How can we ensure the implementation of health and welfare technology in an increasingly pressured healthcare system? Join the conference and debate the challenges, solutions and opportunities. HealthTech 2026 is organised by Dagens Medicin, Medicoindustrien and Danish Life Science Cluster.
With healthcare reform as the backdrop, health and welfare technology will be a central component of the healthcare system of the future, where fewer healthcare professionals will need to treat and care for more elderly and high-need patients.
But how can we accelerate the development and implementation of health and welfare technology solutions? What are the challenges? And how can we unlock their full potential?
Programme
09:30–10:00 Registration and breakfast
10:00–10:05 Welcome
By Dagens Medicin and Mads Koch Hansen, CEO, Medicoindustrien
10:05–10:15 Technology must strengthen a close, connected and sustainable healthcare system
TBA
10:15–10:35 Keynote: How can the healthcare system make better use of innovative technology?
Digital Health Denmark will set the strategic direction for the healthcare system’s use of digital and technological solutions. But how can the healthcare system become better at identifying, procuring and implementing new solutions? What is the vision? And how can it be translated into practice?
By Diana Arsovic Hareskov Nielsen, CEO, Danish Life Science Cluster
#1: Who should set the direction for new innovations?
Digital and technological solutions should make a difference in patient treatment and care, streamline workflows and free up staff resources. But who should set the direction and drive development? The healthcare system, which understands the needs? The market, which develops the solutions? Or a partnership between the two?
10:35–10:45 How can the market develop solutions to meet the healthcare system’s complex needs?
By Brian Holch Kristensen, Head of Innovation, Bispebjerg Hospital
10:45–10:55 We developed an innovative solution together. So why isn’t it being used in Denmark?
By Betina Langemark, CEO, Ward 24/7
10:55–11:10 Debate: How can we build a strong bridge between needs, innovation and implementation?
Digital and health technology solutions with proven impact can struggle to make the transition from pilot projects to everyday practice. Why is that? And what will it take to change it?
By Betina Langemark and Brian Holch Kristensen. Moderator: Mads Koch Hansen
11:10–11:30 Break and visit to the ‘marketplace’
#2: How do we move from pilot projects to implementation?
11:30–11:35 Challenges and barriers when a ‘good solution’ is ready to go live
By Mads Koch Hansen
11:35–11:45 Digital health technology can deliver more ‘health for the money’ if we are willing to take the leap
By Henrik Laursen, Head of Professional Advancement Optometry LN, Louis Nielsen A/S
11:45–11:55 Camera-based monitoring technology: Improving patient safety and freeing up resources
By Michael Lange, Managing Director, M2Call
11:55–12:05 Automating workflows to free up staff resources for the benefit of patients
By Niklas Andersen, Marketing Manager, Levvel Health
12:05–12:30 How can we strengthen the use of technological solutions in practice?
By Henrik Laursen, Niklas Andersen, Eva Tingkær, Deputy CEO, Diabetesforeningen, Brian Holch Kristensen and Diana Arsovic Hareskov Nielsen. Moderator: Mads Koch Hansen
12:30–13:00 Lunch and visit to the marketplace
3:00–13:15 Talk: When innovation meets the healthcare system, things sometimes go wrong. Why?
By Martin Vesterby, CEO, MEDDATA, and Mads Koch Hansen
The Marketplace: Meet the developers, manufacturers and suppliers
13:15–14:00 Digital and health technology solutions in practice
Guided tour with pitches and Q&A
14:00–14:20 Break and visit to the marketplace
#3: How do we strike the right balance between innovation, scaling and economies of scale?
14:20–14:25 Can scaling go hand in hand with new innovation?
Moderator: Mads Koch Hansen
14:25–14:35 Implementation as a tool in the innovation process
By Mikkel Bech, Partner and Founder, Emento
14:35–14:45 AI for healthcare and care: Use cases and lessons learned from Denmark and the Nordic countries
By Ulrik Juul Rokkedal Therkildsen, CEO & Partner, Human Bytes
14:45–15:00 Talk: When scaling goes wrong. What is the problem? Where are the solutions?
By Ulrik Juul Rokkedal Therkildsen, CEO & Partner, Human Bytes, and Mikkel Bech, Partner and Founder, Emento. Moderator: Mads Koch Hansen
15:00–15:20 Break and access to the ‘marketplace’
15:20–15:55 Mads & The Political Monopoly: How can we build a bridge between the healthcare system’s needs and market innovation?
How can we create better collaboration between the needs of the healthcare system and market innovation? How can we move more solutions from pilot projects into everyday operations? And what political choices are needed to ensure that technology creates value, frees up resources and contributes to a sustainable healthcare system?
By Diana Arsovic Hareskov Nielsen, Stinus Lindgreen, MP, Radikale Venstre, Health Policy Spokesperson, Laura Klitgaard, President, IDA, and Michael Fenger, Mayor (C), Gentofte Municipality. Moderator: Mads Koch Hansen
15:55–16:00 Closing remarks
By Mads Koch Hansen and Dagens Medicin
