August 13.-14., 2024
Kuopio Finland
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.
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
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, FIND cluster
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.
What's in store?
Tuesday 13.8.
12.00-12.30 Registration
Session: Pharma and Vaccination Development
12.30-12.35 Welcome, Chair of the session, Ville Kainu Pfizer
12.35-12.55 Ville Kainu, Pfizer
12.55-13.15 Tampereen kansallinen rokotustutkimuskeskus
13.15-13.35 Lääkekehityskeskus (Maarit Merla)
13.35-14.10 Coffee break & Networking
14.10-14.20 Finvector
14.20-14.40 Finnadvance, Prateek Singh
14.40-15.10 Panel discussion
15.10-15.15 Closing the session
16.00-18.00 Kallavesi cruise on m/s Queen R, departure from Kuopio Passenger Port (Kuopion Matkustajasatama)
Free time & Local attractions
Wednesday 14.8.
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-09.20 Welcome & Kuopio Health Ecosystem-TBD
Session 1: Health Data & Analysis
09.20-9.25 Welcome, chair of the session Erkki Soini ESiOR Oy
09.25-09.45 Sitra-EHDS, Markus Kalliola
09.45-10.05 House of Effectiveness
10.05-10.25 HUS/CleaverHealth, Miikka Korja (CIO)
10.25-11.00 Coffee break & Networking
11.00-11.20 Unilab&CGI-AI uniapnean tunnistamisessa (Samu Kainulainen)/ENIGMA Stress & Resilience Working Group (Saksa)
11.20-11.40 TBC
11.40-12.10 Panel discussion
12.10-13.30 Lunch
Session 2: Digital & Industrial Solutions
13.30-13.35 Welcome, chair of the session Ville Koiste, Gesund Partners Oy
13.35-13.55 Health Mission, Business Finland Tuula Palmen
13.55-14.15 Emerging technologies in digital health, Arash Hajikhani, D.Sc/Adj. Professor, Research Team Leader, VTT
14.15-14.35 Medical Research Center Kuopio, Ville Leinonen
14.35-15.00 Coffee break & Networking
15.00-15.20 Solita Oy, Tuomas Granlund
15.20-15.40 Oiva Health Oy, Johannes Holvitie
15.40-16.10 Panel discussion, Moderator Ville Koiste, Gesund Partners Oy
16.10-16.20 Closing the event, Erkki Soini
18.30-20.30 Dinner at Luoto Kuopio
CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM ARE POSSIBLE
About the event
Where will the event take place?
+Our two-day open event takes place in Kuopio, Finland. 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
The cruise departs from 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?
+Accommodation and arrival?
+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.
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.