The Health and Welfare Technology Co-creation Conference: Evidence for development and implementation of health and welfare technologies

The Health and Welfare Technology Co-creation Conference aims to gather key stakeholders from public, private, academic, and civil society that develop, supply, employ, and use health and welfare technologies (HWT). An interdisciplinary scientific co-production model will be used to shape the conference structure and content.

Participants will be given the opportunity to exchange knowledge, experiences, and perspectives about how evidence should be generated and used when developing and implementing HWT.

The invited disciplines will include software and hardware engineering, social sciences, health and medical sciences, economic sciences, and organisational sciences and others.

We will assemble the participants across six primary themes: HWT development, procurement, utility, implementation, follow-up and evaluation, and financing models.Participants will, prior to the conference, be actively engaged in identifying key challenges across these themes through a web-based, guided process using research-proven methods.

The results of that process will form the basis for the structure, content, and profile of the keynote speakers in the conference program, and the ensuing debate forums.

Expected outcomes of the conference include clear identification, documentation and dissemination of prioritized research questions that can lead to new research projects related to evidence-based implementation for HWT from a user perspective.

The conference will also create opportunities for long-term and broad co-operation between various stakeholders in different sectors.

Results from the conference will be utilized supported by the newly established international HWT ecosystem with multi-stakeholders, hosted by Mälardalen University.