Estonian HealthTech Week
Tallinn Summit 2026 recap
The capstone of Estonian HealthTech Week brought policy, innovation, investment and implementation into one trusted room. Curated tables, candid forums and pre-arranged meetings turned shared context into practical next moves.
Convening partners
Agenda
- 019:00 – 9:15Summit opens and welcome coffee
- 029:15 – 9:25Opening remarks
- 039:30 – 10:15Perspectives: International Collaboration and Collective Resilience with remarks from Martin Rauchbauer, Head of Unit at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs
- 0410:15 – 10:45Coffee
- 0510:45 – 11:05Industry Forum Dialogues: Scaling in a Shifting World
- 0611:45 – 12:15Panel: What's missing between regions for stronger translational innovation?
- 0712:15 – 13:15Lunch
- 0813:20 – 14:15Spotlight on Estonia as the Baltic Hub; Panel: Estonian Ecosystem Highlights
- 0914:20 – 15:15Panel: How do we address uncertainty in long-tail investments to move forward?
- 1015:20 – 15:40Coffee and networking
- 1115:40 – 15:45Policy and Capital Forum Dialogues: Opening remarks from Karmen Joller, Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia
- 1216:00 – 16:20Perspective: Stephen Konya, Chief of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
- 1316:20 – 16:55Policy and Capital Forum Dialogues: Balancing Leverage, Competition, and Cooperation
- 1417:00 – 17:20Coffee and networking
- 1517:20 – 17:40Perspective: Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Presidential Center
- 1617:45 – 18:00Perspective: H.E. Mr. Ashish Singha, Ambassador of India to Estonia
- 1718:05 – 18:20The New Diplomacy of Cross-Border Investment and Innovation with Jaanus Pikani, Chairman of ScanBalt and Elizabeth Jennings, Executive Director of the Life Science Diplomacy Alliance
- 1818:20 – 18:25Closing synopsis and remarks
- 1918:30Closing reception
Photos
Convening institutions
Select organizations throughout HealthTech Week
- Akershus Universitetssykehus
- BioCon Valley
- eesti.ai
- EFMI Working Groups
- Erasmus MC
- Republic of Estonia — Ministry of Social Affairs
- Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
- Health Founders Estonia
- Ida-Tallinna Keskhaigla
- i~HD — European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
- Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
- Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- Netzwerk Deutsche GesundheitsRegionen
- Nortal
- Prakses Asistents
- Regionaalhaigla
- ScanBalt BioRegion
- SCDI
- Sitra
- Sorainen
- Startup Estonia
- TalTech
- Tartu Biotechnology Park
- Team PerMed
- Tehnopol
- Tervisekassa
- UCL
- University of Gothenburg
- University of Tartu
- Venture Atlas Labs
Bring / receive
Different institutions enter with different questions — and leave with a shared operating picture.
Health ministries & regional organizations
Bring
Policy priorities, reform questions and system constraints
Receive
Direct insight into how choices interact with delivery, research, industry and investment
Policy organizations, think tanks & economic institutions
Bring
Comparative evidence, economic framing and international system perspective
Receive
A live view of operational friction, emerging partnerships and implementation questions
Public systems, hospitals & research
Bring
Infrastructure, adoption experience, data and translational capability
Receive
Relevant counterparties, financing context and cross-border collaboration routes
Capital, industry, global counterparts
Bring
Investment conditions, commercial pathways and implementation capacity
Receive
Clearer policy context, institutional relationships and opportunities worth following
The room is deliberately mixed: no single institutional perspective is treated as sufficient on its own.
Why now
This exists because the operating environment is moving faster than the rooms that usually discuss it.
Five pressures now intersect across health policy, economics, investment and implementation — most of all, how we cooperate, respond, and understand movement from the US going forward.
- 01
Fiscal sustainability
Ageing populations and constrained budgets are forcing sharper choices about value, access and scale.
- 02
Workforce & delivery
Systems need innovations that improve capacity and flow — not another layer of work.
- 03
Strategic autonomy
Resilience, supply chains and trusted partnerships are becoming core health strategy.
- 04
Health data & EHDS
The question is not whether data can move, but under what conditions, for whose benefit and with what trust.
- 05
Innovation adoption
Europe still loses value at the handoff between evidence, procurement, capital and implementation.
Tallinn makes the trade-offs visible before they harden into disconnected policy, investment or implementation decisions.
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