Pitch afternoon
Pitch afternoon — 2 October 2026 (online)
Two 15-minute pitches on Microsoft Teams from 14:00. The programme is published on the pitch agenda in the portal one week in advance.
- Date
- Fri 2 Oct 2026 · 00:00
- Location
- Microsoft Teams
One intake, one pitch, 20 health organisations.
Conexco matches companies with an innovative product or service to Belgian hospitals and care organisations. Fill in one structured intake, pitch for 15 minutes to all members at once and receive consolidated feedback within 60 days.
Free for companies · Pre-commercial focus · Online pitches on Friday afternoons
One pitch, 15 minutes
Next pitch afternoonFri 18 Sep 2026 · 14:00
Online via Teams, recorded · feedback within 60 days
- 20 health organisations
- 8 pitch moments a month
- feedback within 60 days
- ≈ 12 intakes a month
From intake to feedback in about two months
Three steps, one process for every member organisation. No cold e-mails, no repeated introductions.
- 1
Complete the structured intake
About 10 minutes
One questionnaire covers your company, your solution, the collaboration you are looking for and your pitch deck. Conexco screens it for completeness and pre-commercial fit.
- 2
Pick a slot and pitch to all members at once
15 minutes · Friday afternoons · online, recorded
Choose a free Friday afternoon slot right after the intake. You and every participating organisation receive a Teams invitation with the same fixed instructions.
- 3
Receive consolidated feedback
Within 60 days
Members align internally and Conexco shares one consolidated answer. Interested organisations then follow up with you one-on-one.
Built for both sides of the table
Companies get one door into Belgian healthcare. Health organisations get a steady, structured flow of innovation without the noise.
For companies
Time saving
One intake and one pitch replace 20 separate introductions.
Hospital insights
Hear directly from clinicians and innovation teams what works in daily practice.
Transparency
Follow your dossier status and read the consolidated feedback in your own view.
Single point of contact
The Conexco core team guides you from intake to individual follow-up.
For health organisations
Structured information
Every proposal arrives in the same format, screened for fit and completeness.
Database & recorded pitches
Search all dossiers, watch recordings and filter by domain, TRL or sector.
Time saving
One pitch afternoon a week instead of a stream of cold e-mails and meetings.
Experience sharing
Learn what peers piloted, what worked and what to avoid on the community board.
Open calls
Next to the general intake, members launch calls on a specific topic or funding channel. Each call has its own deadline and its own intake, pre-tagged so your dossier lands with the right organisations.
All open callsOpen nowRemote monitoring & hospital at homeVLAIO TETRA (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship)
Remote monitoring for heart-failure patients after discharge
Three hospitals look for solutions that keep heart-failure patients safely at home in the 90 days after discharge, with a multicentre validation study co-funded through VLAIO TETRA.
- Deadline
- 31 Oct 2026
- Submissions so far
- 3
News & events
What the network is working on, and where you can meet the members.
Members day
Conexco members day — 20 November 2026, Genk
One afternoon for all member organisations at ZOL in Genk: results of the 2026 studies, the open calls for 2027 and a working session on the feedback process.
- Date
- Fri 20 Nov 2026 · 00:00
- Location
- ZOL, Synaps Park 1, Genk
Process
New: pick your pitch slot right after the intake
Companies now book their 15-minute pitch slot directly at the end of the intake. The Teams invitation and the pitch instructions are sent automatically.
What companies and members say
“We filled in one form and pitched once. Eight weeks later four organisations, two hospitals and two home-care services, were at the table for a study. Reaching them one by one would have taken us a year.”
“The recordings and the written feedback per dossier let me involve the right department head in ten minutes instead of organising a meeting. We give feedback on more dossiers than before, and better feedback.”
“As a home-care organisation we used to hear about new solutions after the hospitals had already chosen. Now we sit in the same pitch and the same feedback meeting, and the studies are designed with home nursing in from the start.”
Run by the member organisations themselves
Conexco started as a co-mission within the Coalition Next initiative. A core team of innovation managers screens intakes, hosts the pitch afternoons and consolidates the feedback.
- ZOL
Arne Janssen
Innovation & Future Health manager
Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg
- AZG
Caroline de Beukelaar
Manager Greenhouse (innovation)
AZ Groeninge
- CHw
Elodie Wannez
Innovation consultant
CHwapi
- ZAS
Bianca Plak
Coordinator innovation
Ziekenhuis aan de Stroom
- iis
Ilse Vanhulle
Venture acceleration manager healthcare
imec.istart
Ready to pitch to 20 health organisations at once?
The intake takes about ten minutes. Pick a Friday afternoon slot straight away and receive consolidated feedback within 60 days.