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Speakers Roop Chandwani - Aggio Sergeant (United Kingdom) Sarah Fisher Senior Director, External Innovation Johnson & Johnson Innovation (United Kingdom) Tom Gibbs - Debiopharm Innovation Fund (Switzerland) Magnus Holm - Peppermint Venture Partners (Germany) Hannu Hämäläinen Ministerial Adviser at Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund (Finland) Joni Karsikas - Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment) (Finland) Christoph Kausch - MTIP (Switzerland) Medtech Digital health Martin Kelly CEO HealthXL (Ireland) Hiromasa Mori Head of Neurology Patient Technology Europe, Innovative Solutions Mission UCB (Belgium) Natalia Mühlemann Global Business Manager - Medical Devices Nestlé Health Science (Switzerland) Petri Peltonen Under-Secretary of State, Economic Affairs, Ministry of Employment and the Economy Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (Finland) Patrik Sobocki - Industrifonden (Sweden) William Stevens Co-Founder & Group Managing Director Tech Tour (Belgium) Rainer Strohmenger - Wellington Partners (Germany) Jani Tikkanen - LähiTapiola (Finland) Yu Zhang Head of unit at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in the Equity New Products and Special Transactions department European Investment Bank (Luxembourg)
Expert Jury Harry Brade Partner M&M Growth Partners (Finland) Life Sciences Tony Chang Associate at Merck Ventures Merck Ventures BV (Netherlands) Digital health Jens Kristian Damsgaard Partner OpenCircle Capital and Science Ventures DK Science Ventures Denmark A/S (Denmark) Life Sciences Gabriele Dini Senior Investment Manager Breed Reply (United Kingdom) Digital health Tom Gibbs - Debiopharm Innovation Fund (Switzerland) Life Sciences Digital health Magnus Holm - Peppermint Venture Partners (Germany) Medtech Digital health Nikhil Jain Healthcare Technology Investment Professional Innohealth Partners (Switzerland) Digital health Christoph Kausch - MTIP (Switzerland) Medtech Digital health Tuomas Kosonen Partner Inventure Oy (Finland) Digital health Andrey Kozlov - 4BIO Capital Partners (United Kingdom) Life Sciences Dieter Kraft Managing Director Trumpf Corporate Venture (Germany) Pharmaceutical services Digital health Petri Laine Managing partner Innovestor Ventures (Finland) personalized health Christian Laurer Biologist with experience in Pharma, Medtech and Finance. tecnet equity NÖ Technologiebeteiligungs-Invest GmbH (Austria) Digital health Mikko Leino Partner M&M Growth Partners (Finland) Life Sciences Karine Lignel Executive Director- CEO of CM-CIC Innovation, Venture Capital subsidiary of CM-CIC Investissement CM-CIC Innovation (France) Life Sciences Jari Mieskonen Acitive early stage investor Conor Venture Partners Oy (Finland) Digital health Duarte Mineiro Partner Armilar Venture Partners SCR (Portugal) personalized health Hiromasa Mori Head of Neurology Patient Technology Europe, Innovative Solutions Mission UCB (Belgium) Life Sciences Medtech Kieran Mudryy - 4BIO Capital Partners (United Kingdom) Natalia Mühlemann Global Business Manager - Medical Devices Nestlé Health Science (Switzerland) personalized health Leena Niemistö - Pihlajalinna (Finland) Life Sciences Medtech Jouni Pohjonen Partner at Korona Invest Korona Invest (Finland) Claire Poulard Analyst Omnes Capital (France) Medtech Ingrid Rayez - LBO France/Innovation Capital (France) Goncalo Rebelo de Andrade General Manager Hovione Capital (Portugal) Digital health Patrik Sobocki - Industrifonden (Sweden) Digital health Walter Stockinger Managing Partner - Hadean Ventures Hadean Ventures (Norway) Life Sciences Rainer Strohmenger - Wellington Partners (Germany) Life Sciences
Coaches Roop Chandwani - Aggio Sergeant (United Kingdom) Heikki E Rautajoki Executive Chairman at FirstExit OU FirstExit (Estonia) Sophie Ehrlich - Samsung SRUK (United Kingdom) Tom Gibbs - Debiopharm Innovation Fund (Switzerland) Mikko Kauppinen - Health Innovation Village at GE / Zanitaz (Finland) Karin Kleinhans - LSP Life Sciences Partners (Netherlands) Life Sciences Bo Koch-Christensen Venture Partner at Optiteam Optiteam (Denmark) Christian Laurer Biologist with experience in Pharma, Medtech and Finance. tecnet equity NÖ Technologiebeteiligungs-Invest GmbH (Austria) Harri Ojala Senior Business Advisor Business Tampere (Finland) Goncalo Rebelo de Andrade General Manager Hovione Capital (Portugal) Thomas Unt Business Developer at SmiLe Incubator SmiLe Incubator (Sweden) Reidar Wasenius - Finnish Business Angels Network (Finland) Mark Wilson Business and venture development professional with a track record of completing out-licensing deals and spin-outs in a corporate venture environment and 20+ years of experience in developing, incubating and commercialising technologies in the pharmaceutical industry Strategic Technology Bioconsulting (United Kingdom)
Participants Alexis Courtial Healthcare Solutions Lead at Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) Johnson & Johnson Blagovesta Dlagatseva Project Manager Tech Tour (Bulgaria) Niels Erikstrup We have a new medical device that instantly helps incontinent women. Patented and clinically tested. MagCath ApS (Denmark) Ikonom Filipov - Tech Tour (Switzerland) Alejandro García Pérez - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nicolas Geûens Lifescience entrepreneur HeartKinetics (Belgium) Harriet Gullstén - Business Finland (Finland) Asko Hakonen Partner, gillie.io is a healthcare AI cloud service that analyses medical and welfare data on real-time and transforms deviations into actions gillie.io (Finland) personalized health Digital health Astrid Hannich-Walter Astrid acts as a global innovation incubator by encouraging new ideas from within and outside the organization and bringing these ideas to life. She leads the development and the implementation of the global Digital Health strategy for selected Therapeutic Areas. Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH (Germany) Saara Hassinen - The Finnish Health Technology Association, FiHTA (Finland) Minna Hendolin Director Health and Wellbeing at Business Finland Business Finland (Finland) Dennis Hens Chief Innovation Officer Global Core Medical B.V. (Netherlands) Life Sciences personalized health Medtech Ulla Hiekkanen-Mäkelä Business Development Director at Business Finland Business Finland (Finland) Hristo Hristov - Tech Tour (Bulgaria) Marjo Ilmari - Business Finland (Finland) Bent Johnsen - Emperra GmbH (Germany) Jukka Jokinen Senior Venture Advisor at Helsinki Business Hub Helsinki Business Hub (Finland) Päivi Juolahti Head of Fazer Lab, Director Fazer Group (Finland) Nora Kaarela - Business Finland (Finland) Kati Kaijasilta Pharma Business Development professional interested in utilising new technologies for holistic care. Orion Corporation (Finland) personalized health Medtech Digital health Mihal Kambarev Business Devellopment Healthtech Tech Tour (Bulgaria) Mikko Kangas Business Development Director at Innokas Medical Oy Innokas Medical Oy (Finland) Medtech Sara Kangaspeska - Helsinki Innovation Services Ltd (Finland) Matti Kanninen Managing Partner at Butterfly Ventures Butterfly Ventures (Finland) Carmela Kantor-Aaltonen Director at Finnish Bioindustries Finnish Bioindustries (Finland) Aki Koivistoinen StartUp Health Ambassador, Europe & Israel Startup Health (Finland) Erik Kolehmainen Senior Advisor, Growth Capital Business Finland at Business Finland Business Finland (Finland) Val Kratzman Director Business Finland (Finland) Jonne Kuittinen Operations Manager at Finnish Venture Capital Association Finnish Venture Capital Association (Finland) Teppo Laaksonen Business Development Manager In Turku Science Park Oy Turku Science Park Ltd. (Finland) Christian Lardot - Health Capital Helsinki (Finland) Lasse Lehtinen - Icebreaker VC (Finland) Jukka Lähesmaa Consulting Officer at Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Government of Finland (Finland) Heini Malm Senior Advisor, Business Development at BusinessOulu BusinessOulu (Finland) Claes Mikko Nielsen - FiBAN (Finland) Anton Nolvi - University of Helsinki (Finland) Harri Ojala Senior Business Advisor Business Tampere (Finland) João Pereira Scientist and entrepreneur Heartgenetics, Genetics and Biotechnology SA (Portugal) Tero Piispanen - Turku Science Park Ltd. (Finland) Katri Raevuori Senior Specialist, Marketing and Communications at Business Finland Business Finland (Finland) Jukka Rauhala - Versoventures (Finland) Riku Rikkola Entrepreneur-In-Residence VTT Oy (Finland) Life Sciences personalized health Medtech Eeva Salminen - Business Finland (Finland) Sampo Sammalisto - Business Finland (Finland) Pia Santavirta Managing Director at the Finnish Venture Capital Association (FVCA) Finnish Venture Capital Association (Finland) Arne Schlenzka Co-founder & CEO at Osgenic Osgenic (Finland) Medtech Riku Seppälä Partner at Icebreaker Icebreaker VC (Finland) Laura Simik Managing Director at Sailab Sailab – MedTech Finland (Finland) Kari Sinivuori Head of Business Development at Helsinki Innovation Services Helsinki Innovation Services (HIS) (Finland) Laura Strandberg Finance Manager at Finnvera Oyj Finnvera plc (Finland) Mikko Suonenlahti - Build Tech Businesses (Finland) Life Sciences Brad Templeton Senior Manager, SaaS - EMEA & Japan ResMed (United Kingdom) personalized health Medtech Digital health Heidi Tikanmäki - BusinessOulu (Finland) Martina Todorova - Tech Tour (Bulgaria) Eero Toivainen Program Director at Business Finland Business Finland (Finland) Sissel Tove Aasberg - Tech Tour (Belgium) Outi Tuovila - Business Finland (Finland) Kristian Uggerhøj CEO in MagCath ApS. We developed and tested a single-use medical device that can significantly help women suffering from urinary stress incontinens. MagCath ApS (Denmark) Life Sciences Medtech Marcello van Rossum Senior business advisor at Helsinki Business Hub Helsinki Business Hub (Finland) Eero Vartiainen Co-Founder Wave Ventures (Finland) Henri Vehviläinen Category Analyst and Project Manager Tamro Corporation (Finland) personalized health Medtech Pharmaceutical services Marko Vänskä - Business Finland (Finland) Matti Vänskä - Nokia Technologies (Finland) Asta Wallenius Head of Development,Health Sector Growth Strategy for Research and Innovation Ministry Of Employment And The Economy - Finland (Finland) Tian Yu - Helsinki Business Hub (Finland)