See the rails
Digital government, e-health, regulation, Biobank, hospital innovation, EHDS, AI and personalised medicine — in one week.
Tallinn • UNGA • Marseille
The Tallinn Summit
An invitation for Europe's health system, innovation, policy and economic leaders to join in international dialogue.
28 August 2026Estonian HealthTech WeekKarma Ventures, Tallinn
Policy, innovation, and investment in one trusted room.
Selected speakers
Operators, policymakers and capital in the same circle
Stephen Konya
Chief of Innovation and Strategic Partnerships
US Department of Health and Human Services
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Lise-Lotte Laane
Partner, Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare
Sorainen
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Suresh Sundarababu
Executive Director
SWAN Impact Network
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Diane Bouis
Founder
BullsView Ventures
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Eli Velasquez
CEO
Capital Stack Investors
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Alex Kotlar
CEO
Bystro.ai
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Tom Stevenson
CEO
Lifetime Care Services
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Otto Olavinen
Impact Coordinator
Biodesign Finland
LinkedIn →Additional speakers added regularly.
A week of programming or a single day
A connected health corridor in motion.
See the processes as they are being developed. Meet the operators. Decide what happens next. Arrive with introductions and meetings, pre-arranged logistics, and a choice of programming to suit your interests along with local-led sightseeing.
Meet the operators
Work with people who can decide, invest, procure, regulate, implement and open doors across the Nordic–Baltic region.
Choose the next move
Bring one concrete friction, offer or opportunity. Curated meetings throughout the week, and policy discussions across the Atlantic all year.
For North American and Western European leaders, this concentrated visit makes the transatlantic operating environment legible — and turns scattered introductions into a working corridor from governments to investment to implementation.
Concentrated dialogue
Shape future collaborations and conversations, starting at Tallinn
Convened by leaders across Europe and hosted by major Estonian institutions, the Tallinn Summit is part of the official Estonian HealthTech Week, which moves across Tallinn and Tartu — from digital health to research, clinical adoption, investment, and the decisions that follow.
24 Aug
Tallinn
Frontier immersion
E-health, digital state and European market access.
25 Aug
Tartu
Clinical immersion
Biobank, hospital innovation, research and community. Optional: Gene Forum's international convention.
26–27 Aug
Tartu
Policy and investment track
EHDS, data, personalised medicine, prevention and AI. Optional: Baltic VCA Summit in Haapsalu.
28 Aug
Tallinn
Open Circle and reception
The Tallinn Summit's Open Circle and evening gala.
Convening institutions
Select organizations committed throughout the week
- ScanBalt BioRegion
- Republic of Estonia — Ministry of Social Affairs
- Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
- University of Tartu
- TalTech
- Startup Estonia
- Tehnopol
- Tartu Biotechnology Park
- Regionaalhaigla
- Ida-Tallinna Keskhaigla
- Tervisekassa
- i~HD — European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
- EFMI Working Groups
- Erasmus MC
- University of Gothenburg
- Akershus Universitetssykehus
- Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
- UCL
- Netzwerk Deutsche GesundheitsRegionen
- BioCon Valley
- Sitra
- Sorainen
- Nortal
- Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
- Health Founders Estonia
- eesti.ai
- Ventureatlas
- Team PerMed
The Life Science Diplomacy Alliance - Tallinn Summit.
28 August 2026
- 9:00Arrival and delegation introductions, 1:1 meetings
- 12:00Introductions from the Estonian ecosystem
- 12:30Lunch with curated tables
- 13:30The New Diplomacy of Cross-Border Investment and Innovation
- 13:45Panel: What's missing between regions for stronger cooperative innovation?
- 14:45Panel: How do we address uncertainty and move forward?
- 15:15Coffee and refreshments
- 15:40The Capital Corridor
- 15:45Forum I — The Predictability Gap
- 16:30Operationalising within Science Diplomacy
- 16:35Forum II — Strategic Autonomy without Isolation
- 17:20The Implementation Corridor
- 17:25Forum III — Practical Interoperability
- 18:15–21:30Closing reception
The format
Less microphones.
More tables.
Prepare
Submit one verified friction, one offer, and one decision you would like to influence. Opportunities are shared among members and meetings set in advance.
Open Forums
Dialogue is chaired and directed for open discussion. Attendees are able to engage directly with responses, challenge ideas, and propose solutions.
Translation to action
Discover missed opportunities for collaboration while meeting peers across diplomacy, investment and industry. Working forums follow the Chatham House Rule.
Why now
This exists because the operating environment is moving faster than the rooms that usually discuss it.
Five pressures now intersect across health policy, economics, investment and implementation — most of all, how we cooperate, respond, and understand movement from the US going forward.
01
Fiscal sustainability
Ageing populations and constrained budgets are forcing sharper choices about value, access and scale.
02
Workforce & delivery
Systems need innovations that improve capacity and flow — not another layer of work.
03
Strategic autonomy
Resilience, supply chains and trusted partnerships are becoming core health strategy.
04
Health data & EHDS
The question is not whether data can move, but under what conditions, for whose benefit and with what trust.
05
Innovation adoption
Europe still loses value at the handoff between evidence, procurement, capital and implementation.
Tallinn makes the trade-offs visible before they harden into disconnected policy, investment or implementation decisions.
Who is in the room
A community built around decisions — not theatre.
Participants are selected for the ability to shape conversations in policy, evidence, investment, implementation or cross-border action.
Health ministries & policy
Ministers, senior ministry teams and national system leaders.
Economics & system design
Health economic and innovation voices working on value, financing, performance and reform.
Implementation
Hospitals, procurement, clinical leadership, digital-health architects and public-system operators.
Research & infrastructure
Biobank, universities, applied research, data governance and translational institutions.
Capital & industry
Investors, founders, scaleups and corporate partners able to fund, build, buy or open a route.
Diplomacy & corridor operators
Trade, FDI, legal, regulatory and market-entry actors linking Europe globally.
The common denominator: each person can remove friction, create a route, or move a consequential question forward.
Bring / receive
Different institutions enter with different questions — and leave with a shared operating picture.
Health ministries & regional organizations
Bring
Policy priorities, reform questions and system constraints
Receive
Direct insight into how choices interact with delivery, research, industry and investment
Policy organizations, think tanks & economic institutions
Bring
Comparative evidence, economic framing and international system perspective
Receive
A live view of operational friction, emerging partnerships and implementation questions
Public systems, hospitals & research
Bring
Infrastructure, adoption experience, data and translational capability
Receive
Relevant counterparties, financing context and cross-border collaboration routes
Capital, industry, global counterparts
Bring
Investment conditions, commercial pathways and implementation capacity
Receive
Clearer policy context, institutional relationships and opportunities worth following
The room is deliberately mixed: no single institutional perspective is treated as sufficient on its own.
2026 working domains
Corridors of the year
Each Summit gives delegates the opportunity to join colleagues in dedicated Corridors focused on specific challenges and opportunities. Monthly virtual meetings and dossiers provide continuity.
- 01Precision medicine and genomics
- 02Oncology and early detection
- 03Women's health
- 04Cardiometabolic and renal
- 05Neurology and mental health
- 06Prevention and wellness
Opportunity dossier
The Opportunity Dossier turns the community into a working map.
It captures what people are trying to solve, offer, fund, buy or build — and gives partners a useful place inside that map.
Community inputs
- One verified friction
- One active offer
- One decision or opportunity
LSDA synthesis
- Organization + geography
- Market + stage
- Counterpart sought
- Timing + next move
Partner action
- Relevant expertise
- Preferred opportunity types
- Named call to action
- Consent-based follow-up
No raw attendee database. Personal details are shared only where the individual has opted in or requested an introduction. Partner access covers organization-level profiles, aggregate themes, opt-in contact details and facilitated introductions.
Life Science Diplomacy Alliance
The summit is one working point in a longer corridor.
LSDA is an industry-led connective layer between policy, innovation and capital — not another conference brand. A trusted operating corridor across allied health and life-science systems, where Europe, the United States and ANZ compare constraints and opportunities.
Tallinn
Open Circle working summit alongside Estonian HealthTech Week
UNGA season
Policy and partner dialogue
Monthly virtual
Dossiers, updates and working groups
Marseille
Continuity summit alongside MedFIT and BioFIT
Policy · Innovation · Capital · Implementation — Europe • United States • ANZ
For Stronger Collaborations
Arrive with issues and opportunities you want to make visible.
28 August 2026 · Tallinn · Karma Ventures
Bring a case
One policy, economic, implementation or partnership question that would benefit from the right mixed room.
Enter in good faith
Participate candidly under the Chatham House Rule. No unrestricted sales pitch and no expectation of institutional endorsement.
Stay connected
Join the community meetings, review the dossier and follow through where a useful next step emerges.
Elizabeth Jennings · Executive Director · Elizabeth@lifesciencediplomacy.com