Two days in Barcelona on 3 and 4 November 2026 for pharma and MedTech digital health teams: 40-minute talks, two group stand-up discussions and a cocktail night for roughly 70 delegates, organised by UBIQ Events.
An annual two-day conference on digital health in pharma and MedTech, organised by UBIQ Events, a life sciences events company based in Bratislava. The sixth edition runs on 3 and 4 November 2026 in Barcelona. The organiser describes it as bringing together pharma, MedTech, regulators, investors and health tech around AI in healthcare, digital therapeutics, real-world evidence, regulation and connected care. It is a small-room format built on 40-minute keynotes, sponsored presentations, stand-up discussions and networking, not an exhibition-led show.
Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 November 2026, with registration and coffee from 08:30 and the opening remarks at 08:55 each day. Hotel Catalonia Plaza Catalunya, Carrer de Bergara 11, Eixample, 08002 Barcelona, Spain. Day one ends with a cocktail reception at 19:10; day two closes at 16:20. The 2025 edition was held in Madrid, so Barcelona is a new host city for this series.
UBIQ Events (UBIQ events, s. r. o., Karpatské námestie 10A, 831 06 Bratislava, Slovakia, registered in Portugal and Spain). UBIQ describes itself as an events service provider committed to life sciences and says it has delivered 59+ events. It runs its own mid-sized conferences, typically around 100 participants, and tailored events for partners.
70+ attendees, an organiser figure given on the UBIQ events listing for this edition. The organiser says the conference is designed for digital health, data, regulatory and innovation leaders in pharma, MedTech and life sciences, including heads and directors of digital health, digital therapeutics, real-world evidence, data and analytics, and innovation. Its home page also names regulators, investors and health tech startups among the audience. UBIQ may refuse a booking from a direct competitor or from a solution provider that has not booked a sponsorship package.
Published roster on the official speakers and programme pages as of 16 October 2026 (17 names; the page says further speakers will be announced):
The official FAQ also names Novo Nordisk among 2026 speaker companies, but no Novo Nordisk speaker appears on the speakers or programme pages (a Novo Nordisk speaker took part in 2025).
The city changes: the 5th edition ran on 23 and 24 October 2025 in Madrid, and the 4th edition on 17 and 18 October 2024 in Lisbon (the 4th edition date and city come from a third-party listing, not the organiser's site). For 2026 the organiser highlights a fixed ticket price timeline ending with an October final rate, an exclusive networking app, two stand-up discussions, and sessions on edge AI, digital biomarkers in neuroscience, social listening as real-world evidence, hybrid care and clinical decision support. Of the 2025 speakers only Ghaith Sankari and Mark Phillip Loria are listed again for 2026.
Day one (3 November) opens at 09:00 with Alexander Wermuth (Roche) on the economic value of digital biomarkers in neuroscience, then covers patient experience in clinical trials (Richard Hutson, Astellas), accountability in AI-driven pharma operations (Javier Cárdaba, Basetis Health, sponsored), 4P medicine at scale (Katarina Kulkova, Roche), a digital therapeutics lessons talk (Edmund Salzmann, Otsuka), AI image analysis for rare disease (Gurpreet Chowdhry, Boehringer Ingelheim), edge AI for health (Ghaith Sankari, Bayer), post merger integration (Thomas Couderc, Philips) and a panel on moving AI from concept to clinical implementation. Day two (4 November) covers hybrid care and open, integrated digital platforms (Irenee Colin, Medtronic), social listening and real-world evidence (Roberto Strino, AstraZeneca), clinical decision support (Jesus Buso-Cortes, Abbott), remote patient monitoring in oncology trials (Alexandra Kalpadaki-Smith, Evinova), AI deployment in pan-European clinics (Rocco Barone, Affidea), AI coaching for longevity (Rubén Pareja Bailón, Getinge) and a Ypsomed session with no title yet. The organiser's FAQ adds digital therapeutics and endpoints (digital therapeutics plus sensor-based digital endpoints), regulatory compliance, wearables and connected care, and patient engagement (the wearables theme is also in a day-one session on patient pathways beyond the wearable). The six organiser topics are AI and data-driven healthcare in pharma, patient-centric innovation, regulatory trends for digital medicine and digital therapeutics, digital health in drug development and clinical trials, pharma and healthcare collaboration across the digital health field, and digital transformation in pharma operations.
Keynotes of about 40 minutes with questions, sponsored presentations (15 to 40 minutes), two 40-minute stand-up discussions in which the whole audience takes part in topic tables (one each day), one panel discussion on day one, coffee breaks, networking lunches, a cocktail reception and a dedicated networking app for messaging and arranging meetings. The organiser's counts are 16+ top pharma keynotes and 20+ sessions on the home page, and 15+ keynotes on the programme page.
Nothing separate is listed. The cocktail reception at 19:10 on 3 November is part of the ticket. UBIQ Events lists other conferences in Barcelona in 2026 and 2027 (2nd MedTech Meets AI on 14 and 15 October 2026), but they are separate events with separate tickets.
The current and final rate, called the October ticket, is EUR 1,590 per person excluding VAT, which is added at the applicable rate. It includes both conference days, the keynotes, stand-up discussions, cocktail night, networking lunches, coffee breaks and the conference app. The price timeline was EUR 590 (Super Early Bird), EUR 790 (Early Bird), EUR 1,090 (July) and EUR 1,290 (September), all now closed. The organiser says tickets may be bought at the door depending on availability, and offline purchase is possible through its operations team. Bank transfers must arrive within 15 days of the invoice date and before the event.
No open call for papers is published. The sponsorship page offers paid speaking slots of 15 to 40 minutes, and the programme page keeps one sponsored presentation slot open on day one at 09:40. UBIQ says it selects and invites speakers itself; questions about the programme go to the programme and operations contact, Vladka Roriz, on +421 902 161 667 (email on the official site).
Through the sponsorship form on the official site, choosing one of three options: exhibition space, a 30-minute speaking slot, or a 40-minute speaking slot plus exhibition space. The site also advertises Gold, Silver and Bronze packages with speaking slots, exhibition space and branded moments across both days. Prices are not published. Sponsorship contact: André Prado, on +351 926 623 972 (email on the official site).
Published sponsor roster on the official site as of 16 October 2026:
Large pharma and MedTech companies are the speaker core: Medtronic, Bayer, AstraZeneca (through Evinova), Abbott, Roche (two speakers), Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim, Otsuka, Philips, Getinge, Ypsomed and Affidea, a European diagnostics provider. Three solution providers (Basetis Health, XO Life, S3 Connected Health) hold sponsored keynote slots. No delegate company list is published; the attendee mix is described only by job function.
Not publicly disclosed. No press pass page or media contact is published; the site lists a programme and operations contact and a sponsorship contact only. Seven organisations appear as valuable partners without a stated role (AIPressRoom, My Medical Affairs, DHACA, AIML Events, Times of AI, Capital Bay News, MedTube).
None found in the sourced material beyond event calendar listings, for example HealthManagement.org and Clocate, which list the event but are not coverage. The organiser's past-event page offers photo highlights of the 2025 edition, not reporting.
Nothing to rank: no editorial coverage was found. Listings that exist are calendar entries, and the organiser's partner list names media-style outlets (AIPressRoom, Times of AI, Capital Bay News) without stating what they provide, so any coverage from them should be treated as partner content until the arrangement is clarified.
Solution providers hoping to buy a ticket and pitch: the ticket terms let UBIQ refuse a solution provider that has not booked a sponsorship package, and unauthorised sales activity at the event is not allowed. Also anyone seeking a large exhibition floor or a regulator-led programme: the room is about 70 delegates, and the published speakers are almost all from industry rather than regulators. Teams without a pharma or MedTech digital remit will find the content narrow.
It is UBIQ's autumn digital health meeting, held one to two weeks after the same organiser's 2nd MedTech Meets AI (14 and 15 October 2026) in Barcelona, and ahead of its Pharma Commercial Innovation Summit in Valencia (24 and 25 November 2026). A similarly named Digital Health Conference in Berlin (24 November 2026, organiser Bitkom, per EventsIndex's own Berlin fiche, not rechecked here) is a different event. No sourced comparison with larger events is available.
The conference is annual and moves city: the 5th edition took place in Madrid on 23 and 24 October 2025 and the 4th in Lisbon on 17 and 18 October 2024 (third-party listing). No parallel edition in another city was found.
No language policy is published. The programme, speaker talks and registration are all presented in English.
No. The organiser's FAQ says it is a fully in-person event, with no virtual access. No replay or recordings are offered on the official pages; the ticket terms say sessions may be filmed by the organiser for reporting and promotion, and that unauthorised recording is not allowed. In the event of force majeure, UBIQ may change the event to a virtual or hybrid format.
Tickets are non-refundable once a booking is confirmed. A delegate who cannot attend can send a colleague from the same organisation at no cost (name, job title, company and email to operations@ubiqevents.com at least 48 hours before the event), or request a credit for the full amount, valid for any UBIQ Events conference within 12 months. Credit requests must be in writing at least 14 days before the event, which for this edition means by 20 October 2026; within 14 days only a substitution is possible. No-shows get neither refund nor credit. If UBIQ cancels for a reason other than force majeure, it refunds in full. After a force majeure cancellation that cannot be rescheduled, delegates can take a full credit or a refund minus non-recoverable costs. Terms last updated 5 October 2026.
Not publicly disclosed. Neither the conference site nor its ticket terms contain an accessibility statement. Ask the operations team before booking.
The hotel is at Carrer de Bergara 11 in the Eixample district of central Barcelona. The organiser says it is well served by the metro and is roughly 30 to 40 minutes from Barcelona-El Prat Airport by taxi or Aerobus transfer. The hotel also offers rooms, and the conference site links a room booking page for attendees.
Because it gives digital health leads at large pharma and MedTech companies a small room: about 70 delegates, 40-minute talks, and two whole-audience stand-up discussions, with speakers from Roche, Bayer, AstraZeneca, Medtronic, Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim and Philips. For a team that wants peer exchange on deployment problems such as edge AI, digital biomarkers and real-world evidence rather than a trade show, that size is the point.
Because the figures are the organiser's and they move between pages. The listing says 70+ attendees while the series is described as around 100 participants, and the home page counts 16+ keynotes, 20+ sessions and 15+ keynotes in different places. Three of the 13 day one content items are labelled sponsored, with a fourth sponsored slot still open, so the share of independent content is lower than the keynote count suggests.
Official site: https://www.digitalhealthconference.net/ (live and matching the organiser UBIQ Events; checked 16 October 2026). Registration: https://www.digitalhealthconference.net/register. Programme: https://www.digitalhealthconference.net/program, speakers: https://www.digitalhealthconference.net/speakers, sponsorship: https://www.digitalhealthconference.net/become-a-sponsor. Organiser: https://ubiqevents.com/. Ticket terms: https://ubiqevents.com/ticket-terms. Programme and operations contact: Vladka Roriz, +421 902 161 667; sponsorship: André Prado, +351 926 623 972; ticket and substitution queries: operations@ubiqevents.com. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ubiq-conferences.