Alexandra Rydmark, Ambassador of Sweden to Israel

Fredrik Folkunger, Director Business Coordination, Middle East Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden

Frida Rybo, Head of Tel Aviv Office, Vinnova

Maja Zoric, Trade & Invest Commissioner to Israel

The Swedish eHealth Agency, EHDS and national digital infrastructure
Maria Hassel, Senior Advisor and International Coordinator at the Swedish eHealth Agency

Synopsis: The Swedish government aims to take greater responsibility for a national digital infrastructure that will serve the entire country equally. This affects and to some extent complies with the requirements that EU, with their regulation EHDS, the European Health Data Space, places on the member states.

Swedish healthcare regions and hospitals about their innovation priorities and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 3 á 10 min

Data Driven Healthcare and AI at Karolinska University Hospital
Paolo Parini, MD, PhD, Director of Research & Development, Education and Innovation, National and International Affairs, Karolinska University Hospital

Data Driven Healthcare and AI at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Magnus Kjellberg, Head of AI Competence Center, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Synopsis: Sahlgrenska aims to become a leading university hospital in Europe by 2032, leveraging novel techniques base on health data and AI across various domains, from diagnostics applications to resource management and administrative tasks. International collaboration with technical and health care actors is key to achieve this goal.

Information driven care - what it is and how Region Halland is working with it
Louise Wandel, Project Manager R&D, Region Halland

Synopsis: Implementing AI in healthcare, this is how we do it in Region Halland, and we are always looking for new partnerships to become even better at information driven care.

Israeli HMOs and hospitals about their innovation priorities and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 2 á 10 min

Data Driven Healthcare and AI at Hadassah Medical Center
Dr. Shai Rosenberg, Head of AI at Hadassah Medical Centre, Senior Physician in Neuro-Oncology, Dept. of Neurology at Hadassah Medical Center, Head of the Cancer Computational Biology laboratory, Hadassah Medical Center

Synopsis: Our next innovation projects and collaboration areas of interests are (1) Application of AI algorithms for better Precision Oncology in collaborations with other medical centers in Sweden (design partners) (2) data sharing and collaborative research to develop AI solution for Precision Oncology (3) collaboration with pharma to hareness AI algorithms in Precision Oncology to enhance drug developments.

The Assuta Medical Sandbox – Big Data and AI at Assuta Hospital
Dr Yochai Edlitz, Chief Technology Officer, Department of Medical Innovation, Assuta Ashdod

Synopsis: Assuta Samson University Hospital is the newest hospital in Israel. Opened 7 years ago, paperless, digitally oriented public hospital, located 40 km south of Tel Aviv in the port city of Ashdod. Recently we launched The Assuta Medical Sandbox which provides a research infrastructure for technologies to validate and prove their concepts in safe and anonymized virtual research rooms. We focused on remote monitoring and “hospital at home” technologies to extend our medical capabilities to patients in their natural environment. We want to collaborate with startups and medical organizations in Sweden as design partners and expose our unique data lake to researchers worldwide. 

Networking break with Swedish-style "fika"

Multinational Enterprises & Investors about their innovation priorities and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 4 á 10 min

BioVentureHub @ AstraZeneca
Magnus Björsne, CEO

OurCrowd Ventures
Maya Zachodin Koren, Director of Corporate Investments & Strategic Partnerships

Intelligent Medical Simulators: Advancing Training with AI
Anders Melander, Manager Clinical Partnerships, Surgical Science

Synopsis: Over the past 20 years, medical simulators have made significant advancements, incorporating computerized and VR systems that enable automatic metric reporting. With the rise of AI, training has also seen vast improvements. AI-driven skill assessments are shaping the future of surgical training and can play a key role in the development of a holistic, AI-integrated operating room (OR).

Industrifonden - Sweden’s Venture Capital Fund & Data-driven Healthcare 
Jonathan Ilicki, Principal

Synopsis: Industrifonden is a €500M evergreen VC fund based in Stockholm. Within life science, the fund invests across medtech, healthtech, diagnostics and biotech companies in the Nordics. Across these diverse segments, Industrifonden looks for data-driven innovations that can radically improve health outcomes or dramatically reduce healthcare costs.

Israeli and Swedish academia and research institutes about their innovation priorities and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 2 á 10 min

Data-Driven Solutions for Integrated Care
Erik Perjons, Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University

Synopsis: Existing data-driven solutions primarily support individual healthcare functions, such as AI's use in radiology and pathology image analysis. However, they are seldom integrated into health and social care processes to their full potential. Additionally, data-driven solutions are rarely utilized to enhance interoperability between health and social care providers.

AI based diagnostics in primary health care settings. Uppsala University and Karolinska Institute
Johan Lundin, Professor of Medical Technology at the Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute

Synopsis: We develop (AI)-based solutions for cancer and infectious disease diagnostics and have run a series of clinical studies (cervical cancer screening and helminth infections) in a global context at the primary health care level. The overall goal is to promote the implementation of innovative solutions to improve the translation from basic medical research to the doctor and patient at the clinic.

Israeli and Swedish frontrunners about their technologies, project ideas and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 2 á 5 min.

Supporting future care paths by enabling high-quality imaging and biomarkers
Gunnar Läthén, CTO, ContextVision AB

Synopsis: Prevention and precision-based care paths require cost-effective and reliable diagnostics, available to staff working early in the patient's journey. We innovate solutions based on ultrasound devices, with focus on reliability and availability. From this perspective, the device has to produce accurate and consistent measurements, while being easy to use. We work with global device manufactures and search for partners in an echo-system to build technology around "image and data understanding". Using ML methodology, how can we encode the contents of images and data in a semantically meaningful way and use this to drive development of high quality and easy to acquire images and biomarkers.

Transforming Data Accessibility for Innovation in Healthcare
Rea Globus, International Business Development Leader, MD Clone

Synopsis: MDClone empowers healthcare organizations to unlock their data potential while protecting patient privacy. Using our synthetic data technology and unique methodology, institutions can safely accelerate research, streamline collaborations, and drive innovation without compromising security or compliance. With MDClone, you can securely collaborate, drive innovation, and generate insights faster—all while saving resources and improving patient outcomes and operational insights.

Camilla Melander, Director General for Trade Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Participants are invited to a networking lunch

Israeli and Swedish frontrunners about their technologies, project ideas and what innovation collaboration they are inviting to | 5 á 5 min

Thermaiscan - Breast Cancer Pre-Screening Tool 
Armen Aghinyan, Founder, Thermaiscan Technology AB 

Synopsis: Imagine women being pre-screened for breast cancer with a smartphone in an affordable and easy way via healthcare units, we work on making it happen in order to save millions of lives. Thermaiscan is a Swedish startup working on AI & smartphone-based thermal pre-screening tool built by our co-founder’s joint competencies in thermal, AI, and medical fields. We have 5 years of dedicated work done that have led us to where we are today. We have clinically validated the product and right now it's undergoing clinical trials in 3 hospitals.

Revolutionizing Healthcare: Harnessing Conversational AI for Smarter, Scalable, and More Compassionate Care
Lyron Wahrmann, CEO, Topicx

Synopsis: The healthcare industry faces unprecedented challenges: rising costs, workforce shortages, patient access disparities, and an increasing need for personalized care. By using Conversational AI Topicx is address these hurdles by improving patient engagement, enabling real-time data collection, streamlining administrative workflows, and scaling medical expertise across underserved regions. By integrating advanced AI into the healthcare ecosystem, we unlock opportunities to enhance operational efficiency, support overwhelmed clinicians, and empower patients with accessible, empathetic, and precise care—transforming the future of healthcare delivery.

How to Stop Worrying and Use LLMs for Conversational AI
Staffan Larsson, Professor of Computer Linguistics and co-founder, Talkamatic

Synopsis: Talkamatic develops and builds dialogue systems, also known as Conversational AI. The starting point for Talkamatic is always human dialogue, and everything we do is based on an analysis of human dialogue with the goal of reproducing optimal human dialogue strategies in our technology. We are searching for companies and organizations looking into how voice and spoken dialogue can be applied in their products and offerings.

Wound Analytics Engine for Fueled Wound Healing
Zacharias Sjöberg, CEO Seber Medical

Synopsis: Image driven decision support device for revolutionized wound healing. The application SeeWound builds on >30 years of research at Linköping University and is currently used by >100 care organizations across the Nordics to improve treatment of hard to heal wounds, an area of care estimated to account for 2-3% of the overall healthcare budget for all developed countries. We are actively looking for research partners, tech partners and distribution partners in Nordics and beyond.

AI Empowered Precision Oncology
Prof. Shai Rosenberg, MD-PhD. Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder - GenoCure.AI. Hadassah -  Hebrew University Medical Center

Synopsis: Precision oncology improved cancer treatment and is considered state-of-the-art. However, only minority of patients benefit from it. GenoCure.AI developed multiple tumor type specific AI algorithms for tumoral genomic information (DNA and RNA) - to predict response to treatments and to tailor AI informed effective therpeutics. The tehcnology is also applicable for drug development.

Networking break & coffee

Pre-booked and matched in advance via online platform.
The meetings are rotating every 30 minutes.