Industry event: Pre-hospital care and preparedness

When seconds count, the right technology makes the difference. Pre-hospital care is one of the most demanding environments for health innovation — and one of the most important to get right.

This Nordic Proof industry event brings together health tech companies, testbeds, and clinical experts to explore how new solutions can be tested, validated, and scaled within emergency and pre-hospital settings across the Nordics.

Whether you're developing tools for emergency response, triage, patient monitoring, or crisis preparedness — this is the arena to connect, learn, and move forward.

Agenda

Part 1:

The first part features presentations from Nordic Proof partners focusing on test facilities, preparedness, and dual-use innovations.

Part 2:

The second part is dedicated to one-on-one meetings between participating companies and Nordic Proof partners. These meetings provide a low-threshold opportunity to get acquainted with the different test environments and explore how they can support innovation, testing, validation, and development activities. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their specific needs, learn more about the available facilities and services, and identify potential collaboration opportunities.

Companies can book up to four meetings with the following organizations:

• Oulu Health Labs (FI)
• Health Campus Turku (FI)
• Health Proof Helsinki (FI)
• Lapland Testbed (FI)
• Preventive Health Research Unit Xamk (FI)
• Innovation Skåne (SE)
• PICTA (SE)
• Oslo University Hospital (NO)
• Vestre Viken Hospital Trust (NO)
• Norway Health Tech LAB (NO)
• Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital (NO)
• TechMed Centre Twente (NL)

Companies can pre-register for the meeting session in Part Two through the registration form to secure meeting slots in advance. We encourage participants to include a brief description of the topics they would like to discuss, enabling the test environments to prepare for more relevant and productive conversations.

Agenda

10:00 Welcome and about Nordic Proof

10:10 Lapland Testbed
Lapland Testbed: expertise and networks for health and wellbeing tech

Lapland Testbed brings together the testing environments of Lapland University of Applied Sciences, from Arctic condition testing to hospital simulations. We work as a hands-on RDI partner: helping companies turn ideas into solutions that hold up in real use. Lapland Testbed provides the ultimate setting to test technology stretched to its limits—and beyond. Discover how pre-hospital care and preparedness operate in a region defined by vast distances, harsh weather, and limited resources.

10:25 Preventive Health Research Unit Xamk

10:40 Partnering for Pre-Hospital Innovation: Co-Creating and Testing New Solutions with PICTA(opens in a new tab)

PICTA is a pre-hospital knowledge hub bringing together ambulance services, academia, industry, and public stakeholders to drive research and innovation projects. Because the pre-hospital environment is uniquely challenging, we build progress on collaboration—bridging the gap between clinical reality, existing solutions, technology and new ideas. Our neutral arena of collaboration can help companies test and validate their innovations where it matters most: in the hands of first responders.

In our presentation we will showcase how PICTA acts as a catalyst and accelerator for collaborative testing and validation of new ideas through some of our key initiatives.

10:55 Sum up and introduction to direct meeting session

11:00-12:00 Direct meeting session between industry and Nordic Proof partners.

Participation is free of charge