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Clinical Innovation Summit 2026
Eigtsveds Pakhus, Copenhagen
November 9 - 11
2026
This year's conference will focus on
Healthcare at the Edge: Austere Medicine, Resilience & Distributed Care
Why visit CIS 2026?
Hear from one of last year's participants
Preliminary Programme
Monday
Nov. 9
08:00-09:00
Registration & Breakfast networking
09:00-09:15
Opening remarks
Speakers:
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Ann-Christina Lange Petersen - Consul General in Boston
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Jesper Møller Sørensen - Ambassador of Denmark to the United States
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Annemarie Falktoft - Deputy Director, Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
09:15-09:45
Healthcare at the edge: why extreme environments drive the future of medicine
Opening keynote
Speaker:
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Sven Særkjær - CEO, Danish Regions
09:45-10:30
From Battlefield to bedside: translating austere medicine into civilian healthcare and hospital@home
Panel discussion
Speakers:
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Erik Waldorff, PhD, MBA - Senior Director of Innovations Technology Development, Cleveland Clinic
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Jacob Ravn - Chief Innovation Officer & Head of the Innovation Clinic, North Denmark Region
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Koray Karakaya, PhD - Senior Innovation Coach, BioMedical Design Novo Nordisk Foundation Fellowship Programme
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Ryan McKindles, PhD - Associate Leader in Human Health and Performance Systems Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
10:30-11:00
Networking break
11:00-11:25
Autonomous healthcare in austere environments: lessons from defense, disaster response, & future care system
Keynote
Speaker:
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Jeffrey Palmer, PhD - Assistant Division Head in Biotechnology and Human Systems, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
11:25-12:05
No hospital nearby: designing healthcare systems for distance, disruption and crisis
Keynote
Speaker:
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Homer Tien, MD - President and CEO, Ornge
12:05-12:30
space medicine, arctic medicine & the future of human performance
Panel discussion
Speakers:
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Homer Tien, MD - President and CEO, Ornge
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Luke Apisa, MD - Emergency Medicine Physician & Assistant Fellowship Director, Mass General Brigham & MGH Division of Wilderness Medicine
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Peter Norsk, MD, DMSc - Space Medicine Researcher, Former NASA Human Research Program Element Scientist
12:30-13:30
lunch
13:30-14:00
strategic foresight for healthcare: lessons from Nato's science & technology trends 2025-2045
Keynote
Speaker:
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Steen Søndergaard - Chief Scientist, NATO
14:00-14:45
healthcare infrastructure under pressure
Panel discussion
Speakers:
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Anders Damm-Hejmdal - Chief Physician, Prehospital Services, 1-1-2 and Ambulance, Capital Region of Denmark
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John Aldridge - Associate Leader in Human Resilience Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Steen Søndergaard - Chief Scientist, NATO
14:45-15:15
coffee & networking
15:15-15:40
who owns the responsibility when ai makes clinical decisions?
Fireside chat
Speakers:
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Jeppe Larsen - Director of Department, Medical Devices, Danish Medicines Agency
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Roger Cohen - Partner, Healthcare, Goodwin
15:40-16:00
the next decade of healthcare: distributed, intelligent & resilient
Closing keynote
Speaker:
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Malene Fischer, MD, PhD, DMSc - Deputy Chief Executive in Research & Innovation, Rigshospitalet, Capital Region of Denmark
Tuesday nov. 10
08:00-09:00
Breakfast networking
09:00-09:15
morning opening & reflections from day 1
Opening keynote
09:15-09:45
building the operational health system of the future
Opening keynote
Speaker:
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Francis "Frank" Papay, MD, FACS - Chair, Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic
09:45-10:30
moving beyond pilots in high-stakes healthcare environments
Panel discussion
Speakers:
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Corinne Wood, MPH, MS - Director of Operational Excellence, Henry Ford Health
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Erik Waldorff, PhD, MBA - Senior Director of Innovations Technology Development, Cleveland Clinic
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Francis "Frank" Papay, MD, FACS - Chair, Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic
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Kirstine Lærum Sibilitz, MD, PhD, MPH - Deputy Chief Executive, Rigshospitalet
10:30-11:00
networking break
11:00-11:25
ai decision support in emergency & distributed care
Keynote
Speaker:
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Anders Damm-Hejmdal - Chief Physician, Prehospital Services, 1-1-2 and Ambulance, Capital Region of Denmark
11:25-12:05
distributed care systems already in operation
Case study session
Speaker:
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Thomas A.E. Andersen - CEO, Danish Aerospace and Defense Company
12:05-12:30
de-risking discovery for impact: public and private approaches for transformative innovation
Fireside chat
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:00
when the hospital must disperse - lessons in healthcare resilience from Ukraine
Keynote
Speaker:
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Oleksandr Heiko, MD - Director, Regional Territorial Medical Association of Kramatorsk
14:00-14:30
trusting tech in high-consequence environ
Panel discussion
Speakers:
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Luke Apisa, MD - Emergency Medicine Physician & Assistant Fellowship
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Martin Vesterby, MD, PhD - Head of Crisis Resiliency and Health Innovation, Danish Technological Institute
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Oleksandr Heiko, MD - Director, Regional Territorial Medical Association of Kramatorsk
14:30-15:00
coffee & networking
15:00-15:20
the biological frontline: building health resilience for emerging threats
Fireside chat
Speakers:
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Andreas Worberg, Dr. rer. nat. - Head of Center, Biosolutions DTU
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Jeffrey Scott Saunders - Strategic Advisor, National Defence Technology Centre (NFC)
15:20-15:50
the next frontier - how quantum and ai will transform healthcare
Keynote
15:50-16:00
closing remarks and see you next year
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