8 - 10 April 2025, Berlin, Germany.The Berlin Exhibition Centre will be all about digital health from 8 to 10 April 2025. DMEA, Europe's leading event for digital healthcare, organised by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT e. V. (German Association of Health IT Vendors), will bring together experts from medicine, business, science and politics to jointly shape the future of healthcare.
The entire programme overview can be found at the DMEA website, which is updated on an ongoing basis.
The event will feature keynote speeches from renowned speakers, including Federal Minister of Health Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach, who has personally assumed the patronage of the DMEA and will deliver a keynote address on the opening day.
Mina Saidze, a multi-award-winning AI expert, author and founder, will also be delivering a keynote speech. She will focus on the impact that technology has on the lives of all people, and the influence that each individual can have on the development of technology.
Futurist Richard van Hooijdonk will take participants on a journey into the digital future. In his keynote speech, he will show how technological innovations will fundamentally change life, the world of work and business models. He will demonstrate the great technical possibilities: Van Hooijdonk has several chip implants in his body with which he can control his house and car.
DMEA Congress: The most important topics in digital healthcare
The DMEA 2025 congress program is set to be a game-changer, with 15 sessions featuring top national and international experts. They will be diving into the latest developments, challenges and opportunities in digital health.The DMEA congress program is firmly focused on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, electronic patient records in everyday care, practical applications of telemedicine and digital doctor-patient communication. Professionals from business, associations, science and medicine will be providing invaluable insights into new developments, best practices from everyday practice and innovative solutions.
Digitalization in the political environment
The German Association of Health IT Vendors - bvitg e. V. will be represented at DMEA 2025 with its own program focus and will address key political decisions for the coming years. In a joint session, gematik and the Federal Ministry of Health will discuss the digitalization strategy 2.0. The COCIR (European Coordination Committee of the Radiology, Electromedicine and Healthcare IT Industry) will provide an insight into European healthcare policy and its impact on the German healthcare system. In their session, Dr Susanne Johna from the Marburger Bund and Matthias Mieves MdB, spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group for e-health and member of the Health Committee and the Committee for Digital Affairs, will talk about which political decisions will be relevant for the digitalization of the healthcare system in the coming years.The popular DMEA formats "Schnelle Runde", "eHealth Hotseat" and "Debattierclub" will also feature at DMEA 2025. Here, experts from politics and healthcare will face critical questions from the moderators. Who will convince? Who will fight for every word? DMEA 2025 will show it.
International exchange and promotion of innovation
At DMEA 2025, the international perspective on digital health will be a key focus:Experts from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will provide unparalleled insight into how patient data is used in Scandinavia. A Franco-German panel will take a close look at the respective healthcare systems and discuss what the countries can learn from each other. Berlin Partner will also present "Vision 2035" and discuss how personalised medicine can succeed with the help of supercomputing.
"In this eventful year, we have once again succeeded in putting together an innovative and varied programme. The bvitg e. V. will be represented at DMEA 2025 with numerous programme focal points to discuss key political decisions for the coming years. We are looking forward to the DMEA, its visitors and a lively exchange," says Melanie Wendling, Managing Director of the bvitg.
The DMEA program is constantly being supplemented and expanded. The program overview can be found here on the DMEA website.
The DMEA 2025 program is three days of concentrated expertise and innovation, with over 800 companies and startups from Germany and around the world presenting innovations and new products, including during the more than 50 guided tours.
At the DMEA Solutions Hubs, experts will give compact presentations on current developments, such as AI and cloud technologies.
DMEA sparks brings together students, young talents, companies and universities for career and networking. The DMEA sparks Award recognises outstanding academic theses with prizes of up to €2,500. At the DMEA nova Award, 20 startups pitch their innovative ideas and solutions to a panel of experts.
Delegates can learn more about AI, patient portals, smart care communication and NLP in the DMEA seminars.
Tickets for the DMEA are available in the online ticket store on the DMEA website.
About DMEA
DMEA is Europe's leading event for digital health, which gathers decision-makers from all areas of the healthcare sector, including IT specialists, physicians, hospital and nursing care executives as well as experts from politics, science and research.18,600 participants attended DMEA 2024, around 800 exhibitors presented their innovative solutions and over 350 speakers took to the DMEA stages.
In 2023, around 16,200 participants, 735 exhibitors and more than 300 national and international speakers took part at the DMEA.
The DMEA is organized by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e.V. (Federal Association for Health IT) and is hosted by Messe Berlin GmbH. It is organized in cooperation with the industry associations GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology) e.V., BVMI (Professional Association of Medical Informatics) e.V. and with the content-related participation of KH-IT (Federal Association of Hospital IT Managers) e.V. and CIO-UK (Chief Information Officers - University Hospitals).