Meet our Speakers
Making EHDS Real
Scaling Genomics & Imaging for Trusted Secondary Use
24–25 September 2026 | Bilbao, Spain

Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Crete; Senior Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Maastricht University; and President of the European Public Health Association's (EUPHA) Global Health section
Clinical Bioinformatics Director, Genomcore
Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD)
Deputy Minister for Health and Digital Transformation, Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza).
Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Group Coordinator, Computational Neuroimaging, IIS Biobizkaia Health Research Institute
Executive Director of Digital Strategy, DHCW - Digital Health and Care Wales
Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation at the Basque Government
Director of Digital Strategy, Basque Government
Secretary General for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of Spain's National Health System (SNS) at the Ministry of Health
Scientific Director of Health Data Research Network Canada
Data Scientist, AEMPS Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices
Head of Health Innovation, EMEA, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Programme Director at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Coordinator for Personalized Medicine and Advanced Therapies at the Basque Health Service (Osakidetza)
Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences
Paulo Nunes de Abreu, PhD, CPF, known internationally as Paul Nunesdea, is the founder and "Firestarter" of the Health Data Forum, an international platform that convenes healthcare leaders, policymakers, and innovators to advance responsible, data-driven healthcare. As a Certified Professional Facilitator, he designs and leads global hybrid...
Associate Director – Healthcare Data Analytics at NICE, UK
Head of Sector for AI Health Tech and Infrastructure - DG CONNECT
Professor of Bioinformatics, King's College London
Member, WHO Technical Advisory Group on Genomics (TAG-G)
Director for Industry, Consumer, Business Services & Health at Ayesa Digital

Head of Sector – Health Biotech at the European Commission
Head of EU Health Agencies and Benelux Government, IQVIA
President of the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD)
Head of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance, AEMPS - Spanish Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices
Chief Scientific Officer at Health Data Hub, France
Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Development (OECD)
Deputy Minister for Health and Digital Transformation, Basque Government (Eusko Jaurlaritza).
Associate Professor at ISCTE and Director of BRU_DHI – Digital Health International
Professor of Civil Law, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU); Bioethics and Health-Law Expert
Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation at the Basque Government
Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Executive Board Member at SPMS – Shared Services of the Ministry of Health, Portugal
Scientific Director of the OneHealth DataSpace and Big Data Team Leader at CESGA, the Galicia Supercomputing Center,
Head of ELIXIR Project Management Office & European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Deployment Lead
Solutions Leader Spain & Portugal | Innovative & Strategic Projects, Philips
Director of Data & AI for Health & Social Care at NTT DATA Europe & Latam
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), BAIC — Basque Artificial Intelligence Centre
Data and AI leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Leire Sarasua Ronda is the Data & AI Manager at LKS Next. Her career has focused on data, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence, evolving from data analytics and predictive models to project management and digital transformation programs.
Senior Lawyer and Head of Digital Law Practice, LKS Next LEGAL
Chief of Cabinet, General Secretariat for Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the Spanish National Health System — Spanish Ministry of Health
Programme Director at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Deputy Head of the Digital Health Unit in the European Commission
Paulo Nunes de Abreu, PhD, CPF, known internationally as Paul Nunesdea, is the founder and "Firestarter" of the Health Data Forum, an international platform that convenes healthcare leaders, policymakers, and innovators to advance responsible, data-driven healthcare. As a Certified Professional Facilitator, he designs and leads global hybrid...














































