Nordic cooperation for the life science of the future

Advancing Healthcare with AI from Swedish and Canadian Perspectives

Future Health and Care

Workshops

You can reserve your place at Workshops and in-depth sessions from March 9. Conference ticket required.

Trustworthy data for trustworthy AI

Trustworthy AI in healthcare is not decided at the moment a model is deployed. It is shaped much earlier, in how data is captured, prepared, governed and reused across clinical and research environments, and in whether organisations can understand, explain and take responsibility for those decisions over time.

This programme focuses on the operational foundations of trust in real-world health systems. Rather than revisiting high-level AI strategies or abstract policy debates, the sessions examine where trust breaks in practice: opaque data preparation steps, hidden exclusions in clinical data, governance models that do not scale beyond pilots, and organisational gaps that only surface once AI systems influence care.

The discussions intentionally span different healthcare realities. In highly regulated and digitally mature systems, trust often erodes through complexity: fragmented pipelines, accumulated technical debt and accountability that is hard to trace. In more resource-constrained settings, trust is challenged by different pressures: limited infrastructure, external dependencies and the difficulty of sustaining governance capacity over time. Seen together, these contexts expose the same underlying question: how do health systems build data practices that remain trustworthy under real constraints?

Bringing together perspectives from Nordic university hospitals, global clinical and research leaders, cross-border initiatives and organisations working in diverse health system contexts, the programme connects board-level accountability to everyday execution. The aim is to give senior healthcare leaders, digital health leaders and programme owners a practical understanding of what it takes to make data trustworthy enough to support AI that clinicians can rely on and organisations can responsibly operate. 

Innovation area

Nordic Select

FemTech – enhancing womens health using technology

Come and meet a whole range of amazing women – and one man – who are working to improve women's health and quality of life today!

 According to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group, women lose an average of one week of good health each year. 75 million healthy years of life are lost globally due to diseases and disabilities that affect women. At the same time, only six percent of private health care investments go to women's health, it remains one of the most underfunded areas of health care. The report also shows that women live longer than men, but spend 25 percent more of their lives in poor health.

With this track, we want to focus on women's health and the possibilities of technology – today and in the future – to increase the level of functioning and health of the world's women. How do we create conditions and support for services aimed at women? How do we increase knowledge about women's specific problems and how can we as a society together support a more equal health?

We are moving from the local perspective in Västra Götaland, to organizations and actors that on a global level are already creating support for improved health in women. You will get concrete examples of initiatives that are already being developed today and that are at the forefront of research. Together with you, we want to have a dialogue about the need for future investments and which actors in our ecosystem need to collaborate for stronger progress in this work.

Operationalising OMOP in the Nordic Health Data Ecosystem

An open stakeholder forum bringing together VALO, OMOP 4 Sweden, the OHDSI community and others interested in reusing health data, to explore how OMOP can support practical, governed, and interoperable reuse of health data across the Nordics. The session series connects Nordic collaboration, community building, and implementation experience to the wider direction of EHDS and other international health data networks.

Kommunfokus

Digital infrastruktur och hälsodata

Framtidens omsorg och vård

Fokus Cancer

Förändringsledning / Införande

Kliniska digitala stöd

Hälso- och sjukvården i totalförsvaret

Workshops

You can reserve your place at Workshops and in-depth sessions from March 9. Conference ticket required.

FemTech – enhancing womens health using technology

Come and meet a whole range of amazing women – and one man – who are working to improve women's health and quality of life today!

 According to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group, women lose an average of one week of good health each year. 75 million healthy years of life are lost globally due to diseases and disabilities that affect women. At the same time, only six percent of private health care investments go to women's health, it remains one of the most underfunded areas of health care. The report also shows that women live longer than men, but spend 25 percent more of their lives in poor health.

With this track, we want to focus on women's health and the possibilities of technology – today and in the future – to increase the level of functioning and health of the world's women. How do we create conditions and support for services aimed at women? How do we increase knowledge about women's specific problems and how can we as a society together support a more equal health?

We are moving from the local perspective in Västra Götaland, to organizations and actors that on a global level are already creating support for improved health in women. You will get concrete examples of initiatives that are already being developed today and that are at the forefront of research. Together with you, we want to have a dialogue about the need for future investments and which actors in our ecosystem need to collaborate for stronger progress in this work.