Healthcare in Shape Symposium 2025

Billions are invested in healthcare innovation every year. Despite this, many innovations, no matter how promising, come to a standstill at the pilot stage. Why? Because too often there is a disconnect between the innovators and the end users. Solutions are created for them, but not necessarily with them. 

This is where design and designers can make a difference. 

From day one, designers work closely with patients and healthcare professionals. Through iterative testing, they develop products, services, and systems that work; human-centered, contextually relevant, and ready for implementation and scaling.

What to expect:

• Latest knowledge and insights on designing for health: Discover what’s new, what works, and where healthcare design is heading — from individual products to entire systems.

• Learn and practice design approaches to innovation: Benefit from 30 years of expertise at the intersection of design and healthcare and take away tangible methods to advance your own projects.

• Real-world case studies: See how design helped move innovations from pilot to practice and learn the critical factors behind their success.

• Networking with pioneers: Meet (other) designers and healthcare professionals shaping the future of care through design — find collaborators and share experiences.

Featuring leading voices in healthcare innovation:

• Carina Hilders: Chair of the UMC Utrecht Executive Board and TU Delft alumnus.
• Eline van Beest: CEO at Hybridize Therapeutics & TU Delft alumnus.
• Paul Blokhuis: Former State Secretary for Health, now Chairman of STZ.
• Danique Roodnat: Director at STZ.
• Michael Wilkening: Dräger’s VP of Strategy & Business Development.

Join us and contribute to an event that brings healthcare professionals, designers, researchers, doctors, policymakers, and innovators together to connect and learn from one another. Register today.

Source: TU Delft