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: 22 october 2020

Doing Business in the UK: Health Tech Zoom Webinar

Last chance to join our Zoom conversation about the U.K health tech industry and the opportunities available to New Mexico companies for collaboration, market entry including STEP grant funding! Click here to find more information.

Posted: 20 october 2020

Wednesday 21st October - Elective & Emergency Care Improvement Support Team are supporting FabChange20

On Wednesday 21st October Elective & Emergency Care Improvement Support Team are supporting #FabChange20 by helping to 'Fab Up' communications this year by a dedicated special radio sign in #GB1FAB on #HamRadio

Posted: 19 october 2020

The new digital services tax begs two big questions

Laurence Parry, tax partner at Kreston Reeves, on why the new digital services tax begs to very important questions. The Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his Budget at the end of October the introduction of a new digital services tax. The tax, which will be shaped further in a consultation,…

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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...

Some of our 2020 speakers

Lucia Pannese
CEO
Imaginary srl

Claudia Backus
CHead of Enterprise & Productivity Partnerships Facebook Reality Labs

David Wortley
CEO & Founder 360in360 Immersive Experiences

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 of 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

Charlotte Guzzo
Co-Founder & COO Sano Genetics

Helene Guillaume
Founder & CEO WILD.AI

Marie-Odile McKeeney
Co-Founder H'ability

Charles Nduka
Chief Scientific Officer Emteq Labs

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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