Future of Healthcare
The Solutions Platform for the Future of Healthcare
ZKNFT 2027: The Hospital of 2030
From Transformation to Impact – Managing Care 2027
The hospital landscape continues to undergo massive transformation: immense cost pressure and structural adjustments on the one hand, and the interplay of specializations, new care models, and technologies on the other, are reshaping how hospitals operate and patients receive care.
At ZKNFT, the solutions platform for the future of healthcare, hospital managers, politicians, and experts will discuss on Thursday, February 11, 2027 at the Bolle Festsäle Berlin: Which reforms are truly effective, and where does implementation falter? How do hospitals secure their results while protecting care? What do future-proof strategies look like, from service portfolios to outpatient care? And how do digitalization and AI move from pilot projects to everyday care?
In the morning, the 2027 reality check will be the focus: How can the path from transformation to impact be achieved? Topics for discussion include financing under new pressure, the implementation of service groups (portfolio, alliance, or withdrawal?), outpatient care as an operating system, and emergency care 2027.
The afternoon is dedicated to implementation: AI and agentic work in hospitals, productivity without burnout, the transformation fund with viable business cases, and resilience as quality of care. The congress concludes with Commitment 2027: What will be demonstrably different by ZKNFT 2028?
Speakers and guests contribute to the ZKNFT community on this day: Exciting insights, intensive exchange, and interactive formats – because tomorrow’s healthcare can only be shaped together!
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Program 9:30–18:00 hrs
Morning topics
- Kick-off: From restructuring to impact – the 2027 reality check
- Initial Situation 2027: The status of notifications in numbers
- Financing Under New Hardship: Securing Results, Protecting Care
Afternoon topics
- Productivity & results
- Emergency Care 2027: From Emergency Department Overload to Controllable Care Pathways
- The “McDonald’s of the Hospital”: Radically Standardizing Patient Pathways
- Productivity Without Burnout: New Operating Model for Medicine and Nursing
- Regional Care 2030: Cooperation, SÜV, and regional care centers
- Strategy & portfolio implications
- Outpatient Transition as Operating System: Self-Operate, Partner, or Outsource?
- Bringing AI into the Hospital: Use Cases, Governance, and Reliable ROI
- Transformation Fund: First Application Phase, Three Investment Buckets, and Viable Business Cases
- Robotics in secondary and tertiary areas: platform instead of a standalone solution
- Transformation & future-proofing
- Hospital Restructuring: EBITDA Levers, Self-Administration, and Partial Insolvency
- Agentic Work in the Hospital: Micro-Optimizations with Major Impact
- Data architecture and regulation 101: do’s and don’ts for managing directors
- Resilience is Quality of Care: Cyber, crisis, and environmental events
11:35 AM
Outpatient Transition as Operating System: Self-Operate, Partner, or Outsource?
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11:35 AM
Emergency Care 2027: From Emergency Department Overload to Controllable Care Pathways
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11:35 AM
Hospital Restructuring: EBITDA Levers, Self-Administration, and Partial Insolvency
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1:35 PM
Bringing AI into the Hospital: Use Cases, Governance, and Reliable ROI
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1:35 PM
The "McDonald’s of the Hospital": Radically Standardizing Patient Pathways
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1:35 PM
Agentic Work in the Hospital: Micro-Optimizations with Major Impact
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2:50 PM
Transformation Fund: First Application Phase, Three Investment Buckets, and Viable Business Cases
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2:50 PM
Productivity Without Burnout: New Operating Model for Medicine and Nursing
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4:30 PM
Commitment 2027: What Will Be Demonstrably Different by ZKNFT 2028?
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Program subject to change.
We are Pleased to Announce the Following Speakers – many more to Follow Shortly
Veronika Bernhardt-Wilts
Head of the Regional Health Center
Kliniken Aurich-Emden-Norden
Karl-Josef Bohrer
Solution Sales Manager Enterprise Services
Siemens Healthineers
Dr. med. Götz Broderman
CEO
München Klinik
Dr. Johannes Danckert
Chairman of the Management Board Head of Clinic Management
Vivantes
Nils Dehne
Managing Director
Allianz Kommunaler Großkrankenhäuser e.V.
Dr. Layla Distler
Head of the Department for Hospital Planning and Cross-Sectoral Care
Deputy Head of the Health Department
Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Württemberg
Kay Dombrowski
Strategic Sales Solution Leader DACH
Philips GmbH Market DACH
Dr. Susanne Dörr
Medical Consultant to CEO
Medical Director for Digitalization and Intersectoral Care
Managing Medical Director, Helios Outpatient
Specialist in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative Medicine
Helios Kliniken GmbH
Katrin Erk
Former Chief Financial Officer, Deputy CEO
Heidelberg University Hospital
Dr. Tim Flasbeck
Director of Inpatient Emergency Medicine
München Klinik
Jannis Fey
Hospital Managing Director Manager for Outpatient Care Structures
Hospital Management Group GmbH
Dr. Christina De Francesco-Kasper
Head of Central Medical Controlling
Marienhaus Kliniken GmbH
Dr. Christian Frank
Board Member, Franziskus Foundation
Dr. Gerald Gaß
CEO
German Hospital Federation
Maximilian Greschke
Managing Director
Recare Deutschland GmbH
Dr. Robert Jacob
Chief Commercial Officer
University Hospital Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Jan Steffen Jürgensen
Medical Director and Chairman of the Board
Stuttgart Hospital
Dr. Oliver Klöck
Lawyer
Taylor Wessing Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB
Prof. Dr. Hanns-Peter Knaebel
Chairman of the Board
Heidelberg University Hospital
Dr. Steffen Emil Künzel
Co-Founder
Skleo Health
Dr. Alexander Dinse-Lambracht
Chief Physician, Interdisciplinary Emergency Center
Medical Director, Norden Site
Roman Lovenfosse
Managing Director
Klinikum Hann Münden
Astrid Lurati
Board Member for Finance and Infrastructure
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Simone Mahn
Global Marketing Director
Logex
Dr. med. Jürgen Malzahn
Head of Department
AOK-Bundesverband (National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds)
Department of Inpatient Care, Rehabilitation
Healthcare Division
Prof. Dr. Thomas Moesta
Medical Director Diakovere
Chairman of the German Association for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine e.V.
Corina Naujock
Head of Clinical Cooperations
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Ecky Oesterhoff
Senior Business Developer
CGM
Dr. Christoph Reimertz
Coordinator for corporate cooperation between the BG Kliniken and the German Armed Forces hospitals
Director of the Clinic for Rehabilitation, BG Trauma Clinic Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Sabine Richard
Managing Director, Healthcare Provision Division
AOK-Bundesverband, Berlin
Dr. Jens Schick
Member of the Board COO
Sana Kliniken AG
Jens Schneider
Managing Director
TeleSAN
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schmieder
Medical Director CEO
University Hospital Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Jens Scholz
First Chairman of the Association of German University Hospitals
Chairman of the Board and Board Member for Patient Care / CEO
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Michael Schönfeld
M. Sc. Endovascular Neurosurgery
Senior Physician
University Hospital of Cologne
Surgeon General Prof. Dr. Robert Schwab
Bundeswehr Central Hospital Koblenz
Dr. Hendrik Bernd Sehy
Specialist Lawyer for Medical Law
Luther
Peter Silberhorn
Managing Director
Sana Kliniken Munich
Tino Sorge
Parliamentary State Secretary
Federal Ministry of Health
Prof. Dr. Christian Storm
Managing Director and Co-Founder of TCC GmbH
Prof. Dr. Christoph Straub
CEO
BARMER
Jasper Uhe
Deputy Head of Corporate Division
Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Niedersachsen
Agnes Eva Uhr
Operating Partner at BHI
Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments
Dr. Christian von Klitzing
Chief Executive Officer
Alexianer
Nicolas Weber
Board Member
DGKIMED
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Frederik Wenz
Chief Medical Director and Chairman of the Board
University Medical Center Freiburg
Frances Wolf
Specialist Attorney for Medical Law
Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
Philipp Wolf
CEO
sqior
Surgeon General Dr. Michael Zallet
Health Service Command
Bundeswehr
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