Join the HealthTech SIG for a half-day event exploring the transformative shift from traditional hospital-centered care to decentralized healthcare models.
Join the HeatlhTech SIG for a half-day event exploring the transformative shift from traditional hospital-centered care to decentralised healthcare models.
As community hospitals, home-based care, distributed clinical trials and patient assessments redefine the landscape, industry experts will convene to tackle pressing medtech challenges. Keynote speakers and panel discussions will delve into overcoming infrastructure, accessibility and equity barriers, leveraging innovative technologies and data-driven solutions.
Attendees will engage with real-world case studies, debating the opportunities and obstacles in serving diverse community needs. By convening stakeholders from healthcare, medtech and policy, this SIG event aims to foster collaborative solutions, propel innovation and enhance patient-centered care.
Employees of CW member organisations and those working in the NHS can attend this event for free. Tickets for non-members are £50 plus VAT.
Work for the NHS?
We have limited free NHS delegate places available for this event, to request a place please email [email protected]
This event is sponsored by Analog Devices - www.analog.com
Solving the problems of tomorrow and today relies on intelligently bridging the digital and analog worlds. At Analog Devices, we create unmatched technologies and solutions to solve our customers' problems in instrumentation, automation, communications, healthcare, automotive and numerous other industries.
Welcome and introduction to the event
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'National Institute for Health and Care Research: Funding and Support for HealthTech’
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The NHS 10-year plan: Analogue to Digital, Sickness to Health, Hospital to Community. What is needed to translate ambition into reality.
‘Integrating Clinical Trials into Healthcare: Transforming Patient Care ‘
Co-Director of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury, Chief Research Informatics Officer and Consultant Neurosurgeon for Cambridge University Hospitals Trust.
Analog Devices
Analog Devices
I combine a passion for business development and technology delivery to identify and drive innovation.
Passionate technology leader experienced in building strong partner alliances, deep customer engagements, operating at the front of the technology curve, creating opportunities for market expansion, and identifying adjacent areas of growth. Expert in crafting strategy and engaging engineering team members & stakeholders to operationalise SW strategy for driving revenue growth. Based in Cambridge, UK, I have been responsible for driving health strategy in Medical Sensors, Connected Virtual Systems and Edge AI in Genomics. I combine an understanding of the technology with healthcare sector knowledge to broker new technology solutions and strategic partnerships that leads to commercial benefit.
CEO, Asclepius MedTech Ltd
CEO, Asclepius MedTech Ltd
Michael has a successful track-record in ethical pharmaceuticals, medical technologies and digital therapeutics. Working with some of the world’s best-known pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, telecoms and research organisations across EMEA, US and Latam, he has built and led teams accountable for market intelligence, strategy, marketing and commercialisation, product design, regulation and market authorisation, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial development, clinical effectiveness and health economics. As CEO of start-up Asclepius MedTech Ltd; he and his team are building a platform for use in pre- and post-operative surgical assessment to support clinicians and surgical teams ameliorate shared decision-making and stratify patient care.
Consultant, TTP plc
Consultant, TTP plc
Daniel is a TTP project leader focussed on decentralized healthcare solutions including the detection and treatment of chronic conditions at home. These projects cover the entire development lifecycle, from early-stage ideation and opportunity validation, through proof-of-concept development, to regulated device development for large-scale manufacture. Daniel particularly enjoys combining engineering insights, rigorous human-centred design and thorough business case validation to realise effective solutions.
SVP Commercial Business Development, Plextek
SVP Commercial Business Development, Plextek
Involved in Technology consulting around Cambridge for the last 34 years, Previous roles include Managing Director at Sagentia, as well as a couple of stints at TTP, and 5 years helping TeraView transition from a startup to a product company. Now I am charged with helping Plextek diversify its service offering into the Commercial (i.e. non-defence) space.
Co-Director of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury, Chief Research Informatics Officer and Consultant Neurosurgeon for Cambridge University Hospitals Trust.
Dr Alexis Joannides is an Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Addenbrookes specialising in neuro-oncology and CSF disorders. He is the Head of Bioinformatics for Cambridge University Hospitals Trust and Director of Clinical Medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Through his research, he has supported the development of new devices and technologies for improving patients’ quality-of-life following brain injury. His brain care transformation work includes clinically leading programmes REVERT, RAPID, DAMSEL and IRMA.
Dr Alexis Joannides, Co-Director of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury, Chief Research Informatics Officer and Consultant Neurosurgeon for Cambridge University Hospitals Trust. Wednesday @ 2:10 PM
Director of Innovation, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Adam has worked in the healthcare sector for over 13 years in operational, transformation and strategic roles. He is currently Director of Innovation at Cambridge University Hospitals, responsible for the development and evaluation of new technologies and ways of working, in collaboration with academia and industry, as well as the adoption of innovation. He also works at a Healthtech AI start-up, Phare Health, where he leads UK operations, and is a trustee at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.Adam Igra, Director of Innovation, Innovation, Digital & Improvement Directorate, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wednesday @ 3:50 PM
Innovation Lead , NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury
Bio to followIan Newington, Innovation Lead at the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Brain Injury Wednesday @ 2:40 PM
Global Head of Research Innovation & Strategic Alliances, AstraZeneca
As the Global Head of Research Innovation at AstraZeneca, I draw upon a unique foundation as a former Critical Care healthcare professional and more than two decades of leadership across the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors. Spanning both global and national arenas, I have been at the forefront of transforming patient care in a wide range of therapeutic areas, including cardiovascular health, metabolism, obesity, and, most recently, ground-breaking research and innovation. In my current role, I am dedicated to steering high-impact research programmes and pioneering new models for drug development, market adoption, and healthcare delivery.
GP and Partner,, Granta Medical Practices
James is a Cambridgeshire GP and a partner at Granta Medical Practices, where he was instrumental in its creation and growth to become one of the largest single practices in the East of England with over 58,000 registered patients. The practice has been consistently rated "Outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission since its inception. In 2023 James was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where he chairs both the Quality and Futures Committees. From 2019 to 2023, James was co-chair of the Cambridgeshire South Care Partnership, the umbrella body bringing together all agencies from within the health, local authority and voluntary sectors with the intention of providing better and more integrated services for local residents. From 2018 to 2022, he served as a Board Member for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. James qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford in 1990, after pre-clinical studies at the University of Cambridge. He also has a degree in law. He is an elected member of the Cambridge Local Medical Committee, has been a senior clinical tutor for the University of Cambridge and is a past president of the Cambridge Medical Society.
James Morrow, GP and Partner, Granta Medical Practices Wednesday @ 4:15 PM
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