techUK Health and Care Summit 2025

Nigel Brokenshire

, Digital Health & Life Sciences Consulting Director, ARCA Resourcing

Nigel is the Digital Health & Life Sciences Consulting Director at ARCA Resourcing. ARCA is a management consultancy firm that is driving innovation in the Healthcare, Life Sciences and Engineering Industries by providing professional resources & consulting services. Nigel was previously the Head of Digital Health for Bayer UK and has spent over 20 years leading digital transformation across the NHS. He is the current chair of the Life Sciences Working Group and member of the Health & Social Care Council for techUK.

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Richard Brown

AI & Power Platform Practice Lead, Phoenix Software Ltd

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Dr Anastasia Chalkidou

Programme Director, Guidance Delivery – HealthTech, National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)

Dr Anastasia Chalkidou is the Programme Director for HealthTech at NICE. She was previously the Associate Director for the King’s Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC) and was a Senior Research Fellow in Health Technology Assessment at King’s College London, with a focus on complex interventions, medical devices, and digital health technologies. She has led numerous health technology assessment (HTA) projects, both national and hospital-based, and has provided consultancy to MedTech companies on developing evidence generation strategies and value propositions from inception to market. She is currently a co-investigator on the ASSESS-DHT, a European initiative for HTA of Digital Health Technologies.
Her career began in Clinical Oncology after completing her medical degree in 2004. She holds an MSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, a PhD in validating PET biomarkers in oncology, and an MA in Higher Education Practice. She co-chairs the HTAi Medical Devices Interest Group.
 

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Liz Clow

Director for Digital Citizen, NHS England

Liz Clow is the Director for Digital Citizen at NHS England, where she leads the transformation of core digital services including the NHS App, NHS.UK, and NHS identity platforms. With a background in digital product and transformation roles across global media and e-commerce businesses, Liz brings a strategic lens to public service innovation.  Liz is passionate about creating inclusive, future-ready services that empower citizens and meet the needs of a modern health system.

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Gayle Curry

Partner, Mills & Reeve

Gayle is a senior business lawyer with specialist interest in healthtech solutions who loves working with businesses that improve health and social care outcomes and empower people.

Gayle helps businesses achieve their growth plans through innovative collaborations, protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights, grant funding agreements, and trading terms and conditions with customers and suppliers including universities and the NHS.

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Chris Dadson

Director of Business Development and Marketing, SCIE

Chris joined SCIE in early 2023 and leads SCIE’s income generation strategies. He has significant experience supporting charities to grow and develop in commissioning, funder and delivery organisations. Previously he was Director of Business Development at the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, and before that Director of Development at the Social Investment Business. He started his career in the civil service and has worked across strategy and policy development roles in the Cabinet Office and at Ofsted. Chris was educated at Cambridge University (BA, English Literature) and at the University of London (MA, Latin American Studies).

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Dr Rishi Das-Gupta

Chief Executive, South London Health Innovation Network

Rishi Das-Gupta is Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London. He has worked to improve healthcare, patient experience and outcomes for over 20 years in a variety of roles focused on shaping and implementing government policy, working with health and care providers and redesigning services. He is passionate about the use of technology to enable clinical and operational change and to empower patients to manage their own conditions. Rishi’s experience spans UK and US healthcare systems and he is a fellow of the Sciana programme collaborating with German and Swiss healthcare leaders. Prior to this role he has held executive roles at NHS trusts as CITO, Director of Innovation and as Director of Operations and worked as a medical doctor. Rishi also has experience working as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman and McKinsey and Company. In addition to his primary medical qualification (MB,BS), Rishi holds an MA in law (University of Cambridge) and an MBA (London Business School).

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Julian David OBE

CEO, techUK

Julian David is the CEO of techUK, the leading technology trade association that aims to realise the positive outcomes that digital technology can achieve for People, Society, the Economy and the Planet.

He leads techUK’s 100+ strong team representing 1,100+ British based tech companies, comprising global and national champions and more than 600 SMEs and ScaleUP companies. techUK is the voice of the tech industry in the UK with 21 member led programmes covering all of tech from ‘Chips to Clicks’ and addressing 11 market sectors from Defence and Central Government, through to Health, Consumer Electronics and Financial Services.

In 2021 techUK launched TechSkills, the employer-led accreditation organisation that aims to improve the flow of talent into the digital workforce and open up access for all to high value tech jobs.

Julian represents techUK on a number of external bodies including the Digital Economy Council, the National Cyber Security Advisory Council and the Department of Business and Trade’s Strategic Trade Advisory Group. He is member of the NTA Advisory Board of DIGITALEUROPE and is a member of the Board of the Health Innovation Network the South London Academic Health Science Network.

Julian has over thirty years of experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining techUK, he had a series of leadership roles at IBM including Vice President for Small and Medium Business and Public Sector. After leaving IBM he worked as a consultant helping tech SMEs establish successful operations in the U.K. His personal interests include Football (West Ham, Balham FC and Real Madrid) and Art.

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Will Goddard

Managing Director & Health and Social Care Council Member, Big Health

Will is Managing Director at Big Health, the UK-founded digital therapeutics SME whose mission is to make psychological treatment as scalable as pharmaceuticals.

Big Health’s flagship treatment Sleepio (for insomnia) secured first-of-its-kind NICE guidance in May 2022, recommended as more clinically effective than standard of care and cost-saving for the NHS. Sleepio is nationally commissioned in Scotland where it has been accessed by over 70,000 patients, and secured FDA clearance in August 2024. 

Big Health's treatment pipeline includes Daylight (for anxiety), which is undergoing real-world health economic evaluation in NHS primary care services in Yorkshire & the Humber, and Spark (for depression), which has undergone its first RCT with strong clinical outcomes.

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Dr Lloyd Humphries

Managing Director, Cogniss

Dr Lloyd Humphreys is the Managing Director of Cogniss and began his career in the NHS as a Clinical Psychologist before earning his MBA from the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin and founding Breaking Free Online, the world’s first digital therapeutic for addiction. An NHS Innovation Accelerator alumnus, Lloyd has helped to scale pioneering ventures spanning personal health records, digital therapeutics, and digital health infrastructure. He mentors and advises startups, international accelerators, and global organisations, including the World Health Organization. Lloyd has also held several board positions, such as European co-Chair of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, and currently serves as a trustee on the board of a national addiction charity.

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Charlotte Lewis

Principal Associate, Commercial Health, Mills & Reeve

Charlotte is a specialist in commercial health with a passion for innovation. She loves to work with clients who are looking to break into new areas or do things differently.  

Charlotte advises the health and care sector on a wide range of commercial and corporate matters including corporate/contractual structures, new care models, and transformation programmes, as well as general commercial enquiries. She has a particular interest in healthtech and works with technology and digital companies operating within the sector. 

Charlotte has worked on pioneering transformation projects across the sector including the transfer of specialist clinical services between NHS Trusts in order to re-align services for the benefit of the entire population, resulting in a significant and positive impact on health outcomes. 

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Dr Alison Moulds

Senior Policy & Engagement Manager (NHS Productivity Commission) and Improvement Fellow, Health Foundation

Alison is currently working on the Health Foundation’s NHS Productivity Commission, where she leads on the engagement programme. Her substantive post at the Foundation is as a Fellow in the Innovation and Improvement directorate, where her work focuses on technology and workforce issues. Recent projects have included research on the impact of technology and AI on productivity and time for care in the NHS. Her career background spans policy and public affairs, and research and public engagement. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published on the history of medicine and healthcare.

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Kir Nuthi

Head of AI and Data, techUK

Kir Nuthi is the Head of AI and Data at techUK. 

She holds over seven years of Government Affairs and Tech Policy experience in the US and UK. Kir previously headed up the regulatory portfolio at a UK advocacy group for tech startups and held various public affairs in US tech policy. All involved policy research and campaigns on competition, artificial intelligence, access to data, and pro-innovation regulation.

Kir has an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA in both Political Science (International Relations) and Economics from the University of California San Diego.

Outside of techUK, you are likely to find her attempting studies at art galleries, attempting an elusive headstand at yoga, mending and binding books, or chasing her dog Maya around South London's many parks.

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Lord James O’Shaughnessy

Senior Partner, Newmarket Strategy

Lord O’Shaughnessy is one of the UK's leading policy advisors. He has operated at the highest levels of government, including as Minister for Life Sciences within the Department for Health & Social Care, as Director of the No.10 Policy Unit, and as an advisor to DHSC Ministers during the COVID-19 crisis. James is driven by the twin passions of bringing life-changing health innovations to patients and growing the UK’s life science & HealthTech industries. As Minister his responsibilities included implementing the Life Science Industrial Strategy, delivering a new pricing scheme with the pharmaceutical industry, chairing the National Genomics Board, and driving the digital transformation of the NHS. He was also responsible for preparing the health and social care sectors for Brexit and helping to design the post-Brexit regulatory regime.

 

James now provides senior counsel to multinationals, SMEs, investors, universities and charities across health and life sciences, with a particular focus on technology, digital and data. He is also Chair of Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP), a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation where he chairs the Data, Health & Wealth programme and in 2023, published the O'Shaughnessy Review of Commercial Clinical Trials in the United Kingdom. Outside of health, James chairs the Repairing our Social Fabric programme at the think tank Onward, is a Member of the House of Lords, and has a keen interest in education reform.

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Ram Rajaraman

Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Leader, Quantexa

Ram has almost 2 decades of demonstrated experience in digital transformation, productivity, and cost improvement in the hospital & health care industry. He has worked across global health economies, namely, the UK NHS, the Nordics, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Americas. Before joining Quantexa as their healthcare & life sciences lead, Ram ran his own healthcare data and analytics consultancy for 4 years delivering over 30 projects to the NHS and globally. Prior to which he was the EMEA lead for GE Healthcare’s Command Centre business where he was part of the leadership team responsible for commercialising and localising the solution and implementing Bradford Teaching Hospitals Command Centre. Ram is passionate about combining artificial intelligence techniques and other innovative technologies to solve complex problems and improve patient outcomes.

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Sally Rennison

Member and Chair, NHS England SME Advisory Group and techUK Council Subgroup on SMEs

Sally is the Chief Commercial Officer at Patients Know Best and serving on her 4th year on the techUK Health and Social care council. Alongside the running of PKB, having spent the last 12 years supporting the SME she has worked for in the navigation and scaling of the healthcare market in the UK and internationally. With a deep understanding of the complexities that face SMEs Sally has also sat on the NHSE SME advisory group since 2023 and chairs the techUK SME focus group. 

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Polly Shepperdson

Partnerships Manager, First Databank

Polly Shepperdson is Partnerships Manager at FDB (First Databank) and an expert in how digital medicines fit into the technology landscape across healthcare ecosystems. She works with the NHS, life sciences, and public bodies such as NICE and DHSC, building collaborations that optimise medicines use and support safer, more efficient care. A former town councillor, Polly led the creation of a wellbeing hub to support her community in the post-COVID period, and she is an active member of the TechUK Life Sciences Working Group, helping to bring industry and digital partners together to accelerate innovation.

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John Simmons

Practice Lead for Architecture, Opencast

John is an experienced Enterprise Architect who is the Practice Lead for Opencast's Architecture Practice, developing their Architecture capability, managing the team of 25 architects and supporting business development.
In 2023 John was part of an Opencast team that undertook a "User Experience of Healthcare" review of the NHS App for the NHS. The team took a deep dive into the design and flow of the NHS App, undertook User Research and compared the features offered by the NHS app to those offered by some competitors. 
His career before Opencast was bookended by working for the NHS; at the start of his career working on the Read Code project at the NHS Centre for Coding and Classification; and just before joining Opencast as an Enterprise Architect at the NHS Business Services Authority. In between, he has worked for the NHS at the Royal Marsden Hospital and on NHS projects when working for BT, including the London Local Service Provider contract for the NHS where he architected the interim GP solution.
 

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Peter Skinner

Programme Director, Digitising Social Care Programme, NHS England

Peter has more than 20 years project leadership and management experience across the voluntary sector, social care and most recently the NHS. He set up and has led the Digitising Social Care programme since 2020, which has helped to double the number of care providers using digital social care records, established a list of assured solutions that meet key data, security and interoperability standards and is building a stronger evidence base for the role care technologies can play in improving the quality and safety of care.

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Assad Tabet

Senior Vice President Healthcare, UKI & Europe, Mastek

Over 20 years’ digital and information technology experience with in-depth sector experience in UK Health and Public Sector. Developing digital products and services to industries including sales, marketing, commercial negotiation, client management, stakeholder engagement, and leading day-to-day business activities. 

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Ming Tang

Interim Chief Digital & Information Officer and Chief Data & Analytics Officer, NHS England

Ming has over 20 years’ experience in managing and delivering large scale change involving implementation of new operating models in complex and challenging environments.

She joined the NHS in October 2009, working in the West Midland before joining the national team leading on large scale data and analysis programmes.

Ming is currently the Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer for NHS England, responsible for strategic development of digital and data across NHS, and Chief Data and Analytics Officer for NHS England, responsible for strategic development of data and analytics capability across NHS.

The team Ming leads provides NHS England with the resources to support system transformation, strategic information assets, digital tools and analysis to underpin policy development and predictive capabilities to enhance decision making and improve health and care services.

In 2024 Ming was appointed Co-Chair of the 10 Year Health Plan Data and Technology Working Group, considering how the NHS should focus its resources to ensure it maximises the impact of data and technology and develop a roadmap for a digitally connected future.   

Prior to joining the NHS, Ming was a Partner with Accenture specialising in Strategy and Supply Chain work. She has worked in Europe, North America, and South East Asia where she was the Managing Partner for the Supply Chain Practice for 3 years. Her experience spans global clients in Consumer Goods, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Utility sectors. Ming holds a degree in Pharmacy and an MBA from Warwick University.

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Ben Taylor

CEO, Cassette

Ben is CEO of Cassette, a specialist healthcare technology consultancy, where he leads advisory and development initiatives for major pharmaceutical companies, medical manufacturers, and NHS Trusts.
A recognised authority in healthcare technology and artificial intelligence, Ben specialises in helping organisations harness AI to reduce costs, boost productivity, and accelerate innovation, from prototype and application development through to knowledge transfer and workforce upskilling.
He is also a pioneer in applying cutting-edge digital technologies to communication, training, and education, enabling healthcare organisations to improve engagement and understanding at scale.
Ben’s experience includes collaborations with global leaders such as Pfizer, Takeda, Novartis, Baxter, and NHS organisations, delivering multilingual solutions across diverse markets and bringing a practical, global perspective on the sector’s evolving needs.
Cassette is a member of the Anthropy advisory panel, a movement dedicated to shaping a better future for the UK, and was invited to contribute to the Immersive Technology Round Table at the House of Lords.
 

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Laura Thompson

Marketing Director for Public Sector, Access Health

Laura Thompson leads marketing strategy for Access Health and Local Government which supports 100,000 clinicians daily, covers 39.7 million patients, and supplies software to 200 councils across England. Her expertise spans across healthcare technology and local government service delivery, providing unique insight into how AI can bridge the full care continuum. 
With nearly 20 years’ experience in marketing, branding and lead generation, Laura is enthusiastic about improving outcomes for people and communities through innovative technology. 
Borne out of a love of bringing like-minded people together and a curiosity to understand challenges facing organisations and industries, Laura has spent her career in Marketing, Communications and Engagement. 
As an advocate for person-centred, preventative care, she envisions a world in which patients, clients and service users have more control over their health and wellbeing while medical and social care professionals have the resources they need to consistently deliver holistic care of the highest standard
 

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Katie Thorn

Project Manager , Digital Care Hub

Katie Thorn is the Digital Projects Lead for the Digital Care Hub. For social care providers, by social care providers, the Digital Care Hub provides free guidance and support to care organisations on technology, data protection and cyber security. 
Katie has played a significant role in advocating for and implementing digital solutions in social care and is the co-convener of the Oxford Project on the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Adult Social Care.  Her work focuses on ensuring that digital innovations in social care are used ethically and effectively.
Her background includes working in nursing homes as both a carer and in operations. 
Katie has been recognised for her work supporting care providers by receiving The Woman in Tech award at the Women Achieving Greatness in Social Care (WAGS) awards (2022) and the NHS England Award in the Public Service Category of the National Cyber Awards (2023). 

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Shane Tickell

CEO, Temple Black Health Tech Consulting and Quantum Health Technologies

Shane Tickell is a health technology strategist and CEO with nearly 30 years’ experience in clinical software, data integration, and digital health leadership. He is the Founder & CEO of Temple Black, advancing health and social care through consultancy and Quantum Health Technologies, and CEO of Endeavour Predict, a not-for-profit in predictive healthcare. Shane serves as Chair of techUK’s Health & Social Care Council (2025–2026), Chair of NHS Frontline Digitisation, Capabilities Supplier Forums, and Industry Representative on the NHS Ten-Year Plan for Digital, Data & Technology. He also lectures at UCLAN and the College of Contemporary Health. An advocate for equity in health tech, Shane advises companies, government, mentors leaders, and champions innovation to improve care globally.

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Dr Shanker Vijayadeva

Lead for Digital Transformation from Primary Care, NHS England

Dr Shanker Vijay serves as a GP Lead for Digital Transformation (Primary Care) at NHS England (London region). Additionally, he is a Digital/IT lead in NHS North West London ICB. His extensive management experience includes working at the Board level in both Commissioning and Provider organisations.

In his London role, Shanker is involved in a wide range of varied workstreams, which currently include AI/Automation (shortlisted for HSJ Digital Award 2025), Pharmacy First, Online registration, Online consultations, and NHS App. Previous transformational projects include Community & Intermediate care and NHS 111 & Urgent care.

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Helena Zaum

World Wide Partner Development Specialist and Chair, techUK's Social Care Working Group and Amazon

Helena has over 20 years experience working within the technology sector, aligned to public sector and health and social care.  Helena is passionate about ensuring services are collaborating effectively to support better outcomes for people in their day to day lives – as they move through public services, including the health and social care systems.  Helena is currently a worldwide partner development specialist at AWS, prior to which she worked at Sentinel Partners (a data & AI SME), for Microsoft and Accenture.  Helena firmly believes that the future health and wellbeing of the NHS and the population of the UK as a whole depends on much better integration with social care services, local government and local communities. 

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