Health, Life Sciences & Entrepreneurship
Event Series
Health Talks is an events series focusing on health, life sciences and entrepreneurship. It covers a variety of contemporary as well as future topics relevant to innovative health and life science entrepreneurship. We invite professionals and experts to share their knowledge and wisdom with everyone who’s interested in the topics.
Health Talks is co-organized by Aalto University, Business Turku, Centria Health Hub, Health Design, HealthHub Finland EDIH, Healthtech Finland, HiLIFE, Kuopio Health, OuluHealth, Tampere Health, Terkko Health Hub.
Upcoming Health Talks
Revolutionizing Modern Drug Discovery
December 12th 2024 at 9:00-11:00
The event brings together leading experts and innovators to explore how cutting-edge technologies such as supercomputing and quantum computing are transforming the drug discovery landscape. During the talk, participants will dive deep into the technologies that are driving unprecedented breakthroughs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Previous Health Talks
Addressing Unseen and Overlooked Health Challenges in Women’s Health
June 18th 2024 at 9:00-10:30
This Health Talks introduces Women’s Health Hub initiative in Turku which aims to highlight the unmet needs in women’s health, foster collaboration among current stakeholders in the field and encourage new participants to join the conversation.
Innovating for Growth – Deep Tech Solutions in Healthcare
May 6th 2024 at 15:00-16:30
Join us for “Health Talks: Innovating for Growth – Deep Tech Solutions in Healthcare,” where we’ll explore applying deep tech in healthcare, focusing on startup acceleration and the synergy between technical and medical worlds. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge healthcare innovation!
Due Diligence for Medical Devices
March 26th 2024 at 10:00-11:00
During the next webinar co-hosted by OuluHealth and MDS Finland, the focus will be on quality and regulatory services as well as product development for medical device companies.
Natural Language Processing Applications in Healthcare
December 12th 2023 at 9:30-11:00
Come and listen how NLP, the technique behind ChatGPT, can change the future of healthcare. You will also learn about the NLPs implications on the education of healthcare professionals and health practice.
Mittlab – Medical Imaging Teaching and Test Lab
November 16th 2023 at 10:00-11:00
During this event you will hear about unique testing and development environments for companies and healthcare professionals, OuluHealth Labs. A special focus will be on the Mittlab, a medical imaging teaching and test laboratory.
How to Commercialise Your PhD in Life Sciences
September 28th 2023 at 9:30-11:00
In this Health Talks, we will look at the paths that PhD researchers can undertake to commercialise their idea. In this event, we will hear inspiring stories of doctoral researchers who decided to follow an unconventional path and take steps in commercialising their promising results.
Artificial Intelligence & Antibiotic Resistance
May 22nd 2023 at 16:00-17:30
Innovative companies are using new methods, with software (AI) and hardware, to collect and use this health data for developing solutions to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In this session, we will discuss how some companies are using those new methods in relation to AMR. Furthermore we will discuss the effect of AMR in general.
How to Establish Research-Business Collaborations
March 24th 2023 at 9:30-11:00
In this Health Talks event, three guest speakers will tell more about their experience with establishing collaborations between research groups and companies, to bring new solutions to society and increase the impact of scientific discoveries.
MDR Fast Track Service
January 26th 2023 at 10:00-11:00
In this Health Talks event, you will hear about an MDR Fast Track service launched by Innokas Medical. The service enables medtech companies to outsource the regulatory burden, focus on their core, and reach profitable and growing business faster than via the traditional route. You will learn how to navigate the industry’s complex regulatory environment in new ways and gain a deeper understanding of the service.
Brain Imaging for Improved Research and Therapies
December 8th 2022 at 15:00-16:20
In this Health Talks experts in brain imaging and brain therapies discuss new software, AI, and medical device technologies that may come to offer significant value for neuroscience and medical treatments worldwide.
Founder, Entrepreneur, Licensee
October 4th 2022 at 14:30-16:00
Oftentimes, scientists may believe that participating in research commercialization and entrepreneurship means giving up one’s research career. However, this does not need to be so, and we will illustrate how this stereotype often actually lacks validity and will explore the options a researcher has available.
You will hear the story of three experienced scientists who took alternative paths to commercialize their promising research results.
Planetary Health
June 15th 2022 at 10:00-11:30
The concept of planetary health is calling us to tackle the global challenges of the environment, climate and human health as one interlinked whole. The health of humanity cannot thrive in an ill environment. In this latest Health Talk, we bring together science innovators who are offering solutions for clean air, water and a resilient biodiversity, for a healthy planet and us.
Lab Testing: Facilities & Environments
February 18th 2022 at 10:00
What are the lab testing environments where today’s challenges are solved? – During this webinar, this time hosted by Kuopio Health and HiLIFE, you will learn about some of the infrastructure supporting research and will present to you the facilities that enable innovation.
5G in Healthcare
November 10th 2021 at 13:00-14:30
During the webinar, this time hosted by OuluHealth and Aalto Networking Platform, you will learn about 5G in healthcare and the opportunities it will bring. Join us online to find out more about this topic and ask our experts Matti Hämäläinen, Erkki Harjula and Visa Honkanen your questions.
Innovations from Health & Life Sciences
October 20th 2021 at 13:00
Now you’ll have a chance to exchange thoughts over a cup of coffee on how to create impact from research and network across disciplines and organizations! Stay tuned for speaker introductions!
Real-world Data as Enabler of Personalized Healthcare
June 1st 2021 at 16:00
Quality of the data is of utmost importance in order to generate relevant insights. Does Finland have quality data and how can it be used? How can anonymized data be used? Come and hear on 1st of June at Health Talks.
Health Technology Assessment
May 5th 2021 at 10:00
In this May Health Talk we talked about health technology assessment (HTA) and the new standard for health and wellness apps.
Business Finland Services
April 13th 2021 at 10:00
This Health Talk covered what Business Finland can offer organizations and gathered experts for a virtual Q&A. Business Finland is the Finnish innovation funding, trade, investment and travel promotion organization. It is fully owned by the Finnish Government and employs 600 experts of 40 offices globally and in 20 regional offices around Finland.
How to Raise Funding?
March 26th 2021 at 10:00-11:00
This webinar provided insights from three different startups on how they have successfully raised funding. The event was organised as a roundtable discussion between three founders: Visa Sippola from Surgify, Harri Sihto from Sartar Therapeutics and Virpi Muhonen from Askel Healthcare. The roundtable discussion was moderated by Otto Olavinen – the CEO of Northbay and the main organiser of Health Design.
MDR: Developing and placing a medical device on the market
March 5th 2021 at 10:00
The upcoming Health Talks will tell you what you need to know about the Medical Device Regulation when developing and placing a medical device on the market. Our top experts Rosa Tengvall from Kasve Oy and Tuukka Eloranta from Medikro Oy will shed a light on the most important changes regarding both medical devices and medical device softwares.
Cyber security for Health Startups
February 3rd 2021 at 16:00
The first Health Talks event of the year 2021 intends to present to health startups an overview of cybersecurity risks they need to be aware of. Experts from leading cybersecurity firms in the connected health industry will explore the various cyber risks that exist for early stage companies, their software and connected devices. Speakers: Cybersecurity expert Dr. Saif Abed and Shriekanth Iyer from Irdeto.
Artificial Intelligence and Health: Pros, Cons, Impacts?
December 3rd 2020 at 10:00-11:00
Artificial intelligence-based applications can bring a number of benefits to the health sector: speed up clinical decision-making, lighten staff workloads, and bring efficiency and accuracy to diagnosis. But what ethical issues do we run into when a machine replaces a human? And how can we measure the effectiveness of AI-based applications and their benefits? These questions was tacked in this Health Talk with guest speakers: Antti Väänänen (CEO at Vireum), Janne Parkkila (CEO at Orkestr.io Oy) and Erkki Soini (CEO at ESiOR Oy).
Safe Design in Health Technology
October 29th 2020 at 13:00-14:00
This Health Talk is focused on minimizing risks associated with potential use-errors. Although regulatory requirements and guidance have been enhanced to minimize design induced errors, they are still too general to provide any real assistance on risk management, verification design, models or practices. These problems will be discussed during this Health Talk with Satu Peltonen from InXso.
Shareholder agreements
January 18th 2020
The first Health Talk of 2020 tackled the topic of Shareholder Agreements for health tech and life science startups. To introduce different viewpoints to the topic a selection of experts was gathered: Maria Storey and Juuso Turtiainen form Lexia attorneys shared insights about the importance of a good Shareholders Agreement and the most common pitfalls that startups step into. Kari Sinivuori from Uute Scientific covered the startups point of view on the matter, and Jussi Sainiemi from Voima Ventures shed light from the investors perspective.
Sustainable and Smart Health
December 9th 2019
With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands we gathered interested people to learn about advanced technologies with improved environmental performance and sustainability in healthcare. The Netherlands have taken huge steps towards smarter healthcare solutions as well as the Nordics. Speakers for this Health Talk included Robert Metzke from Philips and two Finnish health startups – Resistomap and Megical.
International Regulations
November 18th 2019
The restricting factors in the marketing process are the ever so complex regulations monitoring healthtech markets. In this November Health Talk, experts from Lean Entries, Clinipower, Clinius, GE, Kasve and Planmed shared their know-how on getting Finnish healthtech products into the markets both in and out of Europe. The topics were processed in a panel discussion and the participants got to ask questions during the talks.
Healthy Food Innovations
October 24th 2019
The Health Talk of October dived into the growing field of foodtech & health. Speakers were Saarikko form Founder Institute Finland, Mika Kukkurainen from Nordic FoodTech VC as well as Miikka Kiiski and Kyösti Pennanen from crEATe – an innovation ecosystem orchestrated by VTT, Fazer and IBM. In addition to interesting presentations from three different experts, we spared some time for networking.