Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming healthcare through applications such as clinical decision support, diagnostics, personalised medicine, and health system management. While these technologies promise efficiency gains and improved health outcomes, their growing use raises pressing ethical, legal, and social questions around data protection, accountability, transparency, explainability, patients’ rights, and health equity.

This conference responds to a critical moment. Key European regulatory frameworks, including the EU Artificial Intelligence Act and the European Health Data Space have been entering their implementation phase. As medical AI moves from experimentation to routine use, early challenges are surfacing around compliance, governance, and real-world impact. At the same time, public and professional debates are shifting from early hype toward more critical reflection on trustworthiness, feasibility, and social value.

The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for examining how medical AI can be governed responsibly in practice. It brings together legal scholars, ethicists, policymakers, technologists, healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and community representatives; groups that often work on these issues separately yet are deeply interdependent in shaping healthcare AI. The conference foregrounds community perspectives through its choice of themes and participatory formats, recognising that questions of legitimacy, trust, and fairness cannot be addressed through regulation alone.