Programme

13:00 Door opening

13:30 Welcoming Remarks

• Gabriel Schweizer, Senior Project Manager Asia, BaselArea.swiss
• Dr. Beat Krähenmann Director, Head Legal Corporate, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel
• Felix Sutter, President Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce
• Regierungsrat Christoph Brutschin, Councillor, Department of Economics, Social and Environmental Affairs of the Canton of Basel Stadt

14:00 Session 1: Challenges, Responses and Opportunities in the Chinese Health Sector

Rapid demographic and social changes in China are placing new pressures on the healthcare system as an ageing and increasingly wealthy population seek responses and treatments for ailments associated with a prosperous nation.

This session will investigate some of the key challenges of healthcare provision in a rapidly changing China, how the Chinese government and the global healthcare industry are responding to these challenges, and what opportunities are being created for large as well as small and medium-sized Swiss enterprises.

• Laurenz Kellenberger Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Basilea Pharmaceuticals
• Alexander Hardy, Head of Global Product Strategy, Roche Pharma
• Dr. Christoph Nabholz, Head R&D Life & Health, Swiss Re Group Underwriting

Followed by panel discussion moderated by Prof. Michael Jeive, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

15:15 Networking Break

15:30 Session 2: Digital Health in China

The ultra-rapid expansion of mobile and digital technologies is affecting every facet of life in China today including healthcare.

This session will examine how these new technologies can be applied to solving China’s current and future healthcare problems with a particular focus on how technologies are helping in diagnosis, individualised health, monitoring and treatment. The session will also consider some of the solutions offered by Swiss and Chinese companies and the challenges of delivering these services and solutions in the Chinese environment.

• Dr. Tim Jaeger, Global Head of Diagnostics Information Solutions at Roche Diagnostics
• Michael Frizberg, General Manager of Luye Supply AG
• Sandy Johnston, Advisor Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences Practice, PwC Switzerland

Followed by panel discussion moderated by Felix Sutter, President Swiss Chinese Chamber of Commerce

16:45 Closing remarks

17:00 Apéro

19:00 End

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