📍 Erasmus MC Education Center (2nd floor) | 📅 9 October 2025, 08:45
On 9 October 2025, Erasmus MC will host the Cybersecurity Open Day on Privacy-Preserving Technologies for Healthcare, an interactive event organized by the Horizon Europe projects SEPTON and SECURED. The program features keynotes, live demonstrations, posters, and a panel discussion, providing a comprehensive view of how cybersecurity and privacy-preserving technologies are reshaping healthcare.
Healthcare systems worldwide are becoming increasingly connected, integrating electronic health records, imaging platforms, bedside monitoring, and implantable/wearable devices. While these digital transformations improve patient outcomes, they also create significant vulnerabilities: cyberattacks on hospital IT, data privacy breaches, and the challenge of complying with stricter regulations such as GDPR, MDR, and NIS2. The Open Day will highlight practical, deployable solutions to meet these challenges head-on.
🔑 Program Highlights
- Cybersecurity Keynote: Prof. Jan van den Berg (TU Delft & Leiden University) on emerging threats in healthcare infrastructures.
- Privacy Keynote: Dr. Paolo Palmieri (University College Cork, Ireland) on anonymization, synthetic data, and privacy in the AI era.
- SEPTON Demonstrations: Security tools for networked medical devices, implantables, and monitoring dashboards.
- SECURED Demonstrations: Anonymization pipelines, synthetic data engines, and federated analysis frameworks for secure collaboration.
- Poster Session: Innovative research on lightweight encryption, privacy-preserving AI, and post-quantum readiness.
- Panel Discussion: “Cybersecurity and upcoming regulation in Healthcare – How does it affect clinical practice?”
The event will provide participants with insights into protecting sensitive patient data, securing medical devices, and ensuring compliance with future regulations. It also demonstrates how these advances enable the safe development of new medical services, research collaborations, and MedTech innovations.
🎟 Participation
- Open to researchers, healthcare professionals, students, MedTech companies, and policy makers
- Free of charge (including lunch)
- Registration required: cybersecurity-openday-erasmusmc.nl
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of secure, privacy-aware healthcare technologies and to connect with experts driving innovation across Europe.