Digital Health Assembly: Open Innovation will take place from February 10-12, at the city’s SWALEC Stadium and is expected to welcome delegates from the digital health community worldwide.

The event will bring together leading individuals from the rapidly developing digital health sector to highlight the opportunities available to create sustainable healthcare if open innovation is embraced. Speakers will include experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Siemens Healthcare, Intel, IBM and Cisco.

The conference will focus on the topics of Big Data; Empowering Patients and Staff; and Innovative Business Models through a series of presentations, panel debates, roundtable discussions, open innovation masterclasses and innovate sessions.

Each conference session will explore the potential that open innovation can have on organisations operating within the digital health sector with an industry report created following discussions had throughout the conference’s unique daily discussion format.

Each day roundtable panellists will ignite a discussion which will then open out onto the floor for wider deliberation through a hot topic panel discussion. Delegates will then be invited to continue debating the topic and potential solutions in innovate sessions.

Conference Chair David Ford, Professor of Health Informatics at Swansea University, said: “Digital Health Assembly: Open innovation will bring together a diverse collective of innovative minds from the healthcare and technology sectors worldwide, with a view to establishing new cross sector partnerships and opportunities.”

Edwina Hart, Minister for Economy, Science and Transport, said: “I am delighted that support from the Welsh Government helped bring this important conference to Wales. The value and importance of developing a culture of Open Innovation is wholeheartedly supported by the Welsh Government as collaboration and sharing of ideas can deliver further technological breakthroughs and real business benefits.”

The event’s speakers include Professor Martin Curley, Vice President at Intel Corporation; Michael Schrage, Research Fellow at MIT Sloan School’s Centre for Digital Business; Dr Marc Overhage Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Siemens Healthcare; John Crawford Healthcare Industry Leader at IBM Europe; World Health Organisation’s Dr Tevfik Bedirhan Üstün; and Professor George Crooks OBE, Medical Director for NHS 24.

For further information email: info@digitalhealthassembly.com, or follow the conference on Twitter at @DHAssembly.