Between July 15-19, Digital Innovation Zone, through our colleague Adelina Ezariu, Health Innovation Manager, participated in the EIT Health Top Female Founders Summer School, an event held in Austria – University of Vienna, taking part in a program for female innovators who want to revolutionize healthcare.
About the event
Organized by EIT Health with the support of Boehringer Ingelheim, Universidade de Coimbra, IESE Business School, Universität Heidelberg, INiTS | Vienna’s High-Tech Incubator, Rīga Stradiņš University, BDO Austria, the event combines online learning with face-to-face training sessions. Attendees had the opportunity to collaborate with industry experts and discuss the development of innovative healthcare solutions
Meetings with industry leaders and other healthcare entrepreneurs were an essential component of the event, providing a valuable framework for broadening horizons. These interactions not only allowed a deeper understanding of the challenges in the health sector through advanced technological solutions and effective business strategies, but also provided new perspectives on the international market.
The participants had the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other entrepreneurs, explore new business models and collaborate in brainstorming sessions and workshops.
The event’s agenda
Monday, July 15
- Innovative Business Models & Vienna’s High-Tech Incubator
- Meeting with the management team of Boehringer Ingelheim
Tuesday, July 16
- Hugo Furtado, Founder & CEO of Dreamwaves
- Nicole Daniela Schlautmann, Country Manager Austria, Pfizer
- Jakob Dalik, Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Tax&Startups, JW Vienna (Young Economy)
- Gregor-Robert Posch, Vienna Business Agency
- Regina Weinmullner, AWS, Deep Tech Funding
- Group work on healthcare challenge
Wednesday, July 17
- Visit Boehringer Ingelheim– The Vienna Center is an important point for research and production, responsible for the development of solutions/products in the human and veterinary pharmaceutical industry for more than 33 countries in Europe and Asia
- Yana Orel, ustine Rochon, Susanne Wagner – Female Leadership
- Nadia Hallwirth, Involving Patients in addressing Healthcare Challenges
- Working in laboratories, overview of the Research Center Austria
- Group work on healthcare challenge
Thursday, July 18
- Anna Maia Brunnhofer – Pedemonte, CEO Impact AI
- Fanny Springer, Female Founders: GROW F accelerator program
- Group work on healthcare challenge
Friday, July 19
- Women in Health IT (wHIT) network presentation
- Presentations from each work group
The participation of the Digital Innovation Zone was important to highlight and promote Romanian initiatives at the European level, facilitating the exchange of experience and knowledge with women active in the field of technology from all over Europe, and to emphasize the importance of international participation and intercultural collaboration in the development of innovative solutions.
