Why join us at HBI 2025?
For over a decade, the annual Healthcare Business International conference has connected the global for-profit healthcare industry.
Discover new business opportunities and meet your growth ambitions through high quality networking, meetings and expert insights at this unique CEO-level event.
Top 10 reasons Delegates attend.
Hear stories, case studies and data points
Find new partners
Meet over 150 investors, 300 operators and hundreds of specialist advisers
Improve your business model
Garner actionable insights that can be swiftly implemented
Save time
Meet with hundreds of leading CEOs and decision makers under one roof
Identify new markets and opportunities
Hear from leading experts in various sectors to uncover the growth areas
Optimise your business growth strategy
Using insights gained and conversations with your peers
Understand the sector
Understand sector dynamics and how they will affect you
Get practical advice
Get practical advice on how to best finance new projects
Harness new technologies
See how AI and digital health will impact on your business model
Raise your profile
Raise your professional profile by building relationships with new and existing clients
Who Attends?
Meet diverse healthcare experts at the leading conference, driving the future of our industry.
- Healthcare CEOs
- Investors
- Advisors
- Strategic Suppliers
What will we be talking about?
Download the agenda and see how this event will accelerate your business goals.
You will be in good company
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Key Sessions for 2024
As high interest rates and inflation continue to put pressure on the margins of ophthalmology groups, the playbook, particularly for private equity-backed groups has changed. Buy and build opportunities will only go so far and instead, groups must focus on other value-generating activities, process standardisation and optimisation to grow their top line. The demographic tailwinds remain strong and the dawn of new therapeutics to treat Dry AMD means that there continue to be huge opportunities in the space. But challenges remain around full-reimbursement, new payment models and standardising care delivery.
Groups need to decide what services to offer mixed with the right commercial model. Do they have to offer a complete spectrum of services to be successful or can they pick and choose the activities with the best margin? How do they ensure that their models are sustainable and can deliver care for the medium to long term? An image and data-rich discipline, the sector has the perfect conditions for AI and other technologies to make a huge and meaningful impact on patient access and outcomes. What investments should be made in tech and what has the potential to make the biggest impact?
This CxO roundtable discussion is an opportunity for providers and investors to come together in a non-competitive environment and discuss what the new ophthalmology playbook should be. It is a chance to bounce ideas off of one another and explore what investments in technology and infrastructure are needed to ensure the sector’s longevity and sustainability.
The roundtable features insights, lessons learned and follow-up discussion with contributions from:
Franz-Robert Klingan, Senior Partner, Bain & Company
Darshak Shah, Founder and Non Executive Director, NewMedica
Johanna Oberg, CEO Commercial Care, Bergman Clinics
Georgy Shakirin, Head of AI, Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
This session is strictly limited by space and is by invitation only. You can apply for an invitation via this form.
By invitation only.
European markets are experiencing significant labour shortages, a trend sharpened by all-time-high employee sickness rates. Employers are now increasingly relying on Occupational Health providers that promise lower employee absence days, better talent recruitment and higher workforce productivity. The growth drivers in these businesses combined low-regulation, predominantly B2B and stable revenue models makes it an attractive space for investors. This session explores how such services are impacting employee health and what the best model to win in the space is. How does integration with primary care, PMI and tech-enablement transform delivery and scale access?
Moderator and investment overview: Rainer Hepberger, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
Speakers:
Petri Bono, Chief Medical Officer, Terveystalo
Jack Latus, CEO, Latus Group
Alex Goldsmith, CEO, Medigold Health
Design thinking is deployed to get to the heart of complex issues, a step-by-step approach involving a lot of listening to ensure that ideas aren’t just creative but are effective and practical – ultimately ensuring that they get adopted. For healthcare CxOs, now is the perfect time to deploy the process with the sector adopting technology at breakneck speed ensuring the voices of all stakeholders are heard as new products, services and care delivery models are developed.
Join Craig Wills, CEO of Hi Mum! Said Dad (an L.E.K. company) and L.E.K.’s Katya Zubareva, Klaus Boehncke and Jacqueline Thompson for this breakfast at HBI 2024, sharing case studies into successful projects that followed this approach and demonstrating the concept, based on working with a leading fertility clinic.
Attendees will leave with a better understanding of the process and when and how to deploy design thinking. If you are developing new products and services, looking to enhance patient and clinician experience, solving complex challenges, or looking to drive change this breakfast is a must-attend.
We hope that you can join us for what is sure to be a lively and informative discussion – with complimentary breakfast!
Please register to attend.
Dentistry is one of the most attractive outpatient investment opportunities with an explosion in self-pay and governmental willingness to see change. This session explores what is driving demand, how to boost organic growth and the potential for further digital disruption.
Speakers include:
Niklas Virta, Managing Director / CEO, Aqua Dental
Niti Kholsa, Head of Culture, Straumann Group
Daniel Fritz, Managing Director, Healthcare Group, Houlihan Lokey
Moderated by Katya Zubareva, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
This exclusive invitation-only event will bring together a community of healthcare CEOs and investors for networking and dinner. It is for leaders who are committed to working together to deliver a positive social impact in healthcare through their business activities.
At 4.5% of total emissions, healthcare emits twice as much greenhouse gas as aviation. The huge energy bills of recent months has thrust this issue further up the priority list, whilst patients, employees and investors place huge importance on environmental sustainability. This session features three healthcare value chain members discussing how they are reducing their environmental impact, including analysing supply chains, waste management and smart buildings.
Speakers include:
Shikha Pillai, Global Head of Sustainability, Siemens Healthineers
Avanthi Parboosing, Chief People Officer, Life Healthcare
Tyson Welzel, Chief Innovation Officer, Mediclinic Group
Moderated by Ambika Jindal, Group Head Sustainability Integration & Implementation, ING Group
Healthcare’s stable and steady demand is attracting longer-term capital investors in infrastructure funds and family offices. So what does this new investor mean for the sector and for the businesses it is buying? What does value creation look like? How will this lead to the development of new delivery models and utilisation of community and urban space? This session featuring an Infrastructure investor and CEOs of infrastructure-owned providers includes a keynote from Italy’s Hippocrates Holdings. It will dive into the between this and other types of investors and discuss the opportunities in the market this new era heralds.
Keynote: Davide Tavaniello, Co-CEO, Hippocrates
Panellists:
Rodolfo Guarino, Co-CEO, Hippocrates
Assia Belkahia, Partner, Antin Infrastructure Partners
Alberto Fernandez, CEO, Healthcare Activos
Moderated by Martin Henrichs, Managing Director and Head of Healthcare EMEA, UBS
Despite optimism in the market and positive macro-economic winds forming, getting deals across the line continues to be a challenge, especially where bid-ask spreads remain wide. This keynote directly follows the Investment banking perspective on the M&A market to give the lawyer’s view, delving into recent deals and analysing the strategies deployed to avoid deals going missing or stalling.
Dr Stephan Rau, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Sharon Lamb, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
Healthcare needs in emerging markets are considerable and are often not met by existing supply. Investors entering these markets have to be ready for risks, understanding how to spot them early and how to overcome them. This summit developed in partnership with the IFC includes leading investors and healthcare providers operating in emerging markets, sharing their insights, debating key topics and interactive roundtable discussions.
14.00-14.30: Keynote: Lessons learned from investing in Emerging Markets
Farid Fezoua, Global Director, Health and Education, IFC
For the past 60 years, the IFC has been deploying private capital in emerging and developing markets, at present it has $3.5bn invested in healthcare businesses globally. Right now, emerging markets present an opportunity with huge potential but investors need to proceed with caution. In this opening keynote, Farid lays out the opportunities and gives advice on risks and how to overcome them, reflecting on the lessons the group has learned over the last half-century of investing.
14.30-15.30: The investor’s viewpoint
Following the opening keynote, a panel of Investors from a broad range of geographies reflect on the topics raised and share their perspectives and lessons learned from their own experience whilst also taking questions from the audience.
Speakers include:
Afsane Jetha, Managing Partner and CEO, Alta Semper Capital
Matthew Strassberg, Partner, MidEuropa
Abrar Mir, Managing Partner, Quadria Capital
Menka Shah, Partner, IFHA
Moderated by: Silven Chikengezha, Global Sector Lead, Health Services, IFC
15.30-16.15: Networking break
16.15-16.45: The audience’s viewpoint
Having heard the advice and opinions of investors, this interactive discussion is a chance for you, the audience, to share your reactions, debate ideas raised and to prompt further questions.
Moderated by: Charles Dalton, Global Sector Specialist, Health, IFC.
16.45-17.45: The provider’s viewpoint
Having heard from investors about the opportunities emerging markets offer, here providers tell their stories and what it really takes to achieve growth. Do they agree with the advice investors offer or is their experience different? What is their advice and how can you use that in your own investment strategies?
Speakers include:
Emmett Moriarty, Managing Director, Ennismore Advisory
Matt Williams, CEO, Africa Healthcare Network
Irfan Khan, Group Chief Commercial Officer & CEO, Evercare Group -Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan
Dr Zoe Kyriakou, SVP Global Head of Healthcare Consulting, Siemens Healthineers
Moderated by: Raju Narayan, Global Sector Specialist, Health, IFC
17.45-18.00: Closing reflections
Farid Fezoua, Global Director, Health and Education, IFC
Having listened to the perspective of investors, the audience and providers, Farid summaries the key takeaway messages from the afternoon.
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Who attends?
![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.](https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/events/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Oldrich-Subrt.jpeg)
![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.](https://www.healthcarebusinessinternational.com/events/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/12/Oldrich-Subrt.jpeg)
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
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Our attendees say
‘What struck me was the availability of some of the brightest minds in health care and the seamless interaction. I get to meet a whole lot of people in a very fluid way. I would not be able to do that in any other conference that I am aware of. I’m gonna be following up on quite a few leads. It’s gonna be great in the next few months to bring all of our ideas together.’
Ronnie van der Merwe, CEO, Mediclinic International, South Africa/Switzerland/UAE
‘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, UAE, Middle East
‘A very interesting conference which is focussed on health care and you don’t find that elsewhere. You find a lot of operators and new ideas. The networking is all about human relationships and the magic of it is here.’
Frederic Dib, Mozaic Asset Management, France, Europe