Speakers — D4 Summit 2026

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Keynote speakers

Medical Director for Pathology Innovation, Natera; Associate Chief of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Chair, EFLM Committee on Integrated Diagnostics

Natera / Massachusetts General Hospital

🌍 United States

Fri 15:30 What Does It Mean to Know? Diagnostics, Doubt, and Data in the Digital Age

Professor of Radiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome; former Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Albania

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome

Sat 09:30 Radiomics and AI: Leveraging Imaging Data for Public Health

Eric Sutherland

Senior Health Economist, OECD (Digital Health); former Executive Director, pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy

Fri 12:00 The Expert-Led Madrid Action Plan for Implementing AI in Healthcare

CEO, Kaiser X Labs (Allianz Group); former Managing Director of IDEO Germany and Head of the European Health Practice, IDEO

Kaiser X Labs (Allianz Group), Munich

Sat 12:00 Leading Innovation in the Age of AI

Speakers

Head of AI Clinical Solutions

🌍 United Arab Emirates

Fri 14:00 Lunch Workshop (Abbott): The Adoption of AI in Healthcare

Giovanni Arcuri

General Director

Isola Tiberina Hospital – Gemelli Isola, Rome

David Baumgartner

Managing Director, Dr. Ernst Doringer Institut für CT und MRT GmbH; Co-founder and Managing Director, MiraNext GmbH

Dr. Ernst Doringer Institut für CT und MRT GmbH / MiraNext GmbH, Salzburg

Sat 16:00 Smarter Images: AI in Radiology Practice

Attorney at law, specialised in IT and data protection law and artificial intelligence

Zirngibl Rechtsanwälte, Munich

Fri 12:30 Cloudy with a Chance of Lawyers: AI, GDPR & Security

Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Head of the Department of Laboratory Medicine

University Hospital Salzburg — Department of Laboratory Medicine

Fri 09:30 Welcome Address: Putting Data to Work for Better Diagnostics

Sat 10:10 The 3 Pillars of Change in Diagnostics

Sat 17:00 Closing: Next Steps & New Friends

Madeleen de Geus-Bosma

Clinical Chemist and Assistant Professor; titular member of the IFCC Committee on Nomenclature, Properties and Units (C-NPU)

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

🌍 The Netherlands

Fri 09:40 From Codes to Care: Digital Metrology and the Future of Laboratory Data

Catharina Gerhards

Attending physician, Institute for Clinical Chemistry

University Hospital Mannheim

Fri 16:20 One Patient, Many Signals: Making Data Work Together

Christian Haverkamp

Acting Director, Institute of Digitalization in Medicine

University Hospital Freiburg

Sat 15:40 AI-Assisted CDSS in the Clinic: Freiburg's Playbook

Alexander Hertel

Junior consultant and deputy head of multimodal breast imaging, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

University Hospital Mannheim

Fri 16:20 One Patient, Many Signals: Making Data Work Together

Gregor Hörmann

Laboratory physician; Head of Diagnostics Phenotype Division

MLL Münchner Leukämielabor GmbH, Munich

Fri 16:00 Heme Meets AI: From Paper to Pipeline

Supplemental Head of Department

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Salzburg

Sat 12:50 From Chat to Colleague: Building your Second Brain for AI

Professor of Medical Data Science and Head of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine; Technical Lead, AMPEL

Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), Leipzig University

Sat 15:20 AMPEL (Traffic Light) in Action: Real-World CDSS at Scale

Medical Affairs Director, EMEA SM

Becton Dickinson

🌍 United Kingdom

Sat 14:05 Lunch Workshop (Becton Dickinson): What If Every Sample Could Talk? Turning Actionable Data into Better Outcomes

Chief Operating Officer

S4DX GmbH (Smart4Diagnostics)

Sat 14:05 Lunch Workshop (Becton Dickinson): What If Every Sample Could Talk? Turning Actionable Data into Better Outcomes

Associate Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology; Chair of the EFLM Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (C-AI)

University of Padua — Department of Medicine (DIMED)

Fri 10:00 From Messy to Model-Ready: Turning Diagnostic Data into ML Fuel

Head of Digital Process and Technology Management

University Hospital Nürnberg

Sat 12:30 Digitizing a Hospital City: Nürnberg's Journey

Alexander Tolios

Department of Transfusion Medicine and Cell Therapy

Medical University of Vienna

Fri 10:20 Explainable AI — Because 'The Model Says So' Isn't Good Enough

Nicolas Tétreault

Clinical Biochemist; Directeur Scientifique et Innovation

Biron Health Group

Fri 12:50 Routine Blood Counts as Crystal Balls: Clinical Insights from Canada's First Approved AI Lab Algorithm

Chief Analytics Officer, Varha; Associate Professor in Medical Mathematics, University of Turku

Varha — The Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland, Turku

Sat 09:50 Nordic Lessons: Using Health Data at Scale