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Why you as a dentistry group should join us...
Dentistry across EMEA is changing fast. Nationally and internationally, there has been massive consolidation. That has gone hand-in-hand with new business models offering access to more services in new easy-access locations, often from 8 am to 8 pm.
Healthcare Business International, now in its thirteenth year, is the only CEO event to give you the market overview you need to steer your dentistry business forwards. Every year CEOs and CXO teams from dentistry, outpatient, hospitals and care groups join us from across the world. They come for six reasons:
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Here is what past delegates have said about the event...
HBI conferences have directly enabled me to triple sales to €10m and to quintuple EBITDA in four years. Every year I attend and every year I come away with ideas that my management team has executed.
Oldřich Šubrt, Founder, Program Health Plus
What struck me was the availability of some of the brightest minds in health care. I get to meet a lot of people in a very fluid way which I could not do anywhere else.
Ronnie Van der Merwe, CEO, Mediclinic
It's one place where you meet everyone: providers, insurers, digital health services - everyone. There are a lot of conversations about future models of health care such as subscription models. We know what we have done well but where are we going in the future?
Somesh Chandra, CEO Employee Benefits, AXA Domestic Markets, AXA, Insurance 2022
They come for four reasons:
Highly relevant content
This year we have two sessions focused on dentistry with speakers including Bob Fontana, the founder of The Aspen Group, the second largest US dentistry group, Tom Riall, executive chairman of {my}dentist, one of top three players in EMEA and Javier Martín, CEO, Donte Group, the largest player in Southern Europe.
MORE highly relevant content
You’ll find our sessions on M&A in health care fascinating, as well as a detailed presentation from Hedley Goldberg at Rothschild HBI has panels on investing in Europe and Emerging Markets where the speakers are big investors in the sector.
Even MORE highly relevant content
Workforce, subscription models in healthcare, payor relations, making money from digital, where and how to cut costs. You’ll find sessions on all these at HBI 2023.
Network with your peers
This is a rare opportunity to meet other large dentistry groups but also outpatient and hospital groups who are wrestling with YOUR issues around workforce, digital, new payor models and brand.
Network with investors
In 2022 over 150 investors in healthcare services attended this event. Meet and build relationships with the specialist investors who understand this industry.
The broader vision you need
You are part of a new, emerging industry - health care services. Today you need to understand the dentistry sector internationally AND how the entire health care sector is changing. Value health, the risk of disintermediarisation, and new apps in the wider healthcare market are all relevant to you and your business. All of this is covered in our agenda.
Perhaps it is not surprising that many dentistry groups send CXO teams. Now book your place at HBI 2023. As a dentistry group you qualify for a discount off list price.
Call us now on +44 207 183 3779 or email conference@healthcarebusinessinternational.com
What's more, as Dentistry Group Discount you receive a special discount...
Standard ticket rate £2,470
Dentistry Group discount ENDS:
Session highlights
Wednesday June 21, 2023
What is your elixir of growth? A Dentistry case study
Using case studies from dental service CEOs, this session explores how outpatient groups best pursue growth. Does bigger always equal better? What is the right balance between acquisition and greenfield? How should your brand appeal to different customer groups? How do you calculate the value in adding new services?
Bob Fontana, Chairman and CEO, The Aspen Group
Tom Riall, Executive Chairman, {my}dentist
Sam Waley-Cohen, Founder and CEO, Portman Healthcare International Group
Rahma Samow, EVP, Straumann Group
Moderated by David Farbrother, Editorial Director, HBI
Wednesday June 21, 2023
Dental models that benefit both customers and clinicians
A huge benefit of outpatient models is the ability to lower barriers for customers through locations, longer operating hours and more convenience. But what impact does this have on the happiness of clinicians? Through the lens of dental services, this session features CEOs discussing how they have balanced the needs and demands of both groups, harnesing technology, building the right culture and ensuring the future workforce.
Speakers include:
Javier Martin, CEO, Donte Group
Mirko Puccio, Founder and CEO, Primo Caredent Group
Joerg Aumueller, VP, Enterprise Solutions, Straumann Group
Moderated by David Farbrother, Editorial Director, HBI
Tuesday June 20, 2023
The 2023 Healthcare M&A Landscape
Will M&A in health care come to a standstill or will mountains of dry powder see it power through? What will be the impact as inflation soars to its highest levels since the early 1980s and we face recession and a workforce crisis.
Hedley Goldberg, Partner, Rothschild & Co
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Investing in Europe
How do major investors in the sector view the challenges it faces? How do they view environmental, societal and governance issues? In which sectors and countries do they see opportunities?
Martin Henrichs, Head of Healthcare EMEA, UBS
Nikolaus Woloszczuk, Senior Managing Partner, Stonepeak
Inaki Cobo, Partner, Private Equity, KKR
Viviana Kane, Managing Director, EQT Partners
Moderated by Max Hotopf, Founder and Chairman, HBI
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Investing in Emerging Markets
Bearing the brunt of inadequate health systems, low and middle-income countries are ripe for investment opportunities from the private sector. This session with leading emerging market investors outlines the challenges and the opportunities for investment, growth and innovation.
Speakers include:
Amaury Guerrero, CEO, Opty / Patria Group
Zeynep Kantur, Global Manager & Global Head of Health, IFC
Afsane Jetha, Managing Partner & CEO, Alta Semper Capital
Jide Olanrewaju, Managing Director, TPG Rise
Moderated by Max Ateba, Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Building the best model for digital
Finding the business model that best leverages digital and technology is tough. Health care is littered with failed attempts at innovation and transformation. Often this is due to a misunderstanding of where value is really created and a failure to build integrated systems. This session looks at mistakes and lessons learnt. What does success look like for providers large or small and how is it achieved?
Speakers include:
Sourabh Pagaria, EMEA Lead Digitally-enabled Service, EVP & Managing Director Southern Europe, Siemens Healthineers
Hafid Rifi, CFO, Asklepios
Thomas Hagemeijer, Healthcare Lead, TLGG
Oskari Eskola, CEO, BeeHealthy
Moderated by Klaus Boehncke, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
Hafid explains how €5bn hospital group Asklepios has brought efficiency, cost saving and new revenue streams through digital investments. Thomas lays out the various business models adopted in digital health and identifies the challenges and benefits of each. Oskari shares how Mehilainen is leveraging its learnings to build a digitally enabled pan-European outpatient network.
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Managing your costs in challenging times
Rising costs from inflation, wages, and energy are indiscriminately hitting the healthcare sector and despite government support packages being pledged, the road ahead looks arduous. So how do providers control costs? This session explores strategies to keep costs at bay from strategic procurement to efficiency gains and getting more out of your existing technology.
Speakers include:
Joe Ryan, Chief Financial Officer, Medicover
Few people are better placed than Joe to deal with challenging operating environments. In his 27 years at Medicover he has seen it all from credit crisis to political instability and war. Rising inflation and new health reform in Finland has meant that Terveystalo has had to focus hard on managing costs. Ville discusses the impact whilst increasing productivity and the service to patients
Ville Iho, President and CEO, Terveystalo
Jim Easton, Group CEO, Practice Plus Group
Moderated by Janti Masani, Founder and CEO, CXO Impact LLP
Tuesday June 20, 2023
Models that cover more people
Subscription models, a rise in employee paid-for insurance, digital apps and engagement, building their own ecosystems – insurers are making fundamental changes to health care delivery. This session explores these initiatives and their impact.
Speakers include:
Dr Hendrik Hanekom, CEO, Intercare Group
Katie Wadey, Chief Product and Commercial Officer, Simplyhealth
Jalil Allabadi, Co-Founder, Altibbi
Moderated by Tom McMullen, Managing Director, HBI
Tuesday June 20, 2023
How to solve the workforce puzzle
How do you best recruit and retain a strong workforce in nurses, doctors and specialist staff? What role does training and culture play here? Providers present case studies on how they have managed to shift the needle.
Speakers include:
Dr Fatih Mehmet Gul, Vice President, Fakeeh Care Group; CEO, Fakeeh University Hospital
Dr Sandra Roddinger, Executive Partner, RadioOnkologieNetzwerk, Ergéa Group
Rachel King, Group People Director, Spire Healthcare
Emma Pearson, CEO, Achieve Together
Moderated by Eilert Hinrichs, Partner, L.E.K. Consulting
The gulf has long been known for its dependence on expat workers. Fatih discusses how Fakeeh is building a pipeline of locally trained Saudi and UAE clinicians to plug gaps and even export to other markets.
Sandra explains how RadioOnkologieNetzwerk (RON) has developed its own training institute and talent pipeline offering a more practical approach than the traditional university pathway.
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The Shape of Things to Come
The health care sector is set to change dramatically over the next five years. Our panellists look at how and at what this means for anyone running a scale business in the sector.
We start with a presentation from Chinta Bhagat, partner at L Catterton which looks at the elision of wellness and health care services, the rise of the omnichannel, the move to outpatient and personalised medicine. He was previously head of global healthcare at Khazanah Nasional Berhad, where he was closely involved with IHH, the largest emerging markets private hospital group. He also spent 14 years at McKinsey & Company where he was a leader in the principal investor and healthcare practices and worked extensively with private equity and sovereign wealth funds to drive their healthcare investing agenda.
Chinta Bhagat, Managing Partner, Asia, L Catterton
Dr Jonathan Broomberg, CEO, Vitality Health International
Rob Walton, President & CEO, Europe, Middle East & Africa, GE Healthcare
Moderated by Max Hotopf, Founder and Chairman, HBI
Wednesday June 21, 2023
The evolution in Primary Care
The huge primary care sector in Europe holds the key to outpatient consolidation. Here we look at how operators are pairing it with digital and telehealth, pharmacies and imaging, and at how they are reimagining its delivery and business models.
Speakers include:
Dr Murray Ellender, CEO and Co-Founder, eConsult Health
Lyndsey Reeves, Director of Operations UK, Kry Livi
Dirk Knueppel, CEO, Primärmedizin TMVZ GmbH
Martin Lindman, CEO, Doktor.Se
Moderated by Martin Debenito-Gellner, Senior Analyst, HBI
