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Europe’s must-attend conference for all those interested in understanding and implementing blockchain in healthcare. Now in its 3rd year and better than ever!
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Agenda
Welcome and Registration
9.00 - 9.30am
Please join us for coffee, networking and pick up your badge
The Blockchain Healthcare Marketplace - what does the data tell us?
9.30 - 10.00am
Toby Lewis, CEO, Novum Insights
Do no harm - The ethics of sharing medical data
10.00 - 10.45am
Join our panel of experts to discuss the ethics and challenges of sharing medical data and breaking down the data silos that still exist in health systems. Speakers include:
Eleonora Harwich, Director of Research and Head of Digital and Tech Innovation, Reform (Moderator)
Heather Flannery, Global Lead, ConsenSys Health
Dr Samantha Nazareth, CMO, metaMe Inc
Dr Navin Ramachandran, Healthcare Specialist in Distributed Ledgers and IoT and Board Member, IOTA Foundation
Coffee break
10.45 - 11.00am
Caffeine injection and chatting time
Cybersecurity and Healthcare Data Privacy
11.00 - 11.30am
Speaker: Ankur Banerjee, Lead Blockchain & Digital Identity Solution Architect, Accenture UK
How to transform healthcare with eHealth
11.30am - 11.50pm
Gilbert Verdian, CEO, Quant Network will outline how blockchain can help transform healthcare using real-world use cases and scenarios including examples from Australia, Armenia and elsewhere.
Panel: Medical information and Patient Empowerment
11.50 - 12.30pm
Join our panel to discuss how blockchain applications in healthcare are improving management of healthcare information and empowering patients. Speakers include:
Dr Stewart Southey, Catena Consulting (Moderator)
Dr Stan Shepherd, CEO, Instant Access Medical
Natalie Furness, Co-Founder, Women in Technology Revolution
Dr Jane Thomason, CEO, Fintech Worldwide
Gilbert Verdian, CEO, Quant Network
Lunch
12.30 - 1.30pm
Buffet lunch and open networking session.
Fireside chat: The NHS and blockchain - what state are we in?
1.30 - 2.00pm
Helen Disney in conversation with Dr Henry Goodier, Co-Founder of Truu.id
Genomics, blockchain and precision medicine
2.00 - 2.45pm
Join our expert panel to discuss what happens when you combine genomics data with blockchain and other frontier technologies to create a new era of precision medicine.
Speakers including:
Tina Woods, CEO, Collider Health (Moderator)
Dr Natalie Pankova, COO, Metadavice
Alexander Seyf, CEO, Autolomous
Tea Break
2.45 - 3.15pm
Time for a quick cuppa before we carry on with our showcase
Innovation showcase
3.15 - 4.30pm
Showcasing the digital health start ups and scale ups delivering the innovations of the future, moderated by Dr Jane Thomason, CEO, Fintech Worldwide and with a prize worth £1000 sponsored by Moneybrain BiPs.
Judges:
Annie Theriault, Chief Investment Officer, Grand Challenges Canada
Dr Alex Cahana, Genesis Block
Jenny Creed Geraghty, Clinical Genetic Scientist, &
Natalie Furness, Co-Founder, Women in Technology Revolution
Isabel Thompson, Strategy & Investment, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Pitches from start ups and scale ups:
Alexander Seyf, CEO, Autolomous
Dr Suhail Chugtai, Chairman, Medical City Online UK
Ahmed Ashour, COO, Pharmeum
Deepti Atrish, Founder and CEO, Poonyah Care
Future Vision: Healthcare in a decentralised world
4.30 - 5.00pm
Dr Alex Cahana paints a picture of how healthcare will look in a blockchain-based world – whether you’re a patient, professional, scientist, service provider or investor.
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Speakers
Alex Cahana
Alex Cahana is Head of Healthcare and Blockchain Consulting at Genesis Block. With over 25 years of experience in clinical medicine, Dr. Cahana consults multiple national and international private and public companies, start-ups and healthcare organizations on blockchain technology, digiceutical integration and healthcare redesign.
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Heather Flannery
Heather Flannery is Global Lead at ConsenSys Health and the Co-Founder and Board Chair of Blockchain in Healthcare Global, a 501(c)6 trade association organized under the IEEE ISTO. She also serves as the FY19 Co-Chair of the global HIMSS Blockchain in Healthcare Task Force.
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Dr Samantha Nazareth
Dr. Samantha Nazareth MD, FACG is Chief Medical Officer of metaMe. She is a double board-certified physician specialised in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology and practices in New York City.
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Dr Natalie Pankova
Dr Natalie Pankova is the Chief Operating Officer at Metadvice, a company building AI-based clinical decision support solutions to enable doctors to combine the avalanche of newly available medical information into their clinical practice, while enabling patients to retain access rights to data using distributed ledger technology (DLT). She is also a Digital Health Expert Advisor at the World Health Organisation.
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Dr Stan Shepherd
Dr Stan Shepherd is a Doctor and visionary leader in healthcare IT. He is CEO of Instant Access Medical, which has developed a Personal Care Record for PCs and mobile apps, with embedded evidence-based personal care pathways and interactive alerts.
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Annie Theriault
Annie Theriault is the Chief Investment Officer of Grand Challenges Canada and the Managing Director of the EWEC Innovation Marketplace, an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, NORAD, and USAID.
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Dr Stewart Southey
Dr Stewart Southey is an NHS Consultant Anaesthetist and Founder of Catena Consulting, a firm which guides C-level executives about blockchain and other emerging technologies, helping them appraise and implement solutions if desired or strategically advantageous to do so.
He writes regularly for Forbes on Blockchain in Healthcare and also holds an MSc in Digital Currencies, making him one of a handful doctors in the world with such a qualification.
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Alexander Seyf
Alexander Seyf is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO of Autolomous which is building pragmatic solutions for autologous medicines.
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Dr Jane Thomason
Dr Thomason is a thought leader in the applications of blockchain technology to solve social problems. She is CEO of Fintech Worldwide and co-author of Blockchain Technology for Global Social Change. She is a regular hackathon judge and mentor including London Blockchain Week, London Fintech Week, ConsensSys and EOS Global Hackathons.
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Isabel Thompson
Isabel Thompson is in charge of strategy and investment at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Holtzbrinck is a strategic investor in tech and media assets. It is the owner or part owner ofSpringer Nature, Macmillan, Die Zeit, Digital Science, and Founders Factory, amongst many others.
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Tina Woods
Tina Woods is CEO and Founder of Collider Health, a health innovation catalyst working with both private and public sectors to accelerate innovation and transform health with sustainable impact at scale. Tina is also CEO of Longevity International, that runs the APPG for Longevity currently developing a National Strategy to deliver 5 extra years of healthy life expectancy to all British citizens by 2035 while closing the social gap.
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Eleonora Harwich
Eleonora Harwich is Director of Research and Head of Digital and Tech Innovation at Reform think tank. Her work focuses on how tech innovations can help public services deliver better outcomes for people. She has particular interest in the public-sector applications of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Toby Lewis
Toby Lewis is CEO and Founder of market monitoring company, Novum Insights. He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer and analyst, straddling the worlds of technology startups, venture capital and data science. Novum produced the definitive special report on blockchain startups in Sept. 2017.
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Natalie Furness
Natalie Furness is the Managing Director of Zybexi Consultancy, working with businesses to embed a multidisciplinary culture into product innovation.
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Dr Navin Ramachandran
Dr. Navin Ramachandran is a practising radiology consultant at University College London Hospital and a member of the IOTA Foundation.
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Deepti Atrish
Deepti Atrish is Founder and CEO of Poonyah Care, which is using the latest technology to facilitate Seniors to live independently in their own homes with little intervention. Poonyah Care provide hi-tech remote health care systems and devices, creating an ecosystem to ensure that Seniors’ loved ones can contribute to their health and wellness from any part of the globe.
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Jenny Creed Geraghty
Jenny Creed Geraghty is a clinical genetic scientist. She believes that blockchain has sparked a revolution in the evolution of digital healthcare and that Blockchain for genomics gives us all the keys to own & control our genomic data.
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