Speakers 2025

SPEAKERS 2025

GIANT Health brings together the world’s leading Healthtech experts, government cabinet ministers, entrepreneurs, founders of unicorn businesses, and more, to provide you with invaluable business networking and learning opportunities.

Hassan Chaudhury, HonFAPM

Digital Propositions Lead, Medica

Michael Bell

Chair of South West London ICB & Chairman at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust

Caroline Clarke

NHS London Regional Director

Dr. Tom Coffey

OBE, Senior Health Adviser to the Mayor of London

Liam Cahill

Advisor to leading NHS organisations

Chris Garner

Assistant Director for Community Service Development, NHS North Central London ICB

Dr Mayur Vibhuti

Chief Clinical Information Officer, NHS Kent & Medway

Manka Ramachandran

Chief Pharmacist & Clinical Director for Medicines Optimisation, CDAO Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Sotiris Antoniou

Consultant Pharmacist, Barts Health NHS Trust

Yousaf Ahmad

Integrated Care System Chief Pharmacist and Director of Medicines Optimisation NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board

Dr Shanker Vijay

GP lead, Digital Transformation in Primary Care, NHS England

Rachel McIlroy

CStat, Systems Implementation Lead Population Health Management, NHS England

Rob Knott

Commercial Director, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

David Lawson

Director of Medical Technology & Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care

Dr Keith Grimes

Digital Health & Innovation Consultant, Curistica Ltd

Dr Paul Gilluley

Chief Medical Officer, NHS North East London

Minal Bakhai

Director of Primary Care Transformation at NHS England

Rajesh Sivaprakasam

Lead for Robotic Renal Failure Surgery (Barts Health NHS Trust), Consultant in Transplant, Access, and General Surgery (Barts Health NHS Trust)

Deborah Duval

Managing Editor of Kidney Care & Multiple Transplant Recipient

Annie Hunningher

Consultant Anaesthetist & Group Safety Lead, Barts Health NHS Trust

Teopista Ssemakula

Senior Practice Development Nurse for Operating Theatres, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Jonny Groome (Chair)

Paediatric anaesthetic consultant (Barts Health NHS Trust), Associate Medical Lead for Sustainability (Nuffield Health) and Honorary Associate Professor in Sustainability (UCL)

Dr Anne Symons

Healthcare architect and Senior Research Fellow in Healthcare Design (The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UCL)

Professor Ian Eames

Professor of Fluid Mechanics (UCL)

Olu Alaka

Director of PFI Estates, Facilities and Contract (University College London Hospital)

Fiona Daly

Director of Estate Sustainability and Workforce, and the National Deputy Director of Estates for NHS England. Honorary Professor (UCL)

Mr Asif Chaudry

Robotic Oesophageal and Gastric Cancer Surgeon at Royal Marsden NHS Trust & Founder of UGIRA (Upper GI International Robotics Association)

Professor Manish Chand

Robotic and Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgeon and Professor of Surgery at University College London Hospitals NHS Trust

Mr Asit Arora

Robotic Head, Neck and Thyroid Surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas NHS Trust & Clinical Lecturer at King's College London

Mr Jamil Ahmed

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon & Deputy Director of Medical Education, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group

Mr Michael Powar

Consultant Colorectal, Laparoscopic and General Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital

Shafi Ahmed

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust

Dr Rima Makarem

Chair of Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB

Penny Dash

Chair, NHS England

Hannah Farrar

Chief Executive and Co-Founder at CF

Alison Griffin

Chief Executive at London Councils

Alan Watson

Senior Sales Engineer, IR

Laura Friedl-Hirst

Managing Director, LFH Regulatory

Professor Nora Colton

Director, the Global Business School for Health

Dr Fatima Shaaria Syed, PhD

Senior Digital Transformation Manager, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB)

Preethi John

Deputy Director MBA Health, UCL

Edward James

Director of Procurement at the Humber and North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative

Richard Samuel

Former National Director of Outpatient Recovery and Transformation, NHS England

Rhod Joyce

Deputy Director of Digital Transformation, NHS

Atif Ahmed

Product Lead Ambient Scribing, NHS England

Ralph Mitchell

Group Chief Transformation Officer, St George's University Hospitals NHS FT

Victoria Nicol

Founder and MD, My Language Connection

Hugh Lloyd Jukes

CEO, HN

Poureya Aghakhani

Deputy chief pharmacist transformation and medicines optimisation, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

James Kent

Pharmacy Procurement Specialist - East of England

Lisa Davidson

Lead Procurement Pharmacist, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

Prof. Abigail Durrant

Professor of Interaction Design, Newcastle University

Andrew Stradling

Chief Medical Officer of the London Procurement Partnership

Michelle Johnson

National Clinical Executive Director of NHS Supply Chain

John Greathead

Associate, Gill Jennings & Every LLP

Sir James Mackey

CEO, NHS

Roy Lilley

health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on the National Health Service

Professor Stella Vig

Deputy National Medical Director for Secondary Care and Quality (NHS England), Consultant Vascular and General Surgeon (Croydon University Hospital)

Mr Raiyyan Aftab

President (Association of Surgeons in Training), ST4 Plastic Surgery Trainee (Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust)

Biju Bhaskaran

Matron for Operating Theatres, Royal London Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust)

Mr. Mahee

A Digitally Engaged Patient

Olga Krivchenko

CEO & Co-Founder, Qualium Systems

Professor Prokar Dasgupta OBE

HonFREng - Professor of Surgery (King's Health Partners), Professor of Robotic Surgery and Urological Innovation (KCL), Director of the Centre for Academic Surgery (KCL)