Healthtech Summit 2026
Overview
A conference on digital technology in medicine and healthcare, running since 2020. Researchers, hospital executives and policymakers present alongside a healthcare startup pitch contest. The 2026 edition is the 12th, themed "Who Leads Care?" It began as Healthtech/SUM, co-hosted by Nikkei and MedPeer, and took its current name in 2024.
Program
- All sessions run in a single room, Hall B
- Day 1: opening panel Who Leads Care? and six sessions on topics such as prescribing authority, elder care, death tech, hospital management and real-world data, followed by a networking party (18:30-20:30)
- Day 2: Government Update, sessions on physician information access and AI drug discovery, and a Global Session
- Startup pitch contest final and award ceremony on the afternoon of Day 2, preceded by an online popularity vote in October
- Selected sessions are streamed live online with archives
Foundation
- Founded
- 2020
- Founder
- Yo Ishimi (President of MedPeer) chairs the organizing committee
Began in 2020 as Healthtech/SUM, co-hosted by Nikkei and MedPeer, and was renamed Healthtech Summit in 2024. It connects clinical and care settings with technology and policy, and continues to surface startups through its pitch contest.
Transition
- 2020 Launched as Healthtech/SUM
- 2024 Renamed Healthtech Summit
- 2025 11th edition themed Into Your Hands, with Kizunaro winning the pitch contest
- 2026 12th edition held December 6-7 under the theme Who Leads Care?
Voices
The 11th edition was the first held on a Sunday and Monday, and Kizunaro took top prize in the pitch contest (from InnerVision's 2025 report, in Japanese)
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