Kerkhof
Health Expert
Sanne van Erp
Healthtech investor
NextGen Ventures
Nicolas Weber
Healthcare Entrepreneur · Investor · Board Director
3Minds
Fabian Hogre
Investment Manager
Gründerfonds Ruhr
Matthias Vaterrodt
Project Manager for Venture Clienting
TÜV NORD
Philipp Leidig
Authorized Signatory / Director - Venture & Seed Capital
NRW.BANK
Presenting Companies
Bastian Sudhoff
Co-Founder
Lucoyo Health GmbH
Carlotta Altringer
CEO
VitrofluidiX
Markus Geffe
Founder, Lead Engineer
Medirion
Claus Eckermann
COO
Proth-O-Type GmbH
Meike Kreutel
Founder and CEO
Femi-ON
Schahin Baki
CEO & Co-founder
Puraite
Noel Weinberg
CMO
Medipee GmbH
Martin Klingelberg
Managing Partner
Fluint Health GmbH
Perrine Lhuillier
COO
neurodAIgnostics
Katrina Wendel-Mitoraj
CEO
SOENIAⓇ by BrainCare Oy
Ana-Teresa Maia
CEO & co-Founder
expressTEC
Kei Wieland Müller
CEO
Ebenbuild
Philippe Jørgensen
CEO
Cortrium
David Van Laere
CEO
Innocens
Max Ostermeier
CEO
G-Metrics GmbH
Frederik Plourde
CEO, co-founder
Bewelab SA
Patrick Kessel
CEO & co-founder
Perivision SA
Tanja Danner
CEO
Prenaital
Ioannis Gkouzionis
Co-founder & CEO
Aisthesis Medical Ltd
Benedicte Grytte Dahl
Co-founder & CEO
Hemi Health
Philip Taillieu
CEO
Cascador Health
Kristin Lied
CEO
Cardiolife
Paul Loomis
CEO
BrainCapture ApS
Alessandro Grillini-Kromm
CEO
Reyedar B.V.
João Guichard
Chief AI Officer
Tonic Easy Medical
Torbjørn Furuseth
CEO and Co-Founder
DoMore Diagnostics
Robert Zechlin
Co-CEO & Founder
UniteLabs
Elcin Can Cavusoglu
Co-founder & CEO
Breathment
Hermann Moser
Co-Founder & CEO
arterioscope FlexCo
Julija Bakane
Head of Product
Peonova
Jules Eggli
COO
Ai.Qimia
Mikko Savola
CEO
Monidor Oy
Reinhard Krickl
CEO
Image Biopsy Lab
Lorenzo Kutschki
Co-Founder
denki
Jaume Puig Adamuz
CEO and Co-Founder
BIEL GLASSES
Coaches
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