Conference Agenda

Madrid, Spain  ·  28–29 May 2026

Day 1

28 May 2026

10:00–11:15
Opening Session

The session will open with welcome remarks by Mónica García Gómez, Minister of Health of Spain and František Ruzicka, Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The group photograph will follow the opening remarks.

The programme will continue with pre-recorded keynote addresses from selected OECD Health Ministers in the Ernest Lluch Plenary Room.

FacilitatorEric Sutherland · Senior Health Economist, OECD
11:15–11:45
Coffee Break
11:45–13:50
Shifting the Patient-Provider Relationship with Trust

The programme will open with a keynote address by Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health Foundation, followed by a panel discussion which will bring together diverse perspectives on what successful AI integration looks like in practice and its implications for the future of care.

It will conclude with three spotlight deep-dives spanning the patient, the provider, and young people’s perspectives on the health systems of tomorrow.

KeynoteJennifer Dixon · Chief Executive, The Health Foundation
FacilitatorIlona Kickbusch · Director, Digital Transformations for Health Lab
SpeakerAn-Kwok Ian Wong · Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
SpeakerAfua van Hassteren · Director of Health Policy & External Affairs: Data & Digital Policy, Roche
SpeakerTorben Rene Uhrenholt · Chief Scientific Officer, Movement Health Foundation
SpeakerValentina Strammiello · Executive Director, European Patients' Forum
FacilitatorKatarina Vujović · Health Research Officer, OECD
SpeakerAferdita Bytyqi · Executive Director and Founding Partner, Digital Transformations for Health Lab
SpeakerErza Selmani · Researcher and Research Fellow, Digital Transformations for Health Lab
SpeakerEva Weicken · Chief Medical Officer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
SpeakerLeah Stephenson · Strategic Lead, All.Can Canada
SpeakerLee Hibbard · Council of Europe
SpeakerRamin Parsa-Parsi · Secretary General, World Medical Association
13:50–15:00
Lunch Break
15:00–16:45
From Pilots to Practice: Scaling Responsibly in Health

The session will outline key enablers across infrastructure, people, policies and processes to accelerate the responsible scaling of AI in health by highlighting incentives to cooperate across countries. The programme will open with a keynote address by Brian Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of Coalition for Health AI in the Ernest Lluch Plenary Room. Next, participants will split into four breakout groups, each discussing identified actions within the enablers pillar of the AI Action Plan:

  • Establish trusted data and digital collaboratives (Ernest Lluch Plenary Room, Number 1)
  • Align needs, opportunities, and evaluation (Europe Meeting Room, Number 2)
  • Accelerate integration and scale (International Meeting Room, Number 3)
  • Enable competitiveness and adaptability (Press Meeting Room, Number 4)

The groups will reconvene in the Ernest Lluch Room for a dynamic plenary panel, bringing together the breakout facilitators to synthesize insights, identify common practices, and prioritise actions to operationalise the AI Action Plan.

KeynoteFacilitatorBrian Anderson · Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Health AI
FacilitatorMathilde Forslund · Chief Executive Officer, Transform Health (room – number 1)
FacilitatorBrenton Hill · Head of Operations and General Counsel, Coalition for Health AI (room – number 2)
FacilitatorBelen Fraile Ortiz · Chief R&D Data Officer, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (room – number 3)
FacilitatorGiovanni Briganti · Chair of AI and Digital Medicine, Head of Computational Medicine and Neuropsychiatry, University of Mons (room – number 4)

Note: Each session runs 1h45 in total, opening with a 20-minute plenary keynote, followed by 60 minutes of breakout group discussions, and closing with a 25-minute reporting back in plenary.

16:45–17:00
Closing Remarks
Mark Pearson, Acting Director of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will close the first day of the conference.
Day 2

29 May 2026

10:00–10:15
Introduction Day 2
The session will begin with remarks by Mark Pearson, Acting Director of the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
10:15–12:00
From Code to Care: Operationalising Safe Adoption of AI in Clinical Practice

This session will outline required safeguards to ensure AI in healthcare 'does no harm', through data protection, human oversight and effective regulation to protect patients and empower providers.

The programme will open with a keynote address by Ricardo Baptista Leite, Chief Executive Officer of HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health in the Ernest Lluch Plenary Room. Next, participants will split into four breakout groups, each discussing identified actions within the safeguards pillar of the AI Action Plan:

  • Embed Privacy and Security by Design (Ernest Lluch – Plenary Room - Number 1)
  • Preserve human oversight (Europe Meeting Room, Number 2)
  • Support pre- and post-deployment safeguards (International Meeting Room, Number 3)
  • Facilitate continuous learning and equitability (Press Meeting Room, Number 4)

It will conclude with a dynamic plenary panel, bringing together breakout facilitators, to synthesize insights, surface common practices, and prioritise actions to operationalise the AI Action Plan.

KeynoteFacilitatorRicardo Baptista Leite · Chief Executive Officer, HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health
FacilitatorSaira Ghafur · Lead of Digital Health, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London and Co-Founder, Prova Health (room – number 1)
FacilitatorTimo Minssen · Professor and Director of Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL), University of Copenhagen (room – number 2)
FacilitatorPaul Campbell · Chief Regulatory Officer, HealthAI – The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health (room – number 3)
FacilitatorDavid Lowe · Professor, Director Healthtech Innovation & Translation Lab., University of Glasgow (room – number 3)
FacilitatorAriel Dora Stern · Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor, Hasso Plattner Institute (room – number 4)

Note: Each session runs 1h45 in total, opening with a 20-minute plenary keynote, followed by 60 minutes of breakout group discussions, and closing with a 25-minute reporting back in plenary.

12:00–12:25
Coffee Break
12:25–13:20
Next Steps: Collective Action for Collective Impact by Scaling Health AIP
This session will gather high-level speakers to discuss and prioritise the relevant next steps to operationalise the expert-informed Action Plan and incentivize co-operation to responsibly scale AI in health.
FacilitatorDipak Kalra · President, European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
SpeakerAna Estela Haddad · Secretary for Health Information and Digital Health, Ministry of Health of Brazil
SpeakerBekure Tamirat · Unit Lead, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
SpeakerDavid Novillo Ortiz · Unit Head and Regional Adviser, Data and Digital Health, WHO/Europe
SpeakerIlona Kickbusch · Director, Digital Transformations for Health Lab
SpeakerNoemí Cívicos Villa · Director General of Digital Health and Information Systems, National Health System of Spain
SpeakerYiannos Tolias · Legal Lead, European Commission
13:20–13:30
Closing Remarks
The conference will conclude with closing remarks by Javier Padilla Bernáldez, Secretary of State for Health of Spain and Chris Mullin, Chair of the Health Committee for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development.
13:30–14:00
Lunch and Conference Closure