Amer Fasihi - Head of Data, Kraydel

Amer is Director of Analytics at Kraydel, building the company’s information management and research capabilities. Previously, he worked at GlaxoSmithKline, IMS Health, IBM (working on Watson). He founded a digital health monitoring service (Caros Connect), and is a Fellow of Cambridge Digital Innovation, at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

Paul Fulton - Global Inkjet Systems, Independent

Paul Fulton is an Electronics Engineer and Research Scientist with expertise in new health monitoring devices and services for the home. He has skills in technology evaluation, prototyping and IP generation and has knowledge of RF systems, Bluetooth, GPS and custom location solutions. Paul has worked on product development activities for the US Home Healthcare business of Philips including the market-leading GoSafe emergency alarm for seniors. He was also a named representative on the EU H2020 project ProACT which aims to enable people with long term conditions to manage their own health more effectively through technology.

Collette Johnson - -, Cambridge Product Marketing

Collette works for Redgate. Previsouly she worked for GeoSpock leading the company’s global marketing. Her previous experience includes working Plextek leading their corporate marketing, she also worked at NHS innovations with a lead role in bringing together industry and clinical organisations for product adoption and also was the programme lead for the national SBRI Healthcare programmes, whilst in this role she focussed on the connected healthcare sector and developed a network bringing together, industry, clinical and academic stakeholders. Her experience also includes a strategic role at Cambridge Consultants for world leading corporate organisations and highly innovative start-ups.

Kate Lowes - Lead Project Manager, Liverpool 5G Testbed Consortium

Kate is the lead project manager for Liverpool 5G Testbed consortium, overseeing 11 complex and diverse health and social care related trails and testbeds, across Liverpool, as part of the Liverpool 5G Testbed Consortium. The organisations involved in the consortium include a dynamic mix of NHS, academic, social care and tech related SMEs, from across the region. Kate has over 35 years’ experience in product and service development, marketing, and executive board management. She previously worked as Director of Product Management at IBM and she successfully founded and exited several technology start-ups both in the UK and in California Silicon Valley. She has proven ability to break large complex problems into concrete, actionable pieces for a team to implement. She successfully guided more than 100 products from concept stage through commercial release, including early products. Currently, Kate is the Head of Group Operations, innovation and consultancy at Inventya Ltd. She manages commercialisation programmes, innovation processes and client engagement across Inventya’s UK and International client base. Kate has a vast amount of experience in supporting and working with science, academic, innovation and technical based businesses, as well as experience working with blue chip, SME and micro SME businesses globally. She has 40+ years’ experience working in high technology, digital and communication industries. From her rich working experience, Kate has gained knowledge and expertise in theoretical processes and practical experience of scale-up, strong technical skills, project management strategy development and delivery and a strong understanding of team management. As an experienced executive and academic liaison advisor, holding positions in many universities, Kate has had the opportunity to work extensively with ideation, innovation conception and business growth organisations, both internally and externally to provide technical and market support. Over the last 10 years, Kate has worked with over 300 micro SME and mid-sized SME’s in supporting technical, market and internationalisation.

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.