The International Digital Health Summer School
12th and 13th May 2025, Maynooth University Register hereEvent Overview
The 3rd International Digital Health Summer School will be hosted at John Hume Building, Maynooth University by the Innovation Value Institute on May 12th and 13th 2025.

Digital Health is emerging as a completely new discipline, one which combines intersecting disciplines of health, technology, engineering, economics, demographics and much more. While current health systems have served humanity very well yielding a more than doubling of life expectancy over the last two centuries, the systems are now facing a major crisis with full hospitals, a demographic timebomb and record clinician attrition. However one half of the world’s population don’t have access to affordable healthcare and the other half who do have access are increasingly finding it unaffordable. This global healthcare is facing a perfect storm and what Thomas Kuhn would call a Model Crisis.
Digital Health is emerging as a potential ‘silver bullet’ solution which can address critical issues such as accessibility, affordability, variability, quality and clinician work life balance. The cutting edge Digital Innovation Methodology ‘ Open Innovation 2.0’ and the Manhattan Manifesto Stay Left Shift Left 10X developed at the UN Science Summit Digital Health Symposium in New York in September 2022 will underpin the compelling frontier agenda of the third International Digital Health Summer School.
Using the #StayLeftShiftLeft-10X doctrine as the lens and canvas for the two day Summer school, the Summer school will focus on key topics AI in Health and Data, Digital Cancer and Electronic Health Records. Come listen and interact with world leading thought leaders and practitioners in an intimate setting to help learn and co-create a new ‘win-win’ healthcare future for all. Two day attendees will receive a framed Innovation Value Institute parchment upon completion of the Summer School.
The focus of the Digital Health Summer School is education, exploration and exploitation
– Education: To provide world leading digital health information to attendees
– Exploration: To foster a high trust guided open collaborative ecosystem for digital health generating many options for explorative research and innovation
– Exploitation: To provide and matchmake for opportunities of exploiting digital health solutions

The centrepiece of the Summer School will be a distinguished lecture from Lucy Nugent, CEO Childrens Hospital Ireland and President European Association of Hospital Managers.
A compelling line up of speakers from across all of the four quadrant of the quadruple helix will speak including clinicians, venture capitalists, CEOs, policymakers and most importantly patients.
Apart from Education a key goal of the Summer School is to create an intellectual supercollider which accelerates the emergence of a directed Digital Health Open Collaborative Ecosystem.
Agenda(May 12th – 13th): To be confirmed
Deep Dive Workshops (May 13th): To be confirmed
Sponsors
Featured Speakers

Professor Martin Curley

Professor Eeva Leinonen

Dr John Sheehan

Dr Donal Bailey

Dr Monika Suryavanshi

Prof Mark Lawler

Prof Patrizia Paterlini-Brécho

Professor Ray O’Sullivan

Danny McCoy
Speakers

Professor Piero Formica

Dr John Sheehan

Professor Ciara Heavin

Professor Paolo Benanti

Richard Egan

Miriam Roche

Susan Treacy

Bror Salmelin

Richard Wyatt-Haines

Dr.Ciara McCormack

Nollag Conneely

Andy Webber

Fintan Foy

Aislinn Gannon

Maxine Radcliffe

Prof Sean Gaine

Prof Michael Kerin

Richard Jones

Alex Wilkes

Patricia McAuliffe

Donal Morris

David Trevitt

Prof Mark Lawler

James Louttit

Karen Kelly

Richard Malone
Further speakers will be announced shortly.
Accommodation Options

Glenroyal Hotel : https://www.glenroyal.ie/
Promotion code: GA001635 or quote ”International Digital Health Summer School”
Barberstown Castle : https://www.barberstowncastle.ie/
Please email reservations@barberstowncastle.ie and ask for MUI rates to book during the summer school.


Maynooth University Accommodation: https://www.maynoothcampus.com/
Promotion Code: DHC_02/24
Booking instruction can be downloaded here.

