Digital Health Cocktail Hour

Rewiring Chronic Care: From Episodic Treatment to Continuous Management

Chronic diseases drive the majority of healthcare burden - yet care remains reactive, fragmented, and hard to scale. A new wave of digital health startups is shifting the model toward continuous, proactive, and patient-centered care.

How can engagement be sustained beyond the clinic? What does scalable, outcome-driven chronic care actually look like? And how do startups successfully navigate market entry and access across reimbursement pathways, payer partnerships, and physician-led distribution?

​​​​Speakers

​🎤 Ben Wörner, VP of Product at Oviva.

​🎤 Maciek Malenda, CEO & Founder of Doctor.One

​🎤 Leo Benning, Chief Medical Officer at Vivira

​🎤 ​Moderated by Katherine Ossenkopp, Country Manager Germany at Future4care​

​Healthcare Week

This event is part of Healthcare Week at the Merantix AI Campus, where Europe’s leading clinicians, builders, and operators come together for the most rigorous conversations on real-world AI in healthcare, and what it actually takes to build, deploy, and scale in clinical environments.

About the series

​​Brought to you by Earlybird Venture Capital, Amazon Web Services, Future4care, Charité's Berlin Institute of Health and The Merantix AI Campus, Digital Health Cocktail Hour is THE series of digital health networking events in Berlin ⭐️

​​The first part of the event consists of a conversation from the perspective of investors, pharmaceutical/ biotech companies, and clinical experts, where the experts from different backgrounds will share practical tips and learnings from their journeys and ventures.

​​The second part of the event will be dedicated to a unique networking session, where you can connect with the brightest founders, VCs, and clinical innovators who work with health and biological data on a daily basis.

​​You will have the opportunity to register for our Office Minutes, an incredible opportunity for a private 5-minute one-on-one session with key representatives from our hosts.

​​Agenda

​​18:00 - Arrival & cocktails

​18:10 - Office minutes start

​18:45 - Panel discussion & Q&A

​19:30 - Networking, more cocktails & more office minutes

​​​​⚠️ Doors close at 19:00 sharp! Arrive before then.​

About your hosts

​Future4care is Europe’s leading ecosystem dedicated to digital health. Launched in 2021 through an alliance between Sanofi, Generali, Capgemini, and Orange, Future4care brings together key HealthTech players—major corporations, experts, healthcare professionals, public institutions, and startups—to foster meaningful synergies and drive innovation in healthcare.

​Earlybird: is a pan-European venture capital firm backing exceptional early-stage companies with funding, strategic support, and access to global networks. It invests in tech-enabled sectors such as fintech, enterprise software, and deep tech, alongside a dedicated Health strategy focused on improving patient outcomes, and a Growth Opportunity Fund for follow-on investments. Managing €2.5 billion and with a strong exit track record, Earlybird is one of Europe’s most established VC firms.

​The Berlin Institute of Health at Charité has an ambitious and important mission: biomedical translation. They define biomedical translation as a process that converts scientific discoveries into products and services to benefit patients.

​Amazon Web Services: Since 2006 it provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

​​Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries.