As in the previous year, our Digital Health Partnership Workshop brought together researchers and students from Potsdam and New York — united by scientific excellence in medicine and digital health, as well as technological expertise in machine learning, software development, and data science. And all of this in one shared location: right at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering.
“Our mission is not modest—and it shouldn’t be: we want to transform healthcare through digital innovations that directly improve people’s lives. Not someday. Not theoretically. But practically, measurably, and responsibly,” emphasized Prof. Lothar H. Wieler in his opening speech as Co-Director of the Digital Health Partnership.
Our partners from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Data4Life visited us from November 10 to November 13, 2025. This year, it was important to highlight the diverse facets of HPI related to AI, cybersecurity, and systems design beyond the Digital Health Cluster through keynote speakers such as Prof. Falk Übernickel, Prof. Ralf Herbrich, Prof. Christian Dörr, Prof. Vaibhav Bajpai, and Prof. Mathias Weske. Our researchers and students in the digital health field and from our Digital Health Graduate School presented their latest research findings to all three partners in engaging talk, as well as during our poster session.
During our workshop, the HPI d-school kicked things off with an interactive design thinking session. The HPI Engine then guided us through an overview of the HPI entrepreneurship ecosystem (programs, offerings, and methodology), joined by three of its successful start-ups: voize, Mama Health, and Praxipal. Finally, we had the opportunity to experience projects up close in the HPI Maker Universe and try them out firsthand.
Updates on platforms within our Digital Health Partnership — such as the Digital Discovery Program (DDP), SensorHub, and AI-Ready Mount Sinai (AIR·MS) — were presented, showing how they offer our researchers and students unique opportunities to conduct institute-spanning studies using the latest scientific methods.
As keynote speakers, our guests Dr. Nicholas Gavin, Dr. Alexander Charney, and Dr. Lea Davis provided in-depth insights into the fascinating history of the Mount Sinai Health System and the Mount Sinai Million Project as the foundation of a learning healthcare system. Dr. Ben Illigens demonstrated how Data4Life enriches and accelerates research and clinical translation.
Thank you to all of our partners, researchers and students for presenting their future-defining work in this collaboration and joining us for our Workshop! We are excited to see what we can achieve together in our future events.
