A Decade of Joining the Dots towards Bridging the Data Spaces
3-4 December 2025
Ghent, Belgium
i~HD 10th Anniversary Annual Conference
This year marks a major milestone for the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD) as we celebrate a decade of advancing trust, innovation, and collaboration in the health data landscape. To honour this occasion, we are hosting a special 10th anniversary edition of our Annual Conference, “A Decade of Joining the Dots – Towards Bridging Data Spaces”. This event will look back on ten years of collaborations in improving healthcare and research through better use of data, and look ahead to the future with timely topics such as the European Health Data Space and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence by Health Systems.
As with previous editions, the conference will feature a series of plenary sessions, including keynotes from leading organisations, EU-funded projects and expert groups, alongside parallel sessions structured around core programme tracks. To mark this special anniversary, we are also delighted to invite attendees to a celebratory anniversary dinner on the evening of December 3rd.
This year’s conference promises to be a landmark gathering of policymakers, researchers, clinicians, innovators and patient representatives, all working together to shape the future of health data in Europe, responsibly and inclusively.
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A Week of Joining the Dots
Discover the other events happening in Ghent on 1-5 December 2025
Keynotes
Niklas Blomberg
Executive Director, Innovative Health initiative (IHI)
Ilias Iakovidis
Adviser on Digital Aspects of Green Transition, DG Communications Networks, Content & Tehcnology, European Commission
David Novillo Ortiz
Unit Head, Data and Digital Health, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe
Nick Schneider
Head of Division 511 - New Technologies and Data Use, German Federal Ministry of Health
Tomislav Sokol
Member, European Parliament
Gozde Susuzlu Briggs
Senior Programme Manager, European Patients' Forum (EPF)
Eric Sutherland
Senior Health Economist, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Yiannos Tolias
Legal Lead on AI and AI Liability in Healthcare, DG Sante, European Commission
Conference streams
- Preparing health systems and patients to be AI-ready
- Lessons from the health data space fore-runner projects
- Ensuring privacy protection in both real and synthetic data spaces
- How to be both a responsible health data holder and user, including the handling of proprietary data within the EHDS
- Assessing and improving data quality, including quality assurance for synthetic data
- How the European EHR exchange format is improving care and empowering patients, and what future extensions to the format might bring
- Frameworks for quality assurance of digital health tools and AI systems
Join i~HD in this meaningful event on 3-4 December 2025 in the Marriott Hotel in the breathtaking and historic city of Ghent in Belgium, 40 minutes away by train from Brussels.
As part of this special week, i~HD’s eSource Scale Up Task Force will also be holding its first-ever eSource Conference on the 2nd of December titled “Scaling eSource Now: Building the Future of Real-Time Clinical Data”. This will bring together stakeholders from pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, technology vendors, and other partners to accelerate the scale-up of eSource in clinical research.
Who should participate
- Patient organisations
- Healthcare providers
- Academia & research centres
- Health & data strategy organisations
- Standard & certification organisations
- Health ICT industry
- Data-driven industry
- Pharma & life sciences
- Health policymakers & funders
Tickets
Combi-tickets and day tickets are available.
Daily ticket
€110 (€220 for both days)
Dinner (end of Day 1)
€100
eSource Conference
€110