We are happy to share the latest developments in our exciting keynote speakers and panellists for this conference below.
Martin Ellis
Chief Digital Information Officer
South West London Integrated Care Board
Martin is an experienced leader in digital health. In partnership with the Integrated Care System (ICS) providers, Martin leads digital transformation as the Chief Digital Information Officer for the South West London (SWL) Integrated Care Board (ICB). In this role, Martin ensures the benefits of information and technology investments are realised and supported in SWL ICS to digitally enable planning, commissioning and delivery, whilst transforming public access to information tools and services.
Philippa Kirkpatrick
Chief Digital Information Officer
South East London Integrated Care Board
As Chief Digital Information Officer for the South East London Integrated Care Board, Philippa’s vision is for digital health to be an enabler, facilitating the delivery of person-centred care by breaking down silos in the provision of health and care. Philippa is passionate about reducing inequalities in access to healthcare, and in ensuring healthcare is culturally sensitive and accessible to all members of our diverse population. Before joining the NHS, Philippa held senior leadership roles in the Australian healthcare system.
Adam Igra
Director of Innovation and Incubator
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Aditi Shah
GP and Primary Care Clinical Lead for Ear, Nose and Throat, NHS England
Primary Care Clinical Lead for Dermatology, NHS England
Clinical Lead for Planned Care, Merton
Dr Aditi Shah is an experienced clinical leader and GP working in south west London and as NHS England (London) Primary Care Clinical Lead for Ear, Nose and Throat and Dermatology as part of the Elective Transformation team. She is Clinical Lead for the south west London Ear Nose and Throat and Dermatology Clinical Networks. She has used technology to transform pathways in both of these networks. She has previously worked in the Department of Health as Clinical Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer and as a Specialist Advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Aditi is chair of the Steering Group and Clinical Co-lead for the south west London Hearing Health Pilot alongside her colleague, Miss Victoria Alexander, who is a Consultant Otologist at the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University (GESH) Hospital Group. Aditi strongly believes that the key to embracing digital innovation within a clinical pathway is to have a collaborative approach between all stakeholders across the healthcare system.
Alice Morrisey
Automation Programme Manager
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Alice Morrisey is the Programme Manager for Automation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The team are identifying opportunities to implement automation technologies in order to release time back to the Trust. Alice has worked across a range of NHS organisations delivering digital transformation projects, including remote monitoring pathways, home pathology, video consultations, theatres scheduling and most recently automation. Alice gained an MSc in Digital Healthcare Leadership through the NHS Digital Academy with Imperial College London and wrote her dissertation on implementation of remote monitoring.
Amanda Begley
Exec Director of Digital Transformation
Health Innovation Network South London
Amanda’s focus is on building partnerships and expertise to deliver innovation at scale and pace for patient, staff and population benefit. She co-founded the award winning NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), and – whilst on secondment to OneLondon – helped to establish the Health Data Research UK Hub for Cancer (DATA-CAN), where she worked as Director of Strategy and Partnerships. Following her PhD, Amanda joined the NHS as an Assistant and Trainee Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a Commissioner and Senior Manager across primary, community and secondary care in south west London, as Head of Innovation at London’s Strategic Health Authority and Director of Innovation and Implementation at UCLPartners.
Andrew Wilkinson
Programme Director, Ambulatory Transformation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Anna Buylova
Health Economist
Health Innovation Network South London
Anna is part of the Health Innovation Network South London’s (HIN) successful Insights team, offering supporting on evaluation and data analytics. Currently, the team is working on health and care projects, including an evaluation of virtual wards in south west London and a national pilot on hearing checks in residential schools for children with additional needs. Anna’s experience includes decision modelling, methodologies of study design and conducting health economic evaluations across a range of diseases, settings and population groups, including measuring determinants of socio-economic inequality in access to healthcare services. Before joining the Health Economics Unit, Anna worked on the evaluation of innovative medical technologies, including digital health and artificial intelligence technologies. In this way, Anna helped the NHS adopt efficient and cost-effective medical devices and diagnostics more rapidly and consistently.
Anna King
Commercial Director, Health Innovation Network South London
Non-executive Director, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
As the Commercial Director of the Health Innovation Network South London (HIN), Anna has been instrumental in establishing the HIN at the forefront of the spread and adoption of innovation in the NHS. She is responsible for the design, development and delivery of the DigitalHealth.London programmes, including the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator, Launchpad and Generator programmes. Anna is currently on the Board of the NHS Innovation Accelerator and the Advisory Board of Q at The Health Foundation and Good Thinking, the digital mental health and wellbeing platform for the people of London. She is also on the board of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
Annette Pautz
Kingston Clinical Director
South West London Integrated Care System
Dr Annette has been a GP in Kingston for 18 years. She is Senior Partner at Holmwood Corner Surgery in New Malden and a Board Member of her Primary Care Network. She is committed to NHS primary care and working collaboratively with colleagues and system partners to build even better and more integrated health and care services and a resilient general practice. Annette is the Primary Care Provider Lead for Kingston and chairs a monthly local GP forum to promote communication with and from local General Practices. She sits on the Kingston Place Based Partnership Committee, the Kingston Partnership Board and is the Kingston Place Lead on the South West London Integrated Care Board.
Arden Tomison
Founder and CEO, Thalamos
NHS National Innovation Accelerator Fellow
Arden founded Thalamos to digitise the Mental Health care pathway, aiming to reduce inefficiencies, improve patient care and support better health outcomes. After successful pilots in City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health in 2021, Thalamos was rolled out across the East London Foundation Trust and have partnered with four other trusts UK-wide. Prior to Thalamos, Arden has 12 years of experience building investor-backed teams.
Carey McClellan
Founder and CEO
getUBetter
Carey is an advanced physiotherapy practitioner with a background in research. His PhD explored health economics and the management of musculoskeletal injuries in urgent care. He leads a team of clinicians (physiotherapists/doctors), developers, digital health specialists and transformational change experts. He identified the need for a digital solution that can support the self-management of all common musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions across the whole care pathway, allowing Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to deliver a digitally enabled approach to MSK care, avoiding silos and preventing over treatment. getUBetter currently works with 16 Integrated Care Systems, including South London ICS, North and Central London ICS and Birmingham and Solihull ICS, providing self-management support to an eligible population of 20 million people.
Chris Streather
Regional Medical Director & Chief Clinical Information Officer – Medical and Digital Transformation Directorate
NHS England (London)
Chris Streather took up the role of Regional Medical Director and Chief Clinical Information Officer for NHS England (London) in May 2022. He worked in the Royal Free London group as Chief Medical Officer from 2018 following his role as Chief Executive of the Royal Free Hospital in 2017. Prior to joining the Royal Free, he was Chief Medical Officer of HCA International, and previously, the Managing Director of the Health Innovation Network, leading on patient safety nationally, and Chief Executive Officer of South London Healthcare NHS Trust in 2009.
Craig Rhodes
Director of Strategic Partnerships
deepc
AI for healthcare and life science is the path we are on. How can we accelerate it, ensuring the ethical and governance challenges have been met whilst enhancing the clinical decision making process? Craig invests his time supporting organisations in this process of transformation and disruption, whilst maintaining feet on the ground.
Dr Dominic Pimenta
CEO
Tortus
Dr Dominic is the CEO of Tortus and has built the Operating System Leverage in Electronic Records (O.S.L.E.R) – an AI interface for EHR. He was formerly the Lead Specialty Research Physician at Richmond Research Institute, running clinical trials in digital health and AI, and publishing original research in everything from in-human physiology studies to artificial intelligence and cardiac imaging, Big Data and the relationships between food and health. He was also formerly the Clinical Lead for Cardiology at the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA), bringing digital health in line with the core values of medicine: evidence, patient benefit and rigor.
Emily Broad
Senior Associate
DAC Beachcroft LLP
Emily is a Senior Associate in DAC Beachcroft’s award-winning health practice, the largest dedicated health and social care law team in the UK. Emily specialises in advising clients in the health sector on commercial law and regulatory matters, with particular expertise in medtech and digital health. Her clients include investors, medtech and digital health companies, and NHS and independent sector purchasers of medtech and digital health solutions. She supports health clients on their contractual arrangements, public procurement and the medical device regulatory regime (including software as a medical device and AI as a medical device). She regularly advises private equity and other funders on the regulatory aspects of pharma, biotech and medtech transactions. Emily has significant experience advising innovators seeking to establish digital health and medtech solutions in the NHS on commercial, regulatory and strategic matters. She has recently supported Thalamos on the roll out of its digital tool to support the assessment of people detained under the Mental Health Act to a number of London trusts. Emily also advises NHS organisations on the purchase of health technology, ranging from electronic patient records to AI-driven diagnostic tools.
Emily Henderson
Director of Innovation
NHS England
Harpreet Sood
VP Primary Care and Partnerships, Huma
Senior Advisor, Global Counsel
Primary Care Doctor, NHS
Ian Frost
Deputy Director, Innovation and Digital Transformation
South West London Integrated Care System
Ian’s experience of complex procurement exercises and many years of managing an independent software development and consultancy company give him a unique insight to both supplier and customer. He has managed large departmental budgets and is well versed in the issues associated with changing financial climates. He is a passionate advocate for using ICT to enable and drive organisational transformation, with some 30 years experience analysing highly complex business problems and delivering innovative solutions. During his 11 years at St George’s, he has led several Trust-wide change programmes, developing both the strategic case for change and a change, risk and programme governance capability. This has led to the Trust being at the forefront of clinical system adoption. He has seen and led change from the traditional approach to IT system implementation to a benefits led, risk managed approach where change is placed firmly and squarely at the core. This includes a 15 month secondment to Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust as interim Director of IT, Information and Performance.
Ian Leigh
Digital First Senior Programme Manager
NHS England
Ian Leigh is a Senior Programme Manager in NHS England’s (London) Digital Transformation – Primary Care team, leading on automation. He has overseen the Automation in Primary Care Grants Scheme, launching 11 innovative primary care automation pilots across the capital. He has worked in the NHS for 15 years across regional, ICB, acute, community and primary care settings, with lead roles in digital transformation, workforce planning and delivery, urgent and emergency care, and mental health.
Jagdish Kumar
Head of New Business
Sutton Primary Networks
Jagdish is Head of New Business at Sutton Primary Care Networks and is interested in population health, addressing the inverse care law, co-production and disrupting patterns to bring about positive changes to care. He has a background in Cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, public health, transformation, community development, research and evaluation, and primary care led change.
James Woollard
Chief Clinical Information Officer, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
National Specialty Adviser in Digital Mental Health, NHS England
Joe Harrison
Chief Executive, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
National Director, Digital Channels, NHS England
Professor Joe Harrison has been an NHS acute hospital Chief Executive for over 10 years. He is 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 NHS Confederation Employers Policy Board and a member of the University of Buckingham Council. Joe also works nationally with NHS England to transform health information across the health and care sector, giving patients power over their own information and enabling organisations to work together more effectively to provide better care.
Karla Richards
Senior Project Manager and NHS Navigator
Health Innovation Network South London
Karla has more than 15 years experience working in the NHS. She has held roles including Service Manager at a large NHS Foundation Trust and several Senior Commissioning Manger roles at a London Clinical Commissioning Group. She has been providing Innovator Support to digital health and health tech companies for over four years at the Health Innovation Network South London (HIN). Her current portfolio includes the Innovation Exchange programme, supporting companies with innovative products, technology and medical devices that could solve challenges for the NHS and the health and care sectors. The work also includes matching these innovations to the local need across south London. She has lead on the design and delivery of several innovation grants programmes and designs. Moreover, she speaks at and chairs webinars and events promoting and supporting digital solutions in the NHS, ranging from business cases and funding flows in the NHS to AI technologies.
Katya Masconi-Yule
Senior Project Manager
DigitalHealth.London
Katya is Head of the Digital Pioneer Fellowship programme for NHS innovators, as well as managing the Accelerator programme of support for digital health companies. She leads on strategy and planning for both programmes, utilising her significant healthcare sector and operational experience. Katya’s support to NHS staff, companies and the wider system includes specialist guidance on evidence generation, evaluation and health economics. She offers bespoke support to companies in the DigitalHealth.London family and leads on evaluations of technology implementation in the system.
Kelly Lewis-Towler
Programme Director
Strategy, Partnerships and Transformation
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Kelly has worked in the NHS for 26 years, undertaking many different roles across her career. The first 12 years were in trauma and orthopaedics. She has spent the last 14 years at director level in operations, spanning elective, cancer, clinical services and most recently Emergency, Acute and Specialist Medicine. Kelly brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her new role as Programme Director, leading on significant organisational change and digital innovation.
Kit Collingwood
Assistant Director, Digital and Customer Services
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Laura Semple
Outpatient Programme Director
South West London Acute Provider Collaborative
Laura is Outpatient Programme Director at the NHS South West London Acute Provider Collaborative (APC), where she works with colleagues across the four trusts and primary care to improve the timeliness and quality of outpatient care. The programme is focused on getting maximum benefit from the digital technology already available in south west London and exploring new opportunities for innovation across all clinical specialties. Tackling inequality in access, quality and experience of care is a key priority. Laura originally joined the NHS as a graduate management trainee. Her previous roles include Programme Director for Diabetes and Cardiovascular at the Health Innovation Network South London (HIN), Assistant Director at the Health Foundation and Director for national programmes at the national HIN network. Alongside her NHS work, Laura is a longstanding volunteer with King’s Global Health Partnerships in Sierra Leone and Zambia.
Lucy Goodevedocker
Regional Medical Director, Operose Health, GP Streatham High
Digital Lead Lambeth, GP trainer
Luke Readman
Regional Director of Digital Transformation
NHS England (London)
As Regional Director of Digital Transformation, Luke is responsible for the strategic direction of informatics. Luke established and leads the OneLondon programme, which includes record sharing at the point of care. The programme also includes the development of collaborative approaches in the use of data at scale for health improvement in near real time and for research uses.
Mike Bell
Chair
South West London Integrated Care Board
Mike is the Chair for South West London Integrated Care Board and has more than 25 years experience in senior roles in the NHS, with many of those directly serving Integrated Care System communities in South West London. He has more than a decade of experience on the boards of strategic health authorities, including serving as vice chair of NHS London. Until December last year, Mike spent 10 years as the Chair of Croydon Health Services. He has chaired a wide range of other organisations and networks, including the London Health Observatory, the London Mental Health and Employment Partnership, and he was also a London Health Commissioner for the Mayor of London from 2007 to 2013.
Nicki Bromwich
Chief Operating Officer
MedCity
Nicki is a clinician with 30 years experience in the NHS, having worked in a broad range of roles nationally and locally, including service redesign and acute care commissioning. Over the last 10 years as Head of Commercial Development at Oxford Health Innovation Network and more recently as Chief Operating Officer at MedCity, Nicki has supported early stage life science businesses in digital health and medtech to develop and commercialise their value proposition, seek investment and access the NHS. Nicki leads a range of life science programmes at MedCity, including the Investment Hub, TechBio accelerator, Diagnostics Growth Hub and the London Health Accelerator Social Enterprise. Nicki also supports the selection of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) onto each DHL.Accelerator cohort and mentors SMEs on a range of accelerator programmes, including the DHL.Accelerator programme.
Paul Gough
Partnership Project Manager
Data Research, Innovation and Virtual Environments unit (DRIVE)
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Paul joined Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) in 2011 and started in DRIVE in March 2021. Prior to joining DRIVE, he worked in operations, acting as the manager for a large range of medical, surgical and laboratory services. During this time his particular focus has been genetics, having worked with the Clinical Genetics team since joining GOSH. Paul has always been interested in innovative projects and was a key part of the GOSH team who worked with 3M colleagues to introduce the Fluency Direct product to GOSH. He has been deeply involved at GOSH and has served as an elected Governor, one of 27 people who oversee the work of the Board,
Raj Kohli
Co-Founder, Healthtech-1
NHS Clinical Entrepreneur
For Raj, healthcare is personal. His mum and dad are partners at First 4 Health Group, a group of GP practices in East London. In 2020, Raj and his school friend and co-founder Pete were asked to help use technology to support the practices throughout the pandemic. Once they got stuck in, they saw the mountain of work to be done and how technology could be enhanced to assist NHS staff. Raj and Pete fell in love with healthcare and co-founded Healthtech-1 to give NHS staff one less task.
Today, Healthtech-1 works with 680 GP practices across the country and their team of 15 is based out of Raj’s parent’s GP practice. They’re on a mission to help the NHS become the most advanced healthcare system in the world. Raj is also the Patient Experience Lead at First 4 Health Group and is an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur.
Ramai Santhirapala
Chair, Royal College of Anaesthetists
Consultant Anaesthetist, Digital Innovator, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Ramai is a practising anaesthesiologist who specialises in perioperative care at the largest UK hospital by financial revenue – Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. She has a keen interest in healthcare innovation and has led a series of successful innovation projects at national level within the remit of medical devices, patient decision making and digital health. Additionally, Ramai is one of 24 UK anaesthetists elected to the Royal College of Anaesthetists Council. In this capacity, she represents 24,000 anaesthetists at an international level, inclusive of her role as the Editor for the Bulletin, which reaches a readership of 18,000.
Raza Toosy
Medical Director and Developer, PatientChase
Member, NHS Confed Data and Digital Design Group
Richard Douglas
Chair
South East London Integrated Care Board
Prior to becoming Chair for the South East London Integrated Care Board, Richard held several senior roles at the Department of Health and has been a member of its Board. Richard is extremely familiar with how Government works at the highest levels. Before his retirement in April 2015, he was responsible for ensuring that the department itself, along with the health service, managed their finances effectively; and for this role, Richard was accountable to parliament. He also had primary responsibility for NHS policy and the government’s relationship with the NHS, and from 2011 to 2014 he was also Head of the Government Finance profession. Richard was appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the Department of Health and Social Care in March 2024.
Rishi Das Gupta
CEO
Health Innovation Network South London
As CEO of the Health Innovation Network South London (HIN), Rishi works to improve healthcare, patient experience and outcomes. He has 20 years experience in a variety of roles focused on shaping and implementing government policy, working with health and care providers and redesigning services. His experience spans UK and US healthcare systems and he is a fellow of the Sciana programme, collaborating with German and Swiss healthcare leaders. Prior to his role at the HIN, he held executive roles at NHS Trusts as Chief Information and Technology Officer, Director of Innovation and Director of Operations, as well as working as a medical doctor. Rishi also has experience working as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Company.
Rob Knott FCIPS
Commercial Director
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Samana Brannigan
Head of Health Technologies
Innovate UK
Samana’s areas of focus include medtech, biotech, diagnostics, and data and digital health industry sectors. She leads the Biomedical Catalyst Programme – Innovate UK’s flagship grant funding programme for supporting UK health and life sciences small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). She also manages the Investor Relations portfolio within the Health and Medicine Sector and works with investors for aligned private investment into innovative and emerging UK SMEs within the life sciences sector through the Investment Partnership programme.
Sara Nelson
Programme Director
DigitalHealth.London
As Programme Director, Sara leads the DigitalHealth.London team, overseeing the organisation’s long-term strategy and developing the strategic vision for all programmes, ensuring that DigitalHealth.London continues to stay on the forefront of digital innovation and empowers staff on the ground to drive change for patients and the public. In 2021, Sara was named Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) for NHSX (now NHS England). During her time as Deputy CNIO, Sara was responsible for education leadership strategy portfolios and the development of leadership through national, regional and local teams. She worked with her team to develop guidance for nurses in response to the national “What good looks like” framework and supported regional and local teams in implementing this.
Sian Knight
Executive Partner
Modality Lewisham
Sigal Hachlili Dwyer
Director of AI, Data and Digital Innovation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare
Sigal Hachlili Dwyer is Director of AI, Data and Digital Innovation at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Health Partners and the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. She aims to harness rich health analytics, data science, digital innovation and cutting-edge technology to develop scalable solutions that enhance healthcare outcomes for patients, families and staff across the NHS. Sigal has over 20 years experience in roles at national and international organisations across digital, AI and data disciplines – delivering business transformation and growth, innovation and service delivery. She is passionate about helping organisations to harness digital and data to achieve their goals for future sustainability, climate positive, health and social value.
Prof. Sultan Mahmud
Director of Healthcare
BT Enterprise
Sultan is the appointed Director of Healthcare for BT Enterprise and is the leader of the company’s healthcare business. He is an experienced executive with a passion for innovation and has had a distinguished career in the NHS, spanning two decades, and is a respected figure in Health technology circles in the UK and internationally.
Prior to this role, Sultan was Chief of Innovation, Integration and Research at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) and before that at NHS England. He led pioneering work in integration across the care spectrum in primary, community and acute care and developed some of the most impactful live clinical datasets at a placed based level. Sultan is enthusiastic about care providers working collaboratively and using technology enabled methods to manage patient care in an anticipatory way. To this end he has worked closely to develop partnerships with the commercial sector, patient groups and clinical teams to enable evidence-based innovation.
In addition to his day job, he supports clinical teams to lead authentically and break down cultural barriers to enable anticipatory care and digital transformation. Sultan has a high energy, high commitment approach to the NHS and regularly invests time in supporting emerging leaders and in health care achieve their career and service goals. In 2018 he was chosen as one of the 100 vibrant faces of the UK economy by Grant Thornton and in 2019 Sultan joined the Advisory Board of the Centre for Health and Social Care Leadership at the HSMC, University of Birmingham. He is also a Honorary Professor at the University of Keele, School of Medicine and is a visiting Professor at Birmingham City University. In January 2024, Sultan joined the Healthwatch England Committee.
Toby Garrood
Clinical Director, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Medical Director, South East London Integrated Care System
Toby is the Medical Director for South East London Integrated Care System and a Clinical Director at Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) NHS Foundation Trust. He has been a consultant rheumatologist at Guy’s at St Thomas’ NHS Hospital Foundation Trust since 2009. He has been a clinical director at the Trust since 2018 and helped to lead the Trust’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in outpatient care. He completed a PhD in 2009 and has maintained research interests in imaging of arthritis and service design. He is one of the leads for ambulatory care transformation at GSTT and has led a number of innovative projects in digital health, which have recently achieved national recognition. He has particular interests in user-centred design as applied to healthcare, population health and value-based healthcare.
Dr Victoria Betton
Member of The International Association of Facilitators
Member of International Coaching Federation
Royal Society of Arts Fellow
Victoria Betton specialises in people-centred design, systems thinking, digital strategy and adoption, which she delivers through her company, PeopleDotCom. Victoria is a qualified social worker and coach with over 30 years experience in the NHS, local government, third sector and digital health startups. Her book on adoption of digital is Towards a Digital Health Ecology – NHS Digital Adoption through the COVID-19 Looking Glass (Routledge, 2022) and her podcast is called The Digital Ecology.