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European Health-Tech Innovation Week™

17-21 May 2021

European Health-Tech Innovation Week ™ - sponsored by GIANT Health - takes place from 17-21 May 2021 and is five 1-day hybrid conferences and exhibitions across Europe’s leading healthcare innovation regions; successfully driving improved healthcare outcomes and business collaboration by showcasing & championing Europe’s best health-tech innovations.

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.

We have news

Posted: 17 april 2021

Challenges for Bayer G4A partnerships are online!

Cardiovascular diseases are #1 cause of death globally. That’s why Bayer G4A are looking for companies that develop digital health solutions addressing heart-healthy lifestyle and behavior changes. Find out more here.

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Posted: 16 april 2021

Guide to German Medtech Companies 2021 written by GIANT's media partner Biocom

Hello! Feel free to download a guide here https://medtech-zwo.de/fileadmin/medtech-zwo/PDF/Guide-to-German-Medtech-Companies_2021_web.pdf

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Posted: 15 april 2021

Join Health Foundry for an exciting introductory session to productising healthtech!

Lunch&Learn: Productising HealthTech Mon, 19 April 2021, Online 13:30 – 14:30 CEST Clinical need should be paramount, but without effective productisation, your solution can't be bought or used. This session unpacks some of the key issues and decisions faced in…

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See the amazing highlight's from GIANT Health Event 2019
"Europe's largest, most valuable annual festival of health-tech innovation"

- Financial Times

Some of GIANT's valuable partners

FOUNDING PARTNER

https://remelife.com/

GPD Healthcare Ltd.

Disruptive.Live

Explosive Group

Financial Times

CambridgeWireless

HealthCareOutlook

startupsmagazine.co.uk

Healthcare Club

First Wednesdays

London Business School

Hanway Associates

Guardian Newspapers

Johnson & Johnson

Barts Hospital NHS Trust

Reckitt Benckiser

University of Oxford

Deutsche Telekom

Imperial College London

RYSE Asset Management

MedTech Imperial

The Journal of mHealth

www.pharma-scientist.com

https://aixr.org/

www.parkinsonsconcierge.com

https://medicalchain.com/en/

https://myclinic.com/

https://www.hospify.com/

www.barcelonahealthhub.com

Ascensia Diabetes Care

https://www.facebook.com/

https://www.foundersfactory.africa/

https://www.babylonhealth.com

www.vodafone.com

https://justentrepreneurs.co.uk/

http://www.rb.com/

https://www.intersystems.com/

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/

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2020 Speakers

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...

Giant Health Speaker

Lucia Pannese

CEO

Imaginary srl

Giant Health Speaker

Claudia Backus

Head of Enterprise & Productivity Partnerships

Facebook Reality Labs

Giant Health Speaker

Jack Pottle

Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Oxford Medical Simulation

Giant Health Speaker

K. Ray Chaudhuri

Professor and Director

Kings College and Kings College Hospital London

Giant Health Speaker

Gary Shaughnessy

Chair

Parkinson’s UK

Giant Health Speaker

Brooke Vandermolen

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

Giant Health Speaker

Arjun Panesar

CEO and Head

AI DDM Health

Giant Health Speaker

Scarlett Brandley

5th Year Medical Student

CardMedic

Giant Health Speaker

Noah Falstein

President

The Inspiracy

Giant Health Speaker

Paolo Milia

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

Giant Health Speaker

Juan Pablo Segura

Co-Founder & President

Babyscripts

Giant Health Speaker

Lea Von Bidder

Co-Founder & CEO

AVA

Giant Health Speaker

Piraye Beim

Founder & CEO

Celmatix

Giant Health Speaker

Helene Guillaume

Founder & CEO

WILD.AI

Giant Health Speaker

Marie-Odile McKeeney

Co-Founder H'ability

Giant Health Speaker

Charles Nduka

Chief Scientific Officer

Emteq Labs

Giant Health Speaker

Anne Sheehan

Director

Vodafone Business UK

Giant Health Speaker

Alistair Phillips

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Giant Health Speaker

Nadine Hachach

Surgeon and Founder of Proximie

Haram, BEM.

Giant Health Speaker

Danny Kelly

Head of Innovation

Vodafone Business UK

Giant Health Speaker

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”...

Oli Sleeman, Digital Health ‘mover and shaker’

It was an incredible opportunity to showcase the innovation work that we have been undertaking at Alder Hey. We had over 4hours of content in 30 talks from 25 members of our staff and partners. Normally we would never have been able to get such a diverse group of people down to an international event in London. Our twitter impressions went through the roof and I have already had a few very valuable discussions off the back of the profile generated. From our teams point of view it really has been a painless process to get all of this material up and on to your platform in partnership with your team. I particularly like the fact that it is continuing to be spread across your network. I think we should be doing more of these types of events and we have learnt a lot with your team about how to curate this type of material."" Iain Hennessey

Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon Clinical Director, Alder Hey Innovation Hub Honorary Associate Professor, Lead for Healthcare Technology and Design, University of Liverpool

"""The team at Alder Hey were honoured to be part of such a prestigious global healthcare innovation event; we work so hard behind the scenes incubating our innovation pipeline and an opportunity for the team and our partners to share and showcase our portfolio to a global stage is invaluable. The event was unanimously praised as a success, we look forward to future events and being a Giant partner"" Louise Shepherd CBE, Chief Executive Alder Hey Hospital "

Louise Shepherd CBE, Chief Executive Alder Hey Hospital

Barry and the team have a vision for Health tech that goes further than geographical boundaries or individual solutions. It ranges into whole ecosystems of partners working in concert to fulfil the needs of all people. Giant Health 2020 embodied this spirit of bringing that ecosystem together to showcase the best of what is out there. I was impressed by the diversity of attendees and the speakers and all in all the 2 days were superb.

Jaivir Pall, Co-Founder of Well Tech

Thank you so much for the wonderful opportunity to be part of the Giant Health event again this year. I love working with you and your team. It’s such a positive culture where anything feels possible. You’re a genuine inspiration, thank you for that.

Paul Devlin | Improvement Manager Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST) Elective & Emergency Care Improvement NHS England & NHS Improvement

I really enjoyed Giant Health - I thought you all put together a really excellent set of conversations with credible leaders. I think the GIANT team managed to get perfectly right with this event was the mixture of topics and speakers. The event had a great balance of content from pharma, NHS, investors, patient-facing and startups and enablers (like for example the marketing/podcast topics)…..it really was excellent.

Aahuti Rai, CCO at Ampersand Health

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What are the main benefits you've got from a media partnership with GIANT?

I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO RECOMMEND HERE WHICH IS MOST LIKELY COUNTER PRODUCTIVE TO YOU. HOWEVER, GIANT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH! WHEN IN A PARTNERSHIP IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN COMMUNICATION WHEN EG: DELIVERABLES ARE NEEDED, AND GIANT IS ALWAYS PROMPT IN THEIR REPLIES AND I AM ABLE TO FULFIL MY SIDE OF THE AGREEMENT EFFICIENTLY AND WITHOUT DELAY :)

What else GIANT can do to improve deliverables for media partners?

In the media

Digital Health Technology

British Medical Journal

AT Today Magazine

Digital Health Age

Optometry Today

Deans’ Stroke Musings (Blog)

Verdict – Medical Device Network

Med-Tech Innovation

The Journal of mHealth

BBC world Service

https://www.digitalhealth.net

https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk

https://workroom.co.uk

https://www.havaslynx.com

https://supremefactory.net

https://www.prnewswire.com

https://www.mobihealthnews.com

www.parkinsonsconcierge.com

https://medicalchain.com/en/

https://myclinic.com/

https://www.hospify.com/

http://www.rb.com/

https://remelife.com/

https://www.intersystems.com/

https://alderhey.nhs.uk/