Reasons to
attend GIANT
this year

Since 2015, the HealthTech industry has become one of the fastest-growing segments within healthcare.

Inward investment to the UK artificial intelligence (AI) sector has increased by 17% over the past year, more than the whole of Europe combined.

As part of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy the UK government is committing to boost spending on R&D to 2.4% GDP by 2027 and rising to 3% with an additional £4bn invested in R&D since 2017.

Global imports of medical technology products into the UK was $5.1bn in 2017.

The UK's NHS and NIHR are aiming to work towards a more digitally enabled Research world.

The UK government has committed to deliver a dedicated life sciences scale-up investment programme, worth around £600m, through the British Business Bank.

Private sector investment in the UK life sciences has grown from less than €0.5bn investment to nearly €15bn from 2011-2017

$4.0bn worth of medical technology products were exported globally from the UK in 2017.

The US telehealth innovation sector has seen $588 million in investments so far this year, an amount already surpassing 2019’s total fundraising.

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Posted: 30 november 2020

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As we prepare to attend the GIANT Health Event 2020 later this week, we have been looking at the leaders in healthcare innovation and the exciting start-ups that will be on show again this year. And the reason this type of event is interesting for us as a company in…

Posted: 29 november 2020

This year, we are celebrating and championing the world's best innovators, entrepreneurs, and businesses within healthcare technology

Over the years, there have been numerous outstanding achievements within healthcare that have improved the lives of millions worldwide and healthcare entrepreneurs, businesses, and visionaries, have been at the forefront of these achievements. Join us on Wednesday the 2nd of December,…

Posted: 10 november 2020

Tune in TODAY at 5pm for the next #BHHSeries

Barcelona Health Hub and AstraZeneca Foundation are hosting a #BHHSeries on telemedicine. The event will be opened by D. Alfredo González Gómez, Secretary General of Digital Health, Information and Innovation of the National Health System of MoH (Ministerio de España), which will explain the new Digital Health…

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2020 Speakers

Who is speaking at The GIANT Health Event this year?

Every year, GIANT Health brings together the world’s leading Healthtech experts, government cabinet ministers, entrepreneurs, founders of unicorn businesses, and more.

Learn, be inspired, meet the best in the industry...

Lucia Pannese

CEO

Imaginary srl

Claudia Backus

Head of Enterprise & Productivity Partnerships

Facebook Reality Labs

Jack Pottle

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Oxford Medical Simulation

K. Ray Chaudhuri

Professor and Director

Kings College and Kings College Hospital London

Gary Shaughnessy

Chair

Parkinson’s UK

Brooke Vandermolen

Dr & Founder of The OBGYN Mum and The Birth Collective, InfluencerRegistrar NHS

Arjun Panesar

CEO and Head

AI DDM Health

Scarlett Brandley

5th Year Medical Student

CardMedic

Noah Falstein

President

The Inspiracy

Paolo Milia

HChairman Robotic Area; Neurologist, MD, PhD Prosperius Institute, University of Perugia, Italy

Juan Pablo Segura

Co-Founder & President

Babyscripts

Lea Von Bidder

Co-Founder & CEO

AVA

Piraye Beim

Founder & CEO

Celmatix

Helene Guillaume

Founder & CEO

WILD.AI

Marie-Odile McKeeney

Co-Founder H'ability

Charles Nduka

Chief Scientific Officer

Emteq Labs

Anne Sheehan

Director

Vodafone Business UK

Alistair Phillips

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Nadine Hachach

Surgeon and Founder of Proximie

Haram, BEM.

Danny Kelly

Head of Innovation

Vodafone Business UK

Scott Petty

Chief Technology Officer

Vodafone UK

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What do people say?

Attending GIANT was an excellent beginning to cereno’s entry into the Healthcare Industry. This event has allowed us to open great opportunities that would have otherwise been inaccessible.

Caroline Goatley, Marketing Manager, cereno

This was great fun; I enjoyed hearing from everyone at GIANT Health 2018 what they need to be to play their role in our HealthTech ecosystem.

Hadley Beeman, Chief Technical Advisor to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Congrats to the Giant Health Event team for a cracking first day so far. Talk of the day for me was def futurist Dr David Wood on AI and 4th Industrial revolution. Amazing data.

James Harper, Founder, twentyeightb

Off to the Giant Health Event today. Fieldfisher colleagues went yesterday and were impressed by the sheer numbers of new businesses in the healthtech sector

Sarah Ellson, Partner, Fieldfisher

Enjoyed the femtech track today at Giant Health Event - plenty of unmet needs in women's health with innovation still needed in contraception, menstruation, infertility, menopause, incontinence. A very lucrative market for medtech companies to sink their teeth into!

Catherine Longworth, Reporter, Medtech Insight

Just returned from a fantastic GIANT health 2018. Was great to connect with many healthcare entrepreneurs and change makers.

Tal Givoly, CEO & Co-Founder, Medivizor

It was fantastic to see the brilliant work being done by health innovators at Giant Health Event this week. So excited to be a part of the movement towards prediction and prevention

Dr Jamie Wilson, Founder, myhometouch

We had a great two days this week launching our new business MDCrowdfunders, at the GIANT Health 2018

MDCrowdfunders

Last week we attended the Blockchain in Healthcare at the @gianthealthevnt at @ChelseaFC. Excellent speakers using blockchain to solve problems in the health industry.

Tripterium

Have you ever been to an event where a presentation has moved you to the point of tears? I just have! Seeing the way VR can impact in palliative care was truly phenomenal

Louise Phipps

I have worked with GIANT in the past and I can only sign your praises as an organisation and the value you add to the Health & Sciences ecosystem.

Eleni Salamaxani, Head of Marketing and Product Sales Exploristics

[T]hank you! We had great engagement from your article, a couple of NHS CIOs reached out and we even had [a] call with a healthcare blockchain company in the US :)

Peter and James ISLA Co-founders

Parkinson’s Concierge attended the Giant Event in 2018 and led us to Patient Engagement. We met invaluable business contacts there. We are building a global community of People affected by Parkinson’s, and thanks to GIANT Health we're establishing worldwide partnerships with Pharma, Biotech, Med Tech, Academia, Research & Parkinson’s Charities. Thank you again to the entire GIANT Health international team for your high-impact, results-driven support.

Parkinson’s Concierge Ltd

“The networking opportunities created by GIANT Health are vast - system leaders, innovators, movers and shakers, just about anyone doing anything significant in digital health is on the GIANT Health circuit”...


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GIANT Health Event

1-2 December 2020, Online

Reasons to attend GIANT this year