On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2025, the conference ‘Responsible AI in Health Care’ takes place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Please join us and bring together the most important voices to realize responsible AI for health care!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to impact society in various and profound ways. It is inevitable that health care will face significant changes through the introduction of AI systems that are intended to support the health care system with diagnosis, treatment decision-making, hospital management, medical research and development, nursing care, and the health infrastructure (homecare, insurance etc.) more broadly.

The Purpose
The conference ‘Responsible AI in Health Care’ will clearly map how the introduction of AI in medicine unfolds, which aspects of the health care systems will be impacted most, and how this impact will unfold. First and foremost, it intends to discuss in depth, the question how to shape this transition in a responsible way.

As the WHO calls for “safe and ethical medical AI”, academics and practitioners are pressed to address the question,

which of the ongoing and future developments in medical AI are desirable or could be desirable under the right conditions. Prominent voices have suggested that the introduction of medical AI can “make medicine human again” (Topol 2019). Warnings, however, that the introduction of medical AI systems undermines the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship, that it threatens responsibility attribution in that system, that it reproduces existing social biases and inequalities (e.g. in diagnostic processes), that it disorients medical research and makes health care more inefficient, have equally been issued.

What would it mean to make AI practices and products responsible? What values would need to be implemented in the design of those technologies and how can this be done? What ways can we discover to ensure that health care stays responsible after the introduction of AI? These and other questions will be discussed in depth during this international conference.

Who is the conference for
The conference brings together medical specialists, academics, R&D teams, designers, start-ups and scale-ups to discuss state-of-the-art knowledge on responsible innovation, ethics and regulation. You can connect to inspiring opinion leaders, scientific experts and industry leaders on the development of AI for health care, you can meet peers and connect to the Research and Innovation ecosystem. This collaboration across disciplines and practices is the most promising avenue to optimal usage of AI in health care practice. All considerations, opinions, research approaches or project plans around responsible use of AI in healthcare are welcome in our debates, panels, keynotes, multidisciplinary roundtable discussions and start-up pitches.

This first event brings together international representatives of academia, business and industry focusing on developing AI responsibly, either from medical, ethical, social science, design, legal and data science perspectives.

Main topics

• Collection and sharing of healthcare data for AI (data projects)
• The (value-sensitive) development of AI systems and their fit with work floor demands
• Interactions between AI, healthcare professionals, and/or patients
• Implementation and operationalization of AI systems
• Evaluation and accountability of (socio-technical systems including) AI in healthcare
• Governance and regulation for AI in healthcare

Start-Up Pitch Competition

Now Open for Applications – Deadline June 26th

Do you have a groundbreaking (responsible) AI solution for health care? 

Join the Start-up Pitch Competition at the Responsible AI in Health Care Conference (CRAIHC 2025) and pitch your innovation to a jury of leading investors, health professionals, and experts. 

What’s in it for you?  

• €10,000 cash prize (incl. VAT) for the winning pitch 
• If accepted to the conference, you can win the prize money and get a free ticket for the full conference 
• A chance to present in front of top-tier investors, clinicians, and innovation scouts 
• Visibility for your start-up in the Responsible AI in Health care ecosystem 
• Exclusive networking opportunities throughout the conference 

Who should apply? 

We’re looking for start-ups and scale-ups working on Responsible innovations with AI in health care. Whether you’re tackling diagnostics, patient engagement, clinical workflow support, or health equity — if you’re using AI responsibly to improve health care, we want to hear from you. 

You should: 

• Be a registered company (start-up or scale-up) 
• Have a product or service at least at MVP stage 
• Be available to pitch live during the conference on September 11th  

Key Details 

• Deadline to apply: June 26th 2025 
• Pitch format: 5-minute pitch + 5-minute Q&A 
• When & where: During CRAIHC 2025 on September 11th and 12th 2025 in the centre of Rotterdam 
• Number of selected start-ups: 6 

Pitch deck criteria 

We would like to receive a maximum of 10 slides that include the following information: 

• Company name, website, and contact info 
• Description of the company and its mission 
• Stage of development (early-stage, growth-stage) 
• Problem being solved 
• Details of the solution/product being pitched 
• What is your definition of responsible use / steps taken to develop and use AI responsible 
• Market potential 
• Team overview and key people involved 

Possible interesting additions: 

• Your open questions regarding responsible AI in your solution/product 
• Societal relevance of the solution/product being pitched 

The Jury

• Chair – Evert Stamhuis – Professor Law and Innovation, Erasmus School of Law
• Ellen Smit – Managing Director, Rotterdam Square
• Douwe Jippes – Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Healthy.Capital
• Jan Willem Scheijgrond – Vice-president and global head of Government & public affairs
• Maaike Harbers – Lector Artificial Intelligence & Society, Hogeschool Rotterdam
• Denise Hilling – Assistant Professor Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center

What the Jury will be looking for

• Why You? – Team & Capability
• Why Now? – Timing & Urgency
• Responsible by Design
• Ethical & Regulatory Readiness
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Implementation Readiness, Scalability, Feasibility
• Societal impact & equity
• Clarity of Value Proposition
• Quality of Submission

Ready to pitch?  

Apply now by filling out this form or use the QR Code below and sending an email with your pitch deck to craihc@erasmusmc.nl! 

For questions, contact:  

georgia.tax@eur.nl 
w.m.dokkum@tudelft.nl 
l.deroode@tudelft.nl