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
Jonas Sareld is a senior advisor at Sarwell AB, with extensive experience across the public sector, politics, and industry, and a particular focus on healthcare, life sciences, and complex societal systems. He works with executive teams and decision-makers who need to navigate environments where strategy, regulation, values, and implementation are closely intertwined.
His work is characterized by a holistic perspective, analytical rigor, and a consistent focus on the long-term impacts, responsibility, and legitimacy of decisions and change processes.
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
09.20 – Tech – a driver for future-proofing healthcare
Digital technologies are becoming a decisive force in making healthcare systems resilient, efficient, and patient-centred in the face of growing demands and a demographic challange. By harnessing tools such as data-driven solutions, AI, and connected care, healthcare can shift from reactive treatment to proactive prevention and smarter use of resources. Tech is therefore not just an enabler of innovation, but a key driver in future-proofing healthcare for patients, professionals, and society at large.
Speaker: Peter Kjäll, PhD, Healthtech Lead, TechSverige
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
Vacuum-assisted delivery (VAD) facilitates complicated vaginal deliveries by applying traction to the fetal head. High traction forces may contribute to the increased risk of neonatal morbidity associated with VAD, but the underlying injury mechanisms remain poorly understood, partly due to the lack of robust experimental and computational models of fetal head biomechanics. Our project aims to develop a combined experimental and computational framework to investigate the impact of traction forces on fetal brain deformation during VAD.
Speaker: Estelle Pitti, PhD Candidate at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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
11.30 – Realheart TAH - the world's first 4-chamber total artificial heart
Realheart’s CEO, Ina Laura Perkins, shares how the Swedish innovation Realheart® TAH — a total artificial heart — aims to provide patients with severe heart failure both longer lives and improved quality of life. Discover the technology behind Realheart’s groundbreaking artificial heart — an innovation designed to mimic the body’s natural heart and blood flow, with the potential to transform the future of cardiac care and enable a high quality of life.
Speaker: Ina Laura Perkins, CEO of Realheart
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
What will healthcare look like when we rethink its very design? In this talk, you get to explore a future beyond reactive care and process optimization, and instead imagine a system shaped for continuous human lives and real needs. By looking 50 years ahead, the talk invites reflection on how today’s healthcare systems were designed, and what it would take to redesign them for a future we may never personally experience.
Speaker: Paulina Jonasson, CEO, Medtech Maze
13.40 – Pause
Tour at the co-working The Park Novum
14.00 – Introduction to EU Regulatory Frameworks for Medical devices, understanding MDR and IVDR
An introduction to EU regulatory frameworks with a focus on medical devices, providing a foundational overview of how EU regulations are structured and directly applicable in Sweden. The presentation highlights the key requirements of the Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR), and also explores their interaction with Swedish law.
Speaker: Beatrice Orback, Consultant Manager Medtech, IVD and Healthcare, Plantvision
14.20 – How Can Standards Be a Tool for Regulatory Compliance and Influence?
Learn more about how standards serve as a powerful tool for meeting regulatory requirements. You get insight into how the standardization system is connected — from the national voice here in Sweden to Europe and also the global arena.
Speaker: Pernilla Andrée, Project Manager, Healthcare and Social care, SIS, Swedish Institute for Standards
14.40 – Future Investments in Medical Technology – What Does It Take to Build Companies and Attract Capital?
An insightful presentation on the future of medical technology investments, exploring why Sweden is uniquely positioned for medtech growth, what differentiates medtech from pharma and biotech, and what it takes to build successful companies and attract capital in this space—including a brief introduction to Segulah Medical’s investment approach.
Speaker: Gabriel Urwitz, Founder of Segulah Medical Acceleration, PhD in Financial Economics; former Professor of Financial Economics
15.00 KEYNOTE – Collaboration and its Contribution To Excellence
Tobias Degsell is one of Sweden’s most popular keynote speakers, renowned for his ability to see the bigger picture through the smallest details. With analytical precision and a solution-oriented mindset, he has become a sought-after voice both in Sweden and internationally. Beyond the stage, Tobias works globally with companies and organizations, helping them break free from conventional thinking. The keynote "Collaboration and Its Contribution to Excellence" draws on his unique insights from the Nobel Prize and over a decade of experience across business, the public sector, and civil society.
Speaker: Tobias Degsell, Founder, Combiner
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
Exhibitions throughout the day from:
BioNordika Sweden, Strömberg, Nordic Biosite, Techtum, Thermo Scientific, Fjaryl, Nordic Biolabs, SampleFacts and Attana.
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.
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