EIT Health: Tartu AIProHealth Summer School 2025
If you are passionate about AI and healthcare and have an entrepreneurial spirit, we welcome you to the AIProHealth Summer School.
The AIProHealth Summer School offers an intensive learning experience for students, postdocs, junior specialists, and startup employees in AI, medicine, and business who focus on innovation in medical technology. At the event you will learn about AI's technical, ethical, and legal aspects in healthcare and gain entrepreneurial experience in bringing AI solutions to the healthcare market.
In the on-site programme in Tartu on 11–15 August, you will receive lectures from experts, have guided discussions, and put everything into practice in a hackathon.
This time the lecturers include.
Large language models have remarkable reasoning capabilities—but to use them effectively, they must be guided to the right data. In this lecture and hands-on workshop, Mikhail Papkov, Research Scientist at Google, will explore cutting-edge open-source frameworks for building intelligent agents and demonstrate how to connect them with external data sources. Join us to learn how to turn LLMs into practical, data-driven tools.
The title of his presentation is: "Reasoning through health data with agents".
Genia Albre leads a team of product managers at Microsoft, building AI-powered experiences used by millions in mission-critical roles. Her team focuses on cutting-edge areas such as Conversational AI, Contextual AI, natural language to data visualization, prompt experimentation, model finetuning, and performance optimization. With 15 years in the tech industry, Genia brings a unique blend of startup grit, enterprise-scale impact, and academic insight. She holds degrees from the University of Tartu and Carnegie Mellon University.
She will give two lectures.
"Building AI Products: What Every PM Should Know"
AI is changing how we build products. This session dives into the unique challenges and responsibilities product managers face when working with AI. From aligning cross-functional teams to navigating data, ethics, and unpredictable model behavior, you'll learn what it takes to ship responsible and effective AI-powered experiences.
"Managing the Next Wave of AI Experiences"
As AI evolves, so do the products we create. This session explores how emerging AI patterns—like autonomous workflows and intelligent assistants—are reshaping user expectations and product strategy. We'll discuss what PMs need to consider when managing these new experiences, from reliability to user trust to long-term value.
Mikko Kaipio is a well-known design leader from Finland with nearly two decades of experience from service and user experience design to strategic design and product design. He currently serves as Principal Consultant at Krosswise Cluster, where he leads the company’s design vision and strategy across international markets.
Mikko has held senior design leadership roles at renowned companies including Nortal, Reactor Innovations, Wolt, Fjord, and Futurice. Over the years, he has built a reputation for bridging business strategy, user needs, and operational workflows to deliver impactful, user-centric digital services. His work is guided by a strong commitment to accessibility, inclusion, and the measurable business value of thoughtful design.
At Krosswise, Mikko plays a pivotal role in driving innovation through design. He is a strong advocate for embedding design strategically within organizations to support digital transformation, improve productivity, and eliminate friction in user experiences.
A published thought leader, Mikko has written extensively on the power of curiosity, creativity, and adaptive thinking in unlocking business potential.
In his talks, Mikko offers practical insights on how design can fuel innovation, enhance collaboration, remove barriers, and create more meaningful and productive experiences—making him a widely respected voice in the global design community.
In this interactive talk, radiologist Dr. Martin Reim offers a concise clinical perspective on the use of AI in radiology and medicine more broadly—highlighting opportunities for current and future collaboration. Drawing on personal experience, he will discuss how to bridge clinical expertise and AI research to build a medtech company, and raise discussion points relevant to the medical field.
The title of his presentation is: Radiologist view – Artificial Intelligence in clinical use and how to get there?
Margit Sutrop is a Professor of Practical Philosophy and Head of the Centre for Ethics. She is also a Member of the Estonian Parliament, an ethics expert at the European Commission, and the Head of the Ethics Advisory Board of the Estonian Centre for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. Her lecture will give an overview of the ethical issues of AI and how AI can align with human values.
Are you passionate about HealthTech innovation and eager to explore how to build and sustain thriving solutions and ecosystems that support groundbreaking tehnologies? Join us for an exciting workshop led by an industry leader - Merilin Varsamaa, who has over 10 years of experience in transforming healthcare systems. With a strong background in driving private and public health innovation at a telemedicine startup, the Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia and the Science and Business Park Tehnopol, Merilin has contributed in building the largest HealthTech ecosystem in the Baltic States. With deep expertise in connecting clinical partners, supporting regulatory changes, and developing new healthtech innovations, this workshop will give you a firsthand look at how to foster the environment necessary for the next generation of healthcare solutions.
Tõnu Runnel has founded multiple internet & design companies since the end of the 1990s when he was still at high school. He has exited them all and is now a writer and photographer, occasionally speaking about urbanism, design, tech or photography. At our summer school he's taking up his oldest topic in a renewed form — why and how do design and branding matter for upstart companies.
Jaarika Järviste has worked as head of innovation, development and eHealth portfolio in the last 5 years in the Estonian Health Insurance Fund. She has called to life the innovation grant and consulted digital health companies on what evidence they need to gather before applying for reimbursement. Being a doctor by education and managing a team of product managers she also has a wide view of needs that need to be taken into account before deciding if the product creates as much value to the market as the company says.
Silja Elunurm is an attorney-at-law, currently Regulatory Head of Migrevention, the world’s first fully digital headache clinic, and brings extensive expertise in launching software as a medical device. As a lecturer at both the University of Technology in Tallinn and the University of Turku, she offers a comprehensive view of the EU regulatory frameworks shaping the HealthTech sector and provides practical insights into navigating this complex landscape.
The title of her presentation is "Navigating the Evolving Landscape of HealthTech Regulations in EU (MDR, AI Act, GDPR, EHDS)"
Kärt Pormeister is a freelance lawyer and legal scholar with a myriad of experience in matters of bioethics and the law, with a specific background in data protection in human subject research. She will be addressing the use of AI in healthcare from the patients' perspective, most notably, the question of whether and to what extent patients' rights include the right to refuse to be subjected to automated individual decision-making.
Kalev Kaarna has worked as an investor and startup coach at Superangel investment fund. He will share insights on how startups were selected for investment and the ways portfolio companies were coached to successfully raise funding. Currently, Kalev is working at the Applied Research Center of Metrosert.
The title of this presentation is: “What do investors look for in deep tech startups?”
Sulev Reisberg is an expert in health informatics and personalized medicine. He has worked as a software developer for Estonian health registries and the Estonian Biobank, later transitioning to roles as a data analyst and researcher. His scientific article "Translating genotype data into clinical pharmacogenetic recommendations: challenges and solutions" received the ICPerMed "Best Practice in Personalised Medicine" Recognition in 2019. Currently, he focuses on large-scale analyses of linked Estonian health databases. He also leads OHDSI Estonia and serves on the board of the Estonian Society of Personalized Medicine. In his lecture and hands-on workshop, he will explain what health data is, how it is collected, and how to clean it for better use.
Elena is passionate about turning complex challenges into innovative AI solutions. With over 15 years of experience spanning academia and industry, she currently specializes in GenAI agentic applications and AI-powered voicebots.
At the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science, Elena serves as an Lecturer in Health Informatics and is the author of the Practical Data Science textbook for Estonian universities. Her award-winning teaching has brought AI skills to more than 5,000 professionals. She is also the Academic Coordinator of the AIProHealth Summer School.
At Nortal she leads GenAI initiatives at the group level, contributes to company AI strategy and growth, advises on trustworthy AI applications development aligned with EU regulations. She is also helping Ministry of Social Affairs of Estonia to build national e-Health strategy.
Let’s shape the future of healthcare together!
Siim is a founder & health technology entrepreneur on a mission to extend human healthspan. 20+ years of operational experience in building and launching digital products and services, implementing go-to-market strategies, raising capital and leading international teams. Founder of two healthtech companies, a leading Estonian healthtech accelerator and an NGO dedicated to healthcare innovation. He is going to give a talk “Zero to One: How to Build, Launch and Fund Your Startup”.
During the online hackathon on 16–28 August, you will team up with other students to develop a prototype for a business case, for example, implementing an AI solution to a healthcare problem.
Before the Summer School on-site programme, you must pass two self-paced online courses, which will be sent to you after the registration. For the hackathon, you are welcome to indicate if you want to team up with other specific participants.
The deadline is 25 May. The Summer School fee is 350 euros for students based in the European Union. 250 euros for students based in RIS countries.
Transportation and accommodation costs are not included. If you are coming from outside of Tartu, you can apply for a travel grant that will help cover the costs of travelling and accommodation if you are qualified. The exact amount of the grant is decided after the face-to-face week. The course fee also does not cover participants' breakfast and dinners during the summer school.
