SSIMA is the annual international MedTech festival in Eastern Europe, covering topics related to medical technology, such as: Deep Learning and Big Data in Healthcare, Medical Imaging, Medical Sensors and Robots and AI-based Data Analysis. It covers these topics from academic, business and public policy perspectives, with the explicit aim of increasing relationships between Eastern European academics, companies and governments and their global counterparts. As the only MedTech event in Eastern Europe endorsed by MICCAI society, we feel privileged to have a wide audience, crossing international borders, in our pursuit of these purposes.