Annual Pulse of the Industry: Future Healthcare 100 Forum 2016 Invites You to Participate!

Friday, December 23, 2016The 2016 Top 100 Future Healthcare Forum will be held at the Star Base in Chaoyang District, Beijing.As an annual flagship event for discussions on trends in the healthcare industry, the forum centers on “China’s Practices in Driving Transformation of the Healthcare Industry.” Meanwhile, it will unveil the inaugural “Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies” list to the general public, reaching 200,000 professionals across the healthcare industry chain. The forum will explore development trends for the coming year from perspectives including technological evolution, business models, and industrial collaboration.

The 2016 Future Healthcare Top 100 Forum, hosted by VCBeat and VBInsight, was jointly created with government bodies, associations, investment institutions, renowned enterprises, and media outlets, serving as China’s first annual conference dedicated to interpreting trends in the future healthcare industry.

The organizers will invite over 50 guests, representatives from more than 100 listed companies, over 200 entrepreneurs, and delegates from 50+ media outlets. The Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies will be selected from a monitored pool of over 5,000 enterprises, and 200 expert advisors for the rankings will be chosen from more than 5,000 industry professionals. Six major awards will be presented on-site, with over 60 companies, institutions, and individuals receiving honors.

Since the nomination phase began on November 7, a large number of enterprises, institutions, teams, and individuals in the healthcare industry have submitted their project materials for consideration to the Organizing Committee of the “Top 100 Future Healthcare Companies” list, either through self-nomination or recommendation. We are committed to showcasing innovative projects in China’s healthcare sector that hold significant social and economic value, identifying innovation potential, and consolidating industry strength, thereby actively promoting the healthy and orderly development of the healthcare industry.

Annual Industry Pulse: Searching for the Next BAT

In this era, the healthcare industry is fraught with uncertainty, concealing countless hidden reefs and barriers that could be triggered at any moment. We face a host of unresolved challenges, including a weak primary healthcare system, strained doctor-patient relationships, severely unequal distribution of medical resources, the irrational mechanism of subsidizing healthcare services through drug sales, the threat of population aging, and economic downturns. No one can guarantee how these issues will be thoroughly resolved, nor what the full landscape of China’s healthcare sector will look like in the future.

However, since 2014, the “Internet Plus” wave has swept through the healthcare sector. We are pleased to witness that the most cutting-edge forces of our era—internet technology, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence—are integrating with traditional healthcare at a breathtaking pace, quietly transforming the world and reshaping a new healthcare ecosystem.

Driven by national policies and the pursuit of capital, the transformation in the healthcare sector is accelerating further. Although the road ahead is long, the opportunity to drive technological change and improve people’s healthy lifestyles is the most worthwhile endeavor for every healthcare professional. At this juncture, VCBeat presents its first comprehensive analysis of future trends in China’s healthcare industry from an entire-industry perspective, identifying the most prominent industrial forces—these may well become the next BAT of the healthcare sector.

Transformative Forces, Focusing on Future Industrial Opportunities

In 2016, healthcare reform continued to gain momentum, with a dense rollout of policies and the continued accumulation of market reform energy. It is foreseeable that, thanks to multi-party efforts, the closed nature and barriers of the healthcare industry are gradually dissolving, while collaboration across the upstream and downstream segments of the industrial chain is accelerating. Future transformation trends can be observed in various niche markets; whether driven by demand-side guidance or supply-side structural reforms, the positioning of each institution within the healthcare system is undergoing rapid change.

The curtain has risen on a period of profound transformation, with the forces of change gaining momentum. However, constrained by institutional inertia and the complexity of reform, large-scale transformation may not arrive immediately. Nevertheless, by reading the tea leaves, how to grasp emerging trends and adjust strategies proactively has become a focal point of market attention. Therefore, it is time for our annual exploration of the subtle signs of industrial innovation and disruption, where we will highlight which niche sectors and outstanding projects are poised for explosive growth.

Over 50 key opinion leaders (KOLs) from the healthcare industry were invited to attend the forum, facilitating dialogue between publicly listed companies and entrepreneurs to explore collaboration opportunities between China’s primary and secondary markets in the healthcare sector.

Four Major Thematic Sessions on Insurance, Pharmaceutical Companies, Hospitals, and Technology; Four Roundtable Sessions on Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical E-commerce, Oncology, and Investment & Financing—Uniting the Top Forces in the Healthcare Industry to Jointly Drive the Transformation of China’s Medical Sector.

Invited nearly 50 partner media outlets, reaching 200,000 professionals in the healthcare industry chain.