Following the successful DMEA 2024, which took place from 9 to 11 April at the Berlin Exhibition Centre and broke all records of previous years with around 19,000 trade visitors and more than 800 exhibitors, Burcu Dural-Lange is taking over as Exhibition Project Manager of DMEA - Connecting Digital Health with immediate effect. She takes over from Ursula Baumann, who has been in charge of the leading Berlin event for digital health since 2008 and played a key role in establishing the DMEA, formerly conhIT, together with the DMEA organiser Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e. V., the cooperation partners GMDS and BVMI and the associations CIO-UK and KHIT at the Berlin Exhibition Centre and driving it forward.

"I am very proud of the way the DMEA has grown and the contribution it has made to the development of the industry," says Ursula Baumann. "Last week, the DMEA once again proved the potential of this industry and I am delighted to be able to hand over this successful project, which we have built up together with the bvitg at Messe Berlin, to my competent successor Burcu Dural-Lange.”

Burcu Dural-Lange has been working at Messe Berlin since 2006. Previously, she headed the Conventions Project Management team in the Guest Events division and organised numerous events, leading national and international medical congresses at the Berlin Exhibition Centre. "I look forward to the new tasks that await me as Exhibition Project Manager at DMEA," says Burcu Dural-Lange. "I recognised it at DMEA last week - the industry is in motion, many important players from the healthcare sector have exchanged views on their key topics and are working together to implement them. Together with our partners, we at Messe Berlin are happy to provide a platform for Europe's leading industry gathering for digital health year after year."

"As the organiser of DMEA - the brand of the European digital health community - the bvitg can look back on a very successful collaboration with Messe Berlin as the organiser of the event. The association would like to thank Ursula Baumann for her great commitment and years of expertise. We look forward to the next DMEA with Burcu Dural-Lange," explains Anja Brysch, Head of DMEA and Association Services at the bvitg.

Ursula Baumann will continue to support Burcu Dural-Lange in an advisory capacity until the end of the year.

The old and new DMEA trade fair project managers Ursula Baumann and Burcu Dural-Lange. Photo: Messe Berlin

About DMEA

DMEA is Europe's leading event for digital health, which gathers decision-makers from all areas of the healthcare sector, including IT specialists, physicians, hospital and nursing care executives as well as experts from politics, science and research.

Around 19,000 participants came together at the Berlin exhibition centre in 2024. More than 800 national and international exhibitors and around 350 speakers took part.

In 2023, around 16,200 participants, 735 exhibitors and more than 300 national and international speakers took part at the DMEA.

The DMEA is organized by the Bundesverband Gesundheits-IT - bvitg e.V. (Federal Association for Health IT) and is hosted by Messe Berlin GmbH. It is organized in cooperation with the industry associations GMDS (German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology) e.V., BVMI (Professional Association of Medical Informatics) e.V. and with the content-related participation of KH-IT (Federal Association of Hospital IT Managers) e.V. and CIO-UK (Chief Information Officers - University Hospitals).

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