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 increasingly shaping clinical workflows, research environments and operating rooms by supporting decision-making and enabling new forms of data integration. Against this backdrop, the NVIDIA MedTech Meetup on 5. November 2025 at Balgrist University Hospital and the OR-X brought together more than 130 MedTech and technology professionals to exchange ideas and showcase AI-driven innovations with a 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

As this year’s host, Balgrist University Hospital and the OR-X contributed to an interdisciplinary program focused on translating AI innovation into clinical practice. Discussions highlighted the importance of collaboration between medicine, research and industry for successful implementation.

Three topics were at the center of the meetup: augmented surgical vision, real-time surgical AI, and physical AI for simulation and robotics. Live demonstrations showed how these approaches can improve surgical workflows and future operating room environments.

Within the real-time surgical AI track, our research team demonstrated how multimodal data streams can be integrated via a unified data hub, enabling synchronized data acquisition, real-time device communication and a clearer intraoperative overview.

Intro

Why collaboration matters

The event highlighted that technological innovation alone is not enough to advance AI in medicine. Sustainable progress depends on close collaboration between clinical practice, research and industry to ensure that new technologies can be meaningfully integrated into healthcare environments.