Welcome Address
Healthcare Megatrends, how do they impact business models and deal structures? 

Megatrends are sustained, global, social, economic, political, environmental or technological changes. They are here to stay and will make a considerable and durable impact on the healthcare environment by creating new opportunities, challenges and risks for our businesses.

The Swiss HLG Winter Conference 2017 has invited renowned specialists from the healthcare, information technology, finance, insurance and academic worlds to address this theme. Amongst other topics, they will review and discuss the implications of the following megatrends: 

• Demographic/epidemiological changes, including a global ageing population and the increasing prevalence of chronic degenerative diseases
• Economic changes such as the growing financial pressure on healthcare care costs and the impact of evolving geographical and developmental disparities
• Biotechnology advances, like new opportunities offered by gene editing and immune checkpoint inhibition
• Information technology development, especially big data collection and connected devices with e-health applications

The presenters will challenge our present assumptions by sharing their insights on these megatrends and the impacts on our business models and deal structures in the foreseeable future. There will also be exciting open panel discussions, where input from all participants will be welcome, to better define, describe and address these upcoming challenges.

Among our confirmed keynote speakers and speakers:

• Michel L. Pettigrew, President of the Executive Board and COO , Ferring Pharmaceuticals
• Thomas Szucs, Chairman of the Board, Helsana
• Dominik Hotz, Partner, PWC
• Gregg Talbert, Global Head of Strategic Partnering, Roche

The program will be complemented by a Personal Development session on networking as well as a pre-conference negotiation workshop: “War of the Roses – Negotiating your way out.”

The program will be updated regularly with speaker bios and abstracts!

We look forward to meeting you personally.