Raghib is a clinical epidemiologist whose research is focused on the causes, prevention and treatment of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. He has spent the last 15 years at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and New York University working on similar studies, including UK Biobank, and is the Principal Investigator for the UAE Healthy Future Study. He is also a Consultant in acute medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

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.

Dr Claire Bloomfield is Director of NHS England’s (NHSE’s) Centre for Improving Data Collaboration. As Senior Responsible Officer for the Data for Research and Development programme, Claire oversees development and delivery of NHSE’s Transformation Directorate’s coordinated investments in health data for R&D, to support the ambitions of the Life Sciences Vision, the Vision for Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery and Genome UK. Claire joined NHSE after her role as CEO for the UK National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging, where she successfully managed partnerships with 14 NHS hospitals, clinical leaders, industry experts, academic researchers, patient groups and charities to improve healthcare through the development and use of AI

NHS whole working life, cardiology day job, R&D director local and national UKRD group, first CRIO at Royal Free passionate about research and all therapeutic innovations – drugs, devices (pacing and stents), diagnostics (biomarkers and wearables) and digital (AI predictive algorithms and data insights and clinical pathways). Have 1st ever Cerner heart failure pathway to nudge diagnoses (3-8x increased) and guidance prescribing (now top 10% adherence) and reduced mortality in hospital with 41,000 patient journeys data. Published >120 papers and used to observation to interventional research studies. recently on predicting arrhythmias and heart failure and now CVD from retinal imaging.

Hassan is an entrepreneur and advisor in global digital health and innovation. He is interim Commercial Director for the UK’s Health Data Research hub for cancer (DATA-CAN) and was, until recently, the Global Digital Health Specialist for the Department for International Trade (DIT).
He is a founder at Opto Health, Vita and Inovia.Bio, Visiting Lecturer at UCL Global Business School for Health, Editorial Board Member of The International Journal of Digital Health, Mentor for the NHS Innovation Accelerator, Edison Accelerator and also at KQ Labs at The Francis Crick Institute, Commercial Consultant for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Co-Chair of the HIMSS Innovation Committee for 2022 and a member of the HETT Steering Committee.

Dominic Cushnan joined the NHS in 2014 and is currently Head of AI Imaging for the NHS AI Lab. Dominic previously founded a technology company specialising in computer vision and human interface technologies. Since his appointment in the NHS AI Lab, January 2020, he has developed an AI Buyers’ Guide for healthcare and developed the National Covid-19 Chest Imaging Database for the training and testing of AI models. Dom is a keen advocate of the safe and ethical adoption of AI.

After witnessing how poor standards can impact patients the hardest, Robin has worked with clinicians, researchers, and patients to develop frameworks that elevate the standards of medical AI. Robin leads the governance and ethics for the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare, lectures at King’s College London on AI Law and Ethics, and is a member of the Charted Institute of IT.

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.

Alexander is the Programme Lead for the Fellowships in Clinical Artificial Intelligence, and author of the accompanying Clinical Artificial Intelligence Curriculum. This programme equips NHS frontline clinicians with the expertise to deploy AI in clinical workflows. It is the first of its kind in the UK.

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.

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.

Simon is Professor of Public Health at the University of Southampton. His research aims to understand the determinants, burden, inequalities and adverse outcomes associated with long-term health conditions in order to inform prevention. He leads one of the NIHR-funded AIM Research Consortia using AI to investigate multiple long-term condition multimorbidity.

Jules Gudgeon has been a midwife for over 30 years, championed the use of digital technology during the National Maternity Review and was subsequently appointed the Lead Midwife within the Digital Maternity Programme at NHS Digital.

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.

Molly is a medically-trained former startup operator who brings a wealth of insights to her role as an investment manager at AlbionVC. She focuses on healthtech, and is constantly on the lookout for innovators devising products that can drive efficiency and better outcomes for patients.

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.

Dr Katharine Halliday completed her radiology training in London, Perth, Australia, Sheffield and Nottingham. She was appointed to her current role as a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Nottingham University Hospital in 1998 and has a special interest in the imaging of suspected physical abuse, providing opinions on cases from across the UK.

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).

Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.

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.

Professor Joe Harrison has been an NHS acute hospital chief executive for almost ten years. He joined Milton Keynes University Hospital in 2013, transforming its record in quality, performance and finances. Under his leadership the trust has gained teaching hospital status and pioneered digital advances that have revolutionised patient care and experience.

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

Ruth joined Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as Deputy CIO in 2011, having been a Board-level ICT Director south of the Thames. She is passionate about digital professionals being part of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and maximising the value of data to help deliver quality patient care and research. Ruth has been the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA) London branch lead since December 2020 and invests time in developing the next generation of analytics leaders.

Proximie founder and CEO Nadince Hachach-Haram is a practicing NHS Surgeon, lecturer and award-winning clinical entrepreneur. In developing Proximie, Nadine drew on her passions for innovation, education and, most significantly, improving access to safe surgical care worldwide to create a solution that CNN has dubbed the “Future of Surgery”.

Professor Emily Jefferson became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Health Data Research UK in November 2022. She leads on the development and delivery of technology services to enable the provision of consistent and meaningful research access to health data. This includes the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway, which accelerates the discovery and access request management enhancing the ethical, secure, and transparent use of health datasets and other assets. Emily is leading the next stage of development which includes collaborating with Trusted Research Environment providers across the UK on federated analytics. Prior to her role as CTO, Emily was the Director of the Health Informatics Centre (HIC) at the University of Dundee for 10 years running a regional Trusted Research Environment and an academic research group. Emily has a degree in Biochemistry, a PhD in Bioinformatics and was employed as a post-doctoral researcher in Bioinformatics following her PhD. She then left academia to work in the finance sector. In industry she gained extensive experience of using “Big Data” and leading the delivery of large software and hardware projects.

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.

Amrita has been recently named 2022 Top 50 Innovator & Top 50 Influential Woman in the UK for leading innovation in the use of AI within the NHS.
She was appointed as a substantive Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health in 2013 with a subspecialist interest in breast cancer screening. She went on to become Chair of the AI Working Group at Frimley Health in 2019 and was responsible for setting up AI implementation framework for safe & effective deployment of AI in clinical pathways, including governance and stakeholder groups. Amrita has been recently named 2022 Top 50 Innovator & Top 50 Influential Woman in the UK for leading innovation in the use of AI within the NHS. She was appointed as a substantive Consultant Radiologist at Frimley Health in 2013 with a subspecialist interest in breast cancer screening. She went on to become Chair of the AI Working Group at Frimley Health in 2019 and was responsible for setting up AI implementation framework for safe & effective deployment of AI in clinical pathways, including governance and stakeholder groups.

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.

Ben is a London-based doctor and Co-founder of Cera, a multi-award winning technology company transforming elderly care. He advised the CEO of NHS England on £100 billion of health spending, co-founding the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) which benefitted 3 million people in its first six months. He also serves on the Board of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, a pioneering $1.5 billion revenue hospital group in London

He has a strong interest in research with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 75 academic awards. Ben has advised a range of organisations, from startups to multilaterals, including the Swiss government, Bain & Co. and the WHO. He is Chairman of the UK Medical Students’ Association (UKMSA), and has authored three medical books

Ben was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard universities. He was listed in WIRED’s Top 10 Innovators in Healthcare, and was named Disruptive Leader of the Year.

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.

Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical & AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University.

She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems, at the World Health Organisation and the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.

Elina is currently CEO & cofounder of Feebris – a company whose AI-guided platform enables any user to conduct a clinically reliable health assessment at home and identify risk precisely to enable timely intervention. Feebris is currently deployed across 100+ sites in the UK.

Simon has worked with clinical informatics for the past 20 years, in adult intensive care, electronic blood transfusion systems and working as CNIO since 2017. He now leads a team of informatics nurses, supporting digital clinical engagement and systems development, working collaboratively with clinical, technical and organisational services. Simon was recently elected to the CNIO advisory panel for Digital Health, he is also on the Faculty of Clinical Informatics working groups for Professionalism, the Office of the CCIO, the FCI Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Panel, and he has also recently contributed toward the What Good Looks Like Nursing Guidance.

Ross is the Managing Director of Wysa, a global leader in AI-driven mental health support. Ross recently exited the NHS as Associate Director Innovation and Technology, CNWL and Programme Lead of the London Digital Talking Therapies Programme at Healthy London Partnerships where he worked to establish a digital single point of access and triage tool for Londoners. Ross is also a Founder of the UK XR Health Alliance which produced ‘The Growing Value of XR in Healthcare in the UK’ a report bringing together NHSX, HEE and UKRI to create a national strategy for Immersive Healthcare.

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.

Dr Annabelle Painter is a Clinical AI fellow at the London AI centre for Value Based Healthcare, Medical Director at Visibacare- an AI triage platform, and honorary fellow at Imperial College London.

She previously worked as a Clinical AI fellow at the NHS AI Lab & HEE and authored white papers on AI confidence in the healthcare workforce and worked as an AI clinician Babylon Health. Clinically, Annabelle is a practising GP registrar. Annabelle sits on the Royal Society of medicine Digital Health section council and hosts the section podcast.

With over a decade of experience in General Practice, Conor is Managing Director at Primary Care Analytics and CIO at Taurus Healthcare, where he leads on digital and data initiatives across Primary and Secondary Care. He has a proven track record of delivering innovative and impactful solutions that enhance PHM, operational efficiency, and clinical quality.

Umang is the Chief Clinical Information Officer at Microsoft UK. An NHS paediatrician and Leadership Fellow with experience in both commercial and public healthcare, he focuses on integrating technology and AI to improve patient care and streamline processes.

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.

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?.

Haris Shuaib is a Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of the Clinical Scientific Computing section at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where his team are developing people, platforms, and policy for digital health. He is also the AI Transformation Lead at the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare where he oversees the development of AI prototypes across over 20 patient pathways in partnership with academia, industry and NHS Trusts. He is also the inventor and technical lead of the AI Deployment Engine, a platform which seeks to make integration of AI software into clinical pathways safe and efficient.Finally, he also holds a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, where he is leading a national multi-centre trial to see whether AI can improve the treatment of glioblastoma.

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.

Peter Thomas is the Chief Clinical Information Officer and Director of Digital Medicine at Moorfields Eye Hospitals. His primary interest is in digital transformation of clinical care, and creation of a hospital environment that can embed and sustain technologically enabled and automated services. To achieve this, he has recently founded the UK’s first Department of Digital Medicine. In 2022 he was named as “CCIO of the year” in the annual Digital Health Awards. By clinical training he is a paediatric ophthalmologist.

Professor James Teo is a Professor of Neurology at Kings College Hospital, and Clinical Director of Data Science and AI at Kings College Hospital and Guys & St Thomas Hospital. He has led clinical AI and data science teams in NHS acute provider organisations, academic health science centres (Kings Health Partners) and Integrated Care Systems. His interest is in clinical natural language processing (Cogstack) and machine vision (AI Centre for Value-based Healthcare), and in scalable solutions for MLOps in healthcare.

Ming has over 20 years’ experience in managing and delivering large scale change involving implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging environments.She joined the NHS in October 2009, initially leading commissioning support services in the West Midlands as the Managing Director for Healthcare Commissioning Services and then as the Managing Director for South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Commissioning Support Unit. Ming is currently the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for NHS England responsible for strategic development of data and analytics capability across NHS.

Chris Wigley is the CEO of Genomics England. Through the COVID crisis Chris was seconded as Senior Responsible Officer for Data to NHSX, and Genomics England launched a major research programme into the genomic drivers of severity of response to COVID. Chris was previously COO at QuantumBlack, a bespoke Machine Learning and AI technology company, and a Partner at McKinsey working on technology strategy topics. He is a trustee of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of deep-tech VC Entrepreneur First. He previously worked for the UK Foreign Office, establishing and leading analytical work at the Counter Terrorism Policy Department to counter chemical, biological and nuclear terror threats. Chris lives in London with his wife Tara and their three children.

Stefan is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Turing Institute. Outside academia, Stefan works with Man Group, and as Advisor to Favom, an AI in healthcare business, he helped to spin out. Stefan’s research is focused on applied machine learning.