Hear from those leading the way for Innovation within Healthcare. The NHS Innovation Accelerator will provide an overview into innovation within the NHS. Then join our panel of NIA fellows to discuss how they have excelled within the NHS and overcame different challenges and the opportunities they are now discovering.
Chair: Mindy Simon
co-director, NHS Innovation Accelerator
Mindy is Co-Director at the NHS Innovation Accelerator. She is responsible for the programme’s execution while providing guidance to innovators. Her journey began in 2013 when she joined UCLPartners, eventually transitioning to the NIA in 2017.
She has spent much of her extensive career working in the health and life sciences sector, holding senior leadership and operational roles across health and higher education institutions. She began her healthcare career overseas, running a private primary care practice before continuing her career in the UK establishing the organisational structure of a department focused on alternative therapies education at prestigious institutions such as the University of Oxford, and King’s College London.
Mindy’s experience includes leading Board-level governance, supporting Executive teams to drive organisational and programme efficiencies as well as leading infrastructure projects and cross-functional collaboration. She is passionate about supporting innovators in addressing the challenges faced by the NHS, patients, and the health and social care sector, and breaking down barriers to achieving successful health outcomes through scaling innovation.
Konrad Dobschuetz
national director, NHS Innovation Accelerator, NHS England
Konrad Dobschuetz is National Director of the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) which supports exceptional individuals to scale best in class business across NHSE for patient, system and staff benefit as well as to grow the economy. He is also the Chief Enterprise Officer for UCL Partners, a NHS England Health Innovation Network, driving the innovation pipeline, adoption readiness of mainly digital health solutions, industry and trade bodies engagement and working with universities. He is working with key NHS leaders in both roles. Prior, Konrad worked for Novartis and Pfizer, driving large scale digital transformation projects across global markets. Health Inequalities and tackling issues with access to the right care at the right time through a variety of innovations and means is one of the most important issues of our time for Konrad.
Dr Chen Mao Davies
founder and CEO, Anya
Dr Chen Mao Davies is the founder & CEO of Anya. She is an NHS Innovation Accelerator fellow and a winner of Innovate UK’s Women in Innovation award. Anya is a multi-award winning FemTech start-up providing 24/7 AI-powered women’s health support. Before Anya, Chen had a dream career working on visual effects of blockbuster movies including Gravity and Blade Runner 2049, winning Oscar & BAFTA awards in best visual effects.
Her life course has changed completed after she become a mother and experience tremendous challenges in breastfeeding. Her experience motivated her to found Anya to revolutionise women’s health support using innovation and empathy.
Dr Michael Watts
managing director, Emergency Role Allocation Systems (ERAS)
On a mission to break down the barriers to innovation within the global digital health industry, Michael is an NHS doctor, NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow and MBA Graduate by background.
Over the last few years he has been the Co-founder and Managing director of Blüm Health Ltd, an industry-disrupting digital health organisation that collaboratively works with NHS trusts, Universities and SMEs to design, build, and scale digital health software solutions, in the hope to empower solo entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into a reality whilst also enabling large, rigid institutions to unlock their innovation potential.
Alongside the Blüm Team, his focus is to build NHS-ready software and get it right first time. This means building solutions that are regulatory compliant, patient-centric, and accessible from the outset, and this model has seen the successful implementation of seven solutions across the public and private sector in just three years.
Michael also supports SMEs planning to internationalise early, with Blüm being on the Department for Business and Trades ‘Go Global’ Showcase.
Zohra Khaku
director of strategic partnerships, Limbic
Zohra is Director of Strategic Partnerships at Limbic, the NHS’s most trusted provider of clinical mental health AI tools.
Zohra was responsible for digital projects at NHS England’s National Policy Team for Talking Therapies. She was previously Director of MYH, a national mental health helpline and spent ten years as a telephone helpline worker. Zohra holds an MBA from Cambridge University’s Judge Business School.
March 13 @ 09:30
09:30 — 10:30 (1h)