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Hospital Leadership Summit

Shaping the future of hospital leadership

Program overview

How should hospital management act today to ensure their organisations are resilient, efficient, technologically adaptable and consistently patient-centred?

The inaugural Hospital Leadership Summit combines international best practice with the specific strategic and operational challenges facing hospitals, bringing together international hospital management teams, hospital boards, medical directors and other senior executives from hospitals and healthcare systems.

AT A GLANCE

Location: Hall 12

Date: 18 November 2026

Price: Invitation only – hospital decision-makers
(please enquire at ReegJ@messe-duesseldorf.de)

Language: English

Organised by: Messe Düsseldorf

The personal invitation extended to international hospital decision-makers lays the foundation for an international exchange of experiences at management level.

Note: This offer is exclusively intended for international hospital decision-makers. Unfortunately, ticket requests from other groups cannot be considered.
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Key topics

  • Leading and implementing transformation
  • Digitalisation, data platforms and artificial intelligence
  • Interoperability and integrated care
  • Hospital planning and healing architecture
  • New builds, refurbishments and modernisation whilst operations continue
  • sSrategic investment decisions and business cases
  • New technologies in diagnostics, treatment, prevention and rehabilitation
  • International best practices for the hospital of the future

Programme overview

11:00 am

Executive Networking Brunch

Arrival and opportunity to network with international hospital decision-makers

11:25–11:50 am

Welcome: Why Leadership Matters Now

Opening session with Carmen Berger, Zeynep Timur and Prof. Dr Jochen A. Werne

11:50–12:15 pm

Opening Keynote – The Hospital of the Future: Where Innovation Meets Resilience

by Avner Halperin, Sheba Medical Center / ARC Innovation (Israel)

12:15–12:40 pm

Building the Hospital of the Future

Healing Architecture and the balancing act between existing buildings, new construction, clinical processes and architectural planning with Christoph Gatermann (Nickl & Partner Architekten)

12:40–1:25 pm

Executive Networking Lunch

Opportunity for personal discussion and international networking

1:25–1:45 pm

Hospital Without Walls – The Virtual Hospital at Scale

1:45–2:15 pm

Investing in the Hospital of the Future - Impulse & Conversation

Business cases, investment risks and performance monitoring in transformation projects with the Association of Hospital Management in Germany (VKD)

2:15–2:25 pm

Networking Break

Short break and networking

2:25–2:40 pm

Keynote – Leading Transformation at NHS Scale

2:40–3:00 pm

From Hospital Information Systems to Digital Pathways

3:00–3:25 pm

Panel – Leadership That Turns Strategy into Reality

with Dr Anke Diehl (Essen University Hospital), Yariv Nir (CIO, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre / Ichilov) and other international hospital decision-makers

3:25–4:15 pm

Hospital of the Future - Executive Tour

Exclusive guided tour of the Hospital of the Future

4:15–4:30 pm

Closing: Takeaways from Leadership

Joint closing session and outlook with Carmen Berger and Prof. Dr. Jochen A. Werner

From 4:30 pm

Networking with Snacks

Opportunity for networking
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Evening event on 17 November:
Where is the German hospital sector heading?

Tuesday, 17 November 2026, 6.00–7.30 pm
CCD Congress Centre Düsseldorf, Room 16
Event language: German

The summit will kick off with a German-language symposium on the future of German hospital care. Hospital reform, economic pressure, the shift towards outpatient care, staff shortages, digitalisation and artificial intelligence are fundamentally changing structures, roles and care models.

The focus will be on how to shape efficient, economically viable and patient-centred hospital care for the future. Topics for discussion will include the impact of hospital reform and transformation funds, the importance of cross-sector care, sustainable hospital structures, and the interplay between specialisation and regional care security. The role of digitalisation, AI and automation, as well as necessary investments and the political framework, will also be addressed.

The symposium brings together decision-makers from hospitals, the healthcare industry, associations and the political sphere. The focus is on the experiences of those who manage hospitals on a daily basis and are implementing the upcoming changes in practice.

Your contact
Hospital decision-makers interested in attending can register with MEDICA and receive free access to the event:

Jenny-Lisa Reeg
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH
ReegJ@messe-duesseldorf.de

Note: This offer is exclusively intended for international hospital decision-makers. Unfortunately, ticket requests from other groups cannot be considered.

Hospital Procurement Summit

Strategic procurement is also shaping the future of the hospital. Find out more about the Hospital Procurement Summit and its key themes.

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