Innosanté
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Innosanté is taking place on 24 September 2026 at Microcity Neuchâtel
Health data is now emerging as a major lever for innovation and for transforming the healthcare system. At this event, players from the Neuchâtel ecosystem — representing businesses, institutions, academic circles and the healthcare sector — will come together for a morning of discussion devoted to the challenges surrounding the use, sharing and value creation of health data.
PROGRAMME
08:00 – 08:30 Welcome, coffee and croissants, networking
08:30 – 08:35 Introduction to the morning
- Stéphane Benoit-Godet, Head of Communications, CHUV
08:35 – 08:45 Welcome address and official opening
- Frédéric Mairy, State Councillor and Head of the Department of Health, Youth and Sport
08:45 – 09:15 From inspiration to action: concrete outcomes from InnoSanté 2025
Review and outlook
- Matthieu Aubert, Head of the Economic Affairs Service (NECO)
- Vincent Huguenin-Dumittan, Head of the Cantonal Public Health Service (SCSP)
The cantonal health portal
- Caroline Gallois-Viñas, Head of Digital Health, Cantonal Public Health Service (SCSP)
- Marc Fontanet, Digital Health Project Manager, Cantonal Public Health Service (SCSP)
Patient pathways and innovation: a connected health ecosystem
- Serge Bignens, Professor at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), Co-Head of the Institute for Person-Centred Digital Health and Chairman of the MIDATA cooperative
- Marc Maréchal, Director of the Neuchâtel Lung Association (LPNE)
09:15 – 09:30 Challenges and development of an international pharmaceutical company in Switzerland: the Bristol Myers Squibb case
- Jérôme Garcin, General Manager Switzerland and Austria, Bristol Myers Squibb
09:30 – 10:00 Health innovation pitches
10:00 – 10:10 Academic innovation in the service of health: the HOPE-S project
- Emmanuel De Salis, Scientific Assistant at HE-Arc
10:10 – 10:30 Data sovereignty and AI: challenges and opportunities
- Fabien Zennaro, Director of VNV SA
- Vincent Raynaud, Head of Data at the IT Service of the Neuchâtel entity (SIEN)
10:30 – 11:10 Coffee break and networking
11:10 – 12:00 Panel discussion on the use and sharing of health data (expectations, needs and challenges)
- Antony Croxatto, Director of ADMED Microbiologie
- Charlotte Beck, Research Officer at UNIL’s Lab’Santé et Droit, Chair of swissprivacy.law and data protection specialist
- Gregor John, Consultant in Internal Medicine at the Neuchâtel Hospital Network (RHNe)
- Laurent Reber, Head of Data at the Centre for Health Information, Management and Economics (CIGES)
- Michael Bisch, Consultant Psychiatrist, Head of the Adult Department at the Neuchâtel Centre for Psychiatry (CNP)
- Vladimir Mayor, Chairman of the Neuchâtel Association of Family and Child Physicians (MFNe)
12:00 – 12:20 Finland: a model for the use of health data
- Jukka Lähesmaa, Senior Adviser at the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
12:20 – 12:30 Let’s build the 2027 edition together
12:30 – 12:40 Closing of the morning and outlook for the Neuchâtel ecosystem
- Florence Nater, State Councillor and Head of the Department of the Economy and Social Cohesion
12:45 – 14:00 Networking dinner reception
🗓 24 September 2026 | 8 AM – 2 PM
📍Auditoire Microcity – EPFL (Rue de la Maladière 71c, 2000 Neuchâtel)
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