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Inspiration Sessions

These sessions form a core element of the event, offering a diverse and thought-provoking programme across nine sessions, organised into three parallel tracks. Each track is built around one of three key themes: current healthcare challenges, emerging technologies, and in-depth explorations of complex issues. Led by experts, innovators, and researchers, the sessions feature interactive presentations and discussions that connect science, education, industry, and clinical practice. Together, they provide a strong platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and creating meaningful impact in healthcare, both regionally and internationally.

10.45 - 12.00: From clinical challenge to change

Building on the Plenary keynote on the hospital of the future, this track invites participants to translate insights into concrete action. Attendees choose one of three parallel sessions, each exploring a clinical domain: Women’s Health, Cardiovascular Health, or Musculoskeletal Health, as a starting point for multidisciplinary collaboration and technological innovation. Sessions offer space to dive deeper into trends, challenges, and emerging solutions, while moderators connect discussions back to the keynote, highlight recurring themes, and encourage reflection on practical application. Participants will leave with fresh perspectives, actionable lessons, and inspiration to advance innovation and teamwork in their own clinical practice, bridging the vision of tomorrow’s hospital with today’s reality.

Uniting for Impact: Advancing Women’s Health through collaborative innovation
This session explores how Dutch institutions are joining forces to innovate in women’s health through technology, education, and inclusive collaboration. It highlights efforts to close gender gaps by combining science with societal input.
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Translating Cardiovascular Tech: from lab discovery to patient-centred solutions
This session explores how cardiovascular innovations, ranging from heart models to start-up solutions, can be translated from lab to clinic. It brings together science, business, and care to discuss how these technologies can truly benefit patients.
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In a joint effort: where diverse perspectives meet in musculoskeletal health
This session highlights how cross-sector collaboration in musculoskeletal health leads to improvements in care and research. Through 3 case studies, we explore how involving experts and patients from the start strengthens both scientific and societal impact.
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13.15 - 14.30: From technological idea to reality

Building on the previous sessions as well as the Experienc Centre innovations, this track invites participants to explore how technological ideas make their way into clinical practice. Attendees choose one of three parallel sessions, each focusing on a specific technological discipline: AI in Action, Medical Imaging, or Bioengineering, to examine real-world applications, opportunities, and challenges. Sessions offer interactive formats that enable participants to engage with experts, discuss practical lessons, and reflect on how innovations can be scaled and integrated across various clinical settings. Moderators ensure continuity with the keynote, highlight recurring themes, and guide reflection on actionable takeaways. Participants will leave with practical insights into translating technology into patient care, a broadened perspective on multidisciplinary innovation, and inspiration to turn emerging ideas into reality within their own practice.

AI in action: From lab simulation to patient lives
This session explores how Artificial Intelligence in healthcare can move from lab to bedside, with insights from patients, start-ups, and engineers. We dive into the practical challenges of adoption – from trust and transparency to clinical validation – and ask: what does it take to make AI truly meaningful, safe, and impactful for real patients?
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From simulation to reality: Medical imaging as a MedTech growth engine
This session explores how medical imaging innovations can move from concept to clinical and commercial reality. Through examples from the REFIT collaboration and broader R&D efforts, we’ll discuss how ecosystem-wide cooperation can help overcome barriers and deliver meaningful impact.
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BioEngineering labs unlocked: Accelerating research and innovation
This session explores how the BioEngineering Labs at the TechMed Centre support MedTech innovation through a flexible environment for research and development. By fostering collaboration and industry partnerships, the labs help turn scientific ideas into real-world medical applications.
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14.45 - 16.00: From shared innovation to transnational impact

Building on the Plenary keynote on the hospital of the future and insights from the clinical and technological sessions, this track invites participants to transform shared knowledge into collaborative action. Attendees choose one of three sessions: Defence & Health Synergies, Expanding global MedTech Access, or Accelerating Healthcare Innovation, to explore how local innovations can be scaled, applied across disciplines, and even translated to an international context. Through interactive discussions, scenario exercises, and guided reflection, participants contribute their expertise, uncover new perspectives, and co-create practical strategies. This track emphasises hands-on collaboration, allowing participants to deepen lessons from earlier sessions and discover concrete ways to turn innovative ideas into real-world impact.

Unlocking dual impact: Where defence and healthcare meet
This session explores how defence and healthcare can support each other by sharing expertise, technologies, and practical experience, with examples from TNO, military medicine, and dual-sector experts. Cross-domain collaboration is increasingly vital in today’s crisis-driven world.
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Crossing borders: Regional access to the global MedTech market
This session explores the requirements for bringing medical devices to the global market, focusing on various complex regulatory landscapes. Using examples from different international collaborations and clusters, it highlights how cross-border cooperation can help overcome regulatory challenges and market entry barriers.
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From idea to impact: Accelerating healthcare innovation
This session explores how promising health innovations can move from idea to impact through better alignment between science, care, and entrepreneurship. With real-world examples, we examine key steps like early validation, clinical testing, and cross-sector collaboration to accelerate effective implementation.
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