Martin van Middelkoop is Senior Sales Engineer at Progress Software and Chair of IHE Netherlands. He has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare IT focusing on data management, interoperability, analytics and reusability. During the past eight years he worked at Roche, where he contributed to innovative healthcare and life sciences solutions on oncology and diagnostics. His career spans startups, SMB and large enterprises, both software vendors and end-user environments, giving him a broad perspective on both the development and practical application of digital health and data solutions. At Progress, he supports organizations across a wide range of industries, including life sciences, in building trusted data foundations for analytics, knowledge management, and emerging AI-driven use cases.
In this session we will show how to enable cross-site process comparability, faster tech transfer, AI-ready manufacturing data, and frictionless regulatory submissions. The interoperability pillar (shared ontologies across sites and systems) is where the biggest wins and biggest effort lie.