SPEAKERS
Annemieke Ålenius, Director General | Swedish eHealth Agency
Since 2018, Deputy Director General at the Swedish eHealth Agency with main responsibility for national coordination and strategy, Annemieke, is one of the two Swedish representatives in the EU eHealth Network. During 2022-2024, she was the government's special inquirer concerning increased interoperability within health care. Annemieke has a thorough knowledge of e-health as well as the Swedish healthcare system. Issues as interoperability, primary and secondary use of data, distance monitoring, etc., are on her agenda. She has also been responsible for the Electronic Medical Record in Uppsala county (2013-2018) and before that was appointed as Chief Administrative Officer at the Uppsala University Hospital (2000-2013). During this appointment, she was a member of the Board of Directors. Annemieke has also been the Swedish National Expert on Science and Technology Indicators at the OECD and had, during a period of 3 years, an assignment as the Vice-Chairman for the Working Group for Statistics on the Information Society. Annemieke has a Master's Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Until recently, she was a Member of the Executive Board of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm.
Nele Labi, Deputy Secretary General for Innovation | Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs
As Deputy Secretary General for Innovation at the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs, Nele Labi leads national efforts in developing e-services, promoting innovation in health and social care, strategic planning, and data-driven policy. She is passionate about proactive government services and integrating healthcare and social services through user-centred and seamless digital solutions. She advocates for innovation that transcends traditional sectoral boundaries. Estonia’s leadership in digital governance provides a powerful platform for these advancements.
Dr. Jaanus Pikani, Chairman | ScanBalt / Member of the Board | Tartu Biotechnology Park
Dr. Jaanus Pikani has been a practising surgeon in head and neck oncology, hospital manager of the National Cancer Centre and Tartu University Hospitals, secretary general of the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia and the chief of staff of the President of Estonia. He has been an active member of the team that orchestrated the transition of the Estonian healthcare from the Soviet-type system to one of the most cost-efficient healthcare systems globally. He was among the initiators and architects of the Estonian Genome Project, a globally unique population-based health and genome databank of 200,000 participants (ca 20% of the entire Estonian population). Jaanus is a founder and board member of Tartu Biotechnology Park, an organisation supporting technology-driven business innovation, and serves as the Chairman of ScanBalt, a regional innovation network in the Baltic Sea area.
Elina Drakvik, Senior Lead | Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund | TEHDAS2 joint action
Elina Drakvik works as a Senior Lead at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, and she leads the joint action on the secondary use of health data, TEHDS2, which supports the implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation. Driving digital health, innovations and impact in cooperation with international partners and ecosystems, as well as the creation of new collaboration opportunities, are at the core of her work. Elina has around 15 years of experience in European cooperation in the field of health, and she has led various European multi-stakeholder projects. She has also gathered experience in research funding, societal impact and innovations from Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University (in Sweden) and the Research Council of Finland.
Michel Silvestri, Head of Unit at the Coordination Department | Swedish eHealth Agency
Michel is a Biomedical Scientist and PhD, with a background as a University Lecturer at Karolinska Institutet and laboratory manager at Visby Hospital, Gotland. Michel is Senior Advisor at the Swedish eHealth Agency, with past and current leadership in government assignments for national digital infrastructure as well as within EU and Nordic projects preparing for the European Health Data Space, EHDS. This includes EU projects such as TEHDAS, X-eHealth and the current Xt-EHR, as well as the VALO Project (Value from Nordic Health Data) under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Michel was also a member of the Swedish team for EU negotiations of the EHDS regulation.
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