PHASE IV AI Final Conference – Advancing Privacy‑Compliant Health Data for AI

Date: 4 June 2026

Time: 9.45-16.00 local time (EEST).

             Registration and coffee from 9.00;

             Networking from 16.00-18.00.

Venue: Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki

Putous-auditorium.

Lemminkäisenkatu 12b, 20520 Turku.

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Participation: free of charge

Registration required by 12 May 2026.

Seats are limited – so please register early!

Remote participation will also be available.

About the Conference

Join researchers, industry experts, healthcare professionals, and policymakers at the final conference of the PHASE IV AI project to explore advanced methods for privacy‑preserving synthetic health data, decentralized and compliant data access, and trustworthy AI deployment within the emerging European Health Data Space.

Key themes include:

  • The Health Data Hub: Connecting stakeholders across the health ecosystem and enabling local deployment of Data as a Service (DaaS) and Model as a Service (MaaS) solutions through a virtual Secure Processing Environment (vSPE).
  • PHASE IV AI use cases: Project results are being validated through real-world use cases in high-impact diseases: lung cancer, prostate cancer, and ischemic stroke – which will be presented during the event
  • Advanced research on privacy-preserving data synthesis: Showcasing research including Electronic Heath Records (EHRs) and medical imaging.
  • Expert panel discussion: Exploring the European Health Data Space (EHDS) from technical, regulatory, and practical stakeholder perspectives.

The conference concludes with a networking get‑together including refreshments.

During event breaks and the networking get-together, participants will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the project’s tools and services.

Programme*

9.00 – 9.45 Registration and coffee

Session 1: PHASE IV AI – research highlights

9.45– 12.30

  • Opening words and introduction to the PHASE IV AI project. Antti Airola, Associate Professor, Health Technology. University of Turku
  • Keynote speech: Nihal Yildirim, Programme Manager Horizon Europe. Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)
  • PHASE IV AI Health Data Hub. Geert Machtelinckx, Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Belgium
  • Use cases and pilot evaluations. David Brown, Professor, Director of the Computing and Informatics Research Centre. Nottingham Trent University

Coffee break

  • Secure Multiparty Computation (SMPC). Mariya Georgieva, Head of Cryptography. Tune Insight SA
  • Synthetic health data creation. Rafael Redondo, Director of the Multimedia Technologies Unit. Fundació Eurecat

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

Session 2: Legal, Regulatory, and Industry Perspectives

13.30 – 16.00

  • Safe and Secure use of Health Data in EHDS Era. Peija Haaramo, Acting Head of Data Services, Findata.
  • Next-Generation Anonymization: Securing Nordic RWD for Cross-Border AI & RWE Innovation. Tuomo Pentikäinen, CEO, VEIL.AI

Coffee break

  • Panel discussion : The European Health Data Space (EHDS), technical and legal perspectives
    • Moderator: Juha Pajula, Senior Scientist, Health Data Analytics, VTT Research Centre of Finland
    • Panelists:
      • Miikka Kallberg, Development Manager, Collaboration Service Environments & Solutions for Sensitive Data at CSC – IT Center for Science
      • Tuomo Pentikäinen, CEO, VEIL.AI
      • Ibrahim Sabra, Research Associate, the University of Vienna 
      • More experts will join the panel; updates coming soon
  • Final remarks and conference closure

16.00 – 18.00 Networking get‑together with refreshments

* The programme is subject to changes

Who should attend?

  • Healthcare professionals, especially clinicians using AI-assisted diagnostics
  • Technology developers and service providers, including secure data transfer and processing companies and innovators
  • Data providers such as hospitals and national health authorities
  • Authorities, policymakers, and legal/regulatory experts

Please check here for all practical information (arrival instructions, travel information, accommodation & transportation)

Conference contact person: Riitta Pöntynen, Project coordinator (management)

riitta.pontynen@utu.fi

tel. +358 40 351 0476

Organized by:  PHASE IV AI Horizon Europe Project – Privacy compliant health data as a service for AI development.

Grant Agreement Number: 101095384