1. IHE World Summit Current status (Nov 16, 2015) Jürgen Brandstätter
Co-chair, Global Deployment Coordination Committee (GDC)
Co-chair, Pharmacy Planning committee
Member, IHE International Board
CodeWerk Software GmbH, Austria

2. IHE World Summit Mission Strategy to fulfill the mission Event scope
A spot to "meet" and "feel" IHE
Bring people together and create communication
Within IHE community (let participants feel as "IHE Family“)
Between IHE community and others
Demonstrate the "excellence" of IHE and raise the image and reputation
Strategy to fulfill the mission
Provide a high-class program, venue and atmosphere …
… to attract high-class speakers, IHE champions and audience
Event scope
Global (topics, speakers and audience)
At eHealthWeek with larger focus on Europe
Event concept
Target audience: Decision-makers and strategic oriented persons
First class keynotes
Main part: Panel sessions to different topics with participation of the audience
First held in Istanbul, 2013

3. Date / Location for 2016 IHE World Summit Date: 7/8 June 2016
Location: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Addon: GDC F2F meeting on 6 June 2016 (in discussion)
e-HealthWeek
8-10 June 2016 (same location)
Registration available for „World Summit only“ or Combination-ticket
Price level for WS: 300 € (early bird, excluding social event)

4. Organizational details
Main organization taken over by HIMSS Europe (also organizing e-HealthWeek)
MuO with IHE International signed
Financial risk (and benefit) taken by HIMSS
Budget assures IHE being cost neutral
Marketing and communication
Material will be created by HIMSS (logos, graphics provided)
Communication under main responsible of HIMSS, but IHE will also use it‘s channels
Material already available:
Sponsoring concept and flyer
World Summit announcement on website (prominent!)
World Summit website will be embedded in e-HealthWeek website
Online at Friday Nov 20, 2015 (planned)

5. Program planning Programm planning committee
Current active members:
Jürgen Brandstätter, Austria, Lead
Mike Nusbaum, Canada
Chris Carr, US
Stephane Spahni, Switzerland
Attila Farkas, Canada
Marcelo Rodrigues dos Santos, Brazil
Charles Parisot, France
Karima Bourquard, France
Joyce Sensmeier, US
Dedicated TCons scheduled
Next TCon at Wed, Nov 24th, 2015, 10am CT
Draft program available
Please join the team! Volunteers welcomed!

6. Program planning Current draft program (v4) Available at
ftp://ftp.ihe.net/GDC/World%20Summit/Events/2016,%20Amsterdam/Organization/Program%20planning
Opening and Closing by IHE International
Including the “Official eHealth Week Joint Opening” on the morning of the second day
2 Keynotes proposed, each one from EU/US (confirmed)
EU recommendation of 27 IHE profiles - expected impact on Europe
Gerald Cultot or his boss Peter Zilgavis, DG Connect, European Commission
eHealth Exchange Network in US - Bottom up complements top down?
Mariann Yaeger, CEO Seqoia project
5 Panels (preliminary confirmed, changes possible)
Panel 1: Connecting the world - from projects to operations!
Controversal panel showing individual initiatives to bridge Europe with US, provoking discussions with top-down projects such as TrilliumBridge and epSOS
Panel 2: National Perspectives on Planning a Health Revolution
Panel 3: Architecting an XDS infrastructure to support business intelligence and data mining
Panel 4: Annual Hot-Topic: Patient Summary
Panel 5: IHE Conformity Assessment Testing in a Global Context
Vendors who have done CA shall talk about their experiences as well as users leveraging CA in testing or procurement
Social events
First evening: Boat trip with dinner on the beautiful Amsterdam channels
Second evening: Opening Reception of e-HealthWeek

7. Call to action (soon) IHE International and GDC National initiatives
Use all communication channels for announcing
National initiatives
Do local marketing and announcing (very important!)
Support formation of „country delegations“ by providing assistance in registering, e.g.
„We recommend that we all stay in hotel …“
„We recommend that we all take the flight …“
Development committees
Do marketing and announcing in the committee
Everyone
Inform and announce in the own network
GDC informs you when you can start!

8. Changing the Way Healthcare CONNECTS