HETT (Healthcare Excellence Through Technology)

Must-see talks

1. Confronting the Barriers to Impactful Innovation 
   11:10 AM – 11:50 AM | Tuesday, 7 October 2025  
   Digital Maturity Forum 
   Oftentimes, navigating the NHS with your innovation can be quite challenging, especially when confronted by barriers such as funding. In this session, Rishi Das Gupta, Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London, comes together with speakers from NHS England, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB (BOB), Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Digital Care Hub to discuss how policies and regular timelines impact innovation success, and whether we are prioritising technology that’s easy to buy. 
   
   
2. Battling bureaucracy and Red Tape – What needs to Happen NOW to Make The Tech Industry Viable? 
   1:10 PM to 1:50 PM | Tuesday, 7 October 2025  
   Integrated Care Forum 
   The NHS can be a challenging environment to navigate. While there is an increase in growth for new tech aiming to reshape care, there’s also a market of companies leaving the UK due to the NHS being challenging to navigate. In this session, Mark Edington, HIN South London Director of Operations, joins  Tony Mears, Deputy Director of Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust; Matea Deliu, GP Lead of NHS South East London ICB; and Ianin O’Neal, EPR Transformation Director of NHS East Midlands, who will share their perspectives on bureaucracy across different levels and debate ways to improve the NHS market.
   
   
3. Improving Service Design, Safety and Education in Maternity Using Technology and The Patient Voice 
   2:00 PM to 2:40 PM | Tuesday, October 7, 2025  
   Digitally Empowered Experience 
   Patient experiences of maternity care have declined in recent years, according to the results of a Maternity Survey conducted by the CQC and the NHS Patient Survey Programme, which involved 121 NHS trusts in England. This session explores how digital tools and patient feedback can improve early risk identification, health literacy, and service design in maternity care, while addressing digital exclusion and guiding safe adoption of tech-enabled models. The panel includes voices from across women’s health, including Eddie Morris, Regional Medical Director (East England) at NHS England; Emma Crooks, Co-Chair of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG); Accelerating FemTech alumnus Sujitha Selvarajah; and more.   
   
   
4. Changing Mindsets, Changing Outcomes – Creating a Culture of Prevention to Support the Health and Care System  
   3:20 PM to 4:00 PM | Tuesday, October 7, 2025  
   Digitally Empowered Experience 
   Ambra Caruso, Head of Digital Transformation at HIN South London, moderates this session with Reena Patel, Principal Pharmacist and Senior Healthcare Strategy Consultant at RP Healthcare Consultancy; Ali Connell, Director of Digital at Our Future Health UK; Oonagh Turnbull, Head of Health and Sustainable Diets Campaigns at Tesco; and Stephen Armstrong, Head of Product – Medical at the British Heart Foundation. The panel will discuss how a prevention-first approach can reshape public engagement, whilst examining the role of the third sector and local services in embedding services at a community level. 
   
   
5. Making Clinical Systems Work for All – Confronting Bias and Driving Equity 
   10.00 AM to 10:40 AM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025  
   Infrastructure, Data & Cyber Security 
   Katherine Church, Chair of the HETT Women’s Health Working Group, moderates this session which looks at how inequalities manifest in clinical systems and datasets, and its impact on care delivery and innovation. Speakers will share strategies to identify and mitigate systemic and algorithmic bias, improve data inclusion from underrepresented groups, and embed meaningful public involvement in digital health governance. 
   
   
6. Leading with Compassion: Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace through Digital Innovation  
   10.30 AM to 11:30 AM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025 
   Roundtable Area 
   Tulsi Patel, Director of Product at Hertility, facilitates this open roundtable session under Chatham House Rule, available to public sector pass holders. The discussion will explore how menstrual and menopausal health challenges affect women’s workplace wellbeing, and how compassionate leadership can foster stigma-free environments. 
   
   
7. How Innovative, Integrated Care Models Can Reshape Women’s Health Outcomes 
   11:40 AM to 12:20 PM | Wednesday, 8 October 2025  
   Integrated Care Forum 
   How can we rethink women’s health pathways to make them adaptable and tailored to their needs? The panel explores how integrated care pathways in line with the three big shifts can support early intervention, personalised care at scale, and access for underserved communities. 
   
   
8. No Money, No Time: How to Continuously Digitally Transform Against the Odds 
   11:40 AM to 12:30 PM | Tuesday, 8 October 2025 
   Workforce, Adoption and Productivity 
   This session challenges the narrative that limited budgets hinder innovation, instead positioning them as catalysts for strategic focus and lean transformation. In this discussion, Amanda Begley, Director of Digital Transformation at the HIN, amongst other key speakers, will explore how to make the most of existing tools, platforms, and talent through upskilling and creative repurposing.
   
9. Forging a More Equitable Future: Innovation in Women’s Health  
   12.00 PM to 1:00 PM | Wednesday, October 8, 2025 
   Open Roundtable Session 
   Dominique Allwood, Chief Executive of Imperial College Health Partners, chairs this open roundtable session with Anna King, Commercial Director at the HIN South London. The topic of discussion will be how to better support women in spearheading and expanding health and care innovation. Drawing on insights from the Accelerating FemTech programme, the session will outline practical steps to grow female-led ventures, foster inclusive investment, and expand women’s health solutions across the NHS and global markets. 
   
10. Live Podcast Session: The Age of AI Agents in Healthcare a Live Podcast Recording with Dev&Doc  
    2:20 PM to 2:50 PM | Wednesday, 8 October 2025 
    Infrastructure, Data & Cyber Security 
    Zeljko Kraljevic, CTO and Associate Professor at UCL and Dev&Doc, will host a live podcast session exploring the latest developments in large language models (LMMs) and agentic AI. The live episode will dive into real-world applications such as ambient voice technologies, conversational tools like Google AIME, and specialised healthcare agents like Hippocratic. The discussion will also address challenges around implementation, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, while looking ahead to what the next 12–18 months may hold for AI agents in health and care.