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Wednesday 15 May

09:30 - 10:30

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

CEO #nofilter

Plenary

Global leaders from the field of medical devices, diagnostics and digital health will sit together and speak openly about the latest trends, challenges and opportunities they're facing. The audience will have the opportunity to ask direct questions that will be answered with #nofilter.

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10:40 - 11:30

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Life with diabetes and digital health: about connections, data and control

Digital Keynote

Digital health solutions and the sharing of health data promise to empower patients with information and to support them in managing their health. To address concerns about possible abuse of data, the GDPR gives citizens and patients effective control over their data. Yet, both promises, of empowerment and control, have not yet fully materialised. Individual data relevant for health remains locked in silos: the smartphone apps linked to connected medical and health devices, and the proprietary platforms and clouds where they are stored. As long as this fragmented digital ecosystem persists, it will remain difficult for patients, health professionals and researchers to aggregate it, combine it with other sources, and derive meaning. Claus, a technophile and fan of connected devices, will report from the reality of living with diabetes juggling multiple devices, and from his project to develop a truly patient-centred data platform where control of data is given back to where it belongs: the individual

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Louis Armand East

Make it your trade deal

Business developments

In the last few years the EU has been quietly but effectively negotiating a network of bilateral trade agreements around the world. As more of these trade agreements are being ratified and become a reality they create opportunities for MedTech around the globe - from Canada (CETA) to Japan, Mercosur and China - see how companies small and large can benefit from trade agreements to access markets, protect their overseas investments and their intellectual property. Trade agreements are a powerful but underutilized mechanism which can help build global partnerships can be a decisive factor from companies, especially SMEs to grow and shape their business

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Louis Armand West

Will the future EU HTA cooperation respond to countries' needs and impact access to medical technologies?

Access

HTA and HTA cooperation in Europe is at a crossroads: the current cooperation based on projects is coming to an end and a new EU Regulation on HTA is in the making. This session will look at whether HTA cooperation is turning into reality and if it addresses common countries’ needs and how it impacts access to medical technologies. The European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation aims to introduce EU Joint Clinical Assessments (JCA) for selected medical technologies with a mandatory uptake by Member States - the remaining part of the HTA (such as cost and economic evaluation) to be done at national level. It also foresees the possibility for voluntary cooperation on clinical assessment of any medical technologies and non-clinical assessments on any technology. The European Parliament has already expressed its position, suggesting i.e. to add the possibility for Member States to carry out additional assessments on the added clinical value. Member States are now expressing their expectations and views and are negotiating a common text.
In that context, some Member States have already expressed their vision and doubts, in particular on the mandatory use of the EU reports, on the inclusion of medical technologies in the scope or when this inclusion should start bearing in mind that the MDR/ IVDR are not yet fully implemented.

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11:00 - 11:30

Auditorium

Keynote: view from the regulators

GMTCC

This keynote will be discussing the regulators views on the following aspects: what is working and what doesn’t with the current anti-bribery & corruption efforts; how can industry help and what are the key points for the industry to be aware of. In addition, considering that the industry is composed of more than 80% of SMEs, are there specific considerations for these companies?

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11:30 - 11:50

Auditorium

Plenary session

GMTCC

The two chairwomen will discuss the AdvaMed and MedTech Europe compliance priorities as well as how these relate to the topics tackled in the MedTech Forum

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11:30 - 12:00

MedTech Forum coffee break and networking


11:50 - 13:00

Auditorium

Transparency: What's next for industry?

GMTCC

With the spreading transparency laws around the world, is there a need to start discussing global transparency? How can the debate move from Sunshine laws to publishing with a purpose? To help to debate this topic, it is also interesting to learn from the pharmaceutical industry what they would do better in insight; how did the public react to their disclosure; what were the main questions, and whether there are discussions to also tackle transparency at international level. The practical and operational challenges of national and international rules should also be discussed in this debate.

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12:00 - 12:50

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Notified Bodies: A key pillar of the new EU regulatory system

Access

In May 2017, the new EU medical technology Regulations for medical devices and for in vitro diagnostics entered into force. Industry welcomes the Regulations' objectives: a modernised framework, transparency and in particular a strengthened Notified Body system. However, as fewer and fewer Notified Bodies have to manage more and more extensive work, under extreme time pressure, manufacturers' ability to keep products on the market beyond the 26 May 2020 and 26 May 2022 deadlines could be seriously jeopardized.
This session "Notified Bodies: A key pillar of the new EU regulatory system" provides insight into the key challenges Notified Bodies and industry are experiencing as the 26 May 2020 / 2022 deadlines of the new Regulations approach. The multi-stakeholder panel will explore solutions which might be put in place to address these challenges.

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Louis Armand East

Real-world AI applications in patient care and MedTech decision making

Business developments

IQVIA IQVIA

What is the expected impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Actual and future AI applications are changing patient treatment and healthcare delivery. In this session a panel of industry experts will review notable industry activity in this area along with how they navigate key challenges and uncertainties. Using real-world examples and providing both a customer and industry perspective, they will discuss how to use data and algorithms to improve patient outcomes as well as R&D and commercial success, while addressing uncertainties pertaining to the regulatory/payor environment, and data management (access, privacy, "clean" data).

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Louis Armand West

The digital transformation of healthcare: managing the change

Digital

GensearchSponsored by Gensearch

The digitalization of the healthcare sector comes with immense opportunities. Access to information empowers citizens and patients. Healthcare professionals benefit from timely information and decision support systems. Medical knowledge and public health improve with advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence.
But digitalization will disrupt the way healthcare is delivered. All stakeholders are acquiring new roles and responsibilities. Buyers come with new expectations from the industry, while the market is seeing new entrants (app developers, consumer device makers). This disruption needs to be managed. Change managers will be reflecting on the challenges and opportunities

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12:50 - 13:40

Room 1

The HealthTech Translation Advisory Board

Meet the HealthTechTAB (www.healthtechtab.eu), the first European translational accelerator to provide free close access to HealthTech industry experts to accelerate HealthTech development and provide the HealthTech community, both from industry and academia, with the right tools to bring their innovations to patients. Join the TAB experts and fellow HealthTech innovators for lunch in this "Ask the experts" session designed to create the opportunity for you to interact with industry experts who have successfully brought innovations from bench to bedside and share your struggles and questions about the next step towards translation

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13:20 - 14:10

Louis Armand East

Monetizing innovation in MedTech - Capturing the full offer value in a new era

Sponsored session

Simon KucherSponsored by Simon Kucher

Product innovation has long been the engine for profitable growth in the medical technology industry. However, with constrained healthcare budgets, HTAs and procurement professionalization, capturing reasonable returns on R&D and L&A investments is becoming an increasing challenge. Successful medical technology companies make market access a top strategic priority in guiding portfolio, clinical development and launch decisions. They furthermore explore new business models in the context of better addressing customers' clinical and budgetary challenges as well as monetizing the value of customer services and digital solutions.

Join Simon-Kucher & Partners where our experts along with an external industry speaker will present insights and practical food for thought on:
- Why finding new ways to monetize innovation is key for the industry
- How to successfully manage market access for product innovations
- How to optimally monetize digital opportunities
- How to best capture the value of customer services
- How to develop and deploy winning customer solutions

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Louis Armand West

Blueprinting agile transformations - Value at stake and practical applications of enterprise agility in MedTech

Sponsored session

McKinseySponsored by McKinsey

Historically, big beat small. Now, fast and adaptive beats slow and steadfast. New technologies, evolving customer preferences and changing employee expectations are fundamentally challenging established ways of working in more and more sectors. Agile organizations combine the efficiencies of scale with the speed, flexibility and resilience to compete and win in today's world.
During this session, Shail will talk through the cutting-edge use cases of Enterprise Agility in Healthcare and Medical Devices, and what successful companies do to take their organizations beyond the pilot.

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Auditorium

HCP Engagement Best Practices in the age of increasing globalization, regulation and data privacy

Sponsored session

IQVIASponsored by IQVIA

Across the globe, regulations regarding HCP engagement are growing in number and in complexity. Life sciences companies are challenged not only by staying up to date, but by making the process more efficient. Leading companies are leveraging technology to streamline processes, reduce costs, increase efficiencies across the organization, and to garner new insights from data to help them make better decisions.
IQVIA Commercial Compliance’s Ben Carmel and Chris van Bronckhorst will explore current challenges, emerging trends and best practices that life sciences companies are employing to stay ahead of the compliance game.

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14:15 - 15:30

Louis Armand East

The digital transformation & compliance: Roundtable discussion with Chief Privacy Officers

GMTCC

This session aims at discussing issues arising from the new digital age and the changing business models, such as:
- What are the new risks coming for the new digital age;
- Should the compliance office become digital?
- How to ensure data stewardship, in order to deliver new products? What type of governance set up should companies think about?
- What are the privacy/data protection/GDPR considerations to keep in mind?
- Is there a role for compliance when we talk about Artificial Intelligence?
- How could open data and new technologies help to fight corruption and anti-bribery?

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Louis Armand West

Distributors session

GMTCCThe Red Flag GroupSponsored by GMTCC and The Red Flag Group

This session aims at addressing aspects such as:
- How do companies manage distributors and agents with practical implementation of the new regional codes, as well as policing of these same codes?
- Best practices in third party screening as well as engagement of new business partners
Sub-distributors/agents - what level of due diligence is being applied by companies

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Room 1

Workshop: In vivo analysis of the MedTech Europe Code

GMTCC

Important notice: Registration to the workshop is mandatory and is only possible if both business and compliance representatives register at the same time. Registration is only open to participants duly registered to the GMTCC / MTF 2019. Thus registration will be confirmed by GMTCC Secretariat. A first-come, first-served basis policy will apply.

Description: This workshop is open to a maximum of 12 companies. Each company will have two representatives: one EMEA/European business leader and one EMEA/European  compliance officer. The group will discuss how this ambitious project has been working out, what areas need improvements or adjustments and the practical challenges encountered over the last years (e.g. speaker support, medical societies, company organized events, travel agencies, Poster presenter, CVS assessment of international events, national implementation) with regards to the MedTech Europe Code. The workshop will be moderated by chair persons of the Ethics & Compliance Committee (ECC) and Code Committee to make sure that key take aways are integrated in the future work on the Code.

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14:20 - 15:20

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Value: driver of change in healthcare

Plenary

Over the past years, Value Based Health Care has been proposed as the way forward to reform health care systems. This new concept comes with opportunities but also brings challenges regarding its implementation. In this session, key healthcare stakeholders will provide their perspectives on the reality of implementing Value driven health systems in Europe. Hear from international organisations such as OECD, National Authorities, health system representatives, providers and the industry.
The session will dive into the concept of value, initiatives from International organizations in the field of reforming healthcare with a focus on patient relevant outcomes (PaRIS), considerations by health systems under reform pressure and providers seeking for investment. MedTech Europe will share its view on how it can effectively contribute to the opportunities that a value driven healthcare environment can bring to all stakeholders

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15:30 - 16:20

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

MedTech and Value: will value-based procurement become a reality?

Value

Value is almost an omni-present term when people speak of healthcare transformation, but “what does it mean and how is it applicable to MedTech Europe and our partners” are questions we will address in this session.  We will start by setting the context with an overview of how MedTech Europe is anchoring value in its access model, aiming to translate value-driven decision-making into daily practice.  We will give special emphasis to the evolution of value-based procurement, highlighting progress as well as challenges, in our journey since launching the MEAT Value-Based Procurement framework in 2015.  Results and learnings from a recent survey on value-based procurement will be shared for the first time, including perspectives from both industry and procurers.  The session will conclude with highlights from the procurer’s mindset, including views on incorporating value-based decision-making into the reality of day-to-day tendering.

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Louis Armand East

Genomic testing and personalised medicine

Business developments

SIDIVSponsored by SIDIV

Personalised medicine has become a key subject in the vision of many on the future of healthcare. But what is it that we are talking exactly? What kind of an answer is personalized medicine to the current challenges of providing better and safer affordable healthcare? IVDs are a major key to the development of personalized medicine as is the monitoring and communication capacities of and increasing number of devices. Companion diagnostics is a very interesting entrance into personalized medicine and what about Genomic testing? During the discussion a few expert will attempt to respond to such important questions

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Louis Armand West

MDR - Is the system ready for business?

Access

Only 12 months remain before the Medical Devices Regulation enters into application. How should you be spending the last remaining 12 months left of the transition period in order to best position your business? What can you do, and how can you manage business uncertainties as the regulatory system is still being built? Hear the perspectives of this multi-stakeholder panel, consisting of representatives from the national competent authorities, the European Commission, hospitals and industry

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Room 3

Medtech Opportunities in the Paris Region - Let's meet the local players

This session will allow you to get a 360 degree overview of the key trends and figures in the Paris Region in the field of healthtech. Learn more about the latest initiatives that can act as true business and collaboration opportunities with our innovative stakeholders.
You will also get the chance to hear several pitches from innovative medtech start-ups seeking international exposure and outreach, and other keys actors as MICROSOFT, cutting edge public research Institutions and SNITEM, the leading professional organisation to represent the greater part of the medical device and the Healthcare Information and Communication Technology (Healthcare ICT) industries.
This session is coordinated by Medicen Paris Region, a leading European health cluster federating 400+ members from research to industry and dedicated to accelerate innovation.

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Paris Region Entreprises - Presentation of the Paris Region Life Science & Health ecosystem

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Medicen Paris Region - Presentation of key initiatives accelerating health innovation

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Cutting edge Public Research Institutions to be presented

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SMEs

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MICROSOFT

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SNITEM

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16:00 - 18:15

Loft

Ask the experts session

GMTCC

This session will be set up in roundtable discussions. The time allocated will allow them to get to the heart of key issues. Attendance is limited to 12 persons per table. After 40 minutes, the participants are invited to switch tables. Each table lead will prepare in advance a one-pager with key topics/trends that they plan to address. After the discussions, key discussion points/outcome will be added to this one-pager and circulated to all participants

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Best practices in investigations

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Data Protection & GDPR: one year on

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MTE Code

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Conference Vetting System

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Transparency in the Middle East

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Applying the MTE Code in France

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AdvaMed new Code & key take aways for the future

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Placement of equipment

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European class action/collective redress

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The future of independent medical education

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Qualies: A Compliance System Maturity Evaluation Program developed in Brazil

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Distributors

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COCIR Code of Conduct

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Challenges to medtech companies in ‘New Era’ China

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16:10 - 16:40

MedTech Forum coffee breaks and networking


16:40 - 17:30

Louis Armand East

Value driven financing of innovation - A new era of dialogue between Payers and industry ?

Value

While health systems are looking for new opportunities to transform and are considering value driven approaches, the following key challenges have been identified:
- Few health systems reward value
- Siloed budget approach does not optimize value throughout the patient pathways and
- Payment decision based on value is a new concept.
While there are multiple schemes there is a clear need for a good taxonomy, good practice principle and learnings. Some latest developments within Europe and other jurisdictions will be discussed

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Louis Armand West

New business models for digital health: a look at value

Digital

ZSSponsored by ZS

In today's landscape, market access for digital technologies is often hampered by the lack of adequate financing methods. The most common reimbursement models in Europe usually finance health providers delivering services and procedures. But the emergence of digital technologies that improve outcomes, ease of access and quality of life outside the normal healthcare setting pose a challenge to these reimbursement models. Innovative Medtech companies continue to develop and bring new digital health technologies to market, by partnering in new ways with payers or by finding new revenue streams. This session will offer reflections and case studies of successful business models for digital health, in Europe and beyond

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Auditorium

Regulatory compliance, enforcement and litigation

CovingtonSponsored by Covington

This session aims at discussing the interconnection of applicable legal and regulatory requirements for MedTech companies from an international perspective. The discussion will address U.S. legal requirements, including FDA regulation and fraud/abuse issues, and comparable EU issues, such as compliance with IVDR/MDR and anti-bribery issues. The session will discuss the interrelationship these legal and regulatory requirements and enforcement trends.

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17:40 - 18:30

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Global Trends and Regulatory Changes impacting Medtech sector in US and Asia

Plenary

Sharing perspective on key trends shaping Medtech development in key growth regions US and Asia (ie. China). This will include changes and evolution in customer, technology, patient care and regulatory requirements in these markets and how Medtech companies are coping and innovating in response.

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Thursday 16 May

09:00 - 10:00

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

CEO #nofilter

Plenary

Global leaders from the field of medical devices, diagnostics and digital health will sit together and speak openly about the latest trends, challenges and opportunities they're facing. The audience will have the opportunity to ask direct questions that will be answered with #nofilter

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10:05 - 11:10

Auditorium

MedTech as solution providers: Compliance challenges

GMTCC

The industry has been discussing the concept of value in healthcare systems as well as what it means in terms of new commercial models for a few years, but the legal and compliance challenges that these bring along a numerous and vary depending on which part of the world you are looking at. This session aims atdiscussing the significant organisations, legal and compliance challenges in the transition from a product-driven industry to one focused on services. To help that discussion, the panel will be looking at some hypotheticals.

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10:10 - 11:00

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Creating a 3D Printing Ecosystem to Transform Health for Humanity

Business developments

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson

3D printing technology has the potential to radically change patient care, enabling customized solutions delivered at or near the hospital. The development of an entirely new business model at point of care incorporating personalized solutions and services provides real-time, on-demand connectivity at key patient touch points. Leaders from Johnson & Johnson, Wrightington Hospital and 3D Systems will discuss how an ecosystem of 3D surgical modeling and on-demand solutions may improve outcomes, enable personalized care and shorten surgical time.

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Louis Armand East

IVDR: Hungry for data

Access

As we enter 'year 3' of the IVD Regulation's transition period, most manufacturers will have assessed the safety and performance data they have for their products. The next major step is to plan and launch studies that might be needed to fill any remaining evidence gaps. How are the studies going, how will they affect the industry? How can we leverage big data? Is industry using third parties to gather data or conducting studies in-house? Attend this session to learn more about the different business models out there, so that you can benchmark your own investment decisions

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Louis Armand West

Advancing digital health in Europe's regions: vision, leadership, investment

Digital

Digital health deployments require that people and institutions work together: citizens and patients trust the system with their personal data; healthcare providers embrace the contribution of digital systems, and industry delivers the technologies.
But this works only when healthcare authorities set the technical, legal and financial frameworks for the exchange of data.
Careful observers in Europe know that small regions and countries are much better at delivering this framework than bigger ones, while industry often dismisses them as too small for scale. But it pays to pay attention to small regions and countries, if only because they are the laboratories of change

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11:30 - 12:20

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

A 1,5€ Billion research and innovation EU funding opportunity! Are you willing to take advantage of it and how to do so? The new EU Horizon Europe 7 years programme to support HealthTech development projects from research to market

Business developments

The European Commission wants to partner with our industry and is committed to fund the Medical Technology Industry from Research to Innovation development all the way to ease access and to explore new healthcare models. The EU "Horizon Europe" 2021-2027 programme is anticipating to invest billions of euros especially to support a new Private Public Partnership on Health Technologies which MedTech Europe and a few other partners are engaged to set up with them.
What does this really mean for your company? What health trends will the PPP focus on? Who can really benefit from such support? How to leverage such opportunities for our industry and your organisations? What engagement will need to be committed to?
All these questions and many more will find answers from a panel of "experts" and will be illustrated through real case examples.


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Louis Armand East

Is diagnostic information of value in health care practice ?

Value

Health systems around the world seek to address patients' unmet health needs and governments strive to keep healthcare spending sustainable, while providing equal access to care. This has fuelled debate around what constitutes a valuable healthcare intervention in a health system. Until recently, the value of information and especially the value of information by IVD was not explicitly included as part of this discussion. However, investment in diagnostic information is key to improve clinical decision making.
The value of diagnostic information "VODI" concept was recently published and European organisations from different chronic and acute disease areas will debate the concept and its relevance within the management of their disease. VODI is a holistic framework within Value Driven Health Systems

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Loft

MedTech Forum Ask the experts

Ask the experts

Topic will be determined shortly

Liability of economic operators under the MDR and IVDR: navigating the EU Member States requirements

The continuum of care - a new MedTech-driven concept for healthcare. How key enabling technologies help MedTech to manage future data-dominated healthcare?

Reimbursment in France

Practical blockchain in healthcare

Digital Therapeutics

Digital Health Interoperability

Turning Sensitive Data into Competitive Advantage in the Medical Device Market

Australia: an update on MedTech regulatory policy

Antimicrobial Resistance

 

11:30 - 12:50

Louis Armand West

What role for industry in supporting medical education?

GMTCC

This session aims at discussing industry’s role in supporting continuing medical education. What type of measures and programmes can be put in place to safeguard the provision of high quality, balanced medical education? What level of industry involvement is appropriate in order to allow essential interaction between the medical profession and the medical technology industry?

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Auditorium

Compliance effectiveness & Risk management

GMTCC

This session aims at discussing:
- How to harness data inside of the organisation in order to support the compliance function?
- How to leverage the activities of other business parts within the same organisation?
Best practice exchange on how to measure effectiveness of key elements of compliance programs and initiatives with the data and analytics

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Room 1

Best practice exchange when providing educational grants: 1,5 years after the phase out of direct sponsorship

Navigant Navigant

This session is aimed at allowing companies to exchange of best practices in providing Educational Grants in Europe, following the ban of direct sponsorship at the beginning of 2018. How is this being managed within the different companies? How are companies monitoring compliance?

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12:20 - 13:10

Room 2

Hands-on translation | HealthTechTAB Q&A Session

Pitch your HealthTech innovation to the TAB experts and receive live assessment and feedback and discuss possible avenues for translation.

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13:00 - 13:50

Louis Armand East

Milkman 3.0 - Digitizing the MedTech Commercial Model

Sponsored session

Boston Consulting GroupSponsored by Boston Consulting Group

BCG will provide "hot off the press" insights from their ongoing global medtech commercial benchmarking study (Milkman 3.0) on how to accelerate sales growth and improve go-to-market efficiency by leveraging the power of AI and analytics. During this interactive session, Goetz and Basir will walk you through specific use cases on next generation sales, digital marketing and dynamic pricing to illustrate the business potential for medtech and how to realize it in an agile way

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Louis Armand West

Innovative Payment Schemes: an alternative funding for medtech?

Sponsored session

Value Connected Value Connected

Most reimbursement and funding mechanisms in Europe prioritize evidence levels as a decision-factor. This is a challenge for many companies with medical technologies that can generate value to healthcare systems, but did not have sufficient time to collect the demanded clinical and economic outcomes. What mechanisms exist in Europe that can create pathways for such medical technologies, at the same time considering their uncertainty of outcomes? And how can the medtech industry explore them?

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Auditorium

How regulation can help to realize your strategic bold plays

Sponsored session

Deloitte Deloitte

Yes, we did say help not hinder. Bold strategic moves are made or broken by their implementation. Across the medtech industry, groups are spending huge amounts of time, effort and cash implementing bold strategies and they are doing the same meeting new regulatory requirements. The two can feel like they are divergent.
In this session, we explore the ways that these bold strategies and regulatory goals can align across talent, digital transformation and growth, helping deliver wins across both and saving time, energy and cost.

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13:50 - 14:40

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Brexit is real

Access

A few weeks prior to The MedTech Forum 2019, the deadline for the UK leaving the EU will have passed. Whether an agreement has been reached and a transition period is in place, or the UK leaves the EU without an agreement in a hard Brexit scenario, Brexit will be real. After years of speculation this session will inform on the realities that the Medtech Industry has to face when dealing with Brexit. As we know more we will let you know!

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Louis Armand East

New Horizons in Value Driven Procurement, will the EU accelerate change ?

Value

With the new EU public procurement directive now transposed in all the Member States and given the interest at EU level to drive innovation, this session will look at the European Commission's initiatives in the field of value-based procurement for healthcare and at how these might foster a change in practice in Most Economic Advantageous Tendering and Procurement of Innovative Solutions.
Several new EU initiatives and the development of Coordination and Support Actions funded by the EU will be highlighted. A specific focus will be put on the deliverables and the learning from a project conducted by a consortium of leading procurement organizations in Europe coordinated by MedTech Europe. In this project, the organizations are teaming up around a novel approach of value-based procurement of innovative solutions in the field of rapid diagnostics and integrated care. Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear and debate about the drive towards value-based cross border procurement and about the tangible impact of all these initiatives in procurement practices

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Louis Armand West

Cybersecurity and healthcare: blockchain and other answers

Digital

Ensuring medical devices are safeguarded from cybersecurity risks is a shared responsibility across the medical device ecosystem. The EU has recently strengthened its cybersecurity framework, but the rules for connected medical devices and their links to health IT systems will remain set by national regulators. While their approaches and choices will reflect local conditions and preferences, they also need to coordinate to avoid market fragmentation and costs. Blockchain technology has recently emerged as a possible technology solution to address cybersecurity, privacy, and patient control. But does it work for European healthcare systems and the medtech industry?

This session will convene a senior EU official to outline the European agenda for cybersecurity; a blockchain entrepreneur who knows the healthcare system in Estonia (by some considered the most digitally advanced in Europe); and a Ministry official and cybersecurity policy expert from an advanced Member State.

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14:00 - 14:30

Auditorium

Plenary session: Closing remarks & discussion

GMTCC

This closing discussion aims at reviewing the key take-aways from the last two days; how the integration of GMTCC into the MedTech Forum worked? What are the key challenges for the year ahead

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14:50 - 15:40

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Creative Thinking in a Digital World

Plenary

In June 2008, Chris Anderson, then editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, published an article titled “The End of Theory. The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete.” This revolutionary notion raised some philosophers’ awareness. Could we really work without concepts and without theories? Is Plato and Aristotle’s legacy suddenly threatened? The answer is complicated and this presentation will enable participants to see how, since the Internet appeared, the nature of the creativity challenge has changed. If “thinking outside the box” remains essential for new ideas, imagining “new digital boxes” becomes even more important.

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15:40 - 16:00

Gaston Berger Amphitheatre

Conclusions

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