Healthcare Week Luxembourg : Keynote speaker confirmed, Award finalists selected

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Healthcare Week Luxembourg is back for a second edition on 1 and 2 October 2024 at Luxexpo The Box. Bogi Eliasen, Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for the opening session. In addition, the finalists in the various categories of the Healthcare Week Awards, a highlight of the show, have been selected and invited to present their pitches.

Bogi Eliasen, Director of Health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, has been added as a keynote speaker joining the list of experts speaking at the Healthcare Week Luxembourg. His speech at the opening session (Session 1) of the conference will introduce the theme of this second edition of Healthcare Week: ‘Tomorrow's Health: Placing Value Creation at the Heart of the System’.

Another confirmed participant is Christof von Kalle, a physician-scientist in clinical research, stem-cell research, mutation analysis, and gene transfer who heading the Clinical Study Center of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité. He will introduce Session 2 with a presentation entitled ‘Moving the healthcare system towards personalised medicine’.

The two conference days will also showcase the presentation of the HWL Awards 2024, rewarding four winners in four categories: Medical Research Awards, Innovation in Hospital Management Awards, Start-up Awards - Greater Region, and Start-up Awards - Luxembourg. Selected by a panel of experts, the finalists are invited to pitch their projects to an expert panel on the first day of the conference, on October 1st. The winners will be announced, and the prizes awarded on the same day. The slots reserved for the finalists are:

  • Innovation in Hospital Management Awards: October 1st, 12.30
  • Medical Research Awards: October 1st, 16.00.

Visit https://www.hwl.lu/hwl/ for more information.