KUOPIO HEALTH INSIGHTS 2024
13.-14.8. 2024
Kuopio Music Centre
Pharma Development
and Digital Health
Kuopio Health Insights 2024 (KHI 2024) is about experiencing firsthand how a relatively small yet incredibly dedicated and collaborative ecosystem has blossomed into a powerful, data-driven innovation magnet within the health and wellbeing sector in Finland – and how it is leading the digital health transformation and creating positive health outcomes for people in Finland and beyond. Kuopio Health Insights 2024 will focus on Pharma Development and Digital Health. This two-day event will take place on 13.-14.8 at Kuopio Music Centre.
Kuopio Health is backed by multi-disciplinary and trusted private and public organisations with high competence in business, international expertise, R&D and research excellence.
At Kuopio Health Insights 2024 you will meet many of the region’s key players. Our cooperative innovation ecosystem provides access to data, knowledge, projects and capabilities within our network, allowing participants to forge valuable partnerships, find new insights, and bridge any of the typical barriers that tend to block progress.
Get to know some of our key players
Päivi Sillanaukee
Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Päivi Sillanaukee (MD, PhD, eMBA) is the Special Envoy for Health and Wellbeing at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health of Finland.
Erkki Soini
CEO, ESiOR Oy and chairman of the board, Kuopio Health
Health economics expert in cost-effectiveness, market access, and Real-World Evidence (RWE).
Miikka Korja
Dr. Korja is Cerebrovascular Consultant and Head of Section at the Department of Neurosurgery, HUS
Surgical activities cover mainly aneurysms and giant meningiomas. In his research group, he supervises PhD students studying epidemiology of SAH, genetics of meningiomas, epidemiology of meningiomas and deep learning in diagnostic imaging.
Ville Kainu
Primary Care Medical Lead, Pfizer
Kainu is a medical doctor and his PhD focused on lipidomics and the implications of mass spectrometry in analyzing phospholipid remodeling. The key drivers in the current work is to improve patients’ access to novel therapies, find solutions to patient support and lead with data by utilizing the vast registries in Nordic countries.
Markus Kalliola
Project director, The Finnish innovation fund Sitra, Finland
Kalliola is the project director in Data driven health project in The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the coordinator of Joint Action Towards The European Health Data Space 2 (TEHDAS 2).
Arash Hajikhani
Research Team Leader | Adjunct Professor at LUT University
Dr. Hajikhani is a scholar and Research Team Leader at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland's, Foresight-driven Business Strategies area
Tuomas Granlund
RegOps Development Director, Solita Oy
Tuomas Granlund, a PhD candidate (final stages) at the University of Tampere, bridges the worlds of academia and industry as RegOps Development Director at Solita. His deep understanding of medical device regulations and modern software development drives a passion for streamlined, compliant innovation within the healthcare sector.
Janne Weisell
Senior Manager, Manufacturing Science and Technology, FinVector Oy
Dr. Weisell is the Manager of the Process Development team, with a focus on life cycle management and process improvements of the manufacturing process to make gene therapy products more available. He holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Johannes Holvitie
Dr., Adj. Prof., CTO, Oiva Health Oy
Holvitie is a digital solution enthusiast who focuses on the immediate and daunting resourcing and availability issues in social- and health-care services production. He is the CTO of the Oiva Health Group that builds and serves a mission-critical and high availability digital services platform utilized by private and public healthcare producers.
Ilkka Haukijärvi
CEO, PhD, Finnish Vaccine Research
Ilkka has worked in various line-management and leadership roles as well as demanding project and program management positions. He has solid experience in leading strategies and strategic changes, and in operational management of organizations.
Henri Korkalainen
Adjunct Professor//Senior Researcher//UEF//KUH
Henri Korkalainen specializes in the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. His work has focused on leveraging deep learning to automate the diagnostics of sleep disorders and to also move these solutions from specialized laboratories to home environments.
Maarit Merla
MSc (Econ), eMBA, CBM,CEO, Finnish Drug Discovery Center
Maarit has worked in the life science sector for more than 22 years, including in an international diagnostics company, a biotechnology start-up and a global pharmaceutical group.
Jukka Tapaninen
CEO of Aiforia Technologies Oyj
Jukka joined Aiforia as an investor and board member in 2015 and became CEO in 2020. Prior to joining Aiforia, Jukka held various executive positions over the past 25 years in several international IT and software businesses, such as SAP and HP.
Ville Leinonen
MD, PhD, UEF
Earned his MD, PhD (in Physiology) and specialist degree in Neurosurgery from University of Kuopio. Appointed as the Professor of Neurosurgery University of Oulu 2017 and invited for his current position as the Professor of Neurosurgery in University of Eastern Finland (UEF), 2020. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of Medicine at UEF.
Prateek Singh
CEO, Finnadvance OY
Prateek has spun off research to business, bringing microfabrication and automation technologies to life-sciences and diagnostics industries with venture-backed companies.
Eeva Salminen
Senior Director, Business Finland
Eeva Salminen is a leader with 20 years of experience in business development. Her special competence areas include growth companies & health sector. Currently she works as Senior Director of Health & Consumer as well as leading the Health Mission in Business Finland. Prior to Business Finland, she has worked several years in management consulting.
What's in store?
Tuesday 13.8.
12.00-12.30 Registration
Session: Pharma and Vaccine Development
12.30-12.35 Welcome, Aki Gröhn, Kuopio Health
12.35-12.55 Post-approval manufacturing of viral vector products, Janne Weisell, FinVector Oy
12.55-13.15 Studying vaccines in Finland: the building blocks for excellence, Ilkka Haukijärvi, FVR – Finnish Vaccine Research | Suomen rokotetutkimus
13.15-13.35 Building techbio ventures in 2024, Prateek Singh, Finnadvance Oy
13.35-14.10 Coffee break & Networking
14.10-14.30 From concept to preventing disease, Ville Kainu, Pfizer
14.30-14.50 Finnish Drug Discovery Center – part of the drug development ecosystem in Finland, Maarit Merla, Finnish Drug Discovery Center
14.50-15.20 Panel discussion, Moderator Minna Hendolin (Director of Impact, University of Eastern Finland), Panelists; Maarit Merla (Drug Development Centre), Juha Töyräs (Director of Research and Innovation, Wellbeing Services County of North Savo), Mikko Turunen (Chief Scientific Officer, RNatives), Antti Nurmi (General Manager, Charles River Laboratories)
15.20-15.30 Closing the session
16.15-18.15 Kallavesi cruise on m/s Queen R, departure from Kuopio Passenger Port (Kuopion Matkustajasatama)
Wednesday 14.8.
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-09.20 Opening speech: Revolutionizing the Future of the Finnish Health and Wellbeing Sector – Paradigm Shift to Prevention and Utilization of Technology, Data, and AI, Päivi Sillanaukee, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health
Session 1: Health Data & Analysis
09.20-9.35 Welcome and Kuopio Health introduction, Chair of the session Erkki Soini, ESiOR Oy
09.35-09.55 European development of health data spaces: Impacts of EHDS and other regulation to primary and secondary use of health data, Markus Kalliola, Sitra
09.55-10.15 Cost-Effectiveness of Prevention: Alzheimer’s Disease and Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Erkki Soini, ESiOR Oy
10.15-10.35 How AI can help in treating critically ill patients?, Miikka Korja, HUS
10.35-11.05 Coffee break & Networking
11.05-11.25 Unilab&CGI-AI in identifying sleep apnea, Henri Korkalainen, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio University Hospital
11.25-11.45 AI supported diagnostics drives the digital transformation in pathology, Jukka Tapaninen, Aiforia Technologies Oyj
11.45-12.15 Panel discussion, Moderator Erkki Soini, Panelists; Janne Martikainen (Professor, UEF House of Effectiveness), Markus Kalliola (Sitra), Miikka Korja (HUS), Lauri Kuronen (CEO at VEIL.AI Denmark ApS)
12.15-13.30 Lunch
Session 2: Digital & Industrial Solutions
13.30-13.40 Welcome, Chair of the session Patrick Halford, Senior Advisor at Origination, CEO at Gaoithe Advisory
13.40-14.00 Health Mission as a Growth booster, Eeva Salminen, Business Finland
14.00-14.20 Emerging technologies in digital health, Arash Hajikhani, VTT
14.20-14.40 Medical Research Center Kuopio, Ville Leinonen, University of Eastern Finland
14.40-15.05 Coffee break & Networking
15.05-15.25 Utilizing Modern Software Technologies for Medical Devices: Best Practices for Compliance, Tuomas Granlund, Solita Oy
15.25-15.45 Modular & data driven digital services for efficient social- and health-care, Johannes Holvitie, Oiva Health Oy
15.45-16.15 Panel discussion, Moderator Patrick Halford, Panelists; Eeva Salminen (Senior Director at Business Finland), Arash Hajikhani (VTT), Tuukka Eloranta (CEO, Medikro Oy), Paulus Carpelan (CEO and co-founder, Adamant Health Oy)
16.15-16.25 Closing the event, Erkki Soini
18.30-21.00 Dinner at Luoto Kuopio
CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM ARE POSSIBLE
10.00-16.30 HealthHub Finland EDIH pop-up clinic, Valokabinetti
About the event
Where will the event take place?
+Our two-day open event takes place at Kuopio Music Centre (Kuopion Musiikkikeskus), Finland, Kuopionlahdenkatu 23.
Day one, 13.8., offers a half-day seminar and unique and relaxing networking opportunity aboard by scenic Kuopio boat cruise on beautiful Lake Kallavesi. Day two will be filled with engaging sessions and activities. The event will culminate with a special dinner at Luoto Kuopio on 14.8.
The cruise departs from the Passenger Port of Kuopio (Kuopion Matkustajasatama). The ship is Roll Cruises' m/s Queen R. Makasiinikatu 1, 70100 Kuopio
Luoto Kuopio location: Aallonmurtaja, Makasiininkatu 5, 70100 Kuopio.
Tickets and pricing?
+Registration and selection of tickets takes place at Eventbrite. Please click any registration button on the page.
Instructions for choosing a ticket:
There are three ticket types
1) Seminar, includes both seminar days 13.-14.8. 2024, incl. lunch and coffees 65€
2) Seminar+cruise, includes both seminar days on 13.-14.8 2024 incl. lunch and coffees+Kallavesi cruise on 13.8. from 16:15 to 18:15 (incl. lunch) 65€
3) Dinner 70€, includes the dinner buffet on 14.8.2024, Luoto Kuopio at 18:30-21:00
E.g. If you are participating in the seminar days and the cruise and in addition to the dinner, choose tickets 2 and 3.
Accommodation and arrival?
+We have reserved certain amount of hotel rooms with discount price in our partner hotels.
Scandic Kuopio and Scandic Atlas:
The reservation code with which you can make reservations at a reduced price is EVNT. Reservations are made at scandichotels.fi.
Those staying can choose their preferred room type and get an additional discount when paying for the reservation immediately upon booking.
The cancellation condition of an individual accommodation reservation depends on the type of reservation chosen by the guest. To confirm the reservation, the guest must provide the hotel with valid credit card information.
The rooms can be booked according to the hotel's booking status no later than 10 days before arrival.
Scandic Friends members, please also check the loyalty offers available.
Original Sokos Hotel Puijonsarvi:
1hh Standard room 145€/day
2hh Standard room 165€/day
The price includes free use of the gym, customer sauna and a rich breakfast.
S-Card service benefits are granted from the offer price, no bonuses for S-Etukortti.
Parking outside 12€/day or in the hall 21€/day. Places cannot be reserved in advance.
RESERVATION ID: BKUOPIOHEALTH24
Reservations can be made:
• By phone: 010 762 9500
• By email: puijonsarvi.kuopio@sokoshotels.fi
• www.sokoshotels.fi
Price offer valid until 29 July 2024, subject to hotel room availability.
Cancellation
Free cancellation of the room reservation by 6 pm on the day of arrival.
In the center of Kuopio, everything is within walking distance.
Arrival at Kuopio Music Centre:
Parking
If you arrive by car or bus, there are 118 car and 16 bus spaces in the parking lot opposite the main entrance of the Kuopio Music Center (Kuopionlahdenkatu). The parking area is subject to the city's parking control.
Parking on weekdays
Parking during the day between 8 am and 4 pm is free for the first 2 hours in the first two parking spaces closest to the main entrance of the Music Center. If the duration of the event is longer than two hours, a parking permit is required, which can be obtained from the Music Center staff. Other parking area in front of the Music Center is a free area.
In the evenings after 16:00 it is free of charge in the parking lot of the Music Center. In addition, parking spaces can be found near the Music Center along the side streets.
On weekends, the aforementioned restrictions do not apply.
Disabled parking spaces (4 pcs) are located in the parking area on the Puijonkatu side of the Kuopio Music Center, which can be accessed from the Kuopiolahdenkatu side.
Public transport:
VILKKU-Kuopio Region Public Transport
VR
Finnair
What will a successful event look like?
+For anyone attending Kuopio Health Insights 2024, our hope is that success will be measured by the quality of new friendships and business connections made, new destinations visited, new experiences lived, meaningful personal and professional interactions, fresh opportunities for cooperation, and ultimately that all attendees leave feeling refreshed and positive about their work moving forward, and happy and thankful for the time that we spent together here in Kuopio.
The power of collaboration. The promise of cooperation.
+Kuopio Health Insights 2024 (KHI 2024) is an event tailor-made for healthcare professionals and health industry business leaders who believe in the power of collaboration and its ability to ignite innovation, enhance business development and ultimately create positive health outcomes for people all over the world.
But we don’t just want to show you what makes our ecosystem work. We want you to become part of it.
Kuopio Health Insights 2024 is made possible by our ecosystem of expert partners:
About Kuopio Health
Insight
+At Kuopio Health we focus on today's most relevant health challenges, trends and opportunities by providing access to data, experts, capabilities and projects within our network. Our specialties include data-driven healthcare, preventive health care, smart health solutions, effectiveness research and real-world health data insights coupled with the ability to connect relevant partners and implement ideas and innovations quickly, as well as forge a clear path towards commercial applications.
Collaboration
+Our ecosystem is backed by an active alliance of public and private organisations with high competence in business, international expertise, R&D and research excellence. This gives us the ability to attract highly diverse operators with importance placed on understanding their varying interests and perspectives, which helps us to build bridges and accelerate collaboration resulting in true co-innovation.
Contribution
+Our open environment is one in which success stories, learnings and even failures can be shared freely. We are committed to continually improving our ecosystem whether it be quicker and easier access to experts and test environments or by offering new ways to network and collaborate. We actively engage with professionals across the health spectrum in mutually-beneficial ways and invest time and energy not in what is, but in what can be.
We also draw inspiration from Kuopio (our home) and its surrounding, restorative natural beauty, as well as the highly sophisticated infrastructure and modern business environment of Savilahti, which we believe foster both a connection to our planet and the culture of collaboration and co-innovation that fuels our work.
Microkatu 1, L-part, 4th floor
70210 KUOPIO
info(at)kuopiohealth.fi