Health Innovation Exchange

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Health Innovation Exchange

HIEx is a multilayered international platform that supports innovation ecosystems for climate resilience and improved access to healthcare.

16/05/2026

Engineering the Future of Health
Reshaping prevention, diagnosis and advanced gene therapy

Bioengineering and frontier science are moving fast, and the real opportunity now is translation: Turning breakthrough discovery into health solutions that can actually be deployed, adopted, and scaled.

At WHA79, HIEx and partners are hosting a focused session on how research partnerships and strong innovation ecosystems can speed up the journey from lab to real-world impact, especially in underserved settings. We’ll explore what it takes to move from promising science to scalable prevention, better diagnostics, and next-generation therapeutic innovation, including advanced gene therapy.

📅 19 May 2026
🕢 07:30 – 08:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C

🤝 Partners: Caring Cross | City Cancer Challenge | City of Kochi

🎟️ Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986427338643?aff=oddtdtcreator

14/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Traditional Medicine Innovation for Health Impact
Financing, Collaboration, and Future Pathways

As health systems look for approaches that are more people-centred, affordable, and accessible, the question is no longer whether traditional medicine has a role, but how it can be integrated responsibly and at scale.

At WHA79, HIEx and WHO GTMC will convene WHO, Member States, private sector and academia to focus on the practical path from evidence to implementation. The session will unpack what it takes to scale credible, community-rooted innovations, including the policy and financing barriers that slow adoption, collaboration models that work, and future pathways that strengthen equity and access.

📅 19 May 2026
🕓 16:00 – 16:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C
🤝 Partner: WHO GTMC

🔗 Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1989141810702?aff=oddtdtcreator

14/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Without a Buyer, There Is No Impact:
Rethinking How Health Innovations Scale

Global health doesn’t lack innovation. Join HIEx and UNICEF for a focused conversation on what it takes to move proven solutions into real public-sector scale. What is missing is the pathway for proven solutions to be bought, funded, and sustained at scale within public-sector.

This session focuses on the “demand problem” that keeps strong innovations stuck between pilot and wide-spread institutionalization, and what it takes to build demand across the layers that matter: Policy prioritisation, institutional ownership, budget allocation, and operational/procurement pathways.

Expect a buyer-centred conversation on how to:
• Generate layered demand and identify the real buyer
• Design for government systems and real delivery constraints
• Build sustainable financing pathways that endure after partner support exits

📅 19 May 2026
🕐 13:00 – 13:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva

🤝 Partners: UNICEF

🔗 Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1989141704384?aff=oddtdtcreator

12/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Preparedness Re-Imagined
Diagnostics in the Era of Pandemics and Climate Change

Health emergencies are becoming more complex at the same time that health resources are shifting and climate change is creating new regional risks.

The way we plan for preparedness can’t stay static.

At WHA79, HIEx and Reme-D are convening a focused session on how accessible diagnostics can strengthen preparedness and climate resilience, and why regional resources, know-how, and implementation approaches matter more than ever.

We’ll explore what practical, scalable diagnostic readiness looks like when outbreaks, disruption, and climate shocks are no longer exceptions, but part of the operating environment.

📅 19 May 2026
🕚 11:00 – 11:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C
🤝 Partner: Reme-D

🎟️ Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988552541181?aff=oddtdtcreator

12/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

From Pitch to Scale: Breakthroughs to Bankability
Bridging innovation and financing for scalable health solutions

WHA week is full of promising ideas. This session is about what it takes to turn the best of them into real-world adoption.

HIEx is bringing together high-potential ventures and the capital partners who can help them scale. Through live pitches and sharp ecosystem dialogue, we’ll spotlight innovations closing critical service delivery gaps and unpack the practical steps that move solutions from pilot to implementation.

Alongside the showcase, we’ll get into the financing side of scale: How blended and outcome-based funding models can align public, private, and philanthropic capital, de-risk delivery, and unlock partnerships that turn breakthroughs into bankable, scalable impact.

If you’re an investor, implementer, policymaker, or partner looking for solutions with momentum, this is the session to be in.

📅 19 May 2026
🕙 10:00 – 10:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C

🤝 Partners: WHO GTMC, Reckitt Catalyst, Pegasus, Bioprevail, Bayer Foundation, Symbiotics, Global Health Security Fund, Stop TB, FIND

🎟️ Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986523848306?aff=oddtdtcreator

12/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Without a Buyer, There Is No Impact:
Rethinking How Health Innovations Scale

Global health doesn’t lack innovation. Join HIEx and UNICEF for a focused conversation on what it takes to move proven solutions into real public-sector scale. What is missing is the pathway for proven solutions to be bought, funded, and sustained at scale within public-sector.

This session focuses on the “demand problem” that keeps strong innovations stuck between pilot and wide-spread institutionalization, and what it takes to build demand across the layers that matter: Policy prioritisation, institutional ownership, budget allocation, and operational/procurement pathways.

Expect a buyer-centred conversation on how to:
• Generate layered demand and identify the real buyer
• Design for government systems and real delivery constraints
• Build sustainable financing pathways that endure after partner support exits

📅 19 May 2026
🕐 13:00 – 13:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C

🤝 Partner: UNICEF

🔗 Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1989141704384?aff=oddtdtcreator

12/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

The Doctor that Never Sleeps
AI and the Future of Healthcare

AI is no longer a “future” concept in healthcare. Across low- and middle-income countries, it’s already being used to support screening, triage, service delivery, and frontline decision-making—helping health systems respond to rising demand, limited clinical capacity, and persistent gaps in access.

At WHA79, HIEx and Qure.ai are convening a focused conversation on what it will take to embed AI meaningfully into real health systems. Beyond pilots and prototypes, we will explore the practical requirements for implementation and scale, from governance and trust to integration into workflows, to building models of care that are more connected, responsive, and resilient.

📅 19 May 2026
🕑 14:00 – 14:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C
🤝 Partner: Qure.ai

🎟️ Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1989141768576?aff=oddtdtcreator

Keep an eye on our socials as we roll out the full series of HIEx side sessions and registration links.

11/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Bridging Deep Tech Skill Gap for Health
Advancing scalable solutions for the next generation’s wellbeing.

As health systems accelerate adoption of AI, simulation, robotics, digital platforms, and advanced therapeutics, one challenge is quickly becoming a hard ceiling on impact: Human capacity. Without enough trained people to safely deploy and sustain these tools, the equity gap widens, especially in fragile, climate-affected, low-resource, and conflict settings.

At WHA79, HIEx and partners are convening a high-level discussion on how AI-enabled learning systems, simulation-based education, mental health technologies, and global digital learning ecosystems can democratize expertise and fast-track workforce readiness at scale.

We are bringing together leaders working at the intersection of AI in mental health, surgical simulation, women’s health equity, and global learning ecosystems to explore how deep tech can help close the global healthcare skills divide.

📅 19 May 2026
🕕 18:00 – 18:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C
🤝 Partners: University at Albany | University of Basel | University of Geneva

🎟️ Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1986522984723?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

Reverse Pitch - Governments Setting the Innovation Agenda
Ministers present real health system challenges in demand-driven dialogue.

At WHA79, HIEx is flipping the traditional pitching model.

Instead of innovators pitching into the void, Ministers and senior government leaders take the floor first, sharing the priority challenges they need solved inside real health systems. For innovators, investors, and partners, this is a rare opportunity to hear demand directly from the “buyer side” and align solutions with policy priorities, delivery realities, and pathways to adoption.

The goal is practical: Accelerate partnership formation, unlock catalytic investment, and strengthen the bridge from pilot to policy.

📅 19 May 2026
🕛 12:00 – 12:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C

🎟️ Register here:
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ch/e/reverse-pitch-governments-setting-the-innovation-agenda-tickets-1986522511307?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/05/2026

WHA79 SIDE SESSION:

High Tea Exchange: Future Proofing Surveillance, Diagnostics & Care
Scaling smarter solutions for resilient health

Even with real progress, maternal and child health outcomes remain deeply uneven, especially in communities where services are hardest to reach and systems are under the most strain. At WHA79, HIEx and partners are hosting a focused session on what it will take to future-proof health delivery by strengthening the full chain from surveillance and diagnostics to continuity of care.

Together with innovators and health leaders, we will explore scalable service delivery models, practical digital platforms, and the partnership approaches that can expand access to quality care in underserved setting, while building the resilience needed for the next shock.

📅 19 May 2026
🕔 17:00 – 17:45
📍 InterContinental Hotel Geneva | Ballroom B/C
🤝 Partners: Bioprevail | WOAH

🎟️ Register here:
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ch/e/future-proofing-surveillance-diagnostics-care-tickets-1988553806967?aff=oddtdtcreator

Keep an eye on our socials as we roll out the full series of HIEx side sessions and registration links.

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