Organizer
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vitagroup HIP
Speakers
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Dr Birger HaarbrandtHead of Tech Advisory -
Jan SchreiberTechnical Senior Project Manager -
Matt CoxChief Customer Officer -
Alexandru VidreanopenEHR / EHRbase Expert -
Michael GrasshoffSales Manager DACH -
Margit MüllerSenior Project Lead -
Jana PilatoSales Manager International -
Jörn HellingBusiness Consultant -
Michael TaklaHead of Product Engineering -
Stefan SzczesnyLead Business Consultant -
Marina KückmannSenior Project Lead -
Dr Nils HellrungCEO – strategy and operations -
Markus MannProject Lead -
Luis Marco RuizSenior Technical Consultant -
Ramona OstendorfAccount Manager -
Stefan SpiskaSenior Backend Developer -
Sebastian LechSenior Project Lead e-Health -
Jona KunzeBusiness Consultant
vitagroup HIP Summit 2026
vitagroup HIP Summit 2026
Accelerating Collaboration & Innovation – with an Open App Ecosystem
Join us in Munich to meet leading voices in healthcare digital transformation – including vitagroup customers, partners, and innovators – and experience how HIP turns collaboration into real results.
Throughout the day, you’ll
- Explore how open platforms enable rapid innovation – helping reduce inefficiencies, improve care coordination and facilitate smarter clinical decision support.
- Discover market-leading apps that can be rapidly deployed – from patient engagement and discharge to patient reporting measures, patient pathways, analytics and AI.
- Understand why open platforms are the secure hub for AI-driven automation – built on structured data with embedded security to make AI trustworthy and effective.
- Connect and collaborate with our growing network of users, developers, and healthcare leaders.
SAP Garden – a location in a class of its own
One of the most impressive and modern sports venues and an exclusive guided tour of the arena await you.
Opened in September 2024, this multifunctional arena is not only a highlight for major sporting competitions but also the perfect setting for exceptional events. SAP Garden stands out through its unique combination of functionality, aesthetics, architectural excellence, sustainability, and societal impact.
For good reason, the arena was included in the list of the world’s most beautiful sports venues by the renowned Prix Versailles. SAP Garden has now also been nominated for the UNESCO Architecture Award in the category World’s Most Beautiful Arenas 2025.
Parking at SAP Garden
All participants have the option of parking their vehicles in the SAP Garden underground car park on the day of the event. You will need a parking ticket to do so. All registered participants will receive an email enabling them to request a parking ticket. It is also possible to park your vehicle in the “Parkharfe Olympiapark” car park for a fee.
You can download directions here.
If you are arriving by public transport, please use entrance E10.
Translation App
Most sessions will be held in English. We offer a translation app that you can use on your own smartphone. Please bring your own headphones to the event. You can already download the app in advance from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. We will activate it for you on the day of the event.
Would you like to participate but haven’t received an invitation?
If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact us at hipsum26@vitagroup.ag.
Hourly Schedule
Tuesday, 3rd March 2026
- 9:00 - 10:00
- Welcome & registration
- 10:00 - 10:30
- Opening remarks
- The new health IT playbook: open data, scalable apps, trusted AI
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Speakers:
Dr Nils Hellrung
- 10:30 - 11:15
- Morning keynote
- The path to a vendor-neutral, modular and AI-ready technology stack in healthcare
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Speakers:
Thomas Hagemeijer
- 11:15 - 11:45
- Live demonstrations
- vitagroup HIP partner apps in action
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Speakers:
Dr Birger Haarbrandt
- 11:45 - 12:30
- Panel discussion
- Can digital health apps move beyond pilots? Inside the open ecosystem model.
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Speakers:
Angus Forth, Dr Birger Haarbrandt, Dr med Ira Stoll, Dr Michael Roiss, Ramona Ostendorf
- 12:30 - 14:00
- Lunch & networking
- In the Vendor Garden
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Fireside chat
- Inside a large-scale transformation: how a hospital group is reengineering its data backbone
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Speakers:
Joachim Neugebauer, Robert Baron
- 14:30 - 15.15
- Panel discussion
- Data-driven transformation as success factor – experiences from hospitals in the DACH region
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Speakers:
Dr Axel Paeger, Dr med Tim Guderjahn, Florian Benthin (Moderator), Michael Hübner
- 15:15 - 15:30
- Afternoon keynote
- England’s long road to a shared care record: What worked, what failed, what comes next
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Speakers:
John Farenden
- 15:30 - 15:45
- Case study
- Catalonia’s triple play: enabling reuse of health data across care, analytics and innovation
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Speakers:
Dr Clara Calleja Vega, Dr Martin Andreas Koch
- 15:45 - 16:30
- Panel discussion | Connecting Care
- Europe’s health data moment – how freely can Interoperability travel across borders?
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Speakers:
Dr Anja Burmann, John Farenden, Markus Kalliola, Matt Cox
- 16:30 - 17:15
- AI & vitagroup’s roadmap ahead
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Speakers:
Dr Nils Hellrung, Thomas Hagemeijer
- 18:00 - 23:00
- Evening reception
Dr Nils Hellrung
CEO – strategy and operations
Thomas Hagemeijer
Founder, HGM Advisory
Thomas Hagemeijer is the founder of HGM Advisory, a decentralized HealthTech consultancy that supports C-level executives in driving innovation in healthcare. As a business angel at Springboard Health Angels, Thomas invests in early-stage AI and HealthTech startups. He is also an ambassador for HLTH Europe, the leading health tech conference, and for HBI, a conference on private equity in healthcare. He is a member of the German Society for AI in Medicine and head of a working group promoting AI in German hospitals. His LinkedIn posts on health tech and AI reach over 2 million people every year.
Dr Birger Haarbrandt
Head of Tech Advisory
Angus Forth
Big Picture Medical
Dr med Ira Stoll
myScribe
Dr. med. Ira Romy Alice Stoll is a physician and health-tech entrepreneur. She studied medicine at Heidelberg University (Medical Faculty Mannheim) and worked as a resident physician in urology. During her clinical training, she recognized the heavy administrative burden placed on doctors through medical documentation.
In 2023, she co-founded myScribe GmbH, an AI-driven startup that develops software to automate clinical documentation and generate medical reports. As CEO, Dr. Stoll focuses on improving healthcare workflows by reducing paperwork and enabling physicians to spend more time with patients. Under her leadership, myScribe has received several innovation awards and clients in Germany.
Dr Michael Roiss
Treetop Medical
Michael Roiss, MD, is CEO of Treetop Medical, a company developing digital clinical pathway software to support guideline-based decision-making and structured treatment processes in hospitals. He trained in haematology-oncology and emergency medicine at the University Hospital Zurich and the University Hospital Munich and works on integrating clinical workflows into routine healthcare practice.
Ramona Ostendorf
Account Manager
Robert Baron
Head of IT, PRO Klinik Holding GmbH | ukrb University Hospital Ruppin-Brandenburg
Dr Axel Paeger
Founder & CEO, AMEOS Group
Dr med Tim Guderjahn
Commercial Director, München Klinik gGmbH
Florian Benthin (Moderator)
Partner Strategy & Transactions Healthcare Consulting, EY-Parthenon
Florian Benthin is an experienced expert in digital transformation and strategy in healthcare with over 20 years of industry expertise. He combines a deep understanding of technology with many years of leadership experience. After studying business informatics, he began his career at an international technology consulting firm, where he took on project responsibility early on. He then moved to one of Germany's largest university hospitals, where he led central programs for digitization and process optimization for over eight years. Since returning to consulting, he has been responsible for strategic and digital transformation projects for healthcare providers, with a particular focus on data-driven transformations.
Michael Hübner
CEO, Sana Data Solutions GmbH
John Farenden
NHS England
Dr Clara Calleja Vega
Catalan Health Service
Dr Martin Andreas Koch
Catalan Health Service
Dr Anja Burmann
Head of Department Healthcare, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering
Dr Anja Burmann is researching on Digital Health, Health Data Infrastructures and Data Exchange, Personal Data Ecosystems and the Convergence within the European Health Data Space. She is leading the Healthcare department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, the Institute which invented the concept of Dataspaces. She is involved in national and international research projects contributing to an integrated, European health data innovation ecosystem.
Markus Kalliola
Programme Director, Sitra
Markus Kalliola is a director in Future well-being solutions programme in The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra. He is the coordinator of Joint Action Towards The European Health Data Space 2 (TEHDAS 2) and Value from Nordic health data (VALO) projects. Both projects aim for the successful implementation of the European Health Data Space regulation. Prior to Sitra Mr. Kalliola worked in the European Commission’s DG Sante where he was responsible for the cross-border healthcare IT projects.
Matt Cox
Chief Customer Officer