The symposium of the Medical Informatics Initiative on the occasion of its tenth anniversary has the motto: “Future Health: Using Data. Promoting Networking. Shaping Innovation. Ten Years of the Medical Informatics Initiative – Foundation for Research, Care, and Digital Sovereignty in Europe.”
It will take place on March 24 and 25, 2026, at the dbb forum berlin. Stakeholders from research, healthcare, politics, and infrastructure are expected to attend.
The symposium is part of the Science Year, which will be held in 2026 under the motto “Medicine of the Future.”
Welcome and keynote speech
Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Research, Technology, and Space, will give the welcoming address at the symposium.
The keynote speech will be given by Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier, Head of the Chair for AI-Supported Therapy Decisions at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
First day of the event: Focus on MII
On the first day of the event, following the welcome, keynote address, and greetings, the focus will be on the main topics of the initiative. The program includes the following sessions:
- From research to clinical practice: Applications and successes of the Medical Informatics Initiative
- Regulatory developments through MDR and AI Act: Opportunities, strategies, and implications for academic projects
- Successfully utilizing the MII infrastructure: FDPG and DIZ enable data utilization projects
- The role of data integration centers in the MII: status quo, development, and challenges
- Next Gen MII – data, ideas, and inspiration for the medicine of tomorrow.
Another program session has been announced.
The day ends with a get-together.
Second day of the event: Focus on DigiHubs
The second day of the event begins with a welcome address to the annual symposium of the Digital Progress Hubs Health (kick-off of the second funding phase) and a keynote speech. This is followed by the sessions: Wissenschaftsjahr
- Enabling networked care: Results, experiences, and perspectives from the Digital Progress Hubs for Health
- Networking sectors, improving care, strengthening research: the shared future of the Digital Progress Hubs for Health
- Learning together: insights and perspectives from the MII working groups
- Connectivity of MII structures to other structures
- Medical informatics in transition – review, dynamics, and future prospects
- Closing remarks and farewell
The complete program for the symposium is available here