BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260819T094557Z UID:cde1172e-5b47-4f49-aa76-c5d5cfa9febc DTSTART:20230413T000000Z DTEND:20230413T000000Z DESCRIPTION:\nThe Innovation and SME Forum is a one-day event that provides the platform for experts from the private and public sector who work on A I in the healthcare sector to discuss challenges and opportunities in heal th digitalisation and data-driven innovation.\n\nThis event contains a mix of high-level speakers\, giving companies the chance to present technolog ical advances in the field of AI for healthcare applications. The particip ants will have the chance to learn about Health-RI and ELIXIR resources an d reach out to relevant networks from industry and academia.\n\n\nRegistra tion closes on the 6th of April.\n\n\nRegister now (F-2-F only)\nAgenda\n\ n\n \n \n 09.15 - 10.00\n Registrations and welcome coffee\n \n \n 10.00 - 10.10\n \n Introducing Health-RI\, the mission and the work so far\, and the connection with the European bioinformatics infrastructu re\, ELIXIR (Lincoln Zephyr room)\n\n Speaker: Ruben Kok (Health-RI /EL IXIR-NL)\n \n \n 10.10- 10.30\n \n What AI can bring to Health In novation (Lincoln Zephyr room)\n\n Speaker: Cor Veenman (TNO)\n\n \n \n \n \n 10.30- 11.30\n \n Successes and struggles on accelera ting the adoption of (AI) technology in Health and Life Sciences (Lincoln Zephyr room)\n\n Topic: Stakeholders representing the whole value chain will set the scene for AI in health research. This will include SMEs with experience in working with larger organisations (public and private) and large organisations with experience or ambition towards engaging with SMEs \, presenting bottlenecks and opportunities in working collaboratively.\n\ n Speakers:\n\n \n Dennis van der Hoeff\, IQVIA (Large enterpris e perspective)\n Ian Wachters\, Roseman Labs (SME perspective)\n Mercedes Tuin\, BOM (Investor perspective)\n Margrietha H. (Greet) Vin k\, ErasmusMC (Academic perspective)\n \n \n \n \n 11.30 - 12:00\ n \n Coffee break (Grand Café)\n \n \n \n 12.00 - 12.45\n \n Panel discussion on how to improve the ecosystem (Lincoln Zephyr room) \n\n Topic: Panel discussion and Q&\;A on how to improve the ecosyst em\, reduce struggles and boost innovation at the national and European le vels\, improve the incubation environment for AI in health research\, what scares companies in the health sector and what good practices in the sect or.\n\n Speakers from the previous session and:\n\n \n Gerty Ho lla\, Amsterdam Economic Board \n Pieter Jeekel\, NL AIC\n Leone F likweert\, Health RI\n \n \n \n 12:45 - 13.45\n \n Lunch break\ n \n \n \n 13.45 - 14.40\n \n Flash talks from companies (Linc oln Zephyr room)\n\n Topic: SME and start-up representatives will prese nt their products and innovative activities in the healthcare sector\, str uggles and needs for partnerships.\n\n Speakers:\n\n \n Wim Kees Janssen\, Syntho\n Freya de Mink\, Roseman Labs\n Hugo Huijs\, Or ikami\n Marianne Pouwer\, MRDM \n Nils Hijlkema\, Tenwise\n Ma rtin Maksimov\,Soom Inc.\n Alex Ridden\, Knights Analytics\n \n 5-min Wrap up of the day (Despoina Sousoni\, ELIXIR Hub)\n\n \n \n \n \n 14.45 - 15.00\n \n Short break\n \n \n \n 15.00 - 16.00 \n \n Roundtable discussions\n Two rounds of 25' min discussions ( participants will have the opportunity to join two tables) \n\n Topic: Flash talk presenters will discuss with participants areas where building collaborations are essential for innovative achievements.\n\n Speakers: \n\n \n Syntho: Synthetic data and PETs at the startup level\n Roseman Labs: Protecting privacy in data collaboration\n Orikami: Usi ng real world data for better clinical decisions\n MRDM: Data availabi lity &\; quality\n Health RI: NLP for unstructured data\n Soom Inc.: Collaboration between researchers and technology companies to advanc e healthcare knowledge\n Knights Analytics: Challenges in matching and making use of siloed data sources\n \n \n \n \n 16:00 - 17:00 \n \n Networking drinks\n \n \n \n\nObjectives of the day\n\n\n Co llect best practices and learn from established players\n Understand the S ME ecosystem\n Put forward what is needed for innovation to thrive in Euro pe and The Netherlands\n Stimulate collaboration between large and small o rganisations\n\n\n\nTarget audience\n\n\n\nProfessionals from:\n\n Large\, medium and small enterprises\n Funding bodies\n Technology transfer and i ncubator offices\n Nonprofit and public organisations\n Patients’ and cl inicians’ associations\n\nWith research interests in:\n\n Health and lif e sciences\n AI and ML services\n Data management\n Innovative services in the above areas\n\n Representatives from SMEs\, start-ups\, or companies are welcome to express their interest in presenting their work in the flas h talk session in the registration form.\nThe speakers will have the oppor tunity to introduce their work in a five-minute talk and discuss in a one- hour round table format challenges and opportunities in building collabora tions.\n\n\nTravel and accommodation\n\n\n Address: Kanaalweg 64\, 3527 KX Utrecht (see the venue on a map)\n Tel: (030) 2930945\n Accommodation: Pa rticipants and speakers are expected to make their own accommodation arran gements. The recommended hotel is Hotel NH Utrecht\, which is located 14 m in walking distance from the venue. \n Parking: free of charge\, but limit ed parking spaces available on the premises of the venue and paid parking available at the Jaarbeurs parkings close by \n\n\nBackground\n\n\n Since 2014\n\n 17\n SME forums in...\n\n 12\n European countries with over...\ n~1\,000\n participants from...\n 308 companies\n\nELIXIR is a distribute d life science data infrastructure connecting 22 countries and over 220 of Europe's leading life science organisations. It coordinates\, integrates and sustains hundreds of databases\, software tools\, interoperability res ources\, training and compute resources across its member states. This res earch infrastructure manages and safeguards the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research and enables users in academia and industry to access services vital to their research.\n\n\n Explore the ELIXIR Industry portfolio\n Subscribe to our quarterly industry newslette r\n Express your interest in ELIXIR activities\n\n\nProgramme Committee\n\ n\n\n\n“I hope this day\, many SMEs and larger organisations get to know each other\, connect and find opportunities to collaborate to develop bet ter AI in healthcare."\n - Ian Wachters\, Commercial officer Roseman Labs and Advisor to start-ups\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It is time to start building a thriving healthcare ecosystem around artificial intelligence products and services." \n - Douwe Jippes\, Co-Founder and Managing Partner Healthy Cap ital\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Company engagement and making data AI-ready are key activities for Health-RI. Therefore we are pleased to organise the SME Fo rum AI in Health Research together with ELIXIR."\n - Merlijn van Rijswijk\ , Board secretary Health-RI\, Manager DTL-Projects and Director NMC\n\n\n\ n LOCATION:Villa Jongerius\, Kanaalweg 64 SUMMARY:ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum: AI in Health Research URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.elixir-europe.org/events/innovation-sme-forum-ai- health-research END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR