It is our pleasure to invite you come and expand your network, enrich your mind and nurture potential business opportunities at our upcoming breakfast seminar:

Health Innovation: From Pilot to Scale

Why do health innovations stall between pilot and implementation and what will it take to fix it?

Date: Wednesday 16th September

Time: 08:15-10:00 (doors open 07:30)

Where: First House. Øvre Vollgate 13, Oslo

Norway and the UK are investing heavily in health innovation and life science. Health care services are under mounting pressure:

– an ageing population,

– fewer healthcare workers,

– and rising expectations for quality and capacity.

So what is it going to take? Why do health innovations stall between pilot and implementation – and what will it take to fix it?

A topic high on the agenda for politicians, entrepreneurs, investors and private companies, join the discussion with our esteemed speakers and panelists;

• Ingvild Kjerkol
  • Former Minister of Health and Care Services; Partner and Senior Advisor, First House

• Kjell Erik Ullman Øie
  • Chair of the committee behind NOU 2026:6 The New Welfare Municipality. Former State Secretary.

• Leigh Pugh
  • VP, Commercial Development, CONCR UK
  • the UK techbio bringing AI and astrophysics methods to cancer treatment prediction.

• Espen Bakken
  • Partner, Simonsen Vogt Wiig and Member on Board of Directors, Norway Health Tech.
  • Expert in competition and public procurement law

• Jon-Bendik Thue
  • Chief Growth Officer, SENSIO,
  • the Nordic care-tech scale-up bringing sensor-based fall prevention and remote monitoring from pilot to over 220 care providers across the Nordics and UK.

• Benedicte Bakke
  • Portfolio Manager, DNB Asset Management,
  • leading DNB’s Health Care and Biotechnology funds and investing in the next wave of health and life science innovation.

• (TBA) Vital Things
  • The Norwegian health-tech company developing next-generation, contactless health monitoring for hospitals and municipalities.

• Moderator: Eline Hvamstad
  • Partner and Senior Advisor at First House.