Last week, the HEREDITARY Project took part in two major European health innovation events: the X RIES Forum in Galicia, Spain, and the 5th Brain Innovation Days in Brussels, Belgium, both held on 15–16 October 2025. The project presence reaffirmed its commitment to collaboration and ethical data use across Europe.
The RIES Forum is a leading platform that brings together leaders from across the healthcare value chain to address international challenges in the health ecosystem. Organised by the Cluster Saúde de Galicia (CSG), the forum focuses on digitalisation, sustainability, and internationalisation of healthcare and promotes debate, innovation, and international cooperation.
The Brain Innovation Days, organised by the European Brain Council (EBC), are an international forum that gathers researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to discuss advances in brain research, neuroscience, and healthcare innovation. The 2025 edition focused on “The Adaptive Brain in a Fast-Evolving World”, exploring how science, technology, and society interact to support brain health.
RIES Forum 2025: International Challenges of the Health Ecosystem
During RIES2025, the HEREDITARY project took part in the roundtable “Health 2030: Advancing Towards Precision Medicine,” a dynamic session that brought together leading voices from healthcare innovation, data science, and genomics. Moderated by Anna Forment, Director of Digital Health and Head of Precision Medicine at NTT DATA Europe, the discussion explored how data-driven technologies are reshaping the future of healthcare.
The panel featured María Brión Martínez (Xenoma Galicia Project Coordinator), Abeer Fadda (Bioinformatics Lead at the European Genome-phenome Archive and researcher in the HEREDITARY project), Román López Seoane (PM4GOV, Ministry of Health’s Genomic Node SIGenES), and Prabs Arumugam (Clinical Innovation Lead, AWS UK Public Sector Healthcare). Together, they shared insights into how precision medicine is evolving through the smart and ethical use of genomic and clinical data.
A central theme of the conversation was the crucial role of data in building the future of precision medicine. Health systems generate vast and diverse datasets, but the real challenge lies in making them interoperable and secure, ensuring both privacy and accesibility. The panel also emphasized the need for multidisciplinary professional profiles that combine biomedical and genomic knowledge with data science and digital skills. Speakers underlined the huge opportunity to advance data sharing across hospitals, regions, and countries through federated data models, as HEREDITARY aims to do in the Federated Networking Infrastructure.
Finally, some areas in which precision medicina is doing great advances were highlighted, such as oncology and the study of rare diseases. The discussion perfectly reflected the collaborative and forward-looking spirit driving initiatives like RIES2025 and the European research landscape.
In addition, HEREDITARY engaged visitors at its exhibition stand, managed by FEUGA, the project’s communication leader, showcasing the project’s activities, vision, and expected impact, and providing a platform for dialogue with attendees from diverse fields of the health ecosystem.
HEREDITARY World Café at Brain Innovation Days
HEREDITARY hosted a World Café session at the Brain Innovation Days on 16 October, designed as an interactive format where participants rotated across tables to discuss key topics such as data privacy, multimodal health data integration, and AI-powered solutions. The session brought together a diverse group of patients, innovators, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers, fostering open dialogue on how data-driven innovation can better serve people and improve brain and health outcomes.
Discussions underscored the importance of integrating diverse health data, to enable more personalised and human-centred care. Participants also emphasised the need for equitable representation in research, ensuring that data and clinical studies reflect the diversity of European populations.
Another key theme was co-creation and collaboration, recognising that innovation in healthcare requires all voices at the table, including patients whose lived experience can shape more relevant and impactful solutions. Conversations also explored the design of ethical and trustworthy AI, built with patients to ensure transparency, fairness, and clinical value, as well as the delicate balance between privacy and scientific progress.
At the end of the day, a HEREDITARY representative reported key insights from the session on the main stage, highlighting the value of collaborative dialogue in advancing brain and health research.
With its participation in both the RIES Forum and Brain Innovation Days, the HEREDITARY Project continues to expand its European reach, reinforcing networks and partnerships while promoting responsible and innovative approaches to genomic and health data.
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