Experience two days of candid peer exchange, hospital-led insight, and high-level networking.
The Hospital C-Suite Summit has quickly earned its place as Europe’s meeting point for hospital leadership, building on the inaugural edition in Vienna and the second in Madrid, where executives from across Europe came together to move beyond best-practice showcases and confront what truly works in complex hospital systems.
The 2027 program continues that tradition, carefully shaped to reflect the forces redefining healthcare today. The third edition also introduces a new dimension: a private pre-summit day of invitation-only executive roundtables, reserved for candid, peer-only dialogue among C-level and next-generation leaders.
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Hospital C-Suite Summit 2026 Program
14:10 – 14:40
Opening address from the Committee
Plenary Hall
14:40 – 15:10
AI won’t be transforming healthcare – leadership will
Plenary Hall
Okan Ekinci, MD, MBA – CMIO & Global Head of Digital Technology, Roche Information Solutions
15:10 – 15:30
Leading the AI Hospital: Building a Sustainable, AI-Enabled Workforce. A CEO conversation on resilience, scale, and clinical excellence
Plenary Hall
Moderator: Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief AI Officer; Director and Founder of ARC, Sheba Medical Center
Elad Walach, CEO of Aidoc
Heyo K. Kroemer, CEO, Charité Charité – University Medicine Berlin
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Catering & Networking Area
16:00 – 19:00
Session 1: Digital & AI transformation – from strategy to practice
Plenary Hall
16:00 – 16:10
Session opening
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Innovation, Transformation & AI, and ARC founder
16:10 – 16:30
Keynote lecture: Driving Change: Lessons in Digital Healthcare Transformation from Cleveland Clinic
Rohit Chandra, Executive Vice President and Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Digital Officer
Panel Presentations
16:30-16:50
Swifties, Startups and the Singularity
Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA- Executive in Residence General Catalyst. Chair, Board of Directors, DocGo
16:50-17:00
AI and Technology Diffusion
Kenneth Kwek, Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Digital and Future Health, SingHealth
17:00-17:10
Bridging healthcare gaps and crisis response through remote care
Galia Barkai, MD MBA, Director of Sheba BEYOND, Sheba medical Center
17:10-17:20
Digital health care transformation through research and innovation collaborations
Peter Lundgren, Director of the Center for Digital Health, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
17:20 – 17:50
Panel discussion
Moderator: Sara Siegel, Global Health Care Sector Leader at Deloitte
17:50 – 18:00
Technical break
18:00 – 18:20
Keynote lecture: AI Applications in Clinical Practice: Insights from TMU Health System
Mai-Szu Wu, President, Taipei Medical University and TMU Healthcare Systems, Taiwan
18:20-18:40
Start-up Demos
Immunai, Natan Stein, MD/PhD, Medical Consultant
Paradigm, Kent Thoelke, CEO
18:40-19:00
Demos Discussion
Moderator:
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief AI Officer; Director and Founder of ARC, Sheba Medical Center
19:00-20:00
Welcome Reception
08:30-10:30
Session 2: The hybrid future of healthcare workforce – the future of professions, education and ethical considerations
Plenary Hall
08:30-08:40
Session opening
Anna van Poucke, Former Global Head of Healthcare KPMG International; CEO and Founder Global Health Transformers, The Netherlands
08:40-08:55
Trends for the future
María de Oyarzabal, Head of Imaging and Advanced Therapies, Siemens Healthineers
08:55-09:15
Reimagining the Antipartum Unit From Remote Care to AI and Digital Twins
Avi Tsur, Director of the Hybrid High Risk Pregnancy Unit, Chief Medical Officer of ARC
09:15-09:30
Education and new roles in the digital Age
Stephanie Klein Nagelvoort, Vice Chair Board of directors University Medical Center Groningen, Professor ‘future of care’
09:30-09:45
Ethics in Digital Transformation: A Hospital Perspective
Anke Diehl, Universitätsmedizin Essen, Germany
09:45-10:30
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Anna van Poucke, Former Global Head of Healthcare KPMG International; CEO and Founder Global Health Transformers, The Netherlands
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break & Networking
Catering & Networking Area
11:00-11:10
Democratizing Health Data: How Hospitals Drive Quality Improvement and Financial Performance
Plenary Hall
Bruno Lempernesse, CEO MDClone
11:10-11:30
CEO Conversations: Clinical Abundance with AI and Patient First Leadership
Plenary Hall
Roxanna Gapstur, President and CEO WellSpan Health
Munjal Shah, Co-founder and CEO Hippocratic AI
11:30-13:30
Session 3: Operational Excellence: Managing Excellence in outcomes and performance: A deep dive on flow, logistics and operations in the age of AI and Integrated Health Systems
Plenary Hall
11:30 – 11:35
Session Opening
Anna van Poucke, Former Global Head of Healthcare KPMG International; CEO and Founder Global Health Transformers, The Netherlands
11:35 – 12:35
Presentation of 4 leading use cases
How being a smart hospital can provide excellence in outcomes to become one of the world’s most leading hospitals
David Reich, Mount Sinai, New York, US
Flow in Surgery: how to increase OR productivity by 10% (across 4 settings)
Oyvind Skraastad, Director Acute Clinic, Oslo University Hospital
Hanne Wikeby Asak, Head of Department for Organ Donation, Oslo University Hospital
Operational excellence by system wide driven co-creation
Boubou Halberg, CEO Salgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
Safer clinical pathways, smarter systems: innovating preoperative assessment with Value-Based HealthCare
Giulia Goretti, Head of Group Value Based Healthcare & Lean, Humanitas
Maurizio Cecconi, Head of Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care and Vice Scientific Director for Clinical Research
12:35-13:30
Panel Discussion Between the panelist and Joseph Pucadiyl, International Business Leader for Lab Applications, Roche Information Solutions
Moderator: Anna van Poucke, Former Global Head of Healthcare KPMG International; CEO and Founder Global Health Transformers, The Netherlands
13:30 – 14:15
Lunch Break & Networking
Catering & Networking Area
14:15 – 16:00
Session 4: Value-Based Healthcare 2.0 – Population-Based Models
Plenary Hall
14:15 – 14:20
Session Opening
Dr. Boubou Halberg, CEO Salgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
14:20 – 14:40
Keynote lecture: Patient-Centered Outcomes: Creating Value for All Stakeholders
Jennifer Bright, President & CEO, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM)
14:40- 15:30
Real-World Use Cases
From Care Pathways to Population Outcomes in Cardiology – Lessons from Sweden
Frieder Baumgarten, Karolinska University Hospital (Sweden)
State of Value-Based Care – Moving from Testing to Sustainable Scaling
Purva Rawal, Former Chief Strategy Officer, CMS Innovation Center, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (USA)
The Virtous Cycle of Clinical Quality – Humanitas
Maria Rocca, Head of Quality and Safety Culture and Hospital Risk Management, Humanitas
From volume to value: Transforming care to benefit the patients and the overall healthcare system
Rasmus Møgelvang, CEO at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen
Scaling Healthcare Transformation – Together
Jeppe Hoejholt, Senior Director, Enterprise Accounts & Integrated Health Solutions, Medtronic
15:30 – 16:00
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Boubou Halberg, CEO Salgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
Catering & Networking Area
16:30-18:30
Session 5: Cybersecurity & Web-Based Health Systems
Plenary Hall
16:30-16:50
Session Opening & Overview of the current and future threats
Ronni Gamzu, Former Director General of Ichilov Hospital in TLV, Former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Former Israeli COVID Czar, Executive Chairman of Migdal Holding, Insurance and Finance
16:50-17:10
The Coming Identity Crisis of AI in Healthcare
Mickey Boodaei, CEO and Co-Founder, Transmit Security
17:10-17:30
New Trends in Cyber in the Health Sector
Hulio Shalev,CEO Dream Security
17:30-17:50
“Your files have been encrypted.” – Crisis simulation: how to manage your coming attack Guy and Thomas London
Ian Abbs, Chief Executive Officer. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
17:50-18:00
Cybersecurity in Spain
Carlos Mur de Viu, Associate Professor, European University (UEM), International Affairs coordinartor, SEDISA
18:00-18:30
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Ronni Gamzu, Former Director General of Ichilov Hospital in TLV, Former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Former Israeli COVID Czar, Executive Chairman of Migdal Holding, Insurance and Finance
09:00 – 09:30
Transforming a Hospital into a Green Model
Plenary Hall
Natalia Allué, Medical Director en Fundació Sanitària Mollet
09:30 – 10:00
Coffee Break & Networking
Catering & Networking Area
10:00 – 12:00
Session 6: R&D&I – Innovation & Personalized Medicine to Financing the Future
Plenary Hall
10:00 – 10:10
Session Opening
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Innovation, Transformation & AI, and ARC founder
Ronni Gamzu, Former Director General of Ichilov Hospital in TLV, Former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Former Israeli COVID Czar, Executive Chairman of Migdal Holding, Insurance and Finance
10:10 – 10:30
Keynote lecture: Creating a Biomedical Innovation Ecosystem: Lessons Learned in Berlin
Christopher Baum, MD, Chair of the BIH Board of Directors and Chief Translational Research Officer of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
10:30 – 11:15
Panelists presentations:
Personalized medicine and interactions with pharmaceutical companies: innovation will drive transformation
Jan Van Acker, Strategic Advisor to ARC
The Cedars-Sinai Innovation Center: From vision to application
Jeffrey A. Golden, MD , Director of the Burns and Allen Research Institute and Executive Vice Dean for Research and Education, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Implementation of precision medicine in a publicly funded health system-the Swedish Experience
Charlotta Ljungman, Director of the Center for Precision Medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
11:15 – 12:00
Panel Discussion
Moderators:
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM), Chief Innovation, Transformation & AI, and ARC founder
Ronni Gamzu, Former Director General of Ichilov Hospital in TLV, Former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Former Israeli COVID Czar, Executive Chairman of Migdal Holding, Insurance and Finance
12:00 – 12:30
Coffee Break & Networking
Catering & Networking Area
12:30 – 13:30
Session 7: Emergency preparedness in hospitals
Plenary Hall
12:30-12:35
Session Opening
Michał P. Dybowski, President and CEO of Healthcare Poland Foundation. Vice President of Global Healthcare Travel Council. Poland’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Coalition Founder and Coordinator
12:35-13:30
Panel discussion
Moderator:
Michał P. Dybowski, President and CEO of Healthcare Poland Foundation. Vice President of Global Healthcare Travel Council. Poland’s Healthcare Cybersecurity Coalition Founder and Coordinator
Panelists:
Piotr Welenc, CEO Meta for Mena
Piotr Senkus, Academic Director of the AI for Executives MBA Program, University of Warsaw, Professor at Calisia University (Uniwersytet Kaliski), and Professor at the University for Peace (UPEACE)
Tomas Szelagowski,President of the Management Board of the Polish Innovative Medical Cluster PIKMED
13:30 – 14:00
Summit closing session by the Committee
Plenary Hall
14:00 – 15:00
Lunch & Networking
Catering & Networking Area
Please note the program is subject to changes.
Join us at the premier European gathering for hospital leadership.
The C-Suite executives advancing the future of healthcare will come together to exchange candid, peer-to-peer insight on the challenges defining their institutions – from digital and AI transformation and workforce resilience to operational excellence, value-based care, cybersecurity, and the next generation of leadership. This is where the future of the hospital is built.
100+
Speakers
82
Symposia
17
Industry symposia
7
Forum discussions
6
Plenary lectures
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