Virtech: Advancing AI, Digital Health, and Smart City Innovation through EU Projects Alexander Iliev, Roumen Nikolov, Alexandre Chikalanov

Virtech is a research-intensive company driving innovation through more than 20 EU-funded projects, focused on AI, digital health, smart city infrastructure, edge computing, and the computing continuum.

This presentation overviews flagship initiatives: NutriWell, a platform for personalized nutrition & wellness that has been funded by the DRG4Food project and validated with end users and stakeholders. ENACT, a recently launched exposomics project under Virtech’s leadership, which investigates environmental exposures (air, noise, light) and their long-term health impacts for non-communicable diseases. By leveraging cutting-edge architectures (edge & cloud, federated AI, digital twins), these projects show measurable effects: healthier communities, sustainable urban planning, improved citizen well-being. Virtech combines technical excellence with ethical & societal values. The talk will also map out collaboration opportunities with academia, industry, and policy makers, showing how responsible innovation under EU research programmes can become a strategic asset in addressing climate change, healthcare resilience and the digital transformation of our cities.