Building Today for Tomorrow’s Impact on Healthcare
When Clinicians Build: Showcase and Open Floor
Healthcare changes when the people working in it decide to fix what they run into every day, and build solutions that work far beyond their own ward.
This edition of the Digital Health Cocktail Hour puts those people on stage. Physician-led and researcher-led teams from the BIH Digital Health Accelerator at Charité will show what they’re building and, just as importantly, what is still standing in their way. Each team ends with the questions they’re wrestling with. Then it’s over to the room: founders, investors, clinicians and operators, bringing their own experience to the conversation.
Program
Project showcase:
Translational projects from the BIH Digital Health Accelerator at Charité, led by treating physicians and researchers, have five minutes each to present their work. Every team closes with the questions they most want to discuss – whether their data can answer the clinical question, for instance, or what it takes to move from a research tool to a product.
Projects include:
→ CALA-XR: The limb is gone, but the pain is real. Therapy for phantom limb pain, built for one patient at a time, in extended reality.
→ OnKIboard: A cancer diagnosis can’t wait. Neither can the treatment decision. An AI agent system that aims to give tumour boards fast, valid and traceable treatment decisions.
→ CellTracer: Bringing a cell therapy to patients takes more than science. A regulatory-intelligence platform for cell therapy that helps teams identify comparable trials and regulatory precedents.
→ CoRehApp: Intensive care ends at discharge. The road back from its after-effects doesn’t. A personal avatar companion that supports recovery and connects patients with the care they need.
→ FlowPilot: Every blood cancer case starts as a raw file and ends as a report. Faster, more consistent interpretation, informed by similar past cases, with clinicians keeping the final call.
Founders’ panel: The realities of building in healthcare
Building a healthcare company rarely follows a straight line. Our panel brings together founders to talk candidly about the choices, setbacks and turning points that shaped their journeys – from recognising a problem worth solving to navigating the healthcare system, finding a route to market and building a sustainable business.
What worked, what didn’t, and what would they do differently now? Their experiences offer a chance to learn from those who have been through it, while the questions raised by the presenting teams may well find their way into the conversation, too.
Open floor:
The conversation continues over drinks. Each team’s questions are at their table, so you can walk up, challenge their thinking, offer an introduction, or join the team. Come with an opinion.
⚠️ Doors close at 18:30 sharp! Arrive before then.
About your hosts
Future4care is Europe’s leading ecosystem dedicated to digital health. Launched in 2021 through an alliance between Sanofi, Generali, Capgemini, and Orange, Future4care brings together key HealthTech players—major corporations, experts, healthcare professionals, public institutions, and startups—to foster meaningful synergies and drive innovation in healthcare.
Earlybird: is a pan-European venture capital firm backing exceptional early-stage companies with funding, strategic support, and access to global networks. It invests in tech-enabled sectors such as fintech, enterprise software, and deep tech, alongside a dedicated Health strategy focused on improving patient outcomes, and a Growth Opportunity Fund for follow-on investments. Managing €2.5 billion and with a strong exit track record, Earlybird is one of Europe’s most established VC firms.
The Berlin Institute of Health at Charité has an ambitious and important mission: biomedical translation. They define biomedical translation as a process that converts scientific discoveries into products and services to benefit patients.
Amazon Web Services: Since 2006 it provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.
Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries.
