Governing Algorithms for Care​​​​​​

Join us for this in-person conference organised by Law Centre for Health and Life (University of Amsterdam) on 5 and 6 October 2026 at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

*By attending this conference, you can earn accreditation points. If you would like to receive these points, please indicate your interest in the registration form.

Abstract submissions are open until 1 June, 23:59 CEST.

Registration for this conference is open, Early Bird registration is till 10th of July

More information about the programme and speakers will follow soon.

About the conference

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 (AI Act) and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) 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.

We invite abstracts that critically explore the governance of medical AI, including issues of regulation and compliance, data protection and privacy, accountability and liability, ethical design, patients’ rights, and health equity. Interdisciplinary, empirical, policy- and practice-oriented contributions are particularly welcome.

Key themes and topics

• Ethical design and responsible Innovation in medical AI

• Accountability, Liability & Professional Responsibility in medical AI

• Privacy & data protection in view of the EHDS and other relevant EU regulations

• AI, health equity, fairness and social justice

• Regulatory framework for AI in healthcare on member state and EU level

• Citizen and communities' perceptions and expectations regarding medical AI

• Responsible implementation and future directions on medical AI

• Patients’ rights and informed consent in the view of medical AI

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Enforcement of policies and practices in medical AI

• Others

The conference is intended for

• Legal scholars and researchers in health law, technology law, and bioethics

• EU Policymakers and regulators working on AI, health, and data governance

• Healthcare professionals and institutional decision-makers

• Industry representatives and technology developers

• Graduate students and early-career researchers with an interest in AI and health governance