Richard Bailey - EE

Bruce Hellman - CEO and Co-founder, uMotif Digital Health

Ted Mercer - Partner, Jury O’Shea LLP

Ted is now at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP.  He was a partner at Taylor Wessing where he had been a partner in the IT/Telecoms, Competition, Regulatory and Public Law Group for 14 years. Before private practice Ted was a television and Telecoms Regulator at the Cable Authority and before that a Local Authority Chief Legal Officer. 

Ted specialises in the regulatory and commercial problems faced by new and innovative technologies in the communications and IT space. He has a great experience of sectoral and competition law regulation in the communications industry. He has successfully used private enforcement of competition law to great effect for a number of clients. He also has advised for many years on the funding and structure organisation of IP rich companies and had to salvage assets when such companies become insolvent. 

Ted has had many years dealing with regulators like Ofcom and its predecessors and PayphonePlus. He has appeared as an advocate in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and before Adjudication panels of PayphonePlus. In addition, Ted has a broadcasting regulatory practice which has instigated two judicial reviews against Ofcom in the last couple of years in relation to its broadcasting powers. 

As well as knowledge in respect of consumer-facing matters like drafting terms and conditions and privacy policies, he has also negotiated a number of outsourcing deals involving communications or IT services and networks. Ted has particular experience in cross-border telecoms services and outsourcings involving multiple services. 

Ted has been involved in the construction of a number of telecoms systems in the UK, under the ocean and in orbit. He has a particular knowledge of the Electronic Communications Code and its workings. Through his work on telecoms he has also gained a knowledge of the law relating to the installation of electricity and gas systems. 

With his long involvement in the telecoms IT industries, Ted has experience in data protection, electronic marketing, data retention and Freedom of Information Act matters.

James Weatherall - AstraZeneca

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.