At the 10th MyData Global Conference in Helsinki on 24-26 September 2025, experts from more than 40 countries gathered to advance a more human-centric next-generation internet.

NextGen participated in the session “European Health Data Spaces Promises & Pitfalls: The Case of Genomic Data Integration in Personalised Medicine” together with four experts from Finland and the Netherlands.

In this session we participated in a lively discussion on how NextGen’s solutions address some of the critical hurdles in EHDS implementation, such as Open-source genomic pipelines to accelerate secondary and tertiary data processing; Federated machine learning to enable AI/ML innovation when datasets are limited or distributed; Federated catalogues for efficient, secure information discovery.

Dr. Petra Iljäs, neurologist at Helsinki University Hospital and NextGen and member of the NextGen consortium offered her clinical research perspective on how EHDS can transform the practice of clinicians and patient’s diagnoses, prevention and therapies.

The discussion was guided by Philippe Page, who introduced the topic by noting why multi-modal data integration – genomics included – can be a small-scale representation of the challenges of EHDS implementation presenting the related real-world challenges.

NextGen demonstrated not only its technical advances but also its commitment to ensuring that the EHDS becomes a reality grounded in practical, trustworthy, and human-centred solutions.