Speedinvest

Speedinvest is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with €450M AuM and 40 investors based in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Our dedicated sector focused teams are the first to fund Europe's most innovative technology startups and our in-house operational experts are on-hand to offer founders ongoing support with growth, HR, US market expansion, and more. Wefox, Bitpanda, TIER Mobility, GoStudent, Curve, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and Twaice are among our portfolio of 200+ companies. Learn more at www.speedinvest.com.

Roberto Ascione CEO & Founder at Healthware Group

A serial entrepreneur and global thought leader in digital health, he has 20 years of experience in marketing and communications, business transformation and innovation in health and wellness.

Pietro Bertone Analyst at Doctolib

Pietro works in the strategy team of Doctolib, leading European digital healthcare scaleup, after having contributed to its launch in the Italian market. After studying computer science and business analytics in the U.S., he developed a strong interest for healthtech and innovation, on which he writes in his spare time.

Eugene Borukhovich Global Head of Digital Health Incubation & Innovation at Bayer

He’s an Entrepreneur in Residence at Personal Health Solutions (PHS), and a founder of Health 2.0 NYC, Amsterdam & Dusseldorf local chapters. Eugene enjoys mentoring digital health startups and an avid blogger about innovation, digital health and startups.

Paolo Celotto Digital Marketing & Analytics Director, Healthware Engage

Paolo has 9 years of experience in digital marketing and has worked in different sectors and markets. In his past experiences he has managed several teams specialized in digital marketing and digital analytics for various projects of leading companies in the Italian market. In his previous experiences he has also coordinated CRM campaigns (DEM, SMS, Display), and projects related to UX, CRO and A/B testing.

Justin Chase Executive Vice President/Head Innovation at Intouch Solutions

Early in his career, he launched Hypertonic, an agency that sought to educate pharma on current and emerging social ideas, research, insights, and activations. Chase settled in at Intouch as the agency's in-house innovation guru. He also ranks among the industry's most articulate and enthusiastic evangelists. He has led client innovation labs and workshops and presented at a range of health events, including the Frontiers Health Conference in Berlin and Digital Pharma East in Philadelphia.

Gerry Chillè Health Innovator, Partner at HealthwareLabs

Gerry has spent his life breaking things apart, mixing the pieces up with other objects, and trying to build something new from them. As head of HealthwareLabs US, this dubious talent often yields delightful results for clients trying to solve old problems in new innovative ways.

Megan Coder Executive Director at Digital Therapeutics Alliance

Megan Coder, PharmD, MBA, is Executive Director of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance. Prior to joining DTA, Megan worked with Voluntis, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Iodine, and the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board.

Giulia Conti Head of Innovation and Patient Journey, Novartis Italy

Giulia joined Novartis after over 15 years of experience in Management Consulting (namely in IQVIA, LSC and CVA) with a strong focus on life sciences at Global and Local level, covering several Therapeutic areas - mainly Specialty and Rare diseases - and topics - Launch Programs design and execution, creation of Innovative Customer Engagement Model, Portfolio Strategy and Organization Design. She holds a MS in Biomedical Engineering.

Rosario Curia Head of Data Science Technology, Healthware Group

Rosario has 20 years of experience in digital innovation projects for the public administration and large companies.He has a consolidated experience in building and management of research projects, where he has worked with national and international partners. Since 2005, with non-continuous activities, he has been involved in "digital health" projects aimed at improving treatment and therapeutic paths, and supporting diagnosis.

Giovanna D'Urso Marketing & Communications Manager at Healthware Group

Journalist since 2013, Giovanna writes about innovation, digital marketing and communications on various sites: Inside Marketing, Nòva24 - Il Sole 24 Ore and Digital Health Italia. She has been also the Community Advisor for NAStartUp, one of the main communities of innovators in Southern Italy. From January 2017 she collaborates with Healthware for Marketing & Communication activities.

Jessica DaMassa Health Innovation Reporter; Host & Executive Producer, WTF Health; Host, Health in 2 Point 00; Innovation Consultant

Jessica DaMassa has emerged as the ‘it girl’ of health tech interviewing – having racked up more than 500 interviews in just the past three years. She brings an enthusiastic, fun, yet inquisitive style to her interviewing and hosting of conferences, interviews, and videos, including her YouTube series ‘WTF Health – What’s the Future Health?’ and her weekly digital health news show ‘Health in 2 Point 00’ with Health 2.0 cofounder Matthew Holt. Find out more at www.wtf.health.

Alison Darcy Founder and President of Woebot Health

Alison Darcy, PhD, is Founder and President of Woebot Health, the mental health ally for people and businesses with products that put personal growth in people’s hands, wherever they are. The company’s relational agent, Woebot, is the foundation for mental health solutions that engage at scale and fit right into people’s lives. Its Science in the Loop™ product development framework draws from lived experience and key advances in AI and precision learning to systematically identify and target interventions to improve outcomes in mental health. For more information, visit woebothealth.com

Melania De Luca Sr. Content Strategist at Healthware International

Strategist by profession, linguist by training, multilingual by natural inclination and volleyball player by passion. Graduated in Communication, in her curriculum also a year of study abroad in contact with the major European exponents in Computational Linguistics. Her many journeys around the world have made her emotional radars extremely receptive to everything that is innovation, technology and new media. Melania has been in the world of digital communication in the health sector for over 10 years. Passionate about semiotics and information architecture, she is currently Content Strategist for the Healthware Group.

Fredrik Debong Head of Research & Development, Co-founder at mySugr

Swedish expat, father of three, #t1d. Cofounder of mySugr. Formerly also of STARTeurope and Pioneers.

pharmaphorum Using content to help connect the pharmaceutical industry and other healthcare innovators for better health

pharmaphorum.com, and its associated digital magazine Deep Dive, is a leading online destination for pharmaceutical industry news, analysis, insight and debate. pharmaphorum connect is a content consultancy bringing strategic and tactical publishing capabilities to pharmaceutical companies and other healthcare organisations.

Therese Elg Marketing and Communications Director, Nordics & Baltics

Therese is a Marketing and Communications professional with over 20 years of experience from international IT and technology companies. She has very strong Project Management skills and ability to evaluate market opportunities, develop clear messages and develop strategies and actionable plans. In her former experience she was in charge of Global marketing strategy, Global Internal & external communications projects, Branding, and Business Development. Therese has also acquired experience in Account management in a globally renowned research firm.

Nausica Federico Marketing & Communications Assistant, Healthware Group

Nausica has always cultivated a passion for communication and marketing, graduating in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Naples "L'Orientale." She has experience as an editor and content creator on specialized platforms in innovation and technology, as well as a project manager for human rights campaigns.

Francesca Filippucci Chief People Officer at Healthware Group, an EVERSANA INTOUCH agency

With extensive experience in Human Resource Management and a strong business development approach, Francesca has held local and international roles in HR in multinational biotech companies within the pharma industry since 2004. Throughout her career path, she never stopped learning and holds a Master’s in Human Resources Management, a Master’s in Executive and Business Coaching with the recent ACC ICF certification as a professional coach, a Master’s in Creative Leadership and an Executive MBA. Starting in March 2022, she assumed the role of Chief People Officer at Healthware Group.

Adriano Fontanari

Adriano Fontanari, passionate about digital health and innovation in the health field, is co-founder of a support and guidance service for people suffering from chronic disease. He is a member of the EIT Health Alumni Network, Ambassador and Contributor of Impactscool and a member of the Young Advisory Committee of the European Health Management Association. He writes about digital health and how emerging technologies will change the future of the medical-patient relationship.

Fulvio Fortini Managing Director Italy at Healthware Group

Born in Libya and raised in Italy, Fulvio began his career working in the family business and pursuing university studies in law. In 1999 he started working in Healthware as CFO, later becoming CEO of the Italian division. With great interest in both sport and the quantified-self movement, he believes that the progress of digital technology can support health and wellness, and improve health care at the same time. His passions led Fulvio to become one of the pioneers of the digital revolution in healthcare.

Petteri Kolehmainen MD Nordics & Baltics, Healthware International

’Petteri has been curious about new technologies his whole life. He started programming in 1992 and has worked with computer hardware and software in various startups and larger companies. In the mid-2000s his focus started to shift towards business development, and he eventually founded his first company in 2009. After 5 companies founded, one merger and one exit, he is now leading the Healthware’s Nordics team. Technology continues being close to his heart, like modern software, development methodologies, gadgets, digital health, as well as augmented and virtual reality

Summer Larson

Summer has been working in the health IT industry for over a decade. She's passionate about writing on techniques to improve care and quality, reduce costs across all sectors of our economy by optimizing access to medical information, among other things.

Pierre Leurent Founder and CEO at Voluntis

He is a specialist of electronic health records and disease management solutions in Europe and the United States. He started his career at General Electric Medical Systems Europe, where he took part in the development of medical imaging software. He also occupied several technical and marketing positions at HealthCenter Internet Services, a San Francisco-based vendor of electronic medical record solutions. He is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris.

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Lino Mari Head of Technology at Healthware Group

Lino works with international teams and supports clients in identifying the right fit of Software Architecture and Technology in order to develop corporate communications, campaigns, mobile-enabled service portals and AI-based apps. Lino loves Innovation, Agile (Scrum), Big Data, Open Data and Deep Learning.

Anastasiya Markvarde Sr Innovation Manager & Business Development at Healthware Group

Anastasiya has been driving innovation and shaking startup ecosystems of Belarus, Spain and now Finland. Falling in love with people's personalities, she is devoted to writing interviews with the innovators and tech entrepreneurs from around the world.

James May Managing Director Healthware Engage

James has been working in the fields of communications, advertising, media, and digital with two decades spent in the emerging markets of China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and South America alongside ten years in the leading Agency Holding Groups in London. He has worked across multiple categories, with health and wellness experience that includes global product launches for the largest pharmaceutical companies as well as digital transformation support for Europe-based pharma brands.

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Chiara Morelli Scientific Analyst, Healthware International

With a MSc in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and a PhD in Natural Sciences, Chiara has worked for more than 7 years in research laboratories in Italy, Germany and UK, mainly focusing on neuroscience and molecular biology. She has always been passionate about science communication, fostering networks between scientific experts and participating in science outreach projects. Chiara joined Healthware Science Team in 2021, where she is working as a Scientific Analyst for national and international projects.

Francis Namouk Streaming Well & Videum, CEO

F. is a digital video strategist and entrepreneur with a passion for storytelling, digital comms and content strategy. Over 14 years of professional experience in the medical, consumer health sectors.

Donal O’Neill Irish born, independent documentary filmmaker

Donal O’Neill is a former elite-level athlete, and an innovative documentary filmmaker exploring health and nutrition. His first movie Cereal Killers was a cult sensation, and the Killeavy native has since produced two successful follow-up projects, Run On Fat: Cereal Killers 2, and The Big Fat Fix, and has more recently published a best-selling book, The Pioppi Diet, alongside British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra.

Luigi Pavia Ecosystem Engagement & Partnerships at Frontiers Health

Luigi is a Passionate Facilitator and networker for SMEs on innovation approaches, strategies and partnership building, has taken part of European projects (FP7; H2020; COSME; 3rd Health Programme) and he is also a Digital health copywriter (blog/social media).

Elena Pirofalo Experience Director at Healthware Group

Elena has over 14 years’ experience in healthcare digital communications developed at Healthware in key strategic roles. Today she is focusing on the intersection of Art, Content and User Experience to deliver innovative experiences able to improve health outcomes and transform clients business.

Federico Piutti Innovation Manager at Bormioli Pharma

Federico specializes in the definition, design and implementation of innovation projects. He has worked with major consultancy firms, dealing with innovation projects for national and international groups. He has managed open innovation programs for over 10 years, developing collaborations with research centers, startups, Universities and other players in the innovation ecosystem, both in Italy and abroad. He is in charge of Bormioli Pharma’s Open Innovation initiatives, part of the Bormioli Pharma Invents corporate program.

Ferdinando Scala Strategy Director at Healthware International

Ferdinando is a senior advisor in the global pharmaceutical industry, specialising in Strategic & Digital Consulting. He is a passionate Wikipedia author (23,000+ contributions) and an expert in Innovation, Change Management and Digital Health.

Gabriel Scali Reckon digital, co-founder and Head of Design

Gabriel is an Experience Designer and Innovator active in the media, culture, government, manufacturing, and health industries who has designed digital products and services for major household brands since the early 90s. Today Gabriel works primarily in Product/Service Design and Experience Strategy.

Sara Scarpinati Marketing Ecosystem Manager at EVERSANA

With over 10 years of experience in the Digital Health sector, Sara serves as Marketing & Communications Manager, focusing on corporate social communications and the editorial strategy of Digital Health blogs. Previously, she lived three years in London, where she joined EF Education First headquarters as a Web Support Coordinator. During her years at university, she has collaborated with local newspapers as an editor, participating in internationally renowned events such as the Giffoni Film Festival.

Alberta Spreafico Managing Director Digital Health Innovation & Strategy, Healthware Group, an EVERSANA INTOUCH company

Alberta is a senior strategy director and management consultant with over a decade of international experience in the health and life sciences sector, focusing on generating value through the systemic integration of digital health innovations. She currently serves as Managing Director, Digital Health & Innovation at Healthware Group, overseeing the evolving digital health strategic, evidence and policy landscape and developing programs for the integration of digital health services across care pathways in collaboration with all key stakeholders.

Jovan Stevovic CEO and co-founder, Chino.io

Jovan holds a PhD in Computer Science from Trent University on the topic of privacy and sharing sensitive health data. He worked 5 years in R&D departments of companies developing healthcare software. Jovan founded Chino Srls in 2015 together with Stefano Tranquillini, with whom they won several awards at the European level such as at the EIT Digital Challenge competition on Cyber Security and Privacy. Currently Chino.io helps more than 50 digital health startups and companies in EU to solve problems related to health data security and compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR.

Karen Taylor Research Director of the Centre for Health Solutions at Deloitte

Karen Taylor is the Research Director of the Centre for Health Solutions at Deloitte, which she established in November 2011. The Centre is the research arm of Deloitte LLP’s life sciences and healthcare practices. By using both primary and secondary research and rigorous analysis to drive unique perspectives, the Centre seeks to be a trusted source for relevant, timely, and reliable insights.

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Florencio Travieso

Florencio Travieso is Professor of Law and academic co-head of the MSc in Health Management & Data Intelligence at emlyon business school, focussing in innovation and digitization in healthcare. Buenos Aires-born, France-based, he is a 'legal maker' and a restless law professional with 20+ years’ international experience in advising, consulting and international litigation. After obtaining his Masters and PhD degrees at Panthéon-Sorbonne, Florencio always kept his academic interest, teaching in Universidad de Buenos Aires and business schools around France for the last 15 years and focussing on the legal impact of new technologies on businesses teaching Digital and International Business Law and Business Ethics and Compliance.

Paul Tunnah

Dr Paul Tunnah is Chief Content Officer and Managing Director for Healthware Group. He founded the industry-leading publication, pharmaphorum, in 2009, and he is a recognised author, speaker, moderator and industry advisor.

Joonas Turunen Head of Experience, Nordics & Baltics, Healthware

Joonas is Head of Experience, Nordics & Baltics, Healthware Technology. He is a user and usability enthusiast with 10+ years of experience in the fields of advertising and UX. It all begun one day from interest towards social psychology, continued with establishing and running an advertising agency and ending up to what he does today.

Tarmo Virki Storyteller and cofounder at CoFounder

Experienced media professional. Journalist, communications manager, published author. Storyteller by nature. Keen on the startup scene, fascinated by creating something new.

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