WEBIT.FESTIVAL Europe
13-15 May 2019, NDK, Sofia
Join us at the 3rd edition of one of the world’s leading gatherings of top experts who shape the future of healthcare, pharma and wellness.
Also known as Webit.Health Summit & Expo, hosted by Webit.Festival 2019.
Join us to explore and experience the future of healthcare.
Expand your horizon. Get inspired by exceptional ideas. Join the community of people who improve the state of wellbeing and change lives.
Webit.Health Programme Commitee is chaired by Prof. Shafi Ahmed - the most watched surgeon in the human history and world’s renown innovator in VR/AR
Among the first confirmed speakers are
Agenda, Impact and knowledge areas:
AI VR/AR, Imaging Exponential Medicine Personalized Medicine Genomics and biotech Well-being and Longevity Marketing & Communicationin healthcare
Who attends?
- Healthcare, pharma and biotech Innovators
- Founders and new disruptive healthcare, pharma and wellness entrepreneurs
- healthcare marketing agencies
- Investors
- Governments, Policy makers and regulators
Sponsors & Exhibitors
Webit.Health is proud to be supported by some of the world leading industry innovators including:
Health Summit Gold Partners
Health Summit Silver Partner
World's Biggest Startup Challenge
Webit.Health is the place to meet the hottest startups and founders of health, biotech, pharma and wellbeing starups around the world!
Over 4000 startups apply for the Webit.Foundation grants. A significant number of them are in the health domain. Join Webit to withness the future of healthcare.
If you are founder/work for disruptive startups - apply below and get a free exhibition slot and opportunity to pitch at the Webit.Health Stage in front of the global leaders and investors.
Webit.Health Committee
Dr. Shafi Ahmed
Chair of Webit.Health Committee and a member of Webit.Festival Europe advisory board.
Ha surgeon, teacher, futurist, innovator, entrepreneur and ...
Plamen Russev
Member of Webit.Health Committee and Webit.Festival Europe advisory board.
He is a Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Philanthropist. Executive Chairman of ...
Daniel Kraft
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
Chair for Medicine, Singularity University
Cristina De Juan
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
She is the Founder & CEO of IMT Innovation, a digital health innovation platform training the next generation of ...
Eugene Borukhovich
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
Eugene is as a Global Head of Digital Health Innovation at Bayer ...
Junaid Bajwa
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
Global Leader for Strategic Alliances, Digital Accelerator, MSD
Prof. Dr. Krasimir Ivanov
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
Rector, Medical University - Varna
Laurence Ainouz
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
CEO, Health:Augmented, former Novartis VP Global Head of the Digital ...
Matt Lowe
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
CEO and founder of performance-io and CMO @ Artmatr
John Nosta
Member of Webit.Health Committee.
Founder of NOSTALAB
Agenda
15th May
Globalisation
09:00 - 09:05 Opening Health Summit
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian
09:06 - 09:11 Opening: Digitalisation
Kiril Ananiev
Republic of Bulgaria / Minister of Health
09:12 - 09:37 Keynote: Population Health
Mark Davies
IBM / Chief Medical Officer
09:38 - 09:43 Keynote: Age is just a number?
Dr. John Beard
World Health Organization / Former Director of Life Course and Ageing
09:44 - 09:59 Keynote: Immortality as a policy objective – good or bad
Joseph Elborn
European Health Parliament / President
10:16 - 10:31 Keynote: The Passion Project – the stories of everyday healthcare heroes.
Vernon Bainton
Havas Lynx Group / Chief Medical Officer
Matt Eagles
Havas Lynx Group / Head of Patient Engagement
10:32 - 10:57 Keynote: Future of Healthcare
Dr. Daniel Kraft
Singularity University / Chair for Medicine
Democratising Health by Deep Medicine
10:58 - 11:23 Keynote: AI and Benefits to Healthcare
Mark O’Herlihy
IBM Watson Health / Managing Director EMEA
11:24 - 11:39 Keynote: Clinical decision making by AI
Hila Azadzoy
Ada Health / Managing Director, Global Health Initiative
11:40 - 11:55 Keynote: AI transforming healthcare insurance
Plamen Petrov
Anthem Inc. / VP Artificial Intelligence and Exponential Technologies and Chief Data Officer
11:56 - 12:11 Keynote: Blockchain in healthcare
Tatyana Kanzaveli
Open Health Network / CEO
12:12 - 12:27 Keynote: Disrupting communication
Dr. Sandeep Bansal
Medic Creations / Founder and CEO
12:28 - 12:53 Panel discussion: Integrated Care
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian
Mark O’Herlihy
IBM Watson Health / Managing Director EMEA
Mark Davies
IBM / Chief Medical Officer
12:54 - 13:19 Keynote: How to innovate your thinking?
Mariya Filipova
Anthem, Inc / VP of Innovation
13:20 - 13:40 Fireside chat: Digital Health Transformation in Abu Dhabi
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian
Abdulla Al Ali
Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Senior Health Quality Auditor
Dr. Dirk Richter
Department of Health Abu Dhabi / Senior Advisor to Director Healthcare Quality Office
13:41 - 13:56 Keynote: Changing the experience of Health
Eugene Borukhovich
PHS Fund / Entrepreneur in Residence
14:16 - 14:26 Keynote
Stefano Cucca
Radoff Srl / Strategic Manager
13:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Healthcare Start Ups
10:00 - 10:15 Keynote + Demo: iRise
Lubomir Vassilev
iRise Mechanics / Founder & CEO
14:00 - 14:15 Keynote: The Strategy to Success
Christopher Hafner
Grovelands / Executive Director
14:16 - 14:26 Keynote: Use technology to save lives
Stefano Cucca
Radoff Srl / Strategic Manager
14:27 - 14:37 Keynote
Dr. Vishal Nangalia
Founder MedicalandMe, Consultant Anaesthetist and Medical Machine Learning Ninja
14:38 - 14:48 Keynote
Paul Roberts
GPDQ / CEO
14:49 - 14:59 Keynote
Marina Borukhovich
YourCoach Health / Founder & CEO
15:00 - 15:10 Keynote
Bilyana Vasileva
Bayer / Digital Specialist
Beyond Therepeutics
15:11 - 15:26 Keynote
Mohanad Fors
Digital Health Innovation Lab, Novartis / Head of Biome
15:27 - 15:42 Keynote: Mapping the human genome
Anu Acharya
Mapmygenome / CEO
15:43 - 15:58 Keynote: Digital Therepeutics
Roberto Ascione
Healthware Group / CEO & Founder
15:59 - 16:14 Keynote: Curing the Incurable
Dr. Jack Kreindler
The Centre for Health and Human Performance / CEO
16:15 - 16:30 Keynote: Health in a world of digital biomarkers
Dr. Andreas Caduff
Biovotion / Founder
Digital health and innovation ecosystem in Bulgaria
16:32 - 16:56 Panel discussion: Digital health and innovation ecosystem in Bulgaria
Dr. Rosen Dimitrov
Novartis Bulgaria / Public Affairs Manager
Prof. Dr. Ivo Petrov
Acibadem City Clinic Sofia / Head of Cardiology and Angiology Department
Dr. Stanimir Hasurdjiev
Bulgarian National Patients’ Organization (NPO) / Founder and Chairperson
Surgery, Immersive Technology in Healthcare and Education
16:57 - 17:12 Keynote: Digital Surgery
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian
17:13 - 17:28 Keynote: Virtual Reality: when digital health gets therapeutic
Denise Silber
Doctors 2.0 & You / CEO
17:29 - 17:44 Keynote: Oncomfort Digital Sedation: pure play digital therapeutics in anesthesia.
Diane Jooris
Oncomfort SA / Chief Scientific Officer
17:45 - 18:00 Keynote: Future challenges for surgical research and oppurtunities for technology
Prof. Charles Knowles
Queen Mary University of London / Clinical Professor of Surgical Research
18:01 - 18:16 Keynote: Future of Immersive technology
Matt Leatherbarrow
Medical Realities / CEO and a Co-Founder
18:17 - 18:32 Keynote: Technology Enhanced Learning Using For Globalisation of Surgical Education
Bijendra Patel
Malta University / Professor
18:33 - 18:37 Closing Webit Health
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Chief Medical Officer, Medical Realities / Surgeon | Futurist | Innovator | Entrepreneur | Humanitarian
Founder Games
17:30 - 18:30 Founder Games Finals & Awards Ceremony (at Plenary session stage)
Social Agenda
19:30 - 22:00 Webit Night Urban Summit (open to all Webit pass holders)
Тhe best about Webit.Festival is that it allows people to spend two or three days together sharing their ideas, concerns, the problems they deal with and how can we overcome some of the problems around society with light minded people all wanting to achieve similar goals.
Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Co-founder of Virtual Medics and Medical Realities
I think Webit is just amazing. There are so many interesting people here. I have been so energized by all the innovation I’ve been hearing about. To hear about all the different sectors and to know what they are doing in the digital health space it gives me ideas of what we can take back and do differently within healthcare.
Dr. Lisa Latts
Deputy Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health
Webit.Festival brings together pretty much all the key influencers from the Eastern part of Europe which is something that you don’t see often, so it’s really great.
Victor Savevski
Chief Digital Officer at Humanitas Healthcare Group
The best about Webit is that you see two different types of people here - scientists and tech guys. And I think the future is really a mix of tech and science.
Dr. Jurgi Camblong
CEO at Sophia Genetics
I have been to Webit before and I can see the evolution of the event. There are more medical doctors, more people from science, they all seem to see the value of IT and the convergence of these different landscapes and that is why it is wonderful to be here.
Dr. Andreas Caduff
CEO, Biovotion
Webit.Festival is inspiring and that creates a very special vibes and energy. The best about Webit is diversity. Creativity actually is a result of diversity when many things are shared, but when these things are shared at one place.
Rumyana Trencheva
Managing Director, SAP South-East Europe