Highlights Of The Program
2 days business program:
Learn from real-world case studies by industry leaders.
SHOWCASING INNOVATION:
Discover the latest technology and techniques from across the industry.
leaders talk:
Hear from top-level experts about how to stay ahead in a fast-changing industry.
MULTIPLE STREAMS:
A business program that is multi-disciplinary, giving you a broad view of the industry.
SMART TECHNOLOGIES:
Explore the latest smart and AI-driven solutions, and see how they can be used in your business.
roundtable discussion:
Join talks with industry peers. Share ideas, make connections, and find new partners.
Program 2026
DAY 1 :
MONDAY, 7 DECEMBER, 2026
08:00 - 08:50
REGISTRATION AND MORNING REFRESHMENTS
08:50 - 09:00
OPENING ADDRESS
09:00 - 09:25
DIGITAL PRECISION HEALTH AND AI FOR HEALTH: A 21ST-CENTURY PARADIGM SHIFT


Georgi Chaltikyan
Deggendorf Institute of Technology
- Harnessing AI, genomics, and wearables to enable the shift from sick care to precision health
- Reframing healthcare from episodic intervention to predictive, preventive, and personalised wellness
- Anchoring longitudinal records and real-world data in 21ˢᵗ-century precision medicine
09:25 - 09:30
Q&A SESSION ON THE PRECISION HEALTH PARADIGM IN THE AI ERA
09:30 - 09:55
NAVIGATING THE NHS DIGITAL FRONT DOOR: AI-ENABLED CARE ROUTING ACROSS URGENT, EMERGENCY AND PRIMARY CARE
- Directing patients to the right level of care at the point of contact rather than leaving them to self-triage
- Embedding bounded and accountable AI navigation across digital urgent emergency care and general practice
- Carrying navigation data across general practice community teams and hospital so each clinician sees prior context
09:55 - 10:00
Q&A SESSION ON THE AI-ENABLED NHS APP AS A SAFE DIGITAL FRONT DOOR
10:00 - 10:30
RESERVED PRESENTATION
10:30 - 11:00
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
11:00 - 11:30
PANEL DISCUSSION ON TELEHEALTH
11:30 - 11:55
THE FUTURE OF TELEHEALTH DEPENDS ON TRUST, NOT TECHNOLOGY


Michelle Corrigan
Digital Care Hub
- Reframing trust as the hidden infrastructure behind telehealth adoption, clinician confidence, and data quality
- Diagnosing what breaks when trust fails across integrated care pathways, virtual care, and remote monitoring
- Architecting trust by design through transparency, patient control, cybersecurity, and cross-sector data stewardship
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON BUILDING TRUSTED TELEHEALTH SERVICES BY DESIGN
12:00 - 12:25
HOW HYBRID CARE AND AI TAKE TELEMEDICINE TO THE NEXT LEVEL, CLOSING ACCESS GAPS


Thomas Geuenich
Teladoc Health
- Tracing telehealth's evolution beyond early virtualised consultations in primary care and mental health
- Bridging access gaps with hybrid settings where nurses and junior physicians are joined remotely by experts
- Empowering remote clinical decision making with wearables, peripheral devices and dedicated AI layers
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A SESSION ON HYBRID CARE AND AI CLOSING GAPS IN ACCESS TO CARE
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE TELEHEALTH EXHIBITION
13:30 - 13:55
TELEHEALTH WAS BUILT FOR ACCESS. THE NEXT CHALLENGE IS ADHERENCE


Renato Romani
Ew2health
- Revealing why easier access to GLP-1 prescriptions has not delivered lasting weight loss outcomes
- Monitoring patient behaviour between consultations to spot disengagement risk before dropout
- Converting reactive telehealth into proactive infrastructure for outcome-based obesity care
13:55 - 14:00
Q&A SESSION ON KEEPING OBESITY TELEHEALTH PATIENTS ENGAGED FOR THE LONG TERM
14:00 - 14:25
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: LONG-TERM ADOPTION AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE


Chirag Lodhia
Monash Health
- Diagnosing the major factors that derail digital health adoption across health systems
- Pinpointing the enablers of successful adoption and how to achieve them in practice
- Architecting the infrastructure that lifts workforce digital literacy and capability
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON SUSTAINING LONG-TERM DIGITAL HEALTH ADOPTION
14:30 - 14:55
MANAGING CHRONIC DISEASE FROM A DISTANCE: HOW REMOTE CARE REDEFINES OUTCOMES


Latika Chawla
Accenture
- Shifting chronic disease management from reactive office visits toward proactive real-time intervention through remote monitoring and virtual check-ins
- Evidencing improved adherence, reduced hospital readmissions, and better control of diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure through telehealth enabled care
- Mainstreaming remote chronic care into clinical workflows and reimbursement models without overwhelming staff or widening the access gap
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A SESSION ON REMOTE CARE MODELS FOR LONG-TERM CHRONIC DISEASE OUTCOMES
15:00 - 15:20
AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
15:20 - 15:45
FROM EPISODIC CARE TO CONTINUOUS CARE - THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL HEALTH


Jaideep Srivastava
University of Minnesota
- Shifting from reactive episodic care to proactive, personalised continuous care at home (CC@H)
- Predicting patient deterioration and critical clinical events in time for preventive intervention
- Integrating wearable sensors, smart home devices and cardiac telemetry for round-the-clock visibility
15:45 - 15:50
Q&A SESSION ON CONTINUOUS CARE AT HOME AND PREDICTIVE MONITORING
15:50 - 16:15
REIMAGINING TELEHEALTH FOR NEURODIVERGENT MINDS: CLINICAL FRONTLINE INNOVATION


Morgana Walker
Morgana Walker Psychology
- Designing sensory-aware virtual clinical sessions with play-based digital interventions and visual scaffolding
- Mobilising webinars, on-demand learning, and social micro-teaching to cut waiting lists and widen access
- Safeguarding regulatory and safety standards while sustaining therapeutic alliances in hybrid care pathways
16:15 - 16:20
Q&A SESSION ON NEURODIVERGENT-FRIENDLY TELEHEALTH IN PRACTICE
16:20 - 16:45
ETHICAL CODES FOR DEVELOPING PATIENT-DRIVEN TELEHEALTH


Anna Shillabeer
ACS
- The ethics uplift of AI-driven triage and no-appointment, low-cost virtual consultations
- Credentials, skills and professional codes for the developers building telehealth systems — the ethics of cross-domain development
- What can go wrong in patient-centred telehealth, and the risks of physician-driven secondary care as default
- Impact on primary care: threat or strengthening force in a global-but-not-one-world ethical landscape
16:45 - 16:50
Q&A SESSION ON ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IN TELEHEALTH
16:50 - 17:15
AI-POWERED HEALTHCARE NAVIGATION ACROSS DIGITAL HEALTH ECOSYSTEMS


Renjith Kathalikkattil Ravindran
Castlight Health Inc.
- Guiding patients towards appropriate care pathways with AI-assisted decision support and provider discovery
- Reducing friction across scheduling and engagement to widen access within real healthcare workflows
- Weighing trust, accessibility, and adoption when embedding AI navigation into patient-facing platforms at scale
17:15 - 17:20
Q&A SESSION ON AI NAVIGATION AND PATIENT ACCESS IN VIRTUAL CARE
17:20 - 18:20
NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2 :
TUESDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2026
08:00 - 08:30
MORNING REFRESHMENTS
08:30 - 08:40
OPENING ADDRESS
08:40 - 09:05
WHO OWNS THE FRONT DOOR TO HEALTHCARE? DATA, VALUE, AND THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL


Vanessa Wolfe-Coote
Capgemini
- Rethinking where value sits as AI becomes the front door and EMRs risk becoming systems of record
- Drawing lessons from the UK patient safety dataset, where trust and incentives outweighed technology
- Deciding what to own, where to partner and how to govern the data and AI layer before platforms take control
09:05 - 09:10
Q&A SESSION ON DATA, VALUE AND CONTROL OF HEALTHCARE'S DIGITAL FRONT DOOR
09:10 - 09:35
AI DIAGNOSTICS IN TELEHEALTH: WHY MOST PILOTS FAIL IN REAL CARE SETTINGS
- Diagnosing why most AI diagnostic pilots stall in real clinical settings, not against any technology ceiling
- Mapping how Europe's incoming AI rules act as a market filter, not just a compliance cost
- Positioning reimbursement-ready evidence, built early, as the line between diagnostics that scale and those that stall
09:35 - 09:40
Q&A SESSION ON WHAT MAKES AI DIAGNOSTICS SCALE BEYOND THE PILOT IN EUROPE
09:40 - 10:05
VIRTUAL CARE QUALITY-SCALE PARADOX FRAMEWORK FOR AI INTEGRATION AND CLINICAL GOVERNANCE


Hossam Hosni El Dali
Mediclinic Middle East
- Scaling virtual care without weakening clinical quality safety or governance
- Building an AI-enabled virtual care ecosystem with interoperability and live monitoring
- Positioning AI as a force multiplier for patient risk stratification and triage
10:05 - 10:10
Q&A SESSION ON SAFE AND GOVERNED SCALING OF AI VIRTUAL CARE
10:10 - 10:30
MORNING COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT AREA
10:30 - 10:55
GOVERNING GENERATIVE AI IN PATIENT-FACING PRODUCTS: LESSONS FROM BUPA


Kernow Craig
Bupa
- Embedding clinical governance as a design partner from day one rather than a final sign-off gate
- Evaluating non-deterministic AI continuously instead of relying on one-time approval before launch
- Defining what safe means for a conversational health product and how Bupa tests for it
10:55 - 11:00
Q&A SESSION ON SAFE GENERATIVE AI IN PATIENT-FACING HEALTH PRODUCTS
11:00 - 11:25
AI-DRIVEN SAFETY AND PERSONALISATION IN TELEHEALTH


Farah Bouras
Think Touch Solution
- Detecting drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-herbal risks proactively with AI in remote care environments
- Harnessing real-world data within telehealth systems to improve safety, personalisation, and outcomes
- Operationalising AI tools in hospital-at-home and virtual care models to reduce adverse events
11:25 - 11:30
Q&A SESSION ON AI SAFEGUARDS FOR REMOTE AND PERSONALISED CARE
11:30 - 11:55
SCALING HYBRID CARE: INTEGRATION BOTTLENECKS AND THE AI-EDUCATED PATIENT
- Overcoming integration bottlenecks that keep AI diagnostics out of routine clinical workflows
- Raising patient health literacy with AI tools that improve adherence and self-management
- Proving measurable outcomes and economic ROI in hospital-at-home and collaborative chronic care
11:55 - 12:00
Q&A SESSION ON MAKING AI-ERA VIRTUAL CARE WORK FOR CLINICIANS AND PATIENTS
12:00 - 12:25
HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR MORAL COMPASS? TELEHEALTH NEEDS TRANSPARENCY AND TRUST


Malcolm Fisk
University of Lancashire
- Setting out six parameters to guide the future of telehealth for designers, procurers and service providers
- Grounding telehealth's future direction in the patient and consumer perspective rather than a clinical lens
- Strengthening safeguards for AI transparency and trust, informed by developments in European standards
12:25 - 12:30
Q&A SESSION ON TRANSPARENCY, TRUST AND ETHICS IN TELEHEALTH
12:30 - 13:30
NETWORKING LUNCH AND VISITING THE TELEHEALTH EXHIBITION
13:30 - 13:55
AUTOMATED SYSTEM OF INTELLIGENT REMOTE MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS — DR. CASE


Oleksii Bychkov
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Ranking probable conditions from patient symptoms using machine learning on clinical case data
- Extracting structured symptoms from free-text descriptions in Ukrainian and English with NLP
- Generating interactive clarifying questions to refine remote diagnostic decision support
13:55 - 14:00
Q&A SESSION ON AI-DRIVEN REMOTE DIAGNOSIS AND SYMPTOM ANALYSIS
14:00 - 14:25
HARNESSING AI AND DATA LITERACY TO DRIVE PATIENT ADOPTION OF TELEMEDICINE


Ganesh Subedi
University of Newcastle Australia
- Diagnosing patient-side barriers and facilitators that shape telemedicine adoption after the pandemic
- Examining how AI-driven healthcare systems influence patient acceptance, trust, and digital literacy
- Recommending strategies for fair, secure, and equitable virtual care across diverse patient groups
14:25 - 14:30
Q&A SESSION ON BUILDING PATIENT TRUST IN AI-ENABLED VIRTUAL CARE
14:30 - 14:55
BRIDGING THE DISTANCE: TELEHEALTH TRANSFORMING PRIMARY CARE ACROSS AUSTRALIA


April Armstrong
Business For Doctors
- llustrating the geographic realities that separate rural Australian patients from timely primary care
- Closing gaps in continuity of care and chronic disease management with structured virtual consultations
- Sharing operational clinical and regulatory lessons from building a sustainable remote telehealth practice
14:55 - 15:00
Q&A SESSION ON TELEHEALTH LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA'S MOST REMOTE REGIONS
15:00 - 15:25
THE EHDS: BALANCING PATIENT DATA ACCESS WITH PRIVACY, TRADE SECRETS AND IPRS


Alesch Staehelin
Uto Legal
- Reconciling GDPR governance, opt-out design and security obligations with secondary use of patient data
- Decoding the claim and mitigate model, HDAB conditions and secure processing environments for trade secrets
- Untangling patents, database rights and TDM exceptions in the AI training compliance stack for health data
15:25 - 15:30
Q&A SESSION ON PATIENT DATA ACCESS AND PROTECTION UNDER THE EHDS
15:30 - 15:45
FEEDBACK AND RAFFLE DRAW
15:45 - 16:00
CLOSING REMARKS
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