John is a venture capital investor with a diverse professional background as a clinical engineer, research neuroscientist, technology entrepreneur, and physician.

He developed an implantable medical device as a PhD student at the University of Oxford and, as Managing Partner of one of Europe’s leading healthtech investors, has been responsible for driving innovation globally in partnership with Novartis, Medtronic, and the NHS.

Maria is a marketing artisan and top consultant, specialised in healthcare and focused on delivering results, accelerating growth and capturing mindshare for startups and scaleups. She coaches, advises, and helps grow the best and brightest organisations in Europe and beyond in health tech and med tech, both B2B and B2C.

Chris joined CW+, the charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, as Chief Executive in July 2016 and sits as a member of the Trust board. In addition to spearheading the charity to raise funds to provide new facilities and deliver the Trust’s unique arts and health programme, Chris is the charity lead of CW Innovation.

The CW Innovation programme – a joint initiative between the Trust and the charity – identifies, embeds, and evaluates new health innovations that aim to improve patient care, not just within the Trust but across the NHS and beyond.

Tim leads on the Propel@YH Digital Acclerator programmes that are delivered by Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber. With responsibility of the strategic direction, stakeholder management, programme content and success, Tim has built the Propel programmes into a high value offering to UK and international Health Technology Innovators delivered to over one hundred local and international organisations.
Through the Propel programmes, Tim has supported Innovators with raising over £35 million in grants and investment raising, achieved £250K in local investment and created over 115 Health Tech jobs.

Before joining the Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber organisation, Tim spent over twenty years in the Healthcare sector, delivering innovative solutions into primary and secondary care, with experience and expertise in Product Management, product growth strategies and delivery.

Dr. Habte-Asres is a Lead Clinical Academic Research Nurse in Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease at the Royal Free London Foundation Trust. She earned her Ph.D. in 2023 from King’s College London through the Foundation of European Diabetes Nurses Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship. Her clinical and research interests revolve around the management of diabetes in the presence of chronic kidney disease.

Stacey [RGN, BSc, MSc] is the CNIO at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

She has held various digital transformation roles in three large NHS acute trusts since 2017. Before taking up positions in digital transformation, she worked clinically in the Emergency Department, medical wards, and the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement team.

Stacey is a Florence Nightingale Foundation 2022 Digital Scholar and whilst she has been involved in and led several digital transformation projects, she is interested in how to create a digitally positive culture in the NHS and plans to explore this during her FNF year.

In addition to her NHS experience, Stacey also co-founded a health IT company, a clinically-led enterprise developing forward-thinking quality assurance and improvement software. The start-up is on a mission to help clinical colleagues use data to improve patient care.

Jon is the founder and CEO of Digital Health, the health IT B2B news, research and events publisher and professional networks specialist. He previously co-founded and edited eHealth Insider, and is a leading journalist, commentator and thought leader on UK health IT. In 2014 he led the trade sale of eHealth insider to Informa Plc.

Achievements of note include: founding the UK CCIO movement, from launch of CCIO campaign in 2011 to development and growth of CCIO Networks and community; the development of Digital Health Networks – centred on CCIO and CIO Networks – as the leading independent online best practice community of NHS IT professionals – 5,000+ members as of November 2020; plus growing Digital Health Summer Schools into the premier health IT leadership event in UK; and launching Digital Health Rewired in March 2019 as the most dynamic and compelling Expo in digital health space.

Gabrielle Morgan is Senior Investment Manager at the Conduit Connect, where she is responsible for investing in Seed-Series A+ deals across climate, healthcare, education, and inclusion. She is particularly passionate about mental health innovation, consumer healthcare, women’s healthcare ventures, smart cities and the built environment. Gabby is on the advisory board of two Conduit Fund healthcare companies – Thalamos and Virtue Health. In addition to finding and backing the most scalable impact ventures in the UK, Gabby is responsible for fundraising into the Conduit Fund and for its portfolio companies, and therefore has a strong network of impact-aligned angels, funds, foundations, and VCs across the US, Europe and the US. She is also a mentor at Carbon13, a climatetech focussed accelerator.

Before Conduit Connect, Gabby was a research analyst for Align Impact, a boutique impact investor in the US, and completed her MBA from the Said Business School at Oxford University where she focussed her studies on social entrepreneurship and impact investing. Before that, Gabby was a Director at Euromoney Institutional Investor in New York City, running private membership organisations for c-suite executives at the largest family offices, asset managers and institutional investors in the country.

Megan is the Director of Digital Innovation at Oxford University Hospitals and a career expert in entrepreneurship and innovation. She currently runs TheHill digital innovation catalyst based at Oxford University Hospitals, including oversight of TheHill’s flagship Market Access Accelerator programme. Megan also sits on the Board of The Oxford Trust, an independent charitable trust working across enterprise and innovation, science education and public engagement with science.

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.

Sara qualified as a nurse over 27 years ago, at a time when digital technology played a minor role in her day-to-day work, but over time she recognised that when technology was brought in correctly and was well-designed with consideration of patients and staff, the benefits could be enormous. Sara became the first Senior Nurse for digital at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in 2015, where she was able to break down barriers between the tech teams and the clinical/ward teams.

In 2018, Sara became an NHS Navigator for the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme, which gave her the chance to make an impact at a regional level across London and provided her with greater insight into the health tech world. Sara then led the Accelerator programme as maternity cover, and within this role, she grew her understanding of the needs of the innovators and how this aligned with the NHS Trusts’ priorities, as well as how to support the system to make it easier for tech to be adopted by organisations.

In 2021, Sara was named Deputy 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.

Chris is Innovation Lead for Digital Health, working within the Health and Life Sciences Sector team at Innovate UK. He is responsible for identifying, developing, and managing programmes to support the UK Digital Health sector.

Prior to Innovate UK, Chris spent over 30 years working in commercial and development roles in the Medical Technology Industry and the NHS.

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.

Judith joined the Health Innovation landscape in April 2022, working on national, regional, and local programmes as diverse as transforming wound care, GP AI deployment, Imaging and peri-operative pathway development, technology deployments and infrastructure developments. Using her previous experience, she has worked directly with 200+ innovators, to support their development and access to health and care markets. She has also worked with a range of health and care system partners to support their uptake of novel ideas, change pathways, and improve services for all.

Prior to this, she has spent her 25+ year career developing and delivering programmes in economic development and growth, employment and skills, voluntary sector, and community development, across the public and private sectors. She has worked throughout supporting businesses to grow, developing strategic responses to government policy and leading teams to achieve. Her business development activity has included supporting 200 companies to access £8m of European funding, as well as drawing in over £2m for various organisations she has led.

Away from work, Judith has served on the Board of many different charitable / community-based organisations, all focused on ensuring people have access to opportunity that supports them economically and socially. She is passionate about innovation that supports the whole of society and uses her wide-ranging network to make useful and productive connections to enable this.