Dr Lia Ali is a doctor and digital health strategist with extensive experience across the spectrum of digital healthcare. She is passionate about ethics and safety by design, patient centred care and long term conditions including mental health and have particular interests in integrated care and medical education.

She believes that delivery of exemplary healthcare requires a holistic, biopsychosocial, service design approach. Lia has done this via transformation roles in the NHS, charities & for-profit sector.

Rowland is one of the first Chief Analytics Officers to be employed in the NHS, specialising in building and scaling data and analytics capabilities to become more “insight-driven”. Rowland leads the delivery of data services at the University Hospital Derby and Burton, heading teams of multi-disciplinary data professionals to deliver data and analytics strategy and target operating models; the execution of data science and intelligent automation projects; and the industrialisation of data and analytics capabilities as part of a large-scale digital transformation programme. He specialises in data and analytics driven change, working closely with senior executives to deliver against strategic business cases.

Jonathan has over 20 years experience in bringing digital technologies that have a positive impact on society to the market. He has spent the past 9 years working as CEO and Co-founder of Healum, where he has worked in partnership with patients, healthcare professionals and commissioners within the NHS to deliver digital software and systems that improve patient experiences and health outcomes, whilst supporting healthcare professionals to deliver joined up care in a more efficient way. Prior to founding Healum, he worked in a number of companies across technology, media and telecommunications sectors including Google, BBC, SUBTv and Blyk. He holds a First Class Honours BSc in Economics from UCL.

Danny is Associate Director of Business Development and Commercial at Imperial College Health Partners and the Commercial Lead for the new Discover-NOW London SDE.

He is passionate about innovation and has a strong drive to make a meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe. He has over 10 years of experience in driving transformative growth and innovation across Life Sciences and is equipped with deep scientific expertise and global business experience spanning startups to corporations.

He is committed to paying forward by investing in the next generation of leaders as a Startup Mentor and Advisor for a range of accelerators, as Guest Lecturer at UCL Global Business School for Health and as an Angel Investor.

Antonia Brown is a District Nurse by background, currently working as the Deputy CNIO at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, the first community trust to become a Digital Aspirant.

She chairs a national user network for the EPR in use at her Trust. She recently won an NHS Digital and Data award for Dedication to Profession, an accolade which makes her exceptionally proud as she is passionate about the professionalisation of digital nursing.

She is a Queens Nurse, committed to the delivery of outstanding patient care in the community, and a Florence Nightingale Foundation Digital Alumna. She is part of Cohort 5 of the Digital Health Leadership programme. She has recently led programmes of work including the creation of a Digital Innovation Lab and creation of a Clinical Digital Innovators programme within her trust.

Dr Mathieu Bottier is a Research Associate at the Royal Brompton Hospital & Imperial College London. His research primarily focuses on airway cilia and the development of new diagnostic protocols to diagnose Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. He is currently developing an Artificial Intelligence (computer vision) platform to detect ciliary defects.

Fayaz is an award winning Analytics and Modelling Director with considerable experience creating, scaling and delivering products across the public sector.

He has 10 years + healthcare experience working nationally and internationally on: Strategic Workforce Planning, Pathway Optimisation, Analytics Learning and Predictive Modelling.

Raheem is the co-founder and COO of Psyrin, an AI-powered app to detect serious mental illness through speech analysis, which has won awards from the RCPsych Digital SIG and the King’s Entrepreneurship Institute. Alongside this, he is an FY1 doctor at King’s College Hospital and a keen healthcare entrepreneur, bringing a fresh perspective to medical innovation.

Natalie has over 15 years’ experience working in healthcare, delivering high-impact PR and marketing campaigns. She specialises in health-tech and has worked with companies ranging from blue-chip businesses to start-ups, implementing projects in brand development, lead generation, reputation management, media relations and digital media, crisis communications, stakeholder engagement, event management and public affairs.

Her previous roles include spearheading the industry trade body’s health and social care programmes (representing over 450 tech companies), and running a busy policy and communications department for an EPR supplier.

Dr. Cester holds a PhD of Photonics applied to medicine where she developed a novel medical device to diagnose heart diseases. She then worked in the NHS as an AI clinical scientist, where she continued the development of her product through grants. Most recently she opened her own company and raised private capital.

Bishoy is the Chief Clinical Information Officer (Director for Clinical Informatics) for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Vice – Chair for the CCIO Advisory Panel to provide a support and direction for the CCIO community nationally. He also has digital health start-up experience as the Chief Medical Officer of Lister, a task management application aiming to eliminate paper job lists for both Doctors and Nurses.

Bishoy is keen to utilise his skills in operational management, innovation and leadership to provide impactful change in the NHS to support staff to deliver better care for patients.

Neil has a decade of AI-Healthcare experience having founded Skin Analytics in 2012. His career has centred on technology-driven transformation of traditional industries such as health and finance. He is an NHS Innovation Fellow and holds a BSc and an Executive MBA from London Business School.

Will is a Professor of Digital Epidemiology at the University of Manchester and an honorary consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital. His research interests are using digital health data for population health research, collected from both clinicians and patients.

Alexander has developed auditable standards for AI in healthcare with the British Standards Institution as an editorial panel chair, and also evaluates clinical AI technology at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.

Yusuf is an award winning Data Analytics leader with over 15 years consulting experience. He leads our UK Public Sector analytics team, directing projects for our healthcare, transport, policing, education, central and local government clients. Yusuf and his team help our clients to make better use of their data, by providing the right insight to the right people, in the right way. His work extends across a wide range of data analytics services, from developing effective data strategy and analytics teams, right through to the development of analytics platforms and specific analytics solutions, applying a robust user experience driven approach.

Debbie Foley, MBA, is a leader in transforming healthcare through cutting-edge technology. As the driving force behind the expansion of a digital AI-powered wound management solution, Debbie is dedicated to empowering clinicians to meet the evolving demands of patient care within the NHS system.

With a robust history of pioneering innovation in the global healthcare landscape, Debbie combines her knowledge and experience to propel the healthcare industry into the future. Her passion for technology fuels her mission to enhance current healthcare practices and improve patient outcomes.

James Freed leads the Digital Academy for Health and Care, an organisation dedicated to supporting as many teams in health and care deliver more value tomorrow than they did today. He was the last Chief Digital and Information Officer for Health Education England and his career has taken him through Cancer Research, Change Management and Standards development.

In 2017 James was voted by peers as one of the top 100 influencers globally in Health IT as part of the #HIT100 twitter campaign. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a FedIP accredited Leading Practitioner and a Chartered Health CIO accredited through CHIME.

Monica Fletcher is the former Chief Executive of Education for Health.

She is also Chair of the UK Inhaler Group, Knowledge Exchange Lead for the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, and Chair of the European Respiratory Nurses Association (ERNA).

Monica is involved in influencing national and international policies through her activities including membership of the WHO’s Global Alliance Against Respiratory Disease (GARD), the European Respiratory Society, the American Thoracic Society, the European COPD Coalition, and the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. She is an Associate of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan.

Monica is honoured with an OBE for services to nursing.

Saira is the Digital Health Lead at the Institute of Global Health Innovation and Security Science Fellow at ISST, Imperial College London and a honorary consultant in respiratory medicine at St Mary’s Hospital.

At Imperial College Saira has spearheaded the College’s collaboration for healthcare cybersecurity. Saira also leads work on evidence generation for digital health, the value of healthcare data and AI and machine learning for health in low and middle income countries.

Saira is also the co-founder of two start-ups: Psyma (mental health) and Prova Health (evidence generation in digital health). Saira holds a MSc in Health Policy from Imperial and was also a Harkness Fellow in Health Policy and Practice in New York (2017).

Dr Vibhor Gupta is the founder of Pangaea Data, which offers a product platform based on medical knowledge and AI to characterize and find more undiagnosed and miscoded patients across hard-to-diagnose conditions.
Prior
to Pangaea, Vibhor spearheaded the European business for Quantum Secure (headquartered in Silicon Valley). He then served as SVP of Commercial Strategy and Sales at Seven Bridges Genomics (founded at Harvard). Vibhor’s academic career focused on conducting
molecular biology studies and building machine learning models with epigenetic and clinical data in oncology and infectious diseases.

Stefano Goria is co-founder and CTO at thymia: a mental health tech startup using AI to transform how we assess mental health. Stefano has a PhD in Theoretical Physics and over 17 years of expertise bringing cutting edge mathematical models to production. Now, he is applying his skills to tackle one of the biggest health problems of our time: mental illness.

She was instrumental in the development of the award-winning Digital Midwives Expert Reference Group which aims to support digital leadership across England.

She is now the National Digital Midwife Lead for Maternity Services within the Transformation Directorate at NHS England. Whilst continuing to support digital transformation within maternity Jules is also focused on digital leadership and specifically the specialist role of the digital midwife.

The investor was first inspired to pursue a career in healthtech as a medical student, where she was part of a team that established the National Reproductive Tissue Cryopreservation Service. The service allows children undergoing cancer treatment to preserve their fertility for the future, and its success relied on using new tech to connect hospitals and services.

Molly joined AlbionVC in 2022 from consulting giant McKinsey & Company, where she focused on healthcare systems, services and technologies. Before her role at McKinsey, Molly was chief commercial officer of Induction Healthcare Group – a healthtech startup which successfully floated on London’s junior AIM market in 2019.

The investment manager is also founding team member of healthcare comms startup, Pando, and has worked as an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. Molly holds a degree in Medicine & Surgery, and a BA in Molecular Medicine, from Oxford University.

Lisa has worked within the Health Education England (now NHS England) since April 2018, initially within the London region before joining the National Workforce Transformation Team in July 2022. Lisa led the “Working Differently” workstream of Long Term Workforce Plan, focusing on skills mix, productivity technology and innovation.

Ele has deep expertise in digital health with a focus on AI and regulation. She previously worked at the NHS AI Lab where she led on two key reports looking at the evaluation of AI-enabled medical devices, and ways to develop and deploy AI-enabled medical devices across jurisdictions. She is also a member of the BSI.

Stacey [RGN, BSc, MSc] is the CNIO at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
She has held various digital transformation roles in three large NHS acute trusts since 2017. Before taking up positions in digital transformation, she worked clinically in the Emergency Department, medical wards, and the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement team.

Stacey is a Florence Nightingale Foundation 2022 Digital Scholar and whilst she has been involved in and led several digital transformation projects, she is interested in how to create a digitally positive culture in the NHS and plans to explore this during her FNF year.

In addition to her NHS experience, Stacey also co-founded a health IT company, a clinically-led enterprise developing forward-thinking quality assurance and improvement software. The start-up is on a mission to help clinical colleagues use data to improve patient care.

Dr Halliday is the current President of The Royal College of Radiologists (2022-2025) so heads up the organisation which represents Clinical Radiologists and Clinical Oncologists from all four nations in the United Kingdom. RCR’s role is to speak on behalf of the professions to government and fundholders, to provide and supervise education and exams and to set professional standards.

At Nottingham University Hospital, she also held the role of Clinical Director for Radiology (2021-2022) as well as the National Clinical Lead for Radiology Getting-It-Right-First Time (GIRFT, 2017-2022). GIRFT is a service improvement programme for Radiology run by the NHS. During this time she visited 143 Radiology departments in England and the national report published in July 2020 was widely quoted.

Dr Halliday was Chair of the British Society of Paediatric Radiology (2010-2016) and chaired the working group for the updated guidance for imaging in cases of suspected physical abuse in children (2018).

Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.

Joe has championed innovation and expansion, overseeing significant development across the hospital estate, including the building of an academic centre in partnership with the University of Buckingham and a new cancer centre, along with multiple other developments to improve access and keep up with patient demand in one of the fastest growing places in the country.

Along with an ambitious digital innovation programme, Joe has championed workplace wellbeing to improve the working lives of the team at MKUH. He is also a board member of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network, chair of the Clinical Research Network Partnership Board for Thames Valley, vice-chair of the University of Buckingham Council and member of the NHS Confederation Employers Policy Board

Monica Jones BSc (Hons) PGCE PGDip FBCS CITP MInstLM

Monica Jones is the Chief Data Officer for the University of Leeds and Associate Director for Health Data Research (HDRUK), based in Leeds in the UK.

A technical expert and leader with extensive education, science and technology, healthcare knowledge and experience. Highly skilled CDO / CIO and Enterprise Architect with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, high value solutions to exceptional standards. Many years’ experience defining strategy and directing, current and future, Information and Data Systems.

Monica is the Chair of the Design Authority (DA) and Scientific Committee for HDRUK North. She is also the senior technical lead for the YH Secure Data Environment (SDE).

Professor Gyuchan Thomas Jun is a Professor of Socio-technical System Design at School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University. His expertise is in applying systems thinking approaches to healthcare incident investigation, quality improvement and AI-based innovation in healthcare. He is currently leading DECODE, an NIHR-funded research project applying machine learning approaches to effective care coordination for people with learning disabilities.

Jeanette is responsible for the stewardship and growth of the NICE engagement services for the life sciences industry, including digital and AI developers. She chairs many of the national and parallel scientific advice meetings and is the NICE senior responsible officer for the AI and Digital Regulatory Service.

Previously Jeanette held the positions of head of health technology assessment and health economics and scientific director at Costello Medical, a consultancy within the life science sector. She has broad research interests across different methods for health technology evaluation and has previously worked on evaluation of AI health technologies, health economic modelling and quality of life measurement.

Jeanette studied undergraduate natural sciences at the University of Cambridge and postgraduate health economics at the University of York.

Paul Landau is the CEO and founder of Careology, the leading digital cancer care platform. Careology’s award-winning app enables patients to navigate their cancer journey and connect them with their clinicians and community. Paul is a pioneer in the technology space – launching Fitbug in 2005, making it a highly influential player in the global wearables market. Following his wife’s cancer diagnosis, he leveraged his consumer healthtech experience to change how cancer care is delivered. Careology launched in 2019, empowering patients and healthcare professionals to be more in control, make decisions based on clinical rigour and help ease pressure in the system.

Mark Lomax is the CEO for PEP Health. He has 20+ years of healthcare experience as a serial healthcare entrepreneur. In his role, he overseas the ongoing international expansion roadmap for PEP Health through building strong positive working relationships and ensuring the analytics are as effective and impactful as possible in each health sector.

He has won a number of prestigious awards, nationally and internationally, including being an alumni of the NHS Innovation Accelerator and selected as a Top 50 Healthtech CEO in 2022.

Alex joined techUK in July 2021 as Programme Manager for Health and Social Care. Since July 2023 Alex has led the Programme.
Alex formerly worked at Portland Communications, joining as part of their 2019 Graduate Scheme intake. In March 2020 she joined Portland’s Health team, supporting a range of clients in the life sciences industry across both public affairs and strategic communications.
Alex has a degree in History from the University of Cambridge, focussing on Early Modern Europe and material culture.

Ernest is medical director at Ufonia Limited, where he coordinates clinical, regulatory and safety aspects of Ufonia’s autonomous clinical conversational assistant, Dora. He is also a practicing ophthalmologist on secondment from ophthalmology surgical training in the North London Deanery.

Ernest is also a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of York’s Assuring Autonomy International Programme, exploring a safety case for the implementation of voice-based, autonomous clinical conversational agents in healthcare. He is an alumnus of the Value-Based Healthcare Intensive Seminar at the Harvard Business School, and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. He leads a module on regulation and safety of software-as-a-medical device on the UCL Bioscience Entrepreneurship MSc, and is a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. He is also a qualified NHS Digital clinical safety officer.

Dr. Matthew Lee is an internal medicine doctor at UCLH with an academic background in 3D printing and AI. He has worked in the Transformation Directorate of NHS England, overseeing education and training in digital clinical safety as well as the AI Deployment Platform. He is the co-founder of M3dicube, an organisation that teaches 3D printing to medical professionals in the UK, as well an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur and ’35 Under 35’ future digital leader.

Dr Mariane Melo, Co-founder of DemDxDr. Mariane Melo, a dedicated clinician, researcher, and Co-founder of DemDx, is driving healthcare innovation with AI-powered clinical reasoning solutions that empower healthcare professionals and streamline patient assessment. Alongside her work at DemDx, she also practices as an NHS Emergency Medicine doctor at Homerton NHS Trust and collaborates as an NIHR research fellow on a machine learning-based ophthalmology triage system with Moorfield. Dr. Melo’s contributions to healthcare innovation have earned her a spot on the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe Science and Healthcare list and at the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur.

Dr. Achut Manandhar, PhD is a Senior Data Scientist at NHS England. He leads a data science team that focuses on developing operational tools, building DS capabilities, and promoting DS best practices. Previously, he has developed DS technologies for detecting landmines, improving drinking water security, and predicting migration and displacement.

Dr Magavern is a Clinical Pharmacology Registrar in London and a PhD candidate at the William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL, working with Professor Mark Caulfield. She completed a BA in English prior to her MD and subsequent MScs in Bioethics and Genomics.

Through training in clinical medicine, humanities, genetics and pharmacology she has developed an interest in the scientific merits, clinical potential and implementation challenges of pharmacogenomics.

She was co-secretary of the RCP/BPS working group on pharmacogenomics and led the ESC pharmacotherapy working group pharmacogenomics position paper.

Alison is a Fellow at the Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and healthcare for people in the UK. She is leading a project on technology, workforce capacity and time for the care in the NHS. Prior to this she worked in policy and academia. Alison has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published on the history of health and medicine.

Dr Mario Moroso PhD Assistant Director, Research Programmes, NIHR Coordinating Centre. Mario oversees a large research portfolio addressing key UK priorities in healthcare, public health and social care, either via the NIHR Policy Research Programme, or through dedicated strategic initiatives such as the NIHR AI for Multiple Long-Term Conditions (AIM) programme, the Work and Health scheme, or the COVID-19 work.

With over 16 years experience of leading tech companies, I am passionate about building social enterprises that prioritise purpose over profit. For the last 8 years I’ve been focussed on making mental healthcare more effective, efficient and accessible across the world with our digital health solution, NiceDay.

Sami has over 15 years of NHS and private digital health leadership experience spanning public health, commissioning and digital transformation.

Sami is an NHS Innovation Fellow, an expert in the digital health sector and an advisor to a number of health ministries, healthcare organisations globally and guest lecturer at a various universities around the globe. In addition, Sami is completing a Masters in Healthcare Data at the University of Cambridge.

Will has over 15 years experience working in healthcare research within the UK. His background on the ground in the NHS and at the Health Research Authority brings an expert view of regulation with the reality of the delivery in the NHS.
Protecting patients and participants is what keeps him motivated.

Sara is currently Deputy Programme Director for DigitalHealth.London and lead of the Digital Pioneer Fellowship programme. In January 2020 she was appointed Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer at NHSX and will be taking up the role full time from March.

Sara is a nurse who has worked in the NHS for over 27 years, not only in clinical roles, but also in site management and as a senior nurse for digital at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Her work has centred on “bridging the gap” to support the cultural change needed for digital transformation within the NHS. As part of a central knowledge hub for digital projects across GSTT, Sara and her team also provided advice and validation for clinicians looking to implement new technologies. She has an excellent understanding of the needs of NHS patients and the staff that care for them, and is passionate about bringing the benefits of new technologies to patients and professionals from across health and care more quickly.

Sara is a graduate of the NHS Digital Academy, a virtual organisation set up to develop a new generation of excellent digital leaders who can drive the information and technology transformation of the NHS.

Denis Newman-Griffis (they/them) is a researcher in responsible AI and disability data science. They aim to develop equitable AI methods for better data and decision-making related to disability, and have led work with the US National Institutes of Health and Social Security Administration to develop natural language processing and AI methods for analysing information about the lived experience of disability.

Denis is also leading the Research on Research Institute’s GRAIL project on responsible use of AI in the research sector. They are Co-Chair of the UK Young Academy and recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association’s 2021 Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Kai is a London-based journalist at Sifted, the Financial Times-backed media platform covering startups in Europe. He writes about healthtech and UK tech.

Jay is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer at Hexarad. He is also a consultant radiologist with an interest in Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary imaging. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and more than 50 international and national presentations, many of which have won international awards.

He is an editor for iRefer, responsible for writing and updating the GI/HPB imaging guidelines for imaging for RCR/ iRefer, an associate editor of Clinical Radiology journal, and sits on the expert radiology panel for the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Rafiah is the Chief Digital Ethics and Assurance Officer at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation trust which supports individuals with mental health and/or learning needs. This is the first role of its kind in the NHS and has the remit of ensuring best practice in health and care by ensuring digital safety, privacy, security and accessibility. Through consideration of both legislative and moral duty, Rafiah is responsible for assuring that we have the highest quality of digital and data solutions for NHS staff and service users.

In addition to her NHS role, Rafiah is clinical doctoral fellows funded by the National Institute of Health Research who invest in innovative projects led by NHS clinicians. As an NIHR fellow, Rafiah utilises almost two decades of knowledge and experience as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to co-design evidence-based digital therapies. The fellowship involves collaboration between St George’s University Hospital Foundation Trust and City, University of London.

Dr Pahini Pandya is the CEO and Founder of Panakeia Technologies, which enables rapid multi-omics profiling in minutes directly from routinely used tissue images, using AI and without the need for wet-lab assays. Trained as a cancer researcher Dr. Pahini Pandya spent the last decade furthering translational research in the field.

She pursued a PhD in cancer biophysics at King’s College London, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge and has several publications in top journals. Educated at the Stanford and Cambridge business schools, Pahini has also held several leadership positions across entrepreneurial organisations and helped numerous start-ups commercialise research. She has been recognised as Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum, and received multiple awards for entrepreneurship.

Karla Richards has joint roles at the HIN and DigitalHealth.London where her Portfolio includes the Innovation Exchange programme, working with companies with innovative products and providing Innovator Support via the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme. She joined the NHS over 15 years ago following a career in 3D graphics for TV and film, and has experience in hospital Service Management and Commissioning.

Dr Tim Robbins is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at UHCW NHS Trust. He established and Co-Chairs the Trust’s Digital and Data Driven Research Unit as well as acting as the Trust’s first Clinical Research Information Officer (CRIO). He has completed the Topol Digital Health Fellowship, NHS Digital Academy and a PhD in Engineering with the Institute of Digital Healthcare. He is an Honorary Associate Professor with the University of Warwick.

Experienced leader and CNIO. Registered general nurse for twenty six years. Women in Tech Excellence Award ‘Digital Leader of the Year 2020’, Florence Nightingale Digital Scholar 2021, and CNIO influencer. Experienced nurse and leader with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Professional Practice from the The University of Northampton. Currently studying Healthcare Analytics and Artificial Intelligence MSc at Sheffield Hallan University. Chair of the Midlands CNIO network. Thrilled to have recently received CNO Silver Award for services to digital nursing from Ruth May.

A medically qualified doctor by background, Samin has been in the Pharmaceutical industry for 16 years, primarily leading Medical Affairs functions but has been involved in the UK clinical trials ecosystem, exploring how to recruit patients at scale in prior roles

Finn is the Co-Founder & CEO of Flok Health, the autonomous physiotherapy clinic. Flok provides virtual appointments for back pain treatment, with a fusion of AI and human physiotherapists for personalised care at population scale, and no waiting list. We are a CQC-approved healthcare provider, able to entirely manage patient pathways on behalf of NHS Trusts and Commissioners – from self-referral through to assessment, multidisciplinary treatment, and discharge. Our novel clinical engine (MHRA-approved medical device) means that >98% of our patients experience an entirely automated treatment pathway, with real-time generated video appointments that continuously react to every unique need and response.

Sam Smith is a coordinator at medConfidential, which is an independent non-partisan organisation campaigning for confidentiality and consent in health and social care, which seeks to ensure that every flow of data into, across and out of the NHS and care system is consensual, safe, and transparent.

Founded in January 2013, medConfidential works with patients and medics, service users and care professionals; draws advice from a network of experts in the fields of health informatics, computer security, law/ethics and privacy; and believes there need be no conflict between good research, good ethics and good medical care.

Videha is the Clinical Innovation Lead for the Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology Research and Innovation in Manchester (UK). He has a PhD in Health Informatics and has been a Topol Digital Health Fellow, a National Medical Director’s Fellow and is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. Videha leads a portfolio of projects aimed at impacting patient care by translating new and emerging technologies into clinical practice.

Anna is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Her work focuses on the impacts of data-driven systems and AI on healthcare, and the societal impacts of new health technologies. Anna has a background in journalism and research. Before joining the Ada Lovelace Institute she was a Senior Health Writer at consumer group Which?.

Currently the Head of the UK Approved Body for Medical Devices at BSI. He is responsible for the regulatory oversight of the Medical Devices Approved Body and wider strategy, policies, and procedures, to meet the various legislative and designation requirements. He has held various roles within BSI over the past 8 years with expertise in Active Devices including AI.

Arden is the Founder and CEO of Thalamos a healthcare software platform which makes access to, receipt of and discharge from acute mental healthcare, swifter, simpler and safer. Working alongside NHS/E Thalamos have delivered a Pan-London Section 136 Digitisation Programme which fundamentally changed the data landscape in Mental Healthcare.

Dr Keith Tsui, CEO and Co-Founder, is a medical doctor by background and graduated with an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge. He was previously a management consultant working on NHS projects and then a clinical product manager at Huma, leading the clinical partnership with Smith+Nephew and Tencent AI.

At Medwise AI, Keith is building the world’s first AI-powered search platform designed for clinicians. Medwise AI is on a mission to empower every clinician to do their best work with AI solutions.

Fayaz is an award winning Analytics and Modelling Director with considerable experience creating, scaling and delivering products across the public sector. He has 10 years + healthcare experience working nationally and internationally on: Strategic Workforce Planning, Pathway Optimisation, Analytics Learning and Predictive Modelling.

Tjeerd Pieter van Staa is a Professor of Health eResearch at the Centre for Health Informatics, University of Manchester. One research interest is the implementation of a Knowledge Support System providing actionable information during consultation. This approach is being tested in a cluster trial optimising antibiotic prescribing in primary care.

Camellia has almost 20 years’ experience working in public health, analysis, research and evaluation in the public sector- working locally, regionally and nationally. As Deputy Director of Advanced Analytics at NHS England, she leads a large team of analytical professionals to deliver high quality analysis & products to inform decision making at all levels.

As Director of Digital Partnerships for the health and care system in Yorkshire and Humber, Phil is focused on ensuring data infrastructure and assets are used to their full potential to inform decision-making, thereby improving patient access, experience and outcomes.

Phil is leading on work with regional and national stakeholders to develop a blueprint for partnerships between health and care organisations and commercial partners that deliver mutual benefit and ensure an appropriate share of any resultant value. Phil has particular expertise relating to real-world evidence, information governance and the operation of Trusted Research Environments.

Dr Lauren Walker is Clinical Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Honorary Consultant in General Internal Medicine. She co-leads the DynAIRx programme, funded by the NIHR AI in multimorbidity stream and her research interest involves utilising existing health record data to understand how multiple long-term conditions, and their associated prescriptions, evolve over time and how these relationships between drugs and diseases lead to harm. She is very interested in predicting risk and examining patient journeys to identify at what point the harm of a medicine outweighs the potential for benefit. She contributes to outpatient clinics, inpatient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings for adults with complex multimorbidity & polypharmacy.

Tom Whicher is CEO of DrDoctor and an NHS Innovation Fellow, where he works with the National Innovation Accelerator (NIA) to advance the adoption of evidence-based healthcare innovation.

Passionate about using technology to create sustainable healthcare systems, Tom delivered one of the first patient portals in the NHS in 2012 and has worked to put technology in the hands of patients ever since. He’s written on health tech for The Guardian, and been featured in The Independent, Sky News, LBC, CNBC, and across the health trade press.

Nadia Yousaf is Chief clinical information officer and a consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hosptial specialising in the management of lung cancer. She has a long standing interest in the intersection between healthcare and AI for over a decade. Her research doctorate completed over a decade ago focused on the development and validation of an AI algorithm designed to measure cough frequency. More recently her research interests have grown to include how wearable technologies can help the management of patients with cancer.