James Barlow - Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare), Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London

James is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare) at Imperial College Business School and a member of School's Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation. He is also a Carl Bennet Visiting Professor at Halmstad University (Centre for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Learning), Sweden, and an Honorary Professor at University College London (Bartlett Real Estate Institute). James has worked on healthcare innovation issues for 25 years, and on innovation in the built environment sectors. He is particularly interested in the challenges companies and healthcare organisations face in ensuring their innovations become embedded in everyday practice, and in the policy and other mechanisms to facilitate this. He has led many research projects in UK and abroad. He advises and consults for government, healthcare services and companies from the health technology and construction sectors. James is an associate director of research for Imperial College Health Partners and a member of the management team for the NIHR Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit. He also sits on several advisory boards, including AGE-WELL Canada, Deloitte Healthcare Innovation Observatory, and the International Academy for Design and Health. He has published widely in leading journals and his latest book is Managing Innovation in Healthcare.

Duncan McFarlane - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Duncan McFarlane is Professor of Industrial Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Head of Distributed Information & Automation Lab, fellow of St John’s College and a visiting Professor at University of Melbourne. He began his career as an engineering cadet with BHP in Melbourne and has worked in the industrial automation area for over 25 years joining Cambridge in 1995. He was Research Director of the Auto ID Centre in 2000-3 and subsequently co-founder and Chairman of RedBite Solutions Ltd - an industrial RFID/IoT based asset management solutions company. He is Founder and Principal Investigator of the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring programme. The programme is developing low cost digital solutions for small manufacturers with recent spin-outs into construction, logistics and medical systems.  Between March and September 2020 he led a team which won the RAE President's Award for providing Industrial Engineering support to local hospitals managing the Covid-19 Epidemic and from September 2020 to July 2021 was Operations Logistics lead at Cambridge University for its Asymptomatic Covid-19 Student Testing Programme. 

Keiko Yata - Life Science Consultant, TTP plc

Keiko is a Life Science Consultant in the Diagnostics group at TTP, an independent technology and product development company.  Keiko leads the development of CoTest, a new pooled screening technology for Covid-19.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, Keiko has also been leading the biology development of point-of-care diagnostic devices.  Prior to joining TTP, Keiko carried out research in biosensor development and Molecular Cell Oncology at the University of Cambridge and completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford.

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.