Program

Day 1 - December 8

11:15 - 16:15

Utrecht, Heart of Health

Site visit to Utrecht Science Park & Utrecht City Center

Meeting point: Bollendak – Utrecht Centraal

14:00 - 17:00

PUNT, 6th Floor

Partnering

16:30 - 17:00

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

Fireside chat: Leading with purpose: Building the next generation of Healthcare Innovators

Speakers:

Catharine Smith (The Termeer Institute)
Ken Itrato (Crowell & Moring)

17:00 - 17:45

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

Panel: Impact Investing in Healthcare

Speakers:

Irene Verheijen (Flying Turtle Ventures)
Jan Kimpen (Sanara Capital)
Steven Serneels (Impact Finance Belgium)
Catharine Smith (The Termeer Institute)
Jurriaan van Rijswijk (Games for Health)
Patrick Fransen (Studio H)

Moderated by: Bart Vandeweyer (PwC)

18:00 - 19:00

Investors Welcome Reception
[invitation only]

18:00 - 19:30

Welcome Reception

Location: Oud Stadhuis, Korte Minrebroederstraat 2 (side-entrance)

19:00 - 22:00

Investors Dinner [invitation only]

19:00 - 21:00

Utrecht Walking Tour

Visit Utrecht at night by joining the Utrecht Lumen Walking Tour! (SOLD OUT – Limited Space Available, First Come First Served)

19:00 - 22:00

Investors dinner (invitation only)

19:00 - 21:00

Guided visit

20:00 - 22:00

Guided visit of Bruges: Side streets, great stories about great ladies (very limited space available, registered attendees will receive a meeting point)

19:00 - 22:00

Group Christmas Market Visit

Day 2 - December 9

07:30 - 08:45

Nobocap Breakfast [Invitation Only]

Impact of MDR/IVDR on investment risks for European medtech companies

08:00 - 09:40

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

09:00 - 09:30

Welcome Coffee

Opening Plenary

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome Speech

By Ann Van Gysel (Biovia) and Deputy Mayor Susanne Schilderman (Gemeente Utrecht)

9:45 - 10:15

Fireside Chat: Why We Innovate: a Patient’s Story of Transformation

Sara Leander-Pehrson (Heka VR) and Vibeke Andersen (Former Patient)

10:15 - 11:15

Panel: Exploring Corporate Venture Capital M&A

Speakers:

Janke Dittmer (Gilde Healthcare)
Laurent van Lerberghe (KELES)
Jutta Klauer (MSD Idea Studio Europe)
Erik Janssen (UCB Digital Care Transformation)

Moderated by David Dessers (Cresco)

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

09:40 - 11:45

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

Plenary program

Auditorium B

9:40 - 9:45

Welcome Speech

9:45 - 10:15

Keynote

10:15 - 11:15

Panel: Exploring Corporate Venture Capital M&A

11:15 - 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 - 13:00

Reverse Investor Pitches

Investor pitches

PRE-SEED

Pandora, 7th Floor

Pitches:

M2care
Catalpa Ventures
Studio H
NLC Health
SLS Angels
HTGF
Innovation Quarter
Imec.istart
AtVentures
Future Tech Ventures

Investor pitches

START-UP

Club 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

Brightlands Venture Partners
PMV
Capricorn
Healthy.Capital
Thuja Capital
Imec
Heran Partners
UCB
Nextgen Ventures
MSD
Studio H
1004 Venture Partners

Investor pitches

SCALE-UP

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Pitches:

Gilde Healthcare
Armilar
KELES
FPIM
PMV
Noaber
LIOF
Turenne
Holland Capital
Heran Partners
MSD
EIC
Invest International

13:00 - 14:30

Networking Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

14:30 - 15:45

Pitching Session #1

Pre-seed pitches

Superior Surgery Solutions

Pandora, 7th Floor

Pitches:

Fluent Robotics
TARC
Twente Medical Optics
Replico
Aortex
Cardiovascular Engineering
Mynutia

Start-up pitches

Better and safer processes (for patients)

Club 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

Medical Pilot
Vivalyx
Spatium Medical
Cgenetix
Robosan
Ansana
Axithra

Start-up pitches

Cancer detection and solutions

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

Levels Diagnotics
Board4Care
PreComb
Soundsafe Care
DoMore Diagnostics
Refined Diagnostics
Raidium

Scale-up pitches

Better heart-surgery solutions

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Pitches:

Surgical Reality
Neurescue
AMT Medical
Predisurge
Nano4Imaging

14:30 - 15:45

European opportunities for SMEs

The Pit, 8th Floor

EIC 2026 Work programme presentation

Speaker: Ekke Van Vliet (EIC)

Unlocking Health-AI Market Access: TEF-Health’s Testing & Experimentation Approach

Speakers:

Anne-Laure Cadji (TEF-Health, Multitel)
Saurabh Jain (Multitel)

15:45 - 16:45

Educational Sessions

3rd floor

Expanding to Asia

Pandora, 7th Floor

Speakers:

Fernando de la Cal González (Invest Hong Kong)
Henk Joos (Biovia)
Yu Chen (Health Campus Limburg)

Negotiation Skills for Female Entrepreneurs

Club 9, 9th Floor

Speaker: Mira Vasic (Intouch Academy)

The Governance Equation: Balancing Investor Intent, Board Oversight, and Executive Action

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Speaker: Mercedes Tuin (Heran Partners)

Women's health, from Trend to Necessity: What It Takes to Make Real Progress

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Speakers:

Julien Penders (Bloomlife)
An Van den Bulcke (4Tissue)
Ann Broché (Uma Health)

Moderator: Rita Prota (Biovia)

15:45 - 16:45

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

16:45 - 18:00

Educational Sessions

3rd floor

Benelux Healthtech Investor Landscape

Pandora, 7th Floor

Speakers:

Ivan Burkov (Inkef)
Adinda Woelderink (ROM Utrecht)
Christian Goergen (Catalpa Health Fund)
Filip Pintelon (Capricorn)
Katleen Vandersmissen (Heran Partners)
Paul Van Ooik (Nextgen Ventures)

Moderated by Lars Ottevanger (F Institute)

How to Build a Successful European Healthtech Innovation Hub

Club 9, 9th Floor

Speakers:

Breanndán Casey (Connected Health and Wellbeing Cluster)
Malin Bornschein (Medeon Science Park)
Rob Van Overbeek (Kadans)
Jacques van Dinteren (IADP)

Moderated by Mieke de Bruin (Utrecht Science Park Foundation)

Innomed Catalyst: Building Cross-Border Investment Portfolios in Digital Precision Personalized Medicine

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Speaker: Alina Capitanu (North-East RDA)

Moderator: María Cejas (Biocat)

InnoMed Catalyst Consortium.

Investing with a Diversity Lens: Why Inclusive HealthTech Outperforms

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Speakers:

Tessa de Flines (AtVenture Platform)
Laurie Lancee (AtVenture Platform)

16:45 - 18:00

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

15:45 - 16:45

Coffee break

16:45 - 18:00

Networking, partnering, exhibition visit

16:45 - 18:00

Networking session for clusters!

4th floor

16:45 - 18:00

Educational sessions

Room 10

The Wild Wild West: HealthTech in the US (Part 2)

Shannon Lentz (Crowell & Moring), Claire Verschelde (ICOSA), Anne DeGheest (Medstars)

16:45 - 18:00

Educational sessions

Room 1

Caring Technology Principles: framework for responsible health technology innovation

Isabelle Francois (MEDVIA), Rik Van den Hende (BAN Flanders), Sofie Bekaert (KBF)

19:00

Walking dinner

Museum Speelklok (Steenweg 6 3511 JP Utrecht)

19:00

Walking dinner

Museum Speelklok (Steenweg 6 3511 JP Utrecht)

Day 3 - December 10

08:00 - 08:45

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

08:45 - 09:20

Welcome Coffee

Opening Plenary

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

9:20 - 9:30

Welcome Speech

9:30 - 10:00

Fireside chat: Catch me if you can: the race to build the next HealthTech unicorn

Speakers:

Matthieu Pinart (Doctolib)
Julien Penders (Bloomlife)
Eliane Schutte (Xeltis)

Moderated by Ann Van Gysel (Biovia)

10:00 - 10:15

Keynote: Who pays for what? A quick tour of the European Reimbursement systems

Speaker: Jeroen Kemperman (Zilveren Kruis)

10:15 - 10:45

Keynote: Building the right business model: identifying your payer and unlocking revenue

Speaker: Peter Opsomer (PwC)

10:45 - 11:25

Utrecht Heart of Health - Meet a Region Where Innovation and Impact Coalesce

Arjan van den Born (ROM Utrecht)
Jaap de Bruin (UtrechtInc and PrecorDx)
Alexander Habermeier (Guideways)
Leonie Oosterwaal (Province of Utrecht)
Hans Hofstraat (Foundation Utrecht Science Park and Utrecht Life Sciences)

Moderated by Laura Duran (Health Holland)

Hosting organisations: Province and City of Utrecht, Health~Holland, with Regional Development Agency Utrecht and Foundation Utrecht Science Park

11:25 - 11:45

Coffee Break

08:45 - 11:45

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

8:45 - 9:20

Welcome coffee

Plenary program

Auditorium B

9:20 - 9:30

Welcome Speech

9:30 - 10:15

Keynote: Catch me if you can: the race to build the next HealthTech unicorn

10:15 - 10:45

Keynote: Who is your payer? Turning healthtech innovation into revenue-generating solutions

10:45 - 11:25

Panel: To be announced

11:25 - 11:45

Coffee break

11:45 - 13:00

Pitching Session #2

Pre-seed pitches

Looking at cancer and endomitriosis in different ways

Pandora, 7th Floor

Pitches:

Veya Medical
SPCTR
Onawave Medical
Cortiscope
Juvant Medical
Spectacell
DxOmics

Start-up pitches

Healthy Ageing and mental health

Club 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

VitalSigns
Eforto
Twinsight
Atro Medical
KOIOS Care
Cogniguard
Sonicprecision

Scale-up pitches

Smart Health Data for patients first

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

Linksight
Ward 24/7
Minze Health
Sqilline
Zendra Health

Scale-up pitches

Better cancer and other diagnostic solutions

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Pitches:

Molecular You
CYTO 365
Synaptiq Technologies
Amadix
Noscendo

11:45 - 13:00

Educational session

Mastering European healthcare systems and Making Europe Great Again: The Benelux powerhouse

The Pit, 8th Floor

Speakers:

Jeroen Kemperman (Zilveren Kruis)
Katrien de Groote (Innosens)
Geert Smits (AZ Monica)
Sijmen Van Schagen (University of Luxembourg / Luxembourg Center of Systems Biomedicine (LCSB))

Moderated by Peter Tanghe (FIT)

13:00 - 14:00

Networking Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

13:00 - 14:00

Networking lunch

14:00 - 15:15

Pitching session #3

3rd floor

Pre-seed pitches

Better One health solutions for all

Pandora, 7th Floor

Pitches:

Evarmed
Revividal
VAir
Neuralteks
Nawu Diagnostics
Turn Motion

Start-up pitches

Superior surgery and non invasive solutions

Club 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

InnovHeart
Octovascular
Aikon
GrOwnValve
Angiolutions
Veinsound
Holoma

Start-up pitches

Novel health and safety solutions

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

HBOX Therapies
Ianunai
PsyTech VR
Skinuvita
Faresa
PhosPrint P.C
Nimble Diagnostics

Scale-up pitches

Hands and Eyes

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Pitches:

Spirecut
Oivi
Perivision
Prensilia

14:00 - 15:15

Educational Session

How to enter the French market?

The Pit, 8th Floor

Speaker:

Alexandre Cohin (Mind-Sales)
Florence Thueux (M2Care)
David Petiteau (Medicen)
Claire Verschelde (ICOSA)

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:45

Partnering

PUNT, 6th Floor

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 - 16:50

Pitching session #4

3rd floor

Pre-seed pitches

Towards more healthy and more relaxed brains

Pandora, 7th Floor

Pitches:

Oaisis
Mitopia
Selfit
DiversSity
TheraSonic
Rhovica Neuroimaging

Start-up pitches

Diagnosis and monitoring solutions

Club 9, 9th Floor

Pitches:

Austral DX
Thermo-I
Meep
Surfacto
INTA
LTSM Systems

Program

Day 1 - December 8

11:15 - 16:15

Utrecht, Heart of Health

14:00 - 17:00

PUNT, 6th Floor

Partnering

16:30 - 17:00

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

Fireside chat: Leading with purpose: Building the next generation of Healthcare Innovators

17:00 - 17:45

Auditorium Hertz, 7th Floor

Panel: Impact Investing in Healthcare

18:00 - 19:00

Investors Welcome Reception [invitation only]

Sponsored by ICOSA

18:00 - 19:30

Welcome Reception

19:00 - 22:00

Investors Dinner [invitation only]

Sponsored by Health Holland

19:00 - 21:00

Utrecht Walking Tour

19:00 - 22:00

Investors dinner (invitation only)

19:00 - 21:00

20:00 - 22:00

19:00 - 22:00

9:30 - 9:45

Welcome Speech

9:45 - 10:15

Fireside Chat: Why We Innovate: a Patient’s Story of Transformation

10:15 - 11:15

Panel: Exploring Corporate Venture Capital M&A

11:15 - 11:45

Investor pitches

PRE-SEED

Pandora, 7th Floor

Investor pitches

START-UP

Club 9, 9th Floor

Investor pitches

SCALE-UP

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Pre-seed pitches

Superior Surgery Solutions

Pandora, 7th Floor

Start-up pitches

Better and safer processes (for patients)

Club 9, 9th Floor

Start-up pitches

Cancer detection and solutions

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Scale-up pitches

Better heart-surgery solutions

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Expanding to Asia

Pandora, 7th Floor

Negotiation Skills for Female Entrepreneurs

Club 9, 9th Floor

The Governance Equation: Balancing Investor Intent, Board Oversight, and Executive Action​

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Women's health, from Trend to Necessity: What It Takes to Make Real Progress

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Benelux Healthtech Investor Landscape

Pandora, 7th Floor

How to Build a Successful European Healthtech Innovation Hub

Club 9, 9th Floor

Innomed Catalyst: Building Cross-Border Investment Portfolios in Digital Precision Personalized Medicine

Cloud 9, 9th Floor

Investing with a Diversity Lens: Why Inclusive HealthTech Outperforms

Pandora Foyer, 6th Floor

Investors Welcome Reception
[invitation only]

The Governance Equation: Balancing Investor Intent, Board Oversight, and Executive Action