Workshops
How to Fund Your Innovation
Experienced investors teach you how to better raise funding for your start-up innovation.
How to raise funds for your new innovation? A common challenge for many start-ups with a strong concept.
Unlock the potential of healthcare innovation with this presentation on consistent venture building and financing. You’ll gain the tools and insights to transform your ideas into viable healthcare start-ups, and secure funding from healthcare-focused investors.
Whether you’re a clinician with a novel solution or an entrepreneur eyeing the healthcare market, this presentation will equip you with the knowledge to succeed!
Date & time: 31 March, 11.15 – 12.45
Location: Session room 4
Artificial Intelligence & Ethics
Discuss practices and ethical considerations of using AI in healthcare, using real-world case studies.
AI brings powerful possibilities, but its implementation still confronts us with many ethical issues. An issue that designers and users both have to face.
In this workshop, we will identify, acknowledge and find solutions for these ethical concerns. Using real-world case studies and interactive demonstrations – such as a conversational chatbot used in primary care and decision-making training for healthcare professionals – you’ll gain practical insights into the integration of AI in healthcare and discuss the ethical challenges of using AI.
Date & time: 31 March, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Session room 3
Map Your Innovation Journey
Understand common bottlenecks and learn from both reflections and experiences.
Each innovation goes through a journey past well-known points: raising funds, testing the market, producing a proof of concept. Where are the bottlenecks on your innovation’s journey? Can we recognize patterns from the journeys of different innovations and learn from them, to provide better maps for future smoother sailing?
In this workshop, you will map out your innovation journey using the serious game developed in cooperation with ZIN (Zorginstituut Nederland / Care Institute Netherlands), and learn from both your own reflections and each other’s experiences.
Hosted by National Health Care Institute.
Date & time: 1 April, 11.15 – 12.45
Location: Podium hall
Scale up Your Innovation
Design a standardized approach for scaling up and successfully implementing healthcare innovations across multiple healthcare institutions.
So you design a strong new healthcare innovation. You produce a working prototype, test it, and implement a finished product in one healthcare institution. Now what? How do we scale up our working products to multiple organizations, more users, multiple countries? Can a standardized approach be designed for scaling up and successfully implementing healthcare innovations?
In this workshop, we will get to work to design a sensible, usable standard for scaling up innovations.
Date & time: 1 April, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Podium hall
Patient Engagement
To build an inclusive, data-driven and value-based healthcare system that works for everyone — is that even possible?
Wendy Maas (Axon Healthcare), Réka Deuten (Alliantie Digitaal Samenleven), and Teun Schutte (Budiyu) will guide an interactive session exploring how to make this shift happen.
Today’s system is built around professional data: clinical records, hospital metrics, and formal encounters. But that data is often siloed, scattered across institutions. And even if we manage to connect it, we’re still missing one crucial piece — insight into the 363 days patients aren’t in contact with the system.
And objectively… that’s where real life happens. Real health. Real challenges.
Unfortunately, we have little knowledge of what works and what people need to stay healthy between appointments.
If we want to make healthcare more personal, more effective, and more equitable, we need the full 360° view. Not based on assumptions or gut feeling, but on data that is shared, structured, and meaningful — to both people and professionals.
Ongoing, digitally-enabled support can help us better understand daily realities — and guide people toward relevant and trustworthy information.
But this raises an important question: Can a digital transformation support everyone — or are we willing to accept that some people will be left out? And if certain groups can’t engage digitally, what does that mean for the data we collect and the conclusions we want to draw from it? What does that mean for solidarity within the system?
During the workshop, we will explore how patient engagement adds value to the 363 days when no doctor is around — and to the health system as a whole. And how we ensure we don’t leave some behind.
Date & time: 1 April, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Session room 2
Sustainability Scope 3
Turn the collective ideas for transforming supply chains into one sustainable, achievable action plan.
Travel, transportation and distribution, waste disposal: a few examples of Scope 3 emissions, the more indirect greenhouse gas emissions by an organization. How can we scale Scope 3 activities to drive sustainable transformations in supply and value chains?
During the World Economic Forum, countless ideas were thrown back and forth on how to mitigate climate change; now, the job is to turn these into one sensible, achievable action plan that will drive real change.
Hosted by Philips.
Date & time: 31 March, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Podium hall
Pitch Your Innovation!
Fast-track your innovation with direct feedback from an audience of experienced investors.
Does your pitch still need a little revamp? In this exclusive pitch workshop, start-ups will have the opportunity to showcase game ideas or health innovations directly to a panel of experienced investors and an engaged audience. The objective: to gather insightful feedback that will help fine-tune your pitch and enhance future opportunities.
This is a rare, no-preparation-required chance to pitch in real-time to expert investors, bypassing the usual submission process. Unlike traditional pitch events, where materials must be submitted in advance, this workshop provides spontaneous, interactive feedback, offering entrepreneurs the chance to share their ideas in a dynamic, supportive environment.
Use this golden opportunity to really make your pitch shine!
With experts from Pitch, ScaleUpCapital, Brabant Development, VGZ, NLC and Philips Foundation.
Experts:
Stephan Hulsbergen, BOM
Patrick van Eekeren, M&I/Partners
Jeroen Cremers, ScaleUp Capital
Nils van Herpen, Cooperation VGZ
Pitches
Kelsey Bruins — Sickle Cell Adventures: Self-management Through Play for Children Aged 4-12 Years
Renske Hebing — Empowering Patients with Low Socioeconomic Status: An Interactive Approach to Improve Medication Adherence and Health Equity
Teun Schutte — Budiyu – Where care continues between appointments
Sophie Asveld — Freequency Maakt Grip op je Tinnitus met Serious Gaming Mogelijk
Vincent Eurlings — Autonomy For All – Aumens
Dick Janssen — Empowering Education: Customizable Memory Games for Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
Date & time: 31 March, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Session room 4
Digital Inclusion in Healthcare Using a Game
It has been in the Dutch public media and now it's on the Games for Health Europe conference: the game about digital inclusion in healthcare.
Despite the digital transformation in healthcare, many patients miss out on digital skills. A part of the population that gets overlooked too easily.
Now Pharos, a Dutch expertise center in reducing healthcare inequality, designed a game to create awareness amongst healthcare providers, policy makers and app developers about the difficulties in digital healthcare for many people. It all comes in one suitcase.
This suitcase contains information with tasks to make an appointment with a hospital and to be well prepared for that appointment. Players have to overcome the digital hurdles in that process. In this way they learn about these hurdles, which are relevant lessons for future or even existing digital applications. All with the objective to reduce digital inequality, since not every person has the capacity to become familiar with digital healthcare.
Come and play the game on April 1st at the Games for Health Europe conference in Eindhoven! The same topic will be addressed during the session about Patient Engagement.
Date & time: 1 April, 11.15 – 12.45
Location: Session room 5
Design for Implementation in Healthcare
Learn about the importance and application of early health technology and implementation assessment from experts in the field.
You have a brilliant idea or concept for a new application. To bring this to the healthcare market, and to implement and scale this innovation in (clinical) practice, early Health Technology Assessment (eHTA) is essential. eHTA can help to design for implementation, avoiding (late) redesigns and costs.
In this interactive workshop, you will gain insights and hands-on experience with concepts, tools and stakeholders needed for eHTA. Let’s get started now!
Hosted by University of Twente & Roessingh Rehabilitation Centre.
Date & time: 1 April, 14.00 – 15.30
Location: Session room 5
