The Future of Healthcare in a Changing Europe
ADDRESS: Rigshoapitalet | Esther Møllers Vej 1, entrance 11, 5th floor | 2100 Copenhagen
The Executive Dialogue is designed as an interactive format where everybody is a speaker. In addition to panel discussions and roundtables, our audience moderators, and interactive elements will facilitate open exchange and collective insight.
| 11:00-12:00 | Executive Workshop | Strategic Value-Based Procurement (followed by lunch) Under Denmark’s Strategy for Life Science towards 2030, the Government is advancing a data-driven model for value-based procurement to accelerate innovation uptake in the healthcare system. In this focused session, Lars Allerup — co-author of the model — will outline how procurement can function as a strategic governance tool aligned with the Danish healthcare reform. The framework links purchasing decisions to documented patient outcomes, quality improvements and workforce efficiency, supporting the adoption of labour-saving and innovation-driven solutions. The workshop concludes with lunch and peer-level exchange. Please note: The workshop is available on a first-come, first-served basis and requires participation in the main Executive Dialogue program. |
| 12:00-12:40 | Arrival & Networking Lunch Informal networking and light lunch |
| 12:40-12:50 | Welcome & Opening Remarks Malene Fischer, Deputy Chief Executive, Rigshospitalet Erik Jylling, Executive Vice President, Region East Denmark Armin Scheuer, CEO & Christina Roosen, Strategic Advisor, Lemonmint |
| Keynote 1: The Danish Healthcare Reform and the Road Ahead |
| 12:50-13:20 | Klaus Larsen, Deputy CEO, Digital Sundhed Danmark This keynote provides a concise overview of Denmark’s recent healthcare reform, outlining its strategic objectives, early outcomes, and key implementation challenges. Participants will gain insight into current status, governance changes, investment priorities, timelines, and next phases of reform, followed by moderated Q&A. |
| Transition to Roundtables |
| Roundtables Theme 1: Implementing the Danish Health Reform: Let’s discuss |
| 13:30-14:10 | Nordic Innovation Models – What Can Europe Learn? This roundtable explores how Nordic countries drive digital health innovation as a system-level transformation, enabled by strong public leadership, trust-based governance, and integrated, nationally aligned infrastructures. The discussion will focus on how these approaches translate strategy into scalable implementation and what lessons can be applied across Europe. Nard Schreurs, CEO, EHiN |
| 13:30-14:10 | EU Governance, Regulation & Implementation Examining EU digital health governance, this session focuses on frameworks such as the EHDS and AI Act as both enablers and sources of complexity. The discussion addresses implementation gaps, fragmented governance across member states, and how to better align policy ambition with effective operational execution. Angela Ahrendt, Senior Director, Healthcare & Lifesciences, FTI Consulting Germany |
| 13:30-14:10 | Agentic GEN AI – From Pilot to Scaled Innovation. Exploring the shift of agentic GAI from pilot projects to scaled innovation, this session focuses on autonomous, goal-driven systems with trust at their core. It highlights the role of high-quality data and collaboration, and how embedding AI into clinical and operational workflows can enhance integrated care and deliver immediate, practical value. Jan E. Larsson, Senior Advisor, ITM Centina |
| 13:30-14:10 | Data Architecture & Sovereignty Focusing on data architecture as a strategic governance decision, this session explores how separating data from applications can reduce vendor lock-in and enable long-term control through “sovereignty by design.” It also highlights how strong primary data foundations are essential to unlocking the full potential of secondary use. Jordi Piera Jiménez, CEO, Open EHR International |
| 13:30-14:10 | Healthcare Reform & Value-Based Procurement Focusing on Denmark’s healthcare reform, this session explores how data-driven value-based procurement acts as a key enabler across regions and hospitals. It highlights the importance of cross-sector patient pathways, coordinated care, and the role of new health councils in driving effective implementation. Lars Dahl Allerup, CEO, Rethink Value |
| 13:30-14:10 | The Future of European Healthcare – What Can Europe Learn from Denmark? Denmark ranks among the world’s most advanced digital health systems — but what does that mean for the rest of Europe? This session uses Denmark as a reference point to examine what it takes to turn EU ambition into national reality: from governance and infrastructure to workforce readiness and legislative alignment. Lilse Svanholm, Advisor, Knowit |
| Coffee Break Networking and informal exchange |
| Fireside Chat: Integrating Civil and Hospital Preparedness for European Health System Resilience |
| 14:40-15:20 | Robert Schwab, Commander and Medical Director, Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz Germany Jan Kold, CIO, Region Sjælland Denmark Nard Schreurs, CEO, EHiN Norway Lea Ledwon, Senior Manager Initiatives, Lemonmint This fireside chat is setting the scene for the following roundtable sessions, exploring how civil and hospital systems can be better integrated to ensure continuity of care in times of crisis and disruption. Bringing together German and Danish perspectives, the discussion will focus on governance, leadership under pressure, and cross-sector coordination, with a broader view on strengthening resilience across European health systems. |
| Roundtables Theme 2: Resilience & Civil Preparedness – Ensuring Continuity of Care |
| 15:20-16:00 | Scaling Innovation Through Public–Private Collaboration Exploring public–private collaboration as a key driver of scale, this session focuses on how to move from pilots to national-level deployment by aligning incentives between public systems and private innovators. It also examines how such partnerships can embed innovation into long-term health system resilience. Nard Schreurs, CEO, EHiN |
| 15:20-16:00 | Aligning with European Resilience & Security Agendas Focusing on Europe’s resilience and security priorities, this session examines how health systems can respond to growing pressures from crises and cyber threats. It addresses the need to strengthen data-sharing frameworks, protect critical infrastructure, balance digital and AI investments with workforce constraints, and better align policy, infrastructure, and operational readiness. Angela Ahrendt, Senior Director, Healthcare & Lifesciences, FTI Consulting Germany |
| 15:20-16:00 | Agentic GEN AI – Trust, Governance & Workforce Impact Exploring agentic GenAI through the lens of trust and governance, this session examines how autonomous systems can be responsibly integrated into healthcare. It will address human–AI collaboration, workforce readiness, and organisational adaptation, while highlighting the importance of high-quality data, transparency, and the role of patients as co-creators of better health outcomes. Jan E. Larsson, Senior Advisor, ITM Centina |
| 15:20-16:00 | AI-Ready Health Data & European Interoperability Focusing on the foundations of AI-ready health systems, this session explores how structured, semantic, and computable data enables trustworthy AI. It highlights the shift from data exchange to true data convergence, and the role of semantic interoperability and open specifications as shared European infrastructure. Jordi Piera Jiménez, CEO, Open EHR International |
| 15:20-16:00 | Resilient Healthcare in a Changing World – Lessons from the Nordic Model The Nordic countries have long positioned systemic resilience as a strategic priority – not just a crisis response. This session explores how integrated care models, long-term investment cultures, and robust governance frameworks have strengthened Nordic health systems against geopolitical uncertainty, workforce pressures, and technological disruption. What can other nations learn – and where does the Nordic model offer a realistic blueprint? Lars Dahl Allerup, CEO, Rethink Value |
| 15:20-16:00 | Policy, Resilience & Future Pressures Focusing on the intersection of policy and resilience, this session explores emerging pressures on European health systems and their implications for national authorities and funding models. It examines how resilience can be sustained within ongoing reforms and where additional national and EU-level initiatives may be needed to address future challenges. Lilse Svanholm, Advisor, Knowit |
| Coffee Break Networking and continued dialogue |
| Europe’s Digital Maturity |
| 16:30- 17:00 | A strategic imperative for the future of healthcare in a changing Europe This session focuses on the strategies, lessons, and leadership approaches needed to develop the digital maturity of Europe’s health systems at scale – shaped by Europe’s own rules, governance models, values, and methods. It explores how health systems can move beyond isolated digital progress toward more coordinated, resilient, and system-wide transformation. Armin Scheuer, CEO of Lemonmint / Editor “Digital Maturity in Hospitals” (Springer, 2025) Volker Amelung, Spokes Person, DigitalRadar Consortium (Germany) Gürhan Zincircioglu, CMIO, Tire State Hospital Türkiye Stephan Krumm, Deputy Head, Division 512 – Cyber Security, Interoperability and Data Compatibility, German Federal Ministry of Health |
| 17:00- 17:10 | WHO’s Reference Architecture for Digital Public Infrastructure for Health Jordi Piera Jiménez, CEO, Open EHR International Spain |
| 17:10- 17:25 | Guten Tag Brussels. Bonjour Barcelona. And Viva Berlin. From Europe’s policy capital to one of its most dynamic health innovation hubs: as Brussels shapes the regulatory and strategic direction of healthcare – from the AI Act to the EHDS- Barcelona is advancing system-wide digital integration and next-generation “super hospital” infrastructure. Together, they offer a complementary perspective on how Europe can align policy, scale, and innovation in building future-ready health systems. So – guess what’s next…. |
| 17:25- 17:50 | Think. Act. Health – Synthesis & Reflections Moderator-led plenary synthesizing key insights from the eight roundtables, followed by closing reflections and next steps. |
| Wrap up & Closing |
| 17:50 | Bus departure for informal evening networking dinner event |
| German Embassy Networking Reception |
| 18:15- 21:00 | Welcome speech Markus Bollmohr, Deputy Head of Mission and Commissioner for the German Minority and Cross-Border Affairs, German Embassy Copenhagen Kurt Espersen, CEO, Region of Southern Denmark Following the Data2Value Executive Dialogue, guests are invited to a networking dinner buffet reception at the German Embassy in Copenhagen in Nordhavn. A bus transfer will be arranged from Rigshospitalet to the Embassy. Alternatively, Nordhavn Metro Station is the closest public transport option. This evening reception is by invitation only and exclusively for registered participants. |
