DELEGATES ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE FROM TRACK 1, 2 or 3 AT ANY TIME.
THE DAY WILL START WITH OPENING REMARKS AND CONCLUDE WITH
CLOSING REMARKS.
08:45 – 09:00
Welcome and opening remarks
Martino Picardo, Chairman, Discovery Park
09:00 – 09:20
An interview with Darren Curry
Interview conducted by Paul Wicks, Independent Consultant, Wicks Digital Health
09:25 – 09:45
An interview with Simon Donovan
Interview conducted by Martino Picardo, Chairman, Discovery Park
DETECTION
Disease detection is key to diagnosis and treatment. How are we accelerating the clinical translation of MedTech, and is it impacting wealth as well as health?
Interview conducted by Paul Wicks, Independent Consultant, Wicks Digital Health
An interview with Simon Donovan
Interview conducted by Martino Picardo, Chairman, Discovery Park
DETECTION
Disease detection is key to diagnosis and treatment. How are we accelerating clinical translation of medtech, and is it impacting wealth as well as health?
Predicting, diagnosing and monitoring cardiac conditions using health tech and wearables.
FACILITATED BY
MIKE HANNAY | Managing Director | Medical Technologies Innovation Facility
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
CHRIS MORTON | Chief Executive Officer | ELEM Biotech DANIEL YAZDI | Medical Director | Bodyport NICK CLARKE | Principal Advisor | Eastern Academic Health Science Network FOZIA AHMED | Consultant Cardiologist | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The future transformation in surgical care will be driven by data and information. The key elements on the path toward evidence-based surgery are new tools to measure, model, and quantify surgical processes including intraoperative decision-making and knowledge extraction. How will digital technologies impact on surgical procedures and in the operating theatre over the next decade?
FACILITATED BY
CERI WILLIAMS | Director of Research and Innovation Development | University of Leeds
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
MARK SLACK | Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer | CMR Surgical DANIEL LEFF | Reader in Breast Surgery and Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon | Imperial College London MALCOLM BROWN | Medical Lead | AMRC with Boeing, University of Sheffield JAN-PHILIPP MOHR | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | Darvis
“Test, test, test” was one of the mantras of the pandemic. Has the importance of rapid diagnosis been recognised?
FACILITATED BY
ALAN MCNALLY | Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection – MDS | University of Birmingham
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
HAMISH GRIERSON| Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | Thriva Health GIOVANNA FORTE | Chief Executive Officer | Forte Medical JACK PRIESTMAN | Co-Founder | Salient Bioscience JOY ALLEN | Senior Clinical Test Evaluation Methodologist | NIHR Newcastle In Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative (NIHR MIC) PIERRE HAZLEWOOD | Marketing Director | Roche Diagnostics, UK & Ireland
Faced with 2020 again, what have we learned and what would we do differently?
FACILITATED BY
LUELLA TRICKETT | Director, Value & Access | Association of British HealthTech Industries
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
PHIL CARVIL | HealthTec Cluster Manager | UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council RACHEL MURPHY | Chief Executive Officer | Difrent TONI SCHNEIDER | Chief Operating Officer | Ostique LOUISE JOPLING | Commercial Director | Eastern Academic Health Science Network JEEVAN KUMARI | Diabetes Territory Manager, London & South East | Medtrum NAVJOT (NAV) AHLUWALIA | Executive Medical Director and Director of Research | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
With so many diagnostics repurposed for COVID-19, should we stop focusing on innovation and put our efforts into building on current tech or repurposing?
HAKIM YADI | Co-Founder and Chief Executive | Closed Loop Medicine GEORGE CROOKS | Chief Executive Officer | Digital Health & Care Institute SAMANTHA WESTGATE | Chief Executive Officer | Perfectus Biomed Group ANDREW LARCOMBE | Head of Technology | Difrent PARI DATTA | Senior Innovation Consultant | Cambridge Design Partnership
AI has been hyped as the revolutionary technology for healthcare. Is it really having an impact?
FACILITATED BY
MARK AVERY | Director of Health Informatics | Eastern Academic Health Science Network
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
JAMES FRY | Partner and Head of Life Sciences | Mills & Reeve RUDY BENFREDJ | Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer | Mendelian ALISON DARCY | Founder and President | Woebot Labs COLIN ROBERTS | Venture Development Director | BioCity MATTHEW FENECH | Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer | Una Health
EUAN CAMERON| Chief Executive Officer & Founder | COHESION Medical MIKE LEWIS| Professor of Life Science Innovation | Innovation Agency North West Coast HOJJAT AZADBAKHT| Chief Executive Officer | AINOSTICS FAZ CHOWDURY | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Nemaura WILL BROOKS | Investment Director | Downing
How will Brexit impact medical device regulation? Will this add barriers to approval, investment and ultimately patient access? Can new regulations create more opportunities?
FACILITATED BY
JAMES FRY | Partner and Head of Life Sciences |Mills & Reeve
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
TIM ANDREWS | Chief Operating Officer and Commercial Director | ORCHA KAREN TAYLOR | Director, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions | Clients & Industries | Deloitte LLP MICHAEL KIPPING | Innovation Lead – Biomedical Catalyst, Health Sector Team | Innovate UK PAOLO GUERRA | MedTech Lead | ProductLife Group ALEJANDRO (ALEX) FRANGI | Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine | University of Leeds
Inactivity, mental illness and loneliness have risen dramatically through the coronavirus pandemic and are predicted to be the next health pandemics. How can tech help to track and treat them?
FACILITATED BY
MIKE LEWIS | Professor of Life Science Innovation | Innovation Agency North West Coast
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
CYNTHIA BULLOCK | Deputy Challenge Director, Healthy Ageing | UK Research and Innovation ADAM KIRK | Clinical Director | my mhealth MIRANDA WOLPERT MBE | Head | Mental Health Priority Area | Wellcome Trust PRADEEP KAKKATTIL | Director of the Office of Innovation | Joint United Nations Programme FRANCESCA CORMACK | Director of Research and Innovation | Cambridge Cognition
Data sharing across healthcare platforms is the holy grail in accessing and managing patient records. How can we build infrastructure and trust to enable patient health data to be integrated and shared?
FACILITATED BY
PAUL WICKS | Independent Consultant | Wicks Digital Health
PANELLISTS INCLUDE
HARLAN KRUMHOLZ | Director | Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) GEOFF HALL | Professor of Digital Health | Leeds University CHRIS BATES | Director of Research & Analytics | TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) TERRY MYERSON | Chief Executive Officer | Truveta NATALIE BANNER | ‘Understanding Patient Data’ Lead | Wellcome Trust
