MEDICA 2025, the world’s leading trade fair for the healthcare and medical technology sector, will again set standards as the focal platform for future technologies in healthcare, true to its campaign motto “Meet Health. Future. People”. The redesigned MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM – which incorporates the previous MEDICA HEALTH IT FORUM – will be a showcase for the full spectrum of digital innovations. Whether artificial intelligence, robotics, mobile health or digital twins: this is where top international speakers, key opinion leaders, influencers and start-ups come together to think ahead and discuss the trends of tomorrow. Together with the Wearable Technologies Show and the expanded MEDICA START-UP PARK, Hall 12 will become a vibrant hotspot for “Future Health Tech” during the trade fair. MEDICA will be held from November 17 – 20, 2025 at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany.
November 17: Wearables, genomics and digital twins
On the first day, the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM stage will focus on wearables, health tech, genomics and digital twins. Dr. Saskia Biskup, co-founder of CeGaT, Centre for Human Genetics Tübingen, will show how next-generation sequencing is advancing personalized medicine, from tumor diagnostics to preventive medicine. Opportunities and ethical issues will be discussed together with experts from Roche, Tailor Bio and Antegenes.
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Digital twins will be the topic starting at 1:15 pm: Day Zero Diagnostics uses genome sequencing and machine learning to identify pathogens and antibiotic resistance within hours – on “day zero” of hospital admission. Prateek Singh (CEO of Akita) will show what role organ-on-chips, i.e. biochips for simulating cell cultures, can play in this. Mixed reality solutions and data models based on real human bodies (such as those developed by DARERL) support diagnostics and the development of wearables and medical devices, as Prof. Sune Darkner, Head of Clinical and Knowledge Management at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, will explain. Ebenbuild and BreathAssist combine digital lung models with innovative ventilation technology to help patients return to independent breathing.
Just think ahead! A look into the future
One highlight on November 17 (from 2:15 – 3:00 pm)will be the keynote speech by Dr. Daniel Kraft, one of the world’s foremost thought leaders in digital health and future medicine. His presentation on the stage of the MEDICA INNOVATION FORUM will analyze what the future will look like as rapidly developing technologies converge, from AI and robotics to digital health, CRISPR and mixed reality. As CEO of NextMed Health, Digital.Health and Continuum Health Ventures, he is also a driver of disruptive technologies. Afterwards, twelve health entrepreneurs will present their innovations on stage in the final pitches for this year’s “HEALTHCARE INNOVATION WORLD CUP” (3:00 pm) – a wide ranging display presentation of ideas and new developments. The finalists were selected from more than 250 applications. In addition to the expert jury, which will decide live on site, the MEDICA audience will also vote for its favorites for the first time.
