Life Science Fair Flemingsberg: MedTech Day!

Welcome to Life Science Fair Flemingsberg – a dynamic meeting place where leading life science companies and voices from across the ecosystem come together to showcase, connect, and inspire. Whether you want to network, explore the latest innovations, listen to inspiring talks, or join interactive sessions – this is the place to be. Each event is designed to highlight the latest across a range of themes – with keynote speeches, workshops and exhibitions throughout the day. This time: MedTech Day!

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Who is it for – and why should you attend?
MedTech Day is designed for anyone interested in or working within MedTech, IVD, healthcare, academia or industry. The day offers insights into innovation, regulation, investment, opportunities to connect across sectors and disciplines, the chance to explore how ideas move from research to real-world implementation — and much more. Join in at Novum Forskningspark to hear leading voices share key perspectives from across the field — and to be part of the conversation.

Moderator: Jonas Sareld

Program (updated continuously)

09.00 – Accelerating Swedish MedTech. Some Insights from 10 Years of Medtech4Health

This seminar highlights key lessons and insights from a decade of Medtech4Health, showcasing how strategic collaboration between healthcare, academia, and industry has accelerated Swedish medical technology. It will reflect on impact, challenges, and what is needed to drive implementation and competitiveness in the next phase.

Speaker: Lena Strömberg, Director & CEO of Medtech4Health

09.40 – Sports technology - How to measure, analyze and simulate human body movement in field to give realtime feedback to athletes, coaches and audience 

Speaker: Jonas Willén, Lecturer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

10.00 – Towards a Balanced & Sustainable Work Life

Work-related sickness absence remains a substantial societal burden. In Sweden, continuous risk assessment is a mandatory part of systematic occupational health management. However, in physical ergonomics, risk assessments are still largely based on subjective observation. The presentation will include recent advances in sensor and digital technologies enabling the development of more reliable and practitioner-oriented risk assessment tools to support occupational health and workplace interventions. 

Speaker: Mikael Forsman, Professor of Ergonomics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

10.15 – Pause

Tour at the co-working The Park Novum

10.30 – Evaluating Traction Forces and Fetal Brain Deformation in Vacuum-Assisted Delivery

10.50 – Electroosmosis-based Therapy for Cerebral Edema 

This talk presents how electroosmosis, a classical physics phenomenon, can be applied to treat brain edema by inducing controlled fluid movement inside the brain. Using computational modeling and preclinical studies, we show that gentle electric fields can effectively reduce edema and open new possibilities for regulating brain fluid flow in neurological diseases.

Speaker: Xiaogai Li, Associate Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

11.10 – Accurate K⁺ Measurement from Dried Plasma Using the InstaSep Blood Collection Device

InstaSep is a finger-prick blood collection device that enables instant separation of whole blood into plasma and cellular fractions, which are subsequently dried on paper. This format allows simple, low-cost sampling, transport, and storage for distributed blood analysis while supporting robust measurements of proteins and nucleic acids. In this study, we demonstrate accurate potassium (K⁺) measurements comparable to venous samples and show that membrane separation must occur at a maximum of 7 minutes after blood application to prevent hemolysis and ensure analytical precision.

Speaker: Frida Ekholm, Vice President R&D at SampleFacts, Associate Professor, PhD

12.20 – The Crucial Value of MedTech for Society 

This presentation highlights the crucial role of MedTech in society, showing how it helps shift healthcare toward earlier diagnosis and supports essential functions such as digitalization, surgery, and rehabilitation. It demonstrates how medical technology delivers lifesaving solutions to patients worldwide while also driving economic growth and competitiveness in Sweden and the EU, where MedTech companies represent around 60 percent of the Life Science sector.

Speaker: Lena Blom, Board member Swedish Medtech, Head of Customer Services Sweden Siemens Healthineers

12.40 – MedTech: From Idea to Market

This lecture demonstrates how a medical technology idea can be developed from research and early concepts into a regulatory-approved product. It highlights the interaction between product development, regulations, and company building—and why these must evolve in parallel to succeed. Through real-life examples, it provides a realistic picture of what it takes to go from invention to a sustainable medtech company. 

Speaker: Jonny Munter, Founder and CEO of MMC Munter Medtech Consulting

13.00 – Unlocking the potential of intra-tissue delivery ​for Advanced Therapies applications, radiopharmaceuticals and other therapeutic payloads

In this presentation, SmartCella, a Flemingsberg-based biopharmaceutical company advancing next-generation regenerative and molecular therapeutics, introduces its three integrated platforms. The session will focus on the Targeted Delivery platform, featuring its first-in-class Extroducer — a minimally invasive catheter designed for precise, localized delivery of therapeutic payloads to hard-to-reach tissues.

Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Chief Technology Officer at SmartCella and Head of ProCella

13.20 – Healthcare in 2075 – Designed for People, Not Processes 

13.40 – Pause

Tour at the co-working The Park Novum

15.40 – Knowledge Sharing and Influence/Lobbying in the New AI Era 

This section explores how a fundamental shift has already taken place, even though we often speak about it as if it were still in the future. It highlights how power is moving away from knowledge itself and toward attention, interpretation, and distribution, while introducing a new logic of influence—where lobbying can happen without meetings, opinions can spread without clear senders, and knowledge can exist without direct human involvement. Finally, it raises the question of choice: whether we will automate influence entirely or take responsibility for how it is shaped and used.

Speaker: Jonas Sareld, Senior Advisor, Sarwell

Lunch and refreshments included for registered participants. Need to take a meeting during the day? Workspace is available at The Park Novum throughout the event.