SPEAKERS 2022

GIANT Health brings together the world’s leading Healthtech experts, government cabinet ministers, entrepreneurs, founders of unicorn businesses, and more, to provide you with invaluable business networking and learning opportunities.

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Shafi Ahmed

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon

Barts Health NHS TrustBarts Health NHS Trust

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Dan Vahdat

CEO & Founder

Huma

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Victor Higgs

Managing Director

Applied Nanodetectors Ltd

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Anne-Marie Vine-Lott

Head of Centre for

Health Vodafone

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Dr. Iain Hennessey

Director of Innovation

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

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Professor Bijendra Patel

Director of Surgical Skills and Science

Barts Cancer Institute

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Dr. Rajesh Sivaprakasam

Lead for Robotic Renal Failure Surgery

Barts Health NHS Trust once

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Simon Enoch

Partnership Consultant

Rescape

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David Kuraguntla

CEO and Co-founder

Alio

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Dr. Jim Ang

Senior Lecturer

University of Kent

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Karim Marucchi

CEO

Crowd Favorite

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Keith Errey

CEO and co-founder

Isansys

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Dr Saira Ghafur

Co Founder

Psyma

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Isabel Hardman

Assistant editor

The Spectator

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Norman Lamb

Chairman

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation

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Deborah Coughlin

Founder and CEO

Method X Studios

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Iain Jordan

Consultant in Psychological Medicine

Oxford University

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Michail Kokkinakis

King’s College London & Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Evelina London Children’s Hospital

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Kumar Jacob

Founder Director

Mindwave Ventures

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Kenn Milton

Founder & CEO

MyBlueLabel Compliance Services A/S

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Jacob Eric Nielsen

Chief Compliance Officer

MyBlueLabel Compliance Services A/S

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Andy Ramgobin

Principal Technology Evangelist

Technimove

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Josh Valman

CEO

RPD International

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Shannon Johnston

Manager

Solution Delivery at McKinsey & Company

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Pilar Fernandez Hermida

Curator and Founder

i-Expand

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Samantha Roberts

Chief Executive

National Institute of Health and Care Excellence

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Colin Espin

Co-Founder

Sleepio

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Catherine Pollard

Director of Technology Policy

NHS Transformation Directorate

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Rodrigo Vinicius de Jesus

CEO

Salus Optima

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Amelia Jarman

Future Health & Wellness Science and Technology Director

Unilever

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Marni Allen

Senior Director, Consumer Healthcare Futures

Walgreens Boots Alliance

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Michael Hansen

CEO

Swisslife

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Prof. James Betts

Professor of Metabolic Physiology Centre for Nutrition

University of Bath

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Mohammed Hannan

Digital Innovation Lead

Janssen UK

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Victoria Nicol

Founder/Managing Director

My Language Connection

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Dominic Tyer

Director of Research

DT Consulting

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Felix Hoddinott

Chief Analytics Officer

Quantexa

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Kevin Jarrold

Lead Chief Information Officer

North West London ICS

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Claire Madon RN MSc

Chief Nursing Information Officer

NHS England & NHS Improvement – Midlands Region

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Matthew Little

Chief Nurse Information Officer (CNIO)

Worcestershire Acute Hospital NHS Trus

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Debashish Das

Consultant Cardiologist & Digital Transformation

Barts Hospital NHS Trust

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Gary McCallister

CTO for London

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Kathy Walters

Lead nurse

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Steve Edmonton

Chief Surgical Officer for London

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Martin Taylor

Deputy CEO and Co-Founder

Content Guru

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Gus Miah

Risk Advisory Lead Partner

Health at Deloitte

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Emma Vaux

Medical Associate Director Patient Safety and Clinical director

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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Alex Merckx

Director of Marketing and Partnerships

Cognitant

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Hatim Abdulhussein

National Clinical Lead for AI and Digital Medical Workforce

HEE

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Niraj Swami

CEO

CMEfy

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Lucy Jung

CEO

Charco Neurotech

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Ian Wharton

Founder, CEO

Aide Health

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Victoria Repa

Founder and CEO

BetterMe

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Rae Adams

Learning Technologies Advisor, TEL

Health Education England

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Karolina Afors

Co-Founder/CEO Liberum Health; Chief Medical Officer at Syrona Health; Consultant Gynaecologist

Liberum Health, Syrona Health

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Jim Ang

Senior Lecturer

University of Kent

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Andy Ashley

Consultant Clincial Psycholgoist & specialist Community Care

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

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Henrietta Mbheah Bankas

Head of Blended Learning

Health Education England

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Bryn Baxendale

Clinical Advisor / Lead for Simulation and Immersive Learning Technologies

Health Education England

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Glen Besley

National Commissioning Manager - Education Funding Reform

Health Education England

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Waleed Bin Khalid

Head of Digital Transformation in London

Computools

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Stefano Bini

Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

UCSF

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Sarah Bolt

CEO and Co-founder

Forth and Forth Edge

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Kasper Bourdette

Head of Commercialization

Acorai

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Seán Bradbury

Supporting TEL Programme Manager

Health Education England

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Josh Burke

General Surgery Registrar, Chair FOS:TEST Commission

FOS:TEST Commission, The Royal College of Surgeons of England

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Sarah Byron

Associate Director

NICE

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Chris Cammack

Service Desk Lead, Technology Enhanced Learning

Health Education England

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Ed Cartwright

Co-founder & CEO

Elixir AI

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Chris Chaney

Chief Executive

CW+

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Denis Chernenko

CEO

NLSQL

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Jamil Choglay

Senior Project Manager, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, TEL

Health Education England

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Zoe Cholewa

Senior medical affairs manager

Dexcom – UK, Ireland and Benelux

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Jon Clark

Commercial Director

Carbon Z

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Ross Cummings

Senior Associate

Gill Jennings & Every

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Joanna Dapatnapo

Junior charge nurse/ Vascular Access Nurse Specialist

Barts Health NHS Trust

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James de Bathe

VP Commercial, Healthcare UK

Huma

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Rachael Dovey

NHS Lead

Skin Analytics

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Stephen Edmondson

Chief Surgical Officer

Barts Health NHS Trust

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Paul Edmondson

Vice President EMEA at GRC

GRC

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Charlotte El-Sayed

Robotic research fellow, Royal College of Surgeons & HEE

Health Education England

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Colin Espie

Co-Founder

Sleepio

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Tymur Faradzhev

Head of Delivery

Coax Software

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Ben Fehnert

Co-founder

Fora Health

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James Freed

Chief Digital and Information Officer

Health Education England

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Chris Gay

Project Manager, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, TEL

Health Education England

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Adam Green

Freelance writer & Editor

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Gerard Gregg-Smith

Managing Director

GGS Associates

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Michelle Griffin

Director

MFG Health Consulting

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Andrew Griffiths

Facilitator

Callery Ltd

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Louise Hallworth

Campaign Consultant

Magpie

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DJ Hamblin-Brown

CEO & Clinical Safety Officer

CAREFUL

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Mark Harmon

Chief Strategic Officer

eConsult NHS

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Ele Harwich

Director

Newmarket Strategy

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Verena Herzog-Pohl

CEO and Co-Founder

LUMEUS - Emotrain GmbH

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Kate Hiley

Research Assistant, Centre for Immersive Technologies

University of Leeds

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Patricia Howe

Programme Manager, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, TEL

Health Education England

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Gareth Jagger

Senior Account Manager

Proact UK

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Sophie Johnson

Senior innovation consultant

Alder Hey Children's Hospital

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Sridevi Kalidindi

CEO & Consultant Psychiatrist

klip Global Ltd

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Taylor Kantor,

MD

University of Michigan

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Annie Karlin

Head of Deployment, UK

Huma

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Sam Kay

Regulatory Lead Consultant

Clarivate

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Jane Kirby

Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education

University of Leeds

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Tatiana Klimanova

Accelerator Director

FemTech Lab

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David Kuraguntla

CEO and Co-founder

Alio

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Geraint Lewis

Director of Population Health

Microsoft

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Abison Logeswaran

XR Digital Health Fellow

Health Education England

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Talac Mahmud

Partner

HIYOS Firstcare

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Adam Martin

Chief Commercial Officer

PremaLabs Diagnostics

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Helen Mather

Associate Director Elective Cancer and Diagnostics for LLR ICB

LLR ICB

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Ryan Mathew

Associate Professor Neurosurgery

University of Leeds

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Paul Maubach

Strategic Advisor ICS Collaboration

NHS Midlands

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Chris McCourt

Head of Partnerships, Medical & Life Sciences

My Language Connection

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Valentina Milanova

Founder

Daye

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Patrick Mitchell

Director of Innovation, Digital and Transformation

Health Education England

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Nathan Moore

Chief Nursing Information Officer

Digital Health Solutions, Western Sydney Local Health District

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Jessica Rose Morley

Director of Policy

Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at Oxford University

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Chris Munsch

Clinical Advisor, Technology Enhanced Learning, Directorate of Innovation, Digital and Transformation

Health Education England

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Faisal Mushtaq

Co-Director Centre for Immersive Technologies

University of Leeds

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Julian Nesbitt

CEO

Dr Julian

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Michael Nix

Clinical Fellow in AI and Workforce

Health Education England

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Redmond O'Leary

Sales Manager

InterSystems

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James O'Shaughnessy

Senior partner

Newmarket Strategy

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Priya Oberoi-Cattai

Managing General Partner

Goddess Gaia Ventures

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Anastasiia Oliinyk

CEO

NLSQL

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Ada Omoruyi

Doctor

NHS

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Dan Onions

Global Head of Data Management

Quantexa

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IIsay Parry

Head of UX and Research

Mindwave Ventures

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Konstantin Pavlidis

CEO

Orassy Health Ltd

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Nick Peres

Immersive Technology Advisor

Health Education England

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Teodora Popa

Scientist (Fertility and Genetics)

UCL and Evewell

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Richard Price

Global Health Education Technology Advisor

Health Education England

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Neil Ralph

Head of Technology Enhanced Learning

Health Education England

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Rishindra Reddy

Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Director of the Centre for Surgical Innovation

University of Michigan

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Niall Reilly

Manager

DigiTal

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Nick Renaud-Komiya

Managing director

NRK Communications

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Sally Richardson

Project Manager, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, TEL

Health Education England

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Rafał Samborski

CEO

Cardiomatics

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Jack Severs

Senior Associate

GJE LLP

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Gregory Shadara

COO

Computools

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Viraj Shah

President

Imperial College Surgical Society

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Jacob Skinner

CEO

Thrive Wearables

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Anton Skrypnyk

CEO

KindGeek

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Jessica Smith

Cofounder & CXO

Somx

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Kim Somerville

Managing Director

Magpie

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Oleg Stepanov

Digital Transformation Consultant in UK and Ireland

Computools

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Henry Stoneley

Associate Director and Editor of Healthtech Pigeon

Somx

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Fiona Sweny

Digital Health Lead

Holland and Barrett

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Arvind Tewari

VP of Digital Product

Atai Life Sciences

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Sarah Ticho

Co-Founder, XR Health Alliance

XR Health Alliance

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Laura Towart

Founder & CEO

Vivan Therapeutics

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Roman Tymoshchuk

Founder

Lampa Software

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Michel Valstar

CEO

BlueSkeye AI

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Konstantin Vasyuk

Executive Director

IT Ukraine Association

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Brian E. Wallace

Co-Founder | Chief Medical Officer

Calmsie Therapeutics, Inc.

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Octavia Wilks

Medical Advisor

Flo Health

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Benjamin Witton

Product Manager - Platforms, Technology Enhanced Learning

Health Education England

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Helen Please

Surgical Registrar (StR) in General Surgery; Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Thames Valley Deanery. MRCS, PGCert (Health Research), BMBCh, BSc (Int.)

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GIANT Health London 8-9 December 2025