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Global Health Connector Digital Summit 2025

Start: 18 November 2025
End: 19 November 2025

Location: Virtual

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The wait is over — the Digital Health Society Summit is back!

But this year, it comes with a fresh new name: Global Health Connector Digital Summit 2025.

Why the name change?

Because we have evolved, and have a renewed identity! ECHAlliance is now officially Global Health Connector, reflecting the truly global nature of our work and community.

Historically, the Digital Health Society (DHS) was the data and digital arm of ECHAlliance. With our rebranding, we are also renaming the summit to better represent this exciting new chapter.

The Global Health Connector Digital Summit will take place on 18-19 November 2025 virtually!

Global Health Connector Digital Summit: From promise to impact with Data and AI for inclusive, resilient and sustainable care

 

Amid ongoing financial, political and geopolitical pressures on global healthcare, the Summit will highlight the many opportunities that exist in healthcare. Content will include :

Day 1 - Intelligence in Action: Proven Solutions Driving Transformation in Health Systems

  • Transforming cancer care with data
  • Global implications as the European Health Data Space moves to implementation
  • Healthcare connectivity & intelligence: 5G private networks in action
  • Prevention and management of obesity — lessons from UNGA80 and the Science Summit

 

Day 2 - Driving Innovation through Global Convergence

  • Navigating the loss of development and science funding: what “convergence” is and how it helps (with lessons from UNGA80)
  • From data to decisions: how digital tools empower citizens
  • Skills for a digital health future: building capacity for transformation
  • Health AI: regulation and capacity-building for responsible use

 

This unites our work in Europe with our work with the Global Health Connector Partnership in Africa, India, the Americas and the Far East and builds on our global audience of over 1,300 registrations from 112 countries in 2024.

 

Check the 2024 edition HERE

Global Health Connector Digital Summit
Agenda
Intelligence in Action: Proven Solutions Driving Transformation in Health Systems
10h00 - 10h15
Welcome & Introduction

 

10h00 - 10h15
10h15 - 11h15
Transforming Cancer Care with AI and Data (Co-hosted by All.Can)

How can AI and data improve cancer outcomes across the entire pathway — from prevention and early detection to treatment and survivorship? This session brings together leaders shaping the next generation of cancer care.

Speakers:

  • Eduardo Pisani (Moderator) - CEO, All.Can International asbl
  • Eric Sutherland - Senior Health Economist, OECD
  • Franziska Ivens - Senior Entrepeneur in Residence, DeepTech Startups@ Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI
  • Benson Chuma - Co-Founder and CEO Africa, Tech Care For All (TC4A)
  • Mark Lawler - Professor of Digital Health/Chair, Queen's University Belfast/International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership
10h15 - 11h15
11h20 - 12h20
Implementing the European Health Data Space (EHDS): Global Implications

The session will examine the impact of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) on healthcare delivery, research, and international collaboration - both within and beyond the EU. It will explore how the EHDS can promote trusted data sharing, strengthen interoperability, and inspire collaboration with regions such as Africa, where similar initiatives are emerging to support global digital health transformation.

Speakers:

11h20 - 12h20
12h25 - 13h25
Healthcare Connectivity & Intelligence — 5G and Private Networks in Action

Learn about the innovation in connectivity for hospitals and other clinical facilities and the range of possible benefits. Take a glimpse of the practical examples of the technologies and health use cases.

Speakers:

  • Bleddyn Rees (Moderator) - Deputy Chair, Global Health Connector
  • Dr. Yujia Gao - Assistant Group Chief Technology Officer, National University Health System
  • Andrew Bell - Director of Programme Delivery, GSMA
  • Norman Fekrat - Managing Partner, Imagine Wireless
12h25 - 13h25
13h25 - 14h10
Lunch Break
13h25 - 14h10
14h15- 14:45
Driving Innovation through Public Procurement in Healthcare

This session explores how public procurement can drive innovation in healthcare, introducing key models and showcasing opportunities for SMEs, startups, and healthcare providers through the InnoHSupport project. Participants will also learn about communities such as the Healthcare Buyers Community and AGORA, which connect stakeholders and foster collaboration across the innovation ecosystem.

Speakers:

14h15- 14:45
14h50 - 15:20
Healthy Aging: Turning Demographic Shifts into Opportunity
14h50 - 15:20
15h20 - 15h35
Closing and Wrap up
15h20 - 15h35
Driving Innovation through Global Convergence
10h00 - 10h15
Welcome & Introduction
10h00 - 10h15
10h15 - 10h45
Convergence – AIM4ALL / Remedium: Robust Real-World Data & Structured Reimbursement

Convergence is connecting the economy, finance, health and science. This session will give a practical example for drug development finance and CollaborAction between health systems, manufacturers and funders.

Speakers:

10h15 - 10h45
10h50 - 11h20
Women's Health - Our Global Focus

Women’s healthcare is a scandal. Women’s health must have a greater priority. Learn about what the Global Health Connector is doing to facilitate global change with a range of our partners and CollaborAction.

Speakers:

10h50 - 11h20
11h25 - 12h25
From Data to Decisions: Empowering Citizens and Health Workers with Digital Tools

This session will showcase leading European projects that demonstrate how digital innovations can both empower citizens and support healthcare professionals. They enable people to make more informed choices – from understanding medicine information (Gravitate-Health), to personalising adherence support (BEAMER), to controlling the flow of their health data (xShare), to advancing personalised cancer care through prevention and early detection (4P-CAN) – while also helping healthcare workers strengthen their wellbeing and resilience through co-created solutions (KEEPCARING).

Speakers:

11h25 - 12h25
12h30 - 13h30
Skills for a Digital Health Future: Building Capacity for Transformation

Digital transformation in health isn’t just about technology – it’s about people who know how to use it well. This session explores how we can build the right skills, mindsets, and education systems to support a future-ready health workforce, showcasing initiatives such as BeWell, EUVECA, XiA, and Health2Innovation.

Speakers:

  • Karolina Mackiewicz (Moderator) - Innovations Director, Global Health Connector
  • Federica Margheri - Executive Director, EHMA, BeWell project
  • Henriette Hansen - EU Consultant and Project Manager, South Denmark European Office, EUVECA Project
  • Henrique Martins - Associate Professor/Coordinator, ISCTE, XiA Project
  • Arminda Paço - Professor and researcher, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Beira Interior
12h30 - 13h30
13h30 - 14h15
Lunch Break
13h30 - 14h15
14h15 - 15h15
Health AI Regulation and Capacity Building

The development is a fast as it is frightening to some. This panel will explore a range of practical challenges including data access, bias, health and AI literacy and the interaction between medical device and AI regulation.

Speakers:

14h15 - 15h15
15h20 - 15h50
Africa Rising: Shaping Global Health and Innovation

This session will explore how Africa is accelerating digital health transformation and shaping global innovation agendas - through collaboration, local leadership, and ecosystem thinking.

Speakers:

15h20 - 15h50
15h55 - 16h25
Fireside Chat Opportunities to work with the Global Health Connector in 2026

Learn about the changes in 2025 at the Global Health Connector and the new opportunities to work and innovate with us as well as opportunities to partner across our network to access funding and other resources

15h55 - 16h25
16h25 - 16h40
Closing and Wrap Up
16h25 - 16h40
Day 3
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Start: 18 November 2025
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Location: Virtual

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