Strategic Panel 4 Bringing VHT to society

This meeting was part of the EDITH Coordination and Support Action funded by the Digital Europe program of the European Commission under grant agreement n. 101083771. The EDITH project aims to build the ecosystem for the Virtual Human Twin (use of digital twins in health and care) and coordinate the writing of the roadmap for the realization of the VHT. For more information, please check out the website of EDITH-CSA.
This second and last EDITH ecosystem meeting, held in Amsterdam on 15th and 16th of July 2024, marked the start of the final phase of EDITH-CSA project, building on the previous work performed by the EDITH consortium, expert advisors and the entire ecosystem in a range of activities including online meetings, surveys, online discussions, public writing and physical expert and ecosystem meetings. The meeting’s main purpose was to inform the ecosystem of progress made on the VHT roadmap and proof-of-concept EDITH infrastructure, to obtain input on the last open elements in the VHT roadmap and to start the process of ecosystem validation for the VHT roadmap and its final recommendations. In addition to plenary sessions discussing the progress and the recommendation, and breakouts discussing technical and non-technical additions to the roadmap, there were 4 strategic sessions discussing following topics:
Healthcare-related research infrastructures
Regulatory science and policy update
Healthcare professionals & patients
Bringing the VHT to society
The strategic session shown in this video is the one on “bringing the VHT to society”, with following speakers: keynote speaker Signe Mežinska (University of Latvia), Jolien Roovers (Dept. Economy, Science& Innovation of the Flemish government), Rossana Alessandrello (AQuAS), Frank van Praat (KPMG-NL/AMdEX), Marco Verdicchio (SURF), and hosted by Barry Fitzgerald.