The 3rd edition of the Med-Tech World Summit organized and curated by doctors, medical experts, and SiGMA Group, will be held in St. Julians, Malta from Thursday 18th November till Friday 19th November 2021.
What is the 3rd Med-Tech World Summit and Why attend?
This year’s summit focuses on highlighting innovations that are emerging in technology for the global medical community. The summit aims to address the opportunities and challenges that drive this million-dollar forum, whilst embracing the potential for technological innovation to change the face of conventional medicine globally.
The 3rd edition of the Med-Tech World Summit introduces face-to-face interactions once again, together with a mix of conferences and workshops, helping you maximize networking and commercial development with industry players. This year, the summit attracts legislators and policymakers, medical professionals, investors, and industry peers from across the world, all of whom are looking to forge exciting new connections and discover new opportunities in this growing sector.
Who will be at the 3rd Med-Tech World Summit?
Over 150 speakers and 200 exhibitors and startups from a diversity of fields will be attending.
The summit will bring together individuals from different industries and occupations, such as; medical professionals, investors, legislators, and policymakers.
Agenda for the 3rd Med-Tech World Summit 2021
Workshops at the Med-Tech World Summit 2021
Dr. Arron Thind Co-founder of Code Med, Dr. Imran Qureshi Co-founder of Code Med, and Dr. Joseph Hogan Co-founder of Code Med – Coding with Code Med
John Lodge CEO at Hexitime, and Dr. Hesham Abdalla Chair of Hexitime – Hexitime – Learn how banking time will revolutionize the way you improve yourself, your team, and your service
Drago Lorenzo Professor of Clinical Microbiology at University of Milan – Italy – Clinical Microbiota Expert, Dr. Manuele Biazzo CEO at The BioArte Limited, and Christian Duchow Co-founder & Director at The BioArte Limited – Why every healthcare professional and/or company should have a microbiome strategy
Wez Pooley Performance Director at Muhdo Health – Muhdo: Lifestyle according to your Genes
Adrian Attard Trevisan Co-founder & Managing Director at Umana Medical Technologies Ltd. / A Gpi Group Company – T1 system and test cases by Umana Medical Technologies & Gpi
Massimo Parrella Head of Project Management Office at the International department at GPI – Electronic patient records and its application
Nicky Gouder Co-Founding Partner of Seed Consultancy, Ian Gauci Borda Executive National Contact Point (Health) at Malta Council for Science and Technology, Melanie Debattista Manager of Investment Promotion at Malta Enterprise, Lilac Mandeles CEO at TechforCann Europe Accelerator, and Antoinette Cefai Manager of External Communications at Malta Enterprise – Setting up your med-tech activity in Malta: A workshop by Malta Enterprise
Claude Vella Bonanno Managing Director at Quintian Pharma – Increasing Pharmacovigilance regulation in Pharmaceuticals and Medical devices
Ishmael Dalli Founding Director of Isdafarma – Pharmaceutical dispensing Machines across Europe
Dr. Amy Tanti Head of Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance at Materia Ventures – An overview of Good Manufacturing Practice
Gabriel Micallef Managing Director at Regulatory Affairs Hub – Hiring vs Outsourcing in the pharmaceutical/medical device industry
Claude Vella Bonanno Managing Director at Quintian Pharma, Dr. Anthia Zammit Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property at Anthia Zammit Legal, Dr. Amy Tanti Head of Quality Assurance and Pharmacovigilance at Materia Ventures, Gabriel Micallef Managing Director at Regulatory Affairs Hub, and Christian Cuschieri Director at Pharma Regulatory Services Limited – Challenges of service providers in Malta and the regulatory landscape of Pharmaceuticals/Med-devices
Christian Cuschieri Director at Pharma Regulatory Services Limited – Setting up and services offered by a notified body
Dr. Anthia Zammit Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property at Anthia Zammit Legal – Intellectual Property of Medical devices
Dr. Ernest Azzopardi Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Laser Specialist at Cadogan Hospital Chelsea London and Private practice – IP and Patents challenges in Europe and the US
Dr. Sara Schmachtenberg Head of Data and Analytics at Europe & USA for Galen Growth – Pros and cons of a biotech company setting up in Malta: a practical and legal perspective
Dom Raban CEO at Xploro – The power of play: Reducing anxiety for young hospital patients
Dr. Michel Angue Business Development Consultant at Gruppo GPI, International Operations – Improving the safety of transfused patients integrating Umana T1 monitoring with GP14BLOOD software solutions by Umana Medical & GPI
Hon. Deo Debattista Parliamentary Secretary for Consumer Protection, Medicines Authority, and Public Cleansing – Introduction to Medcann
Alex Agius Saliba Member of the European Parliament at European Parliament – Europe’s vision for Medcann
Golan Bitton CEO at UNIVO Pharmaceuticals Ltd. – Medical cannabis – export and import regulation through the EU
Dr. Sandra Carrillo Co-founder of Medical Cannabis Clinics Colombia Medicann IPS, Marion Zammit Head of Investment Promotion Unit at Malta Enterprise, and Yona Cymerman COO at TechforCann Europe Accelerator – Women in medical cannabis
Stephen Oliver Co-founder of The Canna Consultants, and Matthew Lawson Co-founder of The Canna Consultants – Keynote by Canna Consultants
Giuseppe di Giovanni Professor at the University of Malta and Cardiff University – Challenges, opportunities & pitfalls of preclinical research in a small country
Dr. Sandra Carrillo Co-founder of Medical Cannabis Clinics Colombia Medicann IPS – Scientific evidence on Medical Cannabis
Stephen Oliver Co-founder of The Canna Consultants, and Matthew Lawson Co-founder of The Canna Consultants, Dominic John General Manager at Panacea Farm, Mark Gledhill Development Manager at Isle of Man Government, Philip Eisenhart Co-founder of Push Things Forward, Richard Sanders Investor and Promoter of Medicinal Cannabis, and Dave Charnick The Adam Dunn show cannabis podcast & Founder of Kalyx Development – From seed to supple, ensuring consistent QC across Europe
Lilac Mandeles CEO at TechforCann Europe Accelerator – Industry shift- Integrating medical cannabis into biotech, pharma, and big data
Thomas Grima Medical Scientific Liaison at Pharma.MT Ltd. – Combating the medical cannabis stigma
Abhishek Mohan Co-founder & CEO at Hempstreet India – The integrative future of cannabis-based medication
Christopher Morris Consultant Surgeon in advanced wound, chronic pain, pain, and PTSD management at Access Health SC – Cannabis: The Canadian experience
Dr. Andrew Agius Medical Director at The Pain Clinic – The use of minor cannabinoids in the management of chronic pain
Dr. Aimon Kopera CEO at Geneomics Global – Country by country: Actualizing the untapped opportunities of cannabis & hemp
Jekaterina Parovincaka Regulatory Affairs Associate at Tetra Bio-Pharma – THC & CBD used via an inhalation device: Where are we at? by Tetra Bio-Pharma
Thursday 18th November 2021
Hon. Silvio Schembri Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business of the Government of Malta – Introduction to Med-Tech World Day 1
Dieter Brockmeyer Co-founder & Director Innovation & TIME at Diplomatic World Institute, Dr. Joshua Ellul MDIA’s Chairman at Malta Digital Innovation Authority, Mareike Seesselberg Senior Consultant at CHINABRAND IP CONSULTING GmbH, and Daniel Torres Goncalves Partner at Raposo, Sa Miranda & Associados – Regulation; Friend or Foe?
Dr. Shruti Jayakumar, MD Consultant in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health at Deloitte, JP Fabri Co-Founding Partner of Seed Consultancy, and Dr. Stefan Buttigieg Co-founder of Digital Health Malta – Digital health economics. Does it make sense?
Dr. Dafydd Loughran CEO at Concentric Health, Ardy Arianpour Co-founder & CEO at Seqster, Dr. Stefan Buttigieg Co-founder of Digital Health Malta, and Khalid Maliki Co-founder & COO at Tykn – Forget the EMR: We need to work on the PMR
Ardy Arianpour Co-founder & CEO at Seqster – PRM: Patient Relationship Management
Burhaan Khan Founder & Managing Director at 21HealthStreet, Alexei De Bono Director at IDEA Intelligence – IDEA Group, Erik Van Der Zijden Founder & CEO at Synappz Digital Healthcare, and James Somauroo Founder & CEO at SomX – Data-driven Health
Dr. Conrad Attard Lecturer, Researcher & Chair of MSc in Digital Health Board of Studies at the University of Malta – PEM, One piece of the Dementia puzzle
Dr. Jacob Skinner CEO at Thrive Wearables, Lorandt Fölkel, M.Eng Global Business Consultant & FAE at Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH, Alexander Tomic CEO at Alea, Joao Bocas CEO at Digital Salutem, and Tanya Colonna Founder & CEO at Oro Muscles BV – Wearables, Disrupting healthcare monitoring
Adrian Attard Trevisan Co-founder & Managing Director at Umana Medical Technologies Limited / A Gpi Group Company – “Putting the patient at the center of the healthcare ecosystem” by Umana
Guy Spigelman EMEA Lead Healthcare and Life Sciences Startups at Amazon Web Services, Charles Donly COO at Neurothink, and Michel Bielecki MD CEO at Testasy – AI in diagnostics: Are we there yet?
Brian Rogers CEO at Neurothink – Bringing AI out of the lab and into the hands of medical professionals
Bryan Ogden Founder of Ninjamoba Ltd., Dr. Gege Gatt, B.A. LL.D. CEO at EBO.AI, and Nate Clegg CRO at BOOM AI – Siri will see you now
Dr. Matthew Fenech Co-founder & CMO at Una Health, Dr. Gyles Morrison, MBBS MSC Clinical UX Specialist & Director at Clinical UX Association, Abiola Hakeemat Ayilara Founder of Lead Healthcare Clinics Ltd., Dr. Michael Watts CEO at Blüm Health Ltd, and Thomas Hagemeijer Healthcare Lead at TLGG – Clinicians vs Machines – Will the human be replaced?
Julien De Salaberry Founder & CEO at Galen Growth – Pharma in digital health, Who is getting it right?
Prof. Victor Grech Clinical Advisor at Tabib.mt; Leading Pediatrician, Dr. Malcolm Falzon Partner at Camilleri Preziosi, and Juliano Nascimento Schaefer – Telemedicine in general practice
Dr. Edmund Farrar Co-founder of Oto – On-demand Tinnitus therapy
Dr. Manuele Biazzo CEO at The BioArte Ltd., Nathan Berkley CEO at Muhdo Health Ltd., Alberto Malva Project Development Director at Idimea, Jon Vital CEO at TRAK, and James Somauroo Founder & CEO at SomX – Exploring digital health therapeutics
Dr. Simon J. Sonntag Co-founder & CEO at Virtonomy – Data-driven clinical trials. How one company is shortening time to market?
Dr. Stefan Buttigieg Co-founder of Digital Health Malta – The pandemic through the eye of an island
Joao Bocas CEO at Digital Salutem – The aftermath of COVID-19 – Challenges & opportunities
Dr. Stefan Biesdorf Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc., Tim Ringrose Co-founder & CEO at Cognitant Group Ltd., Nadeem Alduaij Co-founder & CEO at Sihaty, Dom Raban CEO at Xploro, and Dr. Gyles Morrison, MBBS MSC Clinical UX Specialist & Director at Clinical UX Association – Leveraging patients to harness digital healthcare
Fran Ayalasomayajula President at Reach-Thought Leadership; Head of Digital Health Strategies Worldwide at HP, Innocent Clement, MD MPH MBA Founder & CEO at Ciba Health Inc., Enrique Darderes Full Stack Developer & Health-Tech Consultant, Fabian Temme CEO at Ethical Saving gUG & Medicalcooling Ltd., and John Lodge CEO at Hexitime – Always connected health systems, the emerging hybrid care model
Friday 19th November 2021
Hon. Deo Debattista Parliamentary Secretary for Consumer Protection, Medicines Authority, and Public Cleansing – Introduction to Med-Tech World Day 2
Dr. Gyles Morrison, MBBS MSC Clinical UX Specialist & Director at Clinical UX Association – Clinical user experience, Do’s and Dont’s (Clinical/Tech)
Dr. Abdul Rayhead Medical Doctor and Clinical entrepreneur at Peerr, Dr. Ahamodur Choudhury Medical Doctor and Clinical entrepreneur at Peerr, Dr. Stefan Buttigieg Co-founder of Digital Health Malta, and Dr. Conrad Attard Lecturer, Researcher & Chair of MSc in Digital Health Board of Studies at the University of Malta – Your medical school is now online; Tech enhanced learning
Prof. Alexiei Dingli Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Malta – Sea of Tranquility: Palliative care and VR
Mikko Puhakka Founder of Lion Partners, Melanie Debattista Manager, Investment Promotion at Malta Enterprise, Steven Uggowitzer Founder & President of eSHIFT Partner Network, and Julian Molitor Founder & CEO at FetoLife – Where do I put my money in healthcare next?
Nikhil Sadhwani Chief Development Officer at neuro42, Inc., Sumit Sinha Co-founder & CEO at Phable Care, and Julian Molitor Founder & CEO at FetoLife – The importance of an investor aligned with your vision. VC, angel, or private equity?
Adv. Gil Solomon Founding Partner of Gil Solomon & Co. – The challenges that health-tech start-ups face while raising capital
Dr. Michael Watts CEO at Blüm Health Ltd., and Sumit Sinha Co-founder & CEO at Phable Care – Taking your project to market in a complex industry
Dr. Simon J. Sonntag Co-founder & CEO at Virtonomy, Jasmin Hounsell CEO at Evolene Ltd., and James Somauroo Founder & CEO at SomX – The real journey of a med-tech company: From startup to a global powerhouse
Lambert Montevecchi Founder & CEO at Boost Consulting, Omar Shaker Analytics Director at the California Center for Functional Medicine, Steven Uggowitzer Founder & President of eSHIFT Partner Network, and Julian Molitor Founder & CEO at FetoLife – Access of digital health solutions: Global challenges & opportunities, distributing an even future
Lilian M. Azzopardi Professor at the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Malta – Patient care is going digital – What the future holds
Ardy Arianpour Co-founder & CEO at Seqster, Dr. Ian Gauci Managing Partner at GTG Advocates, Anton Hasselgren Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Technology at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Adrian Niculescu CMO EMEA at CloudCoin Consortium, and Pravash Dey Disruptor in Chief at the US India Blockchain Council – Decentralizing patient records – A patient-centered model
Gabrielle Speijer Radiation oncologist & Founder of CatalyzIT – How to achieve real connectivity in this new healthcare world
Tjaša Zajc Community Developer at Better, Fran Ayalasomayajula President at Reach-Thought Leadership; Head of Digital Health Strategies Worldwide at HP, Dr. Monika Sonu CEO & Director of New Product Development at Healthinnovationtoolbox, and Lambert Montevecchi Founder & CEO at Boost Consulting – Healthcare moonshot: The 2030 healthcare experience
Dominnique Karetsos CEO at Healthy Pleasure Group – Breaking the taboo in women’s health
Julien De Salaberry Founder & CEO at Galen Growth, Berthold Glass Entrepreneur & Speaker at Berthold Glass, and Dr. Daniel Vella Fondacaro Psychiatry Doctor – The future of mental health and its workforce is digital
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