Big Data for better healthcare - European Perspectives - 15.12.2025

Agenda

09:30 am Registration & Coffee

10:00 am Welcome: BAdW President Markus Schwaiger

10:05 AM Welcome address: Rainer Hutka (Head of Department, StMGP)

10:15 AM Presentation :Juhani Knuuti (University of Turku, Turku University Hospital and Åbo Akademi University, Finland): Secondary use of health data – the Finnish adventure

10:35 am Panel discussion: What is missing from Germany’s approach to data-driven diagnostics?
With: Sylvia Thun (Charité, Director, Core Unit eHealth and Interoperability), Torsten Haferlach (Founder and CEO, Munich Leukemia Laboratory), Stefan Biesdorf (CEO, Bavarian Cloud for Health Research), Thomas Göhl (Roche Diagnostics, Senior Global Market Development Manager for AI & Platform Economics)
Facilitator: Dominik Pförringer (orthopedic and trauma surgeon, TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar)

11:45 am   Lunch

12:45 pm Presentation Susanna Zucca (CSO enGenome, Italy):From Reactive to Predictive: AI-Driven Genomic Prediction and National-Scale Data Integration for Future Healthcare Systems

1:05 PM Panel discussion:System ready? What Germany needs to enable personalized medicine
With: Thomas Pöppe (AOK Bavaria, Head of Digitalization), Christian Mertes (CTO OmicsDiscoveries GmbH), Joachim Maurice Mielert (APS Action Alliance for Patient Safety e.V., Secretary General), Heribert Schunkert (Clinic Director, TUM and German Heart Center Munich)
Facilitator: Daniel Rückert (Director of the Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich)

14:15 pm Coffee & Cake

3:00 PM Presentation Thomas Fredenslund (CEO, Danish Health Authority): to be announced

3:20 PM Panel discussion: Data quality is no coincidence: How can we ensure the reliability of health data in real time? 
With: Christof von Kalle (Director of the Luxembourg Center for Translational Research), Thomas Petri (Bavarian Data Protection Commissioner), Andreas Lange (Managing Director, Hospital IT), Rebekka Kiser (Data Protection Lawyer, Bavarian Center for Cancer Research)
Facilitator: Christian Dierks (Managing Partner, Dierks+Company)

4:30 PM End