​What is holding Europe back?

​What needs to change? And who should shape the next generation of healthcare AI?

​Europe wants digital sovereignty in healthcare AI. But ambition alone will not determine who builds the systems, who controls the infrastructure, or who captures the value.

​This invitation-only event brings together leaders from industry, academia, and policy to examine the gap between Europe’s sovereignty ambitions and the reality of deploying AI at scale in healthcare. Together, participants will develop actionable recommendations for European digital sovereignty to guide ongoing projects and the government’s AI strategy.

​The evening will feature a moderated panel, an open audience discussion, and dinner and drinks.

​Agenda

• ​17:00: Arrival and welcome

• ​17:30: Stage event

• ​18:30: Dinner and drinks

​On Stage

​Dan Rose Johansen, CEO and Founder, Todai

​Dan has spent a decade building and deploying AI inside real organisations and has become one of Denmark's most direct public voices on what it actually takes to make AI work in practice. As the author of Applying Artificial Intelligence: The Practitioner's Handbook and a regular contributor to Børsen and Finans.dk, he brings a sharp practitioner's eye to a conversation that too often stays at the level of policy. His instinct, that Europe risks legislating first and understanding later will keep the evening honest.

​Kezia Wexøe-Mikkelsen, Analyst, Think Tank Europa

​Kezia is one of the sharpest trackers of the gap between EU legislative ambition and on-the-ground reality, working at the think tank that sits closest to the intersection of Danish and European policy. At a moment when the EHDS is moving from legislation to implementation and Denmark is forming a new government with AI policy live in those negotiations, her analytical precision is exactly what the conversation needs.

​Jan Damsgaard, Professor, CBS

​Denmark's nationally appointed Digital Advisor and one of Europe's most credible academic voices on digitalisation, Jan has spent his career asking the uncomfortable questions that institutions prefer to avoid, including whether Europe's regulatory instinct is its competitive advantage or its greatest obstacle. His recently published work on digital sovereignty cuts through the political sloganeering to ask what the concept actually means in practice.

​Andreas Cleve, CEO and Founder, Corti

​Andreas is building Europe's frontier vertical AI lab for healthcare. This means raising capital, deploying clinical AI across health systems, and navigating the regulatory environment from the inside every day. As a member of Denmark's Digitaliseringsrådet and a board member of the Gefion supercomputer, he speaks not just as a founder but as someone actively shaping the infrastructure and policy conditions his own company depends on.

​Moderator

​Connie Hedegaard, Former European Commissioner for Climate Action

​Connie served as the EU's Commissioner for Climate Action and before that as Denmark's Minister for both Climate and Energy and Environment, making her one of the architects of Europe's most ambitious regulatory transformation of the past two decades. As a former journalist who has spent her career translating complex systemic challenges into political action, she brings to the moderator's chair something rare — the authority of someone who has sat on both sides of the table when Europe decides to change course.

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​Spaces are limited to keep the conversation focused and productive.