Every year, we have raised the level at which the Global Digital Health Summit, Expo & Innovation Awards contributes to the transformation of Healthcare. This year, we are taking it to a different level; making it a summit of international importance, and ensuring that every participant becomes level-1 certified for Artificial Intelligence. Which means that not only you will understand the global developments across medicine, surgery, hospital management, medical education, pharmaceutical industry, MedTech including robotics, public health and artificial intelligence as it invades your daily life but also, as you spend three days in Mumbai, you will learn to develop tools using AI, and much more. Here is a brief of what you gain from each session, which have been curated by the Global Guru's who have shaped the domain at the intersection of healthcare, management and technology. Let's go day-wise, and why it becomes an unmissable opportunity for you. Each day has its separate theme and sessions are build around it.

Day 1 – September 19, 2025 - Friday

Theme: Reimagining Healthcare from the Ground Up

It is a time of global reset and ever sector is undergoing a paradigm shift, and so will healthcare. While the narrative is around AI, but the ground realities are much more diverse and deep. The first day will broaden your horizons of thinking about your professional life and practice. If you lead an organization, this will be a global update on what you missed and how you can catch up to speed.

1. Patients' Perspective on Digital Health

Why It Matters:
This opening session flips the traditional narrative—by giving the mic to patients. Eight real stories from different points in the care journey will reveal where healthcare delivery falls short; where digital health will work and where it will not. This session is a must-attend for innovators, policymakers, and providers who truly want to build patient-centric solutions.

2. A Broken Health System – Can Digital Health Fix It?

Why It Matters:
Pandemic, rising incidence of Chronic diseases, sudden heart attacks, healthcare inflation, flawed business models, misaligned incentives, and overburdened systems have exposed a global healthcare crisis. Can digital health offer systemic solutions to a broken healthcare system or is a fundamental reset required? This discussion will challenge assumptions and explore digital health as the foundational need for health system reform. Public health professionals, industry leaders, public policy professionals and HCPs, who are preparing for the future will find this session a strategic investment of their time.

3. FOMO of AI in Healthcare – Hype vs. Reality

Why It Matters:
With AI dominating headlines and exciting everyone, this session separates noise from nuance. Are clinicians being misled by hype, or is there real FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) or FOBO (Fear Of Becoming Obsolete)? This session will debunk the myths with grounded guidance on responsible adoption. This session is of value to every clinician and C-suite leader in healthcare.

4. IP, Legal & Regulatory Issues for HCPs in the Age of Digital Health

Why It Matters:
As digital tools proliferate, so do legal grey zones. Who is liable for algorithmic decisions? What are the do's and don'ts for clinicians, HCPs and startups? This session is a must for anyone navigating digital compliance, legal accountability, and risk mitigation. Every healthcare service provider needs to hear the leaders on this important expert panel.

5. Public Health in the Digital Era

Why It Matters:
With the public increasingly living online, public health must follow. This session examines how digital health tools are redefining surveillance, outreach, and health promotion in the virtual space—vital for governments, NGOs, and public health agencies. This session is important for policy-makers, public health champions and those in preventive care and wellness space.

6. Future of Medical Specialties

Why It Matters:
Radiology, pathology, and dermatology are already being reshaped by AI. What's next? This session forecasts which specialties face disruption, and how clinicians can future-proof themselves through continuous learning and strategic tech integration. This session will help medical specialists in preparing for the future - on time. Though, some might be already late!

7. Agentic AI – How Will It Impact Healthcare Delivery?

Why It Matters:
Agentic AI (autonomous systems) promises to reduce clinician workload and enhance decision-making. But how does it perform in real settings? This session offers field-tested insights and implementation lessons from the frontlines.

Day 2 – September 20, 2025, Saturday

Theme: Tech-driven Transformation Across the Ecosystem

I always believe that technology is driving a societal and a civilizational change, and not merely digital transformation! Anyone who ignores this change, will not just be left behind, but will move out of influence. I give the example of Intel - How Intel ignored the changes happening on the horizon, and look at the billions of dollars in losses from Intel quarter on quarter. Intel is the same company that powered all your machines - computers. The second day of the summit, I want you to invest in understanding how you can avoid becoming a BlackBerry or Nokia or an Intel. There is a massive opportunity for everyone for exponential growth. To make it convenient for the most to attend, we planned this for Saturday.

8. How Will AI Impact the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Why It Matters:
From R&D to marketing, AI is disrupting pharma. But are we prepared for a future where pills are no longer the end-product—where therapy is continuous and digital? This session reveals how pharma can lead, not lag, in the AI revolution. This session is for leaders in the pharmaceutical industry, who lead various strategic and functional roles.

9. Future of Medical Education

Why It Matters:
Medicine is evolving, but our teaching methods are stuck in the past. This session offers a vision for lifelong, tech-powered learning—simulation, gaming, VR, AI, and robotics—that prepares future-ready doctors, not outdated degree holders. This session is for regulators, policy-makers and those into medical education

10. Will AI Lead to Layoffs? The Future of the Healthcare Workforce

Why It Matters:
AI's impact on jobs is no longer speculative. This session confronts hard truths—what roles will vanish, what new ones will emerge, and how the workforce must evolve. This session is essential for mid-level and senior Executives, hospital administrators, HR Heads, and policymakers.

11. Future of Hospitals in the Digital Age

Why It Matters:
The hospital of the future isn't a building—it's a platform and will move beyond the four walls. This session explores how hospitals are expanding reach, cutting costs, and redefining care delivery using digital tools. This session is ideal for Founders, investors, hospital CEOs & COOs and health system strategists.

12. Wellness & Prevention in the Age of AI

Why It Matters:
Health is shifting from reactive to proactive. AI is driving predictive wellness, and old wellness models won't survive, and if you have wellness offerings, it is a time for a reset. This session helps businesses and clinicians redesign offerings for the new era of precision prevention.

13. Future of Medical Devices in the Age of AI & IoT

Why It Matters:
The next generation of medical devices are smart, connected, and AI-powered. This session dives deep into the future of medical devices, SaMD (Software as a Medical Device), regulatory shifts, and opportunities for device-makers to become digital-first innovators. This session is important for every medical device manufacturers, diagnostic companies and start-ups. Even doctors who are interested in new ways of managing patients will find this session insightful.

14. Customer Acquisition & Business Models for Digital Health

Why It Matters:
Tech without a viable business model fails. This session tackles customer acquisition, convergence models, ROI proof points, and pricing for digital health. This session is critical for investors, founders, and commercial leads. Old conventional pricing and business models are being challenged. This will be the longest session of the three day summit, and hopefully, after attending this session, you will gain enough insights to discuss during the dinner that evening, and Jio World Convention Centre serves the best meals in the world, and of course, on a lighter note, I must mention, a meal at the Jio World Convention Centre is amongst the costliest in the country, but worth it!

Day 3 – September 21, 2025, Sunday

Theme: Scaling Innovations That Matter

Third day is about scaling up digital health innovations and what all it takes to achieve scope with scale. In a globalized world, the entire world is our market like this summit is a most impactful marketplace for ideas, innovators and digital health. You will meet people representing governments & CEOs from across the globe. The outcome report featuring key-takeaways will reach about 200 nations across the planet. Everything at this summit is about global reach and scale. This session has been planned for Sunday to ensure the widest possible audience from the public and private sector.

15. Workshop on Cybersecurity for Healthcare

Why It Matters:
Without trust, there is no digital transformation. Cybersecurity is foundational. This session focuses on making digital health trustworthy, scalable, and resilient to threats. This session is for anyone who is a believer of secure healthcare.

16. Innovations - Breakthroughs in Chronic Disease Management

Why It Matters:
Chronic diseases drive global healthcare costs—and outcomes. This session highlights breakthrough tools and platforms that are moving the needle on chronic care. No Physicians, payer, and innovator can afford to miss this session

17. Startups: The Future of Healthcare

Why It Matters:
The healthcare giants of tomorrow are being built today. This session focuses on startup founders, venture builders, investors and innovation champions reimagining healthcare—plus what they need to succeed. This session is for start-up founders, investors and those clinicians and professionals having a thought to jump the start-up bandwagon.

18. Artificial Intelligence Workshop – Level 1 Certification

Why It Matters:
I have come across dozens of people claiming on social media platforms to teach AI without even understanding the levels of AI. In the past one year I have addressed over 200,000 clinicians across the globe, and I realized that they do not know even the dimensions of AI. They don't need an inspirational talk but a hands-on training on AI. Attendees of this three day summit will get a recognized certification for learning AI in healthcare. This session is designed for clinicians and health professionals looking to build AI based solutions themselves. You don't need to have any prior knowledge of technology. Just bring your Windows laptop to this summit and walk out as technologists. Make sure, that you have registered under the 'special delegate' category to qualify for a certificate.

When you look at the 18 power-packed sessions, fourteen keynotes, and 10 spotlight sessions lined up at the Global Digital Health Summit 2025, one thing is clear—this is not just another summit. It's a community of leaders who are passionate about leading with the world's best.

This summit will transform how you understand Digital Health tools, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, and Robotics—not as buzzwords, but as forces already reshaping the future of care. The disruption has already happened. Technology is not coming, it's here—and it's moving fast.

If you're not adapting, you're already falling behind. The avalanche of technological innovation is not waiting for anyone, and inaction may result in a professional 'setback' of a very different kind—one where outdated skills and outdated mindsets become the biggest risks to your relevance.

Don't wait. Invest in yourself.

Join the summit to make the most important decision of your professional journey: To lead, not lag. To evolve, not expire. The Global Digital Health Summit is where healthcare meets its future. Make sure you're there to shape it. Wish you success and fun. I will meet you in September.

Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, PhD
Summit Co-chair
https://www.globalsummit.health

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