NVIDIA MedTech Meet-Up 2025

Over 150 participants listening to one of the many NVIDIA speaking tracks in the auditorium.

Intro

Why artificial intelligence is becoming indispensable in modern medicine?

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant promise in healthcare. It is increasingly finding its way into clinical workflows, research environments and operating rooms, supporting decision making, enabling new forms of data integration and opening up possibilities that were previously unattainable. Against this backdrop, the NVIDIA MedTech Meetup on 5 November 2025 took place at Balgrist University Hospital and the OR-X, bringing together more than 130 MedTech and technology professionals to exchange ideas and present AI-driven innovations with a clear focus on real-world application.

Creating Clinical Value from Data

  • Two engineers showing a group of participants a live robotic demonstration in the OR-X.
  • Prof. Philipp Fürnstahl and Kimberly Powell standing in front of the OR-X supporter's wall
  • An engineers from X23D demonstrating his AI based navigation technology in the OR-X on a mini C-arm.
  • A group of participants standing in front of the OR-X entrance as part of a infrastructure visit.
  • Two participants conducting a navigation simulation on a skull model in the Balgrist foyer
  • Welcoming session with Prof. Farshad in the Balgrist Auditorium
  • A participant wearing AR glasses for a navigation demonstration in the Balgrist foyer
Creating Clinical Value from Data

The NVIDIA MedTech Meetup 2025 brought together experts from across the MedTech and technology ecosystem to discuss recent developments and future directions in artificial intelligence. As this year’s host, Balgrist University Hospital and the OR-X actively contributed to an event designed to strengthen collaboration between medicine, research, and industry.

The discussions made clear that while AI is already transforming many sectors, its integration into healthcare brings specific opportunities and challenges. Exchange between clinicians, MedTech specialists, and technology experts is therefore essential to translate innovation into clinical value.

This became tangible through three key themes showcased at the meetup: augmented surgical vision, real-time surgical AI, and physical AI applied to simulation and robotics. Live demonstrations illustrated how these approaches can enhance surgical workflows and address real-world implementation challenges.

Within the real-time surgical AI track, our research team presented a live demonstration on integrating multimodal data streams in the operating room. It showed how different surgical devices can be connected via a unified data hub. As today’s operating rooms often rely on heterogeneous systems that function independently, data is frequently fragmented and difficult to access in real time. The demonstrated approach addressed this challenge by enabling unified data acquisition, real-time device communication, and synchronized data streams, resulting in a clearer and more comprehensive intraoperative overview.

Intro

Why collaboration matters

The event underscored that technological advancement alone is not sufficient. Sustainable progress depends on close coordination between clinical practice, research expertise and industrial development. The NVIDIA MedTech Meetup demonstrated how such ecosystems accelerate implementation and support the responsible use of AI in medicine.