Data for Health Conference 2023

Arrival and Registration at Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, 10179 Berlin, Germany

Press conference

• Karl Lauterbach (German Federal Minister of Health)
• Jochen Lennerz (Harvard Medical School)

Main Hall

Opening keynote by Karl Lauterbach (German Federal Minister of Health)

Main Hall

Panel Discussion 1: Introduction to Data Sharing and AI
Discussion on the benefits and challenges of data sharing and AI

• Alena Buyx (German Ethics Council)
• Roland Eils (Founding Director BIH Center for Digital Health)
• Tariq Khokhar (Wellcome Trust)
• Ariel Dora Stern (Harvard Business School)

Main Hall

Panel Discussion 2: Data Use and Data Sharing for AI Development
Overview of data sharing platforms and tools, Discussion on how to create data sharing initiatives and standards

• Faisal Mahmood (Harvard Medical School)
• Lena Maier-Hein (German Cancer Research Center)
• Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor (University Heidelberg)
• Thorsten Schlomm (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
• Sebastian Schneeweiss (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

Verpackungshalle

Barcamps:
Barcamp Sessions are open to all conference participants and no prior registration is necessary. (Download Barcamp Information)

• Session V1: NephroCAGE: Real-world Experiences from the German-Canadian Consortium on AI for Improved Kidney Transplantation Outcome.
  Matthieu Schapranow & Klemens Budde
• Session V2: What Can Germany learn from the Canadian Province of Alberta running one of the world’s largest digital health systems and their open dataculture?
  Daniel C. Baumgart
• Session V3: Data Sharing: only consent will work. It must be designed so that it can work.
  Stefanie Brückner
• Session V4: Accelerating Medical Progress with Large Language Models: A Brainstorming Session.
  Nils Krüger
• Session V5: Privacy Preserving Data Analysis - Code2Data Approaches
  Hannes Wünsche, Florian Schwarz, Toralf Kirsten, Sofia Maria Siampani
• Session V6: How to bring people living with diseases / citizens on board of the digital train to understand health data sharing across borders.
  Birgit Bauer & Ihno Fokken

Main Hall

Keynote and Q&A by John D. Halamka (Mayo Clinic)

Panel Discussion 3: AI Applications and Innovation

• Nicholson Price (The University of Michigan Law School)
• Giorgio Quer (Scripps Research Translational Institute)
• Charlotte Tschider (Loyola University Chicago School of Law)
• Norman Zerbe (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Zählhalle

Barcamps:
Barcamp Sessions are open to all conference participants and no prior registration is necessary. (Download Barcamp Information)

• Session Z1: Solidarity principle 2.0 – Data governance for health.
  Lutz Hager
• Session Z2: Reimagining Health Data Sharing: Innovating Beyond HIPAA and GDPR for a Global Framework.
  Jason Crites
• Session Z3: Interoperability of primary data collection and its impact on secondary data use.
  Stefanie Weber
• Session Z4: Real-Time Healthcare capacity Monitoring: Hospitals, Emergency Service and beyond
  Christian Karagiannidis
• Session Z5: Regulation of large language models - the most important health data question of the next 5 years?
  Stephen Gilbert
• Session Z6: How to operate international research projects GDPR-compliant with German data?
  Henrik Matthies & Jamie Blackport

Verpackungshalle

Interactive Workshop 1
Topic: Regulatory Science for AI – Overcoming regulatory barriers for the use of AI
Lead: Jochen Lennerz, Susanne Ozegowski

Presentation of the Results of the Barcamps

Meet our AI Projects and Networking with Food & Drinks

Guided tours of the exhibition with short pitches by the exhibitors:

• Tour 1 (5.45 pm): AutoPiLoT (starting point, in the “Zählhalle”), SCP2, ENSURE, TraumAInterface, PerEpi, AkuSym, and KIPRODE
• Tour 2 (6.30 pm): HYKIST (starting point, in the “Lichthof”), DiBeA, SSTeP-KiZ, SATURN, and MOND
• Tour 3 (7.15 pm): EVA-KI (starting point, in the “Lichthof), KIperiOP, DIGIPD, SMART Start, and Leuko-Expert

All tours start at the exhibition stalls of the first projects listed.

Main Hall

Keynotes by

• Robert Eiss (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
• Jochen Lennerz (Harvard Medical School)

Main Hall

Panel Discussion 4: Importance of the use of health data and transatlantic access to health data.
Highlighting positive use cases and best practices

• Birgit Bauer (Data Saves Lives DE)
• Susan Gregurick (National Institutes of Health)
• Chikwe Ihekweazu (WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence)
• Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School)
• Eva Winkler (National Centre for Tumor Diseases)

Panel Discussion 5: Transfer of research into practice, and innovation into healthcare.
Highlighting positive use cases and best practices

• Rolf Apweiler (EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute)
• Nisar Malek (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen)
• Fulvia Raffaeli (European Commission)
• Shannon Thor (Deputy Director of the FDA Europe Office)

Verpackungshalle

Interactive Workshop 2
Topic: Data against cancer
Lead: Michael Hallek, Katharina Ladewig

Main Hall

1. High-level keynote
Apple's approach to empowering people, medical researchers and healthcare providers.

• Sumbul Desai (Apple)

2. Presentation of the conference outcomes

• Presentation of the workshop results by Katharina Ladewig, Jochen Lennerz and Michael Hallek
• Hand over of conference results to Karl Lauterbach

Concluding High-level moderated discussion:
Participants:

• Karl Lauterbach (German Federal Minister of Health)
• Michael Hallek (University Hospital Cologne)
• Heyo K. Kroemer (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
• Katharina Ladewig (Robert Koch Institut, Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research)
• Jochen Lennerz (Harvard Medical School)

Main Hall

Closing Remarks by Woodward Clark Price (Deputy Chief of Mission U.S. Embassy)

Closing of the conference by Karl Lauterbach (German Federal Minister of Health)

End of the Conference