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 1: 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 1: 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 Münchner Leukämielabor), 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 & trauma surgeon, TUM Klinikum rechts der Isar)

11:45 am   Lunch

12:45 pm   Presentation 2: Susanna Zucca (CSO enGenome, Italy): From Reactive to Predictive: AI-Driven Genomic Prediction and National-Scale Data Integration for Future Healthcare Systems

13:05 pm   Panel discussion 2: System ready? What Germany needs to enable personalized medicine
With: Thomas Pöppe (AOK Bayern, leader digitalization), Christian Mertes (CTO OmicsDiscoveries GmbH), Joachim Maurice Mielert (APS Aktionsbündnis Patientensicherheit e.V., Generalsekretär), Heribert Schunkert (Clinic director TUM and German Heart Center Munich)
Facilitator: Daniel Rückert (Director of the Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine, TU Munich)

14:15 pm   Coffee & Cake

15:00 pm   Presentation 3: Thomas Fredenslund (CEO Danish Health Authority): tba

15:20 pm   Panel discussion 3: Data quality is no coincidence: How can we ensure the reliability of health data in real time? 
With: Christof von Kalle (Director of Luxembourg Center for Translational Research), Thomas Petri (Bavarian Data Protection Commissioner), Andreas Lange (Managing director, Klinik IT) Rebekka Kiser (Data protection lawyer, Bavarian Canter for Cancer Research)
Facilitator: Christian Dierks (Managing Partner, Dierks+Company)

16:30 pm   End