Gayle Cogswell

Gayle is Programme Director at West Midlands 5G (WM5G) responsible for the Citizen Wellbeing 5G testbed trials.  In collaboration with specialists from University Hospital Birmingham and surrounding healthcare bodies she will drive adoption of 5G applications that bring the biggest benefits to the health and wellbeing of the region.  Gayle has over 20 years experience in the telco industry spanning 4G, wifi, Big Data and 5G usage in Europe, Latam and East Asia.  

Julian Hildersley - Founder, Vision Leaders

Julian Hildersley works within the Medical Devices group at TTP, consulting on digital health. He works with clients to develop connected medical and drug delivery devices tailored to their business goals. This includes strategies to use the data collected to deliver improved health care with reduced cost. Prior to this, Julian has 30 years’ experience developing silicon and software for mobile communications, contributing to the GSM standardization process. He has held technology and business leadership positions in early stage venture funded companies and major international corporations where he has seen launch of several market leading products.

Rosemary Kay - Project Director Liverpool 5G, Liverpool 5G Testbed Consortium

After completing a degree in Pure Maths, Rosemary started her career as a graduate programmer, spending 21 years in the private sector, on the design, development and manufacture of secure, high grade communication equipment. 12 years ago Rosemary set up her own business, RLK Partnerships, providing business support and facilitating collaborative working across sectors.

Rosemary also spent 18 years as an Associate Lecturer on Open University programmes, including the NHS Leadership Academy and MBA, specialising in entrepreneurship and leadership.

Rosemary has headed up the eHealth Cluster Ltd from 2015, bringing care providers, technology companies and public bodies together to drive health and social care innovation for the Liverpool City Region. She has published reports and practical guidance on procurement and commissioning. Rosemary has lead the eHealth Cluster involvement for the Liverpool City Council Innovative procurement project to digitise home care services and is currently leading on the Liverpool 5G Health and Social Care Testbed.

Toktam Mahmoodi - Director, King's College London

Dr Toktam Mahmoodi is Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) in King’s College London, where she has been member of the academic faculty since 2011. Previously, she was visiting research scientist at F5 Networks, research associate in Imperial College London, Mobile VCE researcher, and telecom R&D engineer. Toktam is and has been involved in number of European FP7 and H2020 projects on 5G mobile networks, vehicular communications, and Software-defined Networking. She is executive editor of Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, series guest editor of JSAC on network softwarization, and area editor of IEEE Communications Standard Magazine on management & orchestration. Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking, and includes ultra-low latency networking, network virtualisation, mobility management, network modelling and optimisation. She also works on applications of mobile communications in the healthcare, smart cities, emergency services, industrial networks and intelligent transportation.

Ann Williams - Commissioning and Contract manager, Liverpool City Council

Ann Williams is Commissioning and Contracts Manager of Adult Social services at Liverpool City Council, where she finds innovative ways to deliver care against a decreasing budget and increasing needs.

Ann has played a lead role in securing the 5G testbed trial for Health and Social Care at Liverpool. As part of the EU’s STOP&GO programme she focused on digitalising domiciliary care services and introducing IoT sensors to homes. She worked in local and regional Citizen Advice Bureau management for 19 years.

Ann is driven by a strong sense of social justice. Working with the most marginalised in society has heightened her awareness of societal inequalities and the current financial challenges to household and public budgets.

Ann is a member of Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food and of the Campylobacter Group, where she’s working on a report into controlling campylobacter in food supplies. She is Vice Chair of Liverpool’s Central Local Research Ethics Committee and a core member of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Public Health Advisory Group.

William Wynn-Jones - Harkness fellow, Centre for Surgery and Public Health and Harvard Medical School

Most recently William was a 2017-18 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, based at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. During this fellowship he was a health policy researcher working extensively with national military reimbursement data to determine the scope for introducing value-based healthcare models at scale into the US military healthcare system, TRICARE. Before that he completed a healthcare management fellowship with HCA Healthcare UK, where he served as the Specialist Advisor to the Chief Medical Officer. At HCA, William received an HCA innovation award and was shortlisted for an HSJ Rising Star Award for his work in developing a new healthcare management training programme and his research into cost prediction in cardiac surgery. Following his Harkness fellowship year in the US William resumed his senior anaesthetic registrar training in North West London and is currently undertaking a senior clinical fellowship in obstetric anaesthesia at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. As a junior registrar, he initiated and led a national health-marketing project with the charity Best Beginnings, NHS London and the Department of Health in infant nutrition. Previously he was a clinical fellow on the National Medical Director’s Fellowship under Sir Bruce Keogh and was based at the Association of British Healthcare Industries and was seconded to NHSE and HIN. During that fellowship he worked closely with the UK medical device industry, exploring and communicating the value of the newly established Academic Health Science Network. He has since undertaken fellowships in the medical device industry exploring device design, evaluation and pricing. William holds a Master’s degree in Health Economics, Policy and Management from the London School of Economics and completed his Medical Degree at King’s College London. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Peter Ferguson - Director of Connected Health, Capgemini UK plc

Michael Morgan-Curran - CEO, Asclepius MedTech Ltd

Michael has a successful track-record in ethical pharmaceuticals, medical technologies and digital therapeutics. Working with some of the world’s best-known pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, telecoms and research organisations across EMEA, US and Latam, he has built and led teams accountable for market intelligence, strategy, marketing and commercialisation, product design, regulation and market authorisation, pharmacovigilance, clinical trial development, clinical effectiveness and health economics.

As CEO of start-up Asclepius MedTech Ltd; he and his team are building a platform for use in pre- and post-operative surgical assessment to support clinicians and surgical teams ameliorate shared decision-making and stratify patient care.

Daniel Nickalls - Consultant, TTP plc

Daniel is a TTP project leader focussed on decentralized healthcare solutions including the detection and treatment of chronic conditions at home. These projects cover the entire development lifecycle, from early-stage ideation and opportunity validation, through proof-of-concept development, to regulated device development for large-scale manufacture. Daniel particularly enjoys combining engineering insights, rigorous human-centred design and thorough business case validation to realise effective solutions.

Laurence Weir - Freelance, Unaffiliated

Since graduating in Engineering from Cambridge University in 2006, Laurence has worked for Broadcom, Cambridge Mechatronics, Illumina and PA Consulting, and Plextek Services Ltd. Due to the range of sectors Laurence has worked in, from smartphone technology to DNA sequencing, he has an appreciation for the different skills and expertise required to deliver multi-disciplinary engineering projects, as well as the applicable regulatory environments that exist. His experience in business development is coupled with technology leadership on projects and practical engineering delivery.

Mick Withers - SVP Commercial Business Development, Plextek

Involved in Technology consulting around Cambridge for the last 34 years, Previous roles include Managing Director at Sagentia, as well as a couple of stints at TTP, and 5 years helping TeraView transition from a startup to a product company. Now I am charged with helping Plextek diversify its service offering into the Commercial (i.e. non-defence) space.