CONNECT HEALTH I MWC BARCELONA

Connect Health will come to MWC Barcelona from March 1 to 4, 2027, at Fira Gran Via, as one of the key new features of this year’s congress. The initiative aims to connect clinical and care-related challenges with the technologies that are transforming the healthcare sector.

Driven by GSMA and Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Connect Health will bring together healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, technology companies, startups, investors and researchers.

Connect Health is an initiative dedicated to innovation in health and technology, designed to foster collaboration between the healthcare and technology ecosystems and promote new solutions to transform healthcare delivery.

Over the four days of the congress, it will have its own space in Hall 7 at MWC Barcelona, featuring two stages, a technology demonstration area and dedicated meeting spaces. The programme will combine conferences, round tables, networking activities and demonstrations of innovative solutions.

The programme will focus on four main areas: 

• health data and artificial intelligence
• new connected, preventive and person-centred models of care 
• the application of AI to research, drug development and personalised medicine
• health equity, digital therapeutics and healthy ageing.

Among the first announced speakers are Rafael Grossmann, surgeon and digital health pioneer; Lucien Engelen, founder and CEO of Transform.Health; Marlies P. Schijven, professor at the University of Amsterdam and expert in surgery and digital health; and Ricardo Baptista Leite, CEO of HealthAI.

The initiative is supported through the collaboration of Barcelona City Council, the Government of Catalonia and Spain’s Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, as well as the support of the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), Asociación Salud Digital (ASD), AseBio, Biocat, Farmaindustria, Fenin, Fundación IDIS and TIC Salut Social.