Vital Systems: Exploring the Symbiosis of Innovation and the Medical Sector
A 5-part speaker and workshop series on real-world healthcare challenges, digital transformation and human-centered innovation.
Event highlights
Healthcare innovation is not only about new technologies. It is about solving real problems in real medical and care settings.
Vital Systems is a 5-part speaker circle that brings together experts from healthcare, digital health, healthcare IT, and applied practice. The series explores how innovation, technology, and digitalization can create real medical and social benefit, and where they still fall short.
Each session includes a guest speaker and an open discussion. Some speakers work directly at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Others bring equally important perspectives from healthcare practice, where real needs and constraints define what meaningful innovation should look like.
What you’ll explore
Across the five sessions, participants will explore topics such as:
• How innovation in healthcare emerges from real-world medical and operational challenges
• The gap between technological potential and practical implementation in the medical sector
• AI in healthcare: concrete use cases, promises, risks, and limitations
• Digitalization in care and emergency-related services
• Leadership, product thinking, and organizational change in health innovation contexts
• Human, regulatory, and system-level constraints that influence adoption
• What healthcare professionals wish innovation would solve more effectively
The series intentionally combines strategic, technical, and practice-based perspectives to create a more complete view of medical transformation. This reflects your proposal’s focus on bridging technological possibilities with real healthcare needs and connecting multiple industry perspectives.
What you’ll gain
By participating in the circle, you can expect to gain:
• A more grounded understanding of the healthcare innovation landscape
• Exposure to multiple perspectives across medtech, care delivery, and digital transformation
• Practical insight into where innovation adds value and where it struggles in real settings
• Better awareness of barriers to implementation (human, organizational, regulatory)
• Inspiration for more human-centered, socially beneficial approaches to healthcare change
• A space for reflective discussion with peers and practitioners rather than passive listening
Please note, some sessions are only available in German. If you would like to attend an English speaking session, please sign up for the individual event
Format
• Five remote sessions
• Two hours per session
• ~30–45 min speaker input + discussion
• Interactive, conversational format (no formal lecture style)
• One optional drop-in session to further discuss innovation in healthcare with myself after all of the sessions are completed
What to bring
• Curiosity
• Openness to technical and non-technical perspectives
• Questions and reflections from your own experience
• No prior medical or technical expertise required
Dates and times
• #1 Elmar Holthaus on 17 March 2026 | 19:00–21:00: Digital support systems in care and emergency contexts (German)
• #2 Andrea Berten on 24 March 2026 | 19:30–21:30: From digital health product leadership to practice reality (English)
• #3 Dr. Daniel Geue on 30 March 2026 | 19:00–21:00: AI in the medical industry: possibilities and limitations from practice (German)
• #4 Valentin Windorfer on 6 April 2026 | 19:00–21:00: Digitalization and innovation in medical air rescue: challenges, opportunities, and practical realities (English)
• #5 Speaker TBA early April 2026 (expected) | Time TBA: Topic and schedule will be announced soon (English)
📍All sessions will take place in Cosmos Events Space
Facilitator
Valentin is an MSc student (Sustainability, Entrepreneurship & Technology) at Tomorrow University & WU Vienna, and full-time consultant with a focus on AI, machine learning, and transformation. He facilitates this circle to connect healthcare realities with innovation perspectives in a practical and reflective format.