Conference opening and welcome address

President MPP association, Shayesteh Fürst Ladani, SFL

Swiss parliamentary representative

Program Chair, Daniel Diezi, Zühlke

Keynote Speaker Zaide Frias, Head of the Digital Business Transformation Task Force, EMA

Session 1 - New and emerging technologies

Chair: Michel Dard, Straumann

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Data-driven business models – delivering value in the pharma & healthcare IoT

Daniel Webber, Detecon

Point-of-care transformation: bringing personalized care to the home setting

Frederik Mortier, Verhaert

Devices for drug delivery to the brain

Nico Stohler, Roche

Session 2 - Key stakeholder panel discussion on the Medical Device Regulation and Combination Products

Chair: Daniel Diezi, Zühlke

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Distinguished representatives of EU Medtech & Pharma Associations and Regulators

Session 3 - From ideation to innovative products

Chair: Karin Schulze, SFL

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Smart data in the service of patient safety

Goranka Tanackovic Abbas-Terki, Gene Predictus

Automated production of artificial personalized skin - A closed system for process automation

Daniela Marino, Cutiss & Reto Frei, Zühlke

Patenting strategies for startups, spinoffs and other projects based on patentable innovations at early stages

Christoph Klöckner, Winter, Brandl, Fürniss, Hübner, Röss, Kaiser, Polte – Partnerschaft

Session 4 - Innovation for successful development of healthcare products

Chair: Andy Tonazzi, Konplan systemhaus ag

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Using modeling and simulation in the design of closed-loop medical devices

Sébastien Dupertuis, MathWorks

Using platforms to reduce the time and effort to bring new drug delivery combination products to the market

Christoph Muenzer, Novartis

Moore4Medical: towards open technology platforms for medical devices

Ronald Dekker, Philips

Session 5 - Patient/user needs in development of combined products

Chair: Dorit Prüfer, Roche

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Promoting patient safety through new supply chain controls under the medical device regulation (MDR) and the falsified medicines directive (FMD)

Barbara Polek, SFL

Presentation title to be confirmed

Patient Advocate

Human centered design - process design for usability

Raimund Erdmann, Erdmann Design

Session 6 - Value-based healthcare in the combined products field and patient engagement

Chair: Marie Picci, Novartis & David Haerry, European AIDS Treatment Group

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Effectively engaging patients to support product development and post-market success

Dominique Hamerlijnck, EUPATI

Building Trusted AI in Healthcare

Andrew Koubatis, Altran

Rising to the challenge of VBR, and other healthcare trends, using ‘4D’ therapeutic systems

Alex Booth, Full Spectrum Innovation