Speakers - in session order
Georg Dorffner
Georg Dorffner, MS, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Center of Medical Data Science, Medical University of Vienna. His research strongly focuses on machine learning for medical prediction models and in signal and time series processing. He is also one of the vice presidents of the Austrian Society of Artificial Intelligence (ASAI).
Samuel Kaski
Samuel Kaski is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University and Professor of AI in the University of Manchester. He leads the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and ELLIS Unit Helsinki. His field is probabilistic machine learning, with applications in collaborative AI in computational biology and medicine, brain signal analysis, and user modelling.
Jussi Hernesniemi
Professor Jussi Hernesniemi is a researcher and a clinical cardiologist. He works in Tampere Heart Hospital and Tampere University leading the research group of Clinical Cardiology focusing on prediction and prevention of serious adverse events.
Kaisa Kujansivu
Kaisa Kujansivu is a doctoral researcher at Tampere University and is working on a thesis on remote consultations in primary health care. She is a specialist in general practice and working as a chief medical officer in Pihlajalinna eHealth Unit and Health Care Services. Her main focus is in publich health care.
Aino Nokelainen
Aino Nokelainen works as project manager in the Digital Development unit in the Wellbeing Services County of Pirkanmaa. He develops a wide range of first-stage digital services in cooperation with various operators and health care and social welfare professionals. She is also leading implementation processes of digital solutios actively considering the user experience.
Ben Kokx
Ben Kokx is a healthcare and IoT security expert who leads and participates in many industry associations, standard development organizations and public-private partnerships at European, American, and international level. Ben is the chair of the cybersecurity focus group of MedTech Europe and chair of the Security and Interoperability working group of COCIR. Ben has over twenty-two years of product security experience within Philips where he for the past ten years was responsible for the Philips global Product Security Policy and Process Framework. Currently he is dedicated to his regulatory and standards activities where he spent most of his time as convenor of the CEN/CENELEC workgroups developing the harmonized standards for the RED Delegated Regulation and the Cyber Resilience Act.
Perttu Halonen
Perttu Halonen works at the National Cyber Security Centre in Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom as a health and social welfare sector specialist. His tasks include forming and maintaining relations to actors in the sector, and forming national cyber situational awareness on the sector.
Merja Tepponen
Merja Tepponen currently works as a Social and Health Care Development Specialist. On behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, she has made a situation overview and a handbook on the digital skills of social and health care personnel and the digital abilities of the working community.
Virpi Sulosaari
Dr (PhD), RN, Virpi Sulosaari is principal lecturer and research group leader from the Turku University of Applied Sciences. She is leading a EU4Health co-funded project Digital Skills Training for Health Care Professionals in Oncology (DigiCanTrain) 2023-2026
Karl A. Stroetmann
Karl’s research and consultancy have focused for 30 years on (global) digital health, healthcare delivery, and health systems on three continents. His partners/clients have involved various organisations of the European Union, international organisations like OECD, WHO, Global Fund, national governments, as well as healthcare providers and industry.
Christian Nøhr
Christian Nøhr is a Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. Professor Nøhr has also been working in the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests seek to health informatics and health care, and he has published a lot of user experience of electronic health record systems. He is the past President of the Nordic eHealth Research Network. He is also the main organizer of the Danish eHealth Observatory -conference.
Johannes Lyytikkä
- Specialist in general medicine and Full Stack developer.
- Extensive expertise in general medicine, healthcare IT, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
- Passionate about solving complex problems and leveraging technology for optimal outcomes and efficiency.
- Committed to combining medical, technological, and managerial skills to enhance healthcare delivery in Finland.
Johan Sanmark
Description in Finnish: Johan Sanmark on terveydenhuollon erikoislääkäri ja Länsi-Uudenmaan hyvinvointialueen tutkimus-, kehitys- ja innovaatiojohtaja. Työssään hänen tavoitteenaan on tunnistaa mihin maailma on menossa, ja vauhdittaa hyvinvointialueen kehittymistä oikeaan suuntaan. Teemoja hänen työpöydällään ovat mm. generatiivinen tekoäly, digitaalinen asiointi ja asiakasohjauksen tulevaisuus.
Mika Kortelainen
Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at University of Turku and research professor at Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare.
Janne Martikainen
Prof. Martikainen is a health economist at University of Eastern Finland and a head of UEF House of Effectiveness at UEF. He leads a research group at UEF focusing on data-driven HEOR. His research focuses on the health economic aspects of precision and digital population health management approaches in the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and dementia.
Markus Kalliola
Markus Kalliola is a program director in Future well-being solutions program in The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. He is the coordinator of Joint Action Towards The European Health Data Space 2 (TEHDAS 2) and Value from Nordic health data (VALO) projects. Both project aim for the successful implementation of the European Health Data Space regulation.
Tarja Laitinen
Dr Tarja Laitinen has been the Senior Medical advisor at Helsinki University since March 2024. Before that she has held several positions in the academia and biotech industry. She has actively participated in the development of Biobank Research and Clinical Informatics in Finland for several years.
Paulus Torkki
Paulus Torkki is an associate professor of Healthcare Operations Management. His research interests are value-based healthcare and performance measurement and improvement in health care services.
Petra Falkenbach
I work as Head of Assessment in the North Ostrobothia wellbeing services county. My responsibility is managing the operations of the Finnish Coordinating Center HTA (FinCCHTA). My background is a health economist and I am particularly interested in de-implementation of low-value care.
Eric Sutherland
Eric is a Senior Health Economist leading the OECD’s work in Digital Health, bringing together policy guidance for digital tools, integrated data, and responsible analytics including artificial intelligence.
Gro Karine Rosvold Berntsen
Dr. Gro Rosvold Berntsen, (MD, Dr.med.) is professor at the Norwegian center for eHealth research. She teaches at the department of community medicine at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. She is a leader of research and implementation initiatives in the areas of digitally supported Person-centered Care systems, with a special focus on persons with multimorbidity.