Frontiers Health

What Frontiers Health does

Frontiers Health is an annual digital-health conference and year-round content platform operated as a brand of Healthware Group S.r.l., the Italian private company headquartered in Salerno. The flagship offering is the Frontiers Health Global Conference, held annually in Berlin, which in its 2025 (10th-anniversary) edition attracted over 800 delegates from 55 countries, 260 speakers across 60 sessions, 100+ investors, and 200+ scale-ups and startups, with a curated agenda spanning digital therapies, AI and cutting-edge technologies, value creation, patient- and HCP-driven innovation, and health equity. A regional edition (Frontiers Health Italia) extends the model into the Italian market, while a freemium Video Portal hosting 300+ on-demand recordings from past editions, a Content Hub aggregating articles, podcasts, and interviews, and a Startup & Scale-up Discovery Sessions program extend the event into a continuous content and deal-flow surface. Revenue is generated primarily through tiered conference registration, corporate sponsorships (anchored by EVERSANA as Global Host and Presenting Sponsor, with additional strategic, media, and ecosystem partners), and a freemium video portal; pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed. The company serves a hybrid audience of health-innovation startups and scale-ups, pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies (named participants include Merck, Bayer, Chiesi, Daiichi Sankyo, Thermo Fisher, Aptar Digital Health, and Orion Pharma), investors and venture capitalists, policymakers, and clinicians, with the Chairman role held by Roberto Ascione, who also serves as CEO of Healthware Group and President, Health Innovation at EVERSANA.

Name

Frontiers Health

Legal name

Healthware Group S.r.l.

Website

https://frontiers.health

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Frontiers Health is the annual digital-health conference and content brand of Healthware Group S.r.l., running flagship Berlin and Italian editions plus a year-round video portal that connect startups, pharma, investors, and clinicians in the global health-innovation ecosystem.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Conferences and Events

NAICS

Broadcasting and Content Providers (516), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical & Health Sciences Congresses (THAHAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Healthcare & Life Sciences PR (MPAAADAD)

Keywords

• Health innovation conferences
• Digital health events
• Healthcare networking platforms
• Medical conference services
• Health tech content portal

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Marketing or Sales, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration: Revenue generated from ticket sales for annual Frontiers Health conferences, including global editions (e.g., FH25, FH26) and regional events (e.g., FH Italia). Attendees purchase passes to access sessions, networking, and hospitality.
2. Sponsorships: Corporate sponsors (pharma, health tech, investors) pay for partnership and sponsorship packages at the conference, gaining visibility, exhibition space, and access to the ecosystem.
3. Video Portal Access: The video portal offers free registration for basic access and full portal access for premium content from all conference editions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Frontiers Health operates an annual flagship digital health conference held in Berlin (with regional editions such as Frontiers Health Italia) and a year-round digital content platform comprising a video portal with over 300 on-demand conference videos and a content hub aggregating news, articles, podcasts and interviews. The core deliverable is curating high-quality content and networking opportunities that connect pharmaceutical executives, digital health startups and scale-ups, investors, policymakers and clinicians in a global health innovation ecosystem.

Product overview

Frontiers Health is an annual digital health conference and year-round content platform. The core offering is the flagship Frontiers Health Global Conference, held annually in Berlin, which serves as a premier global health innovation event focused on digital therapies, breakthrough technologies, healthcare transformation, investments, and ecosystem development. The portfolio includes the Video Portal (on-demand access to over 300 conference videos), the Content Hub (aggregating news, articles, podcasts, and interviews), the Start-up & Scale-up Discovery Sessions (startup showcase program), and regional editions such as Frontiers Health Italia. Together these products form an integrated ecosystem for health innovation content, connections, and collaboration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Frontiers Health Global Conference The annual flagship in-person digital health conference held in Berlin, featuring keynotes, fireside chats, panels, deep dives, masterclasses, and networking for pharmaceutical executives, investors, startups, policymakers, and clinicians.
• Frontiers Health Video Portal An on-demand video platform hosting over 300 recorded sessions from all Frontiers Health conference editions, featuring leading health innovation experts, accessible via free registration with premium tier for full access.
• Content Hub A one-stop destination for premium insights from every edition of Frontiers Health, aggregating news, articles, interviews, videos, and podcasts featuring leading health innovation experts.
• Start-up and Scale-up Discovery Sessions A showcase program at Frontiers Health conferences that allows health innovation startups and scale-ups with proven, scalable solutions to present on the main stage, connecting with investors, industry leaders and top firms.
• Frontiers Health Italia A regional edition of the Frontiers Health conference held in Italy (Rome), bringing together the Italian and European health innovation ecosystem.
• FH26 AI for Pharma Track A dedicated track at Frontiers Health 2026 focused on artificial intelligence applications in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• 800+ delegates from 55 countries attended FH25
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• StartupbootcampcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 June 2026Startupbootcamp joined Frontiers Health 2026 as a Strategic Partner. The partnership strengthens the open innovation platform, creating new opportunities for collaboration between startups, corporates, investors, and healthcare leaders. Startupbootcamp is one of the world's top 5 accelerator networks with 150+ programs run globally.
• CarlsquaremajorGTM or Marketing Partner · 29 October 2025Carlsquare, together with SHS Capital, hosted an exclusive warm-up reception at FH25. Carlsquare is a Strategic Partner producing the Digital Health Report on VC and European M&A markets. They hosted impulse talks on HealthTech market trends.
• SHS CapitalmajorGTM or Marketing Partner · 29 October 2025SHS Capital partnered with Carlsquare to host an exclusive warm-up reception at FH25. SHS Capital is a healthcare investor in the Frontiers Health ecosystem.
• Healthy.CapitalminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 7 July 2025Created the Dutch Digital Health Market Map 2025 Edition, presented at FH25. Founder Douwe Jippes served as conference ambassador.
• Research2Guidance (R2GConnect)majorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 19 June 2024Strategic and Ecosystem Partner for collecting startup and scaleup applications through the R2GConnect platform. Research2Guidance is a leading analyst and consulting company in digital health.
• Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2022Partnership to form a European coalition for digital therapeutics. DTA and Healthware Group collaborate to convene thought leaders, policymakers, and associations to develop harmonized pathways for DTx recognition and scalability. DTA's European launch was at Frontiers Health in 2017.
• EVERSANAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEVERSANA serves as Global Host and Presenting Sponsor of Frontiers Health. The partnership positions the conference within EVERSANA's health innovation ecosystem. EVERSANA executives participate in opening remarks and key sessions. The relationship is described as a flagship partnership powering the conference.
• Tech TourcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with Tech Tour, Europe's largest community of tech entrepreneurs and investors. The partnership advances the future of health innovation by connecting the Frontiers Health ecosystem with Tech Tour's network.
• pharmaphorummajorGTM or Marketing PartnerOfficial media partner of Frontiers Health. Produces editorial content, interviews, and the Life Sciences Industry Report. Deep Dive editor participates in conference interviews.
• Digital Health GlobalminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMedia partner publishing dedicated articles and video interviews from Frontiers Health conferences.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Web Summit: Web Summit is a large generalist tech conference that hosts dedicated health and biotech tracks, competing for the same cross-border sponsor and investor audience that FH targets, with materially larger scale and a broader (non-health) buyer base.
• J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference: The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is the premier annual healthcare investor event, occupying the same January 'deal-sourcing' mindshare slot that FH targets in Europe with a materially larger investor audience and Big Pharma executive participation.
• HIMSS (Global Health Conference): HIMSS Global is the largest established health IT conference, with a broader (enterprise-IT, EHR, provider) audience than Frontiers Health but overlapping sponsor pool (health tech vendors, pharma digital leads) and overlapping digital-health content tracks.
• Bio-Europe (EBD Group): Bio-Europe is the leading European life-sciences partnering conference, with overlapping pharmaceutical and biotech participants (including some of FH's select customers) and a broader licensing/M&A focus than FH's digital-health emphasis.
• CES (Consumer Electronics Show) — Digital Health: CES hosts a major Digital Health summit in Las Vegas, attracting overlapping consumer-health, wearables and health-tech exhibitors and competing for health-tech sponsor mindshare with a much larger venue and audience scale.

Direct peers

• Health 2.0 Conference: Health 2.0 is a long-running digital-health conference focused on showcasing startups and health-tech innovations, sharing Frontiers Health's startup-showcase format and overlapping sponsor/attendee pool in the digital health innovation category.
• WIRED Health: WIRED Health is a curated digital-health and emerging-tech innovation conference with a similar buyer profile (health-tech innovators, pharma digital leads, investors), competing for premium sponsorships and speaker mindshare in the same calendar window.
• HLTH: HLTH is the largest US-based digital health innovation conference, attracting thousands of delegates, hundreds of sponsors and the same buyer set (Big Pharma digital health leads, digital health startups and VCs) as Frontiers Health, making it the most directly comparable event franchise.
• Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA) events: DTA is the digital therapeutics industry alliance whose European launch was hosted at Frontiers Health in 2017, creating direct overlap on digital-therapeutics programming, sponsorships and the DTx regulatory/policy conversation that FH continues to convene.

Regional players

• Slush: Slush is the leading Nordic/European startup and investor conference, sharing the FH model of curating startup–corporate–investor collisions and overlapping on health-tech startup participation, with regional (Helsinki-based) rather than global coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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