- The U.S. healthcare market: opportunities and challenges. How the new International Expansion Service of the Foreign Office in New York can help.
- The Most Common Mistakes Healthtech Companies Make: practical insights on market validation, regulation, capital, sales, reimbursement, and data security.
Acceleration
Analytical Challenges and Pitfalls in Biologics Development: Scientific Perspectives on NBEs and Biosimilars
Midas is organising 3 workshops, followed by networking drinks & snacks
Discover how analytical science enables successful development of biologics and biosimilars.
Explore real-world challenges in mAbs and ADCs, from molecular complexity and comparability to stability and regulatory expectations, highlighting advanced analytical tools and practical insights shaping the future of biologics
Business
Opportunities for the Healthcare Sector in the United States: How to Leverage Them with Local Support
If your company belongs to the healthcare sector, medical technology, medical devices, or digital health, this session will help you understand the structure and main characteristics of the sector in the United States so you can successfully do business there.
Program
Tech Transfer
MAR Tech Transfer Academy (Session 2)
The MAR Tech Transfer Academy provides researchers and clinicians with practical tools to translate lab innovations into market and patient impact. Through monthly masterclasses and interactive sessions (January – June 2026), experts will cover strategies across the Technology, Business, Science and Clinical pillars. In this case, this session program will be open to the Ecosystem.
Tech Transfer
R&D to GMP reality. From the bench to the bed side.
This virtual session explores the journey of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products from research to clinical use. Experts will discuss key regulatory, QA/QC and CMC challenges, the transition from lab-scale to GMP manufacturing, and how engineering and translational research converge to design future-ready ATMP production facilities.
Acceleration
Common Risks and Pitfalls on your Way from R&D to Commercial
Midas is organising 3 workshops, followed by networking drinks & snacks.
Abstract: We’ll explore real-world case studies, address common challenges in regulatory strategy and development planning, and share practical guidance to help you navigate them effectively.
Let’s move smarter toward your next milestone.
Innovation
Startups and Record-Breaking Funding Rounds: The Vision of the Lawyers Behind the Success
How are the most important financing deals in the health sector shaped? Within the framework of Barcelona Health Innovation Week, we met at Hospital Clínic to analyze the private investment milestones of 2025 from a privileged perspective: that of the lawyers who led the closing of these transactions.
In this session, Francisco Aránega (AMyS – Aránega, Miravitlles & Suárez Abogados), Elena Cuatrecasas (Cuatrecasas) and David Miranda (Osborne Clarke) will share first-hand insights into the key legal structures, negotiation challenges, and lessons learned from the funding rounds of companies such as SpliceBio (€118 million, Series B), DeepUll (€50 million, Series C), and Qida (€37 million, Series B), which set the pace for the ecosystem last year.”
Innovation
From Pilot to Patient? Why 80% of AI Health Projects in Spain Never Scale
Most hospital AI projects don’t fail because of the technology, they fail in real-world operations.
Between regulation, hospital organization, and daily clinical practice lies a true “Valley of Death” where promising ideas turn into endless pilots.
During the event, you’ll take part in an interactive case study that puts a hospital AI project to test from day one.
Startups
Foro Capital Pymes: 14 Years Supporting Business Financing… Including the Healthcare Sector
Foro Capital Pymes organizes investment forums that connect innovative companies with dozens of private investors, that actively seek high-potential investment opportunities, including the healthcare and life sciences sector.
For more than 14 years of activity, these forums have supported the financing of numerous companies, channeling more than €75 million into startups at different stages of growth.
For healthcare startups, attracting investor interest involves specific challenges: complex business models, regulatory frameworks, longer time-to-market and the need to clearly demonstrate both impact and scalability.
In this conference, we will take a practical, hands-on approach to explaining the key factors of a successful fundraising process and how startups can significantly improve their chances of raising capital in investment forums.
The conference will be in Spanish.
Startups
From Funding to Growth: The Health Tech Startup Journey
Through a startup pitch and experience-driven insights, speakers will share practical perspectives on managing investor relationships, aligning expectations, and making strategic post-funding decisions. The conversation also highlights key considerations investors use when supporting and evaluating growing healthcare startups, offering valuable takeaways for entrepreneurs, investors, and life sciences ecosystem stakeholders.
