Health Innovation Space

«Urgent tasks and challenges in healthcare demand innovative ideas and sustainable solutions»

With our first Ideation Week of the Health Innovation Space (HIS), we connect innovative students and young professionals with experts and investors from the healthcare sector.

What is the Health Innovation Space?

• Our initiative concentrates on the ideation phase and connects to the larger St.Gallen Start-up ecosystem
• We focus on generating ideas that solve relevant problems in the healthcare sector
• We educate motivated founders on the specialties of the healthcare sector to create sustainable business models
• We collaborate closely with other incubation/acceleration programmes such as Startfeld, Innovationspark Ost, and from the Chair of Entrepreneurship at the University St.Gallen

Sponsors:

Andreas Berger – Advisory Board Chair, Klim; Advisory Board Member, share; Advisor & LP, Nucleus Capital

Prof. Dr. med. Carsten H. Meyer – Chief Physician Eye center Grischun

Dr. med. Christoph J. Reichlin – Project Manager, CSP AG Competence Solutions Projects

Jan-Hendrik Bürk – Partner, b2venture

Dr. Janna Hastings – Assistant Professor of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich; Vice-Director School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen

Lisa van Maasakkers – Director People & Organization; Executive Board Member, RoMed Kliniken

Dr. med. Telemachos Hatziisaak – Head of GP Faculty, School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen (HSG) ; Family Doctor at PizolCare Praxis Wartau, Trübbach SG

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kowatsch – Professor for Digital Health Interventions, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich (UZH), Director at the School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen (HSG) and Scientific Director, Centre for Digital Health Interventions at UZH, HSG and ETH Zurich

Dr. Volker Wendel – Founder and CEO, Sanoptis AG