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Why you as a hospital group should join us...
The for-profit hospital market is becoming global with M&A creating massive players with sales of over $5bn. Meanwhile, the sector is becoming far more professional, with brand, quality, and marketing all changing fast. We haven’t seen anything yet. Healthcare Business International, now in its thirteenth year, is the only CEO event that brings together hospital CEOs from hospital groups and other stakeholders around the world to provide the market overview needed to steer their companies forward.
Leaders in hospital groups come for four reasons:
Network with investors
In 2022 no fewer than 144 investors in health care services attended this event. Meet and build relationships with the specialist investors who understand your industry.
Network with their peers
This is a rare opportunity to meet your opposite numbers, people who are wrestling with your issues.
Insights which boost sales and profits
We have two morning sessions dedicated to the acute sector where CEOs talk with remarkable honesty about their business models and experience. In other sessions, CEOs look at internationalisation, how the relationship with payors is set to change and the impact of Big Data and AI.
The broader vision you need
Today you need to understand the hospital sector internationally AND how other sectors, such as fertility, imaging, labs and ophthalmology, are changing. How is elderly and mental care evolving? All of this is covered in our agenda.
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Here is why your hospital industry colleagues attend this event...
What struck me was the availability of some of the brightest minds in health care. I get to meet a lot of people in a very fluid way which I could not do anywhere else.
Ronnie Van der Merwe, CEO, Mediclinic
It's a great platform to discuss, deliberate and come up with solid conclusions, which could be the problem in solving for the healthcare needs. … It was an amazing networking of people. This was a great place to be. When you want to be in business in healthcare, this is a very important conference.
Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and Managing Director, VPS Healthcare
Really worth travelling for this one. Gives a really clear idea of what is happening in many different sectors right across Europe. High-quality speakers, delegates and discussions.
Per Båtelson, Founder, Global Health Partner
This annual event gives healthcare operators a precise overview of what is taking place in the market.
Gian Luca Mondovi, Head of International Business Development, Humanitas, Italy
Manages to cover a very broad range of subjects and provide good practical examples. A lot of very senior people came as delegates.
Jayme Santos Neve, Espritu Santo Saud
Very valuable - this is my fourth year. It gives a perspective on where the industry is heading and how the private and public sector are cooperating. I always find it useful, the content is very well selected, speakers very well prepared and I found it very helpful.
Klodian Allajbeu, CEO, American Hospital Albania
HBI conferences have directly enabled me to triple sales to €10m and to quintuple EBITDA in four years. Every year I attend and every year I come away with ideas that my management team has executed.
Oldřich Šubrt, Founder, Program Health Plus
It's a great platform to discuss, deliberate and come up with solid conclusions, which could be the problem in solving for the healthcare needs. When you want to be in business in healthcare, this is a very important conference.
Shamsheer Vayalil, Chairman and Managing Director, VPS Healthcare, UAE, Middle East
You have payors to public to private to hospitals, from ophthalmology to dentistry to general practitioners and down to diagnostics. In one day you can have 3-5 meetings with C-suite executives. This would take you months to get all these meetings done.
Liane Bauer, AlinIQ & Enterprise Solutions Director EMEA Abbott Diagnostics
HBI is an absolute must for anyone who wants to get a real feel of how healthcare is developing in Europe.
Ilian Grigorov, CEO, Darzalas Capital, Bulgaria
This annual event gives healthcare operators a precise overview of what is taking place in the market.
Gian Luca Mondovi, Head of International Business Development, Humanitas, Italy
HBI is the number one international healthcare event which I've always appreciated from pre-Covid times. I'm really glad that we're back and able to walk around and meet people again in person.
Wolfgang Hofmann, Head of Group Strategy and Corporate M&A, Fresenius Group
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Featured Speakers
Sessions include:
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The Outpatient Differential
Traditional hospitals face massive change. The drive towards outpatient and the creation of virtual wards promises to reduce costs and grow supply. This session looks at how and why outpatient models will shape the future of healthcare delivery globally with real data and examples of cost savings, efficiency increase and patient satisfaction.
Speakers include:
Chris Robson, Managing Director, Akeso&Co
Chris is working with NHS England to implement 40-50 virtual beds per 100,000 people. He shares the lessons learned implementing such wards, the technology required and the early outcomes from projects.
Zisis Sotiriou, Senior Vice President, Regional COO, Affidea
Vivek Shukla, Managing Partner, Surge Management Consulting
Dr Arun Thiyagarajan, Global Healthcare Transformation Director, Bupa
Moderated by Joe Quiruga, Analyst, HBI
Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The investment opportunity in fertility and women’s health
The fertility sector continues to steadily grow, but with a fragmented market, consolidation is not straightforward. And the revolution to address health inequalities for women presents a huge opportunity – around fertility, pregnancy and the menopause. Meanwhile femtech is set to be a $50bn industry by 2025. This session looks in depth at future growth prospects with speakers from two of the largest international consolidators – Virtus and TFP.
Speakers include:
Richard Banks, Group Chief Strategy Officer & European Managing Director, Virtus Health
Australian-based fertility group, Virtus was the subject of a bidding war in 2022 highlighting the growth opportunity in fertility services. With 25 clinics in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Austria and Germany the Impilo owned group is focussed on dominating the northern European market.
Johannes Roehren, Group CEO, TFP Fertility
Katya Zubareva, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Annie Coleridge, Product Director, Corporate, SimplyHealth
Moderated by Hugh Risebrow, Managing Director, Latchmore Associates
Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Opportunities in Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology continues to be a big area of investor interest with considerable scope for consolidation. Governments are increasingly outsourcing cataract operations and the sector is starting to unlock the potential for multifocal lenses in middle age. Panellists include the CEO of Veonet, the largest European ophtha chain and the CEO of Opty, the largest in LatAm.
Speakers include:
Dr Markus Hamm, Group CEO, Veonet
Veonet has added a new string to its bow expanding into Spain with a recent acquisition as it’s sights turn to further European expansion and consolidation. Markus outlines the group’s strategy and integrating the different businesses.
Dr Michael Achtelik, Head of Global Key Accounts, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
Amaury Guerrero, CEO, Opty / Patria Group
Brazil’s biggest ophthalmology group is taking the benefits of the outpatient model to grow into orthopaedics, ENT and Urology. Amaury explains the growth plans and why now is the right time to expand.
Paul Tomasic, Managing Director, Head of European Healthcare, Houlihan Lokey
Moderated by Tobias Koesters, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Dental models that benefit both customers and clinicians
A huge benefit of outpatient models is the ability to lower barriers for customers through locations, longer operating hours and more convenience. But what impact does this have on the happiness of clinicians? Through the lens of dental services, this session features CEOs discussing how they have balanced the needs and demands of both groups, harnesing technology, building the right culture and ensuring the future workforce.
Speakers include:
Javier Martin, CEO, Donte Group
Mirko Puccio, Founder and CEO, Primo Caredent Group
Joerg Aumueller, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Straumann Group
Moderated by David Farbrother, Editorial Director, HBI
St James - 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
This time it’s Personal: Rethinking patient pathways
One-size-fits-all health care delivery is stuck in the past. Using data, genomics and an understanding of each patients specific needs, environment and history and developing a personal care pathway is proving to increase outcomes and lower costs. Payors in markets such as France are starting to fund such an approach, opening up new revenue opportunities. This session evaluates early data from such endeavours and looks at how operators and health systems can scale-up efforts.
Speakers include:
Thierry Chiche, CEO, Elsan
Vasilis Sakkas, General Manager Partnerships & Solutions, EMEA, GE HealthCare
Dirk Kneuppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Moderated by Thomas London, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Fleming - 3rd Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
How to solve the workforce puzzle
How do you best recruit and retain a strong workforce in nurses, doctors and specialist staff? What role does training and culture play here? Providers present case studies on how they have managed to shift the needle.
Speakers include:
Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul, Vice President, Fakeeh Care Group; CEO, Fakeeh University Hospital
Dr Sandra Roddinger, Executive Partner, RadioOnkologieNetzwerk, Ergéa Group
Rachel King, Group People Director, Spire Healthcare
Emma Pearson, CEO, Achieve Together
Moderated by Eilert Hinrichs, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
The gulf has long been known for its dependence on expat workers. Fatih discusses how Fakeeh is building a pipeline of locally trained Saudi and UAE clinicians to plug gaps and even export to other markets.
Sandra explains how RadioOnkologieNetzwerk (RON) has developed its own training institute and talent pipeline offering a more practical approach than the traditional university pathway.
St James - 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Models that cover more people
Subscription models, a rise in employee paid-for insurance, digital apps and engagement, building their own ecosystems – insurers are making fundamental changes to health care delivery. This session explores these initiatives and their impact.
Speakers include:
Dr Hendrik Hanekom, CEO, Intercare Group
Katie Wadey, Chief Product and Commercial Officer, Simplyhealth
Jalil Allabadi, Co-Founder, Altibbi
Moderated by Tom McMullen, Managing Director, HBI
St James - 4th Floor
Tuesday June 20, 2023
AI and Big Data: Outcomes and Automation
How can and have health care operators implemented AI and big data platforms to improve patient outcomes? Where are we on the journey to automate delivery of care? And how what commercial models work best? Using imaging and radiotherapy case studies, this session outlines what is possible now and where the technology will take us next. We look at how AI enables reporting standardisation for radiologists and how automation in radiotherapy will one day soon take diagnosis to treatment from 2 weeks to just 15 minutes!
Speakers include:
Antoine Jomier, Co Founder and CEO, Incepto
Hugues Brat, General Manager, 3R
Nikos Paragios, CEO, TheraPanacea
Moderated by Jean-Guillaume Bayada, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Fleming - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The evolution in Primary Care
The huge primary care sector in Europe holds the key to outpatient consolidation. Here we look at how operators are pairing it with digital and telehealth, pharmacies and imaging, and at how they are reimagining its delivery and business models.
Speakers include:
Dr Murray Ellender, CEO and Co-Founder, eConsult Health
Lyndsey Reeves, Director of Operations UK, Kry/Livi
Dirk Knueppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Martin Lindman, CEO, Doktor.Se
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI
Whittle - 3rd Floor
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Opportunities in diagnostic imaging and teleradiology
Diagnostic imaging has seen a huge M&A boom as investors seek to consolidate Western Europe. What’s driving domestic and cross-border consolidation? What are the benefits of scale? Operators of diagnostic clinics have also been acquiring specialist teleradiology groups (Mednax/vRad, Unilabs/TMC, I-MED/Vital, Evidia/4ways). What’s the winning model in teleradiology – independent or vertically integrated ? Where are the new market opportunities?
Speakers include:
Rob Anderson, Global CEO, Everlight Radiology
Jan Hornstrom, CEO, Evidia Nordics
Steve Bird, CEO, Medical Imaging Partnership
Marianna Sampaio e Mello, Associate Director, Rothschild & Co
Moderated by Filipa Baptista, Global Head of Consulting, Siemens Healthineers
Fleming - 3rd Floor
