• Robert-Jan SMITS
  General Director DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Miklós SZÓCSKA
  Minister of State for Health, Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
• Maria Da Graça CARVALHO
  Member of the European Parliament
• Alastair KENT
  Chairman, European Platform for Patients' Organizations, Science and Industry (EPPOSI)
• Guy LEBEAU
  Chairman, European Medical Technology Industry Association (Eucomed)
• Alexandre DELACOUX
  Executive director, European Biopharmaceuticals Enterprises, EBE (replaced Marc de Garidel, President European Biopharmaceuticals Enterprises, EBE)
• Iain GILLESPIE
  Head of the Science and Technology Policy Division
  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• Tine BRYAN STENSBØL
  Divisional Director for Discovery Pharmacology Research, Lundbeck
• Björn EKSTRÖM
  President and CEO, Olink
• Andras DINNYES
  Director, BioTalentum
• Marco D'ANGELANTONIO
  CEO, Health Information Management S.A.

Moderators:
Ruxandra DRAGHIA-AKLI, Director, Health, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Nathalie MOLL, Secretary General, EuropaBio

• Gerd ZETTLMEISSL
  CEO, Intercell.
• Margaret ANDERSON
  Executive Director, FasterCures.
• Daniel NELKI
  Head of Legal and Operations, Wellcome Trust

Moderators:
Giulia DEL BRENNA, Head of Unit, Food and Healthcare Industries, Biotechnology, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
Emmanuel CHANTELOT, Director European Government Relations and Public Policy, Shire (former EBE Executive Director)

• John DALLI
  Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, European Commission

• Nevenka KREGAR VELIKONJA
  Director, Educell
• Julianna LISZIEWICZ
  President, CEO, Vice-President of Research, Genetic Immunity
• Ernö DUDA
  President, Hungarian Biotechnology Association, President and CEO, Solvo Biotech
• Onno VAN DE STOLPE
  CEO, Galapagos

Moderators:
Peter DROELL, Head of Unit, Policy Development for Industrial Innovation , DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
Frank HEEMSKERK, CEO, Research and Innovation Management Services

• Angela BRAND
  Director, European Centre for Public Health Genomics (ECPHG), University of Maastricht
• Pietro FOLINO GALLO
  Director of Medicines Utilisation and Expenditure and HTA, Italian Medicines Agency
• Thomas BOLS
  Vice President Corporate Health Policy and Market Access, Merck Serono
• Bernhard GIBIS
  Director, National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians Germany
• Ludovic LACAINE
  Director of Healthcare, EuropaBio
• John R. RIDGE
  Director Reimbursement and Health Economics, Roche Tissue Diagnostics

Moderators:
Giulia DEL BRENNA, Head of Unit, Food and Healthcare Industries, Biotechnology, DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
Andrea RAPPAGLIOSI, Co-chair HTA Task Force, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline

• Antonio TAJANI
  Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship

• Tony HICKSON
  Managing Director, Technology transfer, Imperial Innovations
• Lilian WIKSTRÖM
  CEO, Karolinska Institutet Holding AB
• Rudy DEKEYSER
  Managing Director, VIB Transfer
• Patrick TRICOLI
  Scouting & Partnering International, Sanofi Aventis
• Piyush UNALKAT
  Principal, Transaction Relationship Management (Technology Transfer), European Investment Fund.

Moderators:
Audrey GOOSEN , Policy Officer, Knowledge transfer: university-industry relations, Innovation Policy DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Christian SUOJANEN, Head of Life Sciences, Valor Management S.A. and Co-Chairman, Tech Transfer Summit

• Panos KANAVOS
  Director, Health and Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics
• Jean-Jacques ZAMBROWSKI
  Hospital Physician and Professor of Health Economics, Paris Descartes University
• Anders OLAUSON
  President, European Patients' Forum
• Maria IGLESIA GOMEZ
  Head of Unit, DG Health and Consumers, Member of the Steering Group of the Healthy Ageing Innovation Partnership

Moderators:
Andrzej RYS, Director, Public Health, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission
Philippe JACON , ad interim Director General, European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA)

• Joël JEAN-MAIRET
  Managing Partner, Ysios Capital Partners
• Cécile THARAUD
  CEO, Inserm Transfert
• Torbjörn KRONANDER
  CEO Sectra
• Jacques VISEUR
  Managing Director, Eurotop Cooperation Partners

Moderators:
Stéphane HOGAN, Head of Unit, Horizontal Aspects, Health, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Mike WARD, Editor, Scrip Intelligence, Informa Group.

• Simon VRHUNEC
  Director, University Medical Center Ljubljana
• John WILKINSON
  Chief Executive, EUCOMED
• Stefan NARDI-HIEBL
  COCIR Innovation Champion
• Anne-Kirstine DYRVIG
  Coordinator, Odense University Hospital

Moderators:
Andrzej RYS, Director, Public Health, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission
Philippe JACON , ad interim Director General, European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association (EDMA)

Rapporteurs will summarise the outcome of each session, followed by a panel discussion involving also the audience.

• Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN
  Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, European Commission