Agenda 2025


8:30 – Welcome coffee and tea

9:25 – Opening talk

Mark Bailey – Community Lead for Let's Do Digital, Locum Consultant, Clinician-Who-Codes


9:35 – Morning session 1 - Class Is In Session

9:35 – Chair

Gopesh Farmah - Chief Clinical Information Officer for Primary Care, GP Partner

9:40 – The patient’s perspective

TBC

9:50 – Three practical steps to making your workforce more digitally confident and competent

James Freed - Deputy Director, NHS Digital Academy

10:00 – Empowering the Next Generation of Healthcare Professionals Through Intelligent Learning Technologies

Anil Krishaniah - Paediatric Intensivist & Clinical Informatician, Cromwell hospital, London

10:10 – Q&A


10:25 – Coffee break


11:05 – Morning session 2 - Disruption Is The New Norm

11:05 – Chair

Alexandre Mathy - Consultant Neurologist at the Great Western Hospital and Oxford University Hospitals

11:10 – The Innovation Sausage Machine - What are the most important social emotional skills we need in the NHS for digital innovation?

Liam Cahill - Founder of Together Digital

11:20 – The Government Digital Services and how can we learn from them in the NHS

Saw Nwe - Principle Consultant at Public Digital

11:30 – Building health data platforms that work

Ben Goldacre - Director of Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Oxford University

11:40 – Q&A


12:00 – Debate - This house believes that Digital Health should be taught at undergraduate (clinical) level

Chair

Jon Hoeksma - CEO of Digital Health Intelligence

For

Sarah Khavandi - Strategic Solutions at Lindus Health & Medical Doctor

Against

James Freed - Deputy Director, NHS Digital Academy

(2 x 10 min presentations, 2 x 5 min responses, 20 min Q&A to the floor)


12:50 – 13:50 – Lunch


13:50 – Afternoon session 1 - Talk is cheap. Delivery isn’t.

13:50 – Chair

Anita Phung - Medical Monitor at Lindus Health & GP

13:55 – The Wired West — plugged in, digitised, and running on algorithms instead of horses.

Adrian Byrne - Independent Consultant

14:05 – Linear delivery: have we always delivered care this way

Jill Winter - Director of 11 and CAS

14:15 – A Pharmacist’s Journey into Digital Healthcare: Challenges, Lessons, and Opportunities

Max Hughes - Pharmacist and Director of Max Digital Healthcare

14:25 – Q&A


14:40 – Coffee break


15:20 – Afternoon session 2 - Vision without execution is hallucination

15:20 – Chair

Astrid Grant - Managing Consultant at Channel 3 Consulting

15:25 – Advancing large language models in oncology : fine tuning approaches and performance evaluation

Sam McInerney - Oncology Register, PhD student and Founder of DoctorsThatCode.com

15:35 – Breaking barriers: bringing more Clinicians into AI

Beatrix Fletcher - Senior Programme Manager (AI), Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

15:45 – Chatbots; valuable, inevitable, disruptors or dangerous?

Phil Hall - Director of Elzware

15:55 - Q&A

16:10 - Close and Drinks

18:00 - Dinner and After-Dinner Entertainment

9:30 – Morning session 1 - The Clinicians-Who-Code Corner

9:30 – Chair

Keith Blackwood - Freelance Full Stack Developer

9:40 – Digital Clinical Safety: Taking Out The Drudgery and Putting Back The Quality

Marcus Baw - Locum GP and ED doctor and clinician-who-codes

9:50 – Virtual Reality and Genomics - Seeing Things Clearer

Shane McKee - Consultant in Genetic & Genomic Medicine at Belfast HSC Trust, Clinician-Who-Codes

10:00 – Rust-y Spaces and Education

Max Flitton - Software engineer at SurrealDB

10:10 – Q&A


10:25 – Coffee break


11:05 – Morning session 2 - Acknowledging the problem is the first step to fixing it

11:05 – Chair

Kevin Monk - CEO SARD JV

11:10 – ePROMS in Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment Management

Jessica Bailey - Clinical Lead for Oncology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

11:20 – Insights from informal first line tech support

Nadia Kuftinoff - Senior Digital Delivery Lead, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West ICB

11:30 – First solve your own problem: a Swift tale of the journey from a spreadsheet to an app

Chris Wilson - GP, Clinician-Who-Codes and Global Digital Health Fellow - Elephant Healthcare

11:40 – Q&A


12:00 – Panel: Health and care records, do we need a blank slate?

Chair

Basil Bekdash - Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Clinical Safety Officer, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Panellists

Geoff Revill - Managing Director, Safe Space One Ltd. Director of the South West Cyber Security Cluster
Max Perry - Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh
Abi Durrant - Professor of Interaction Design at Open Lab, Newcastle University

12:50 – 13:50 – Lunch


13:50 – Saving the Best for Last

13:50 – Video Poster Awards

Chair

Nadia Kuftinoff - Senior Digital Delivery Lead, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West ICB

14:00 – Close

Mark Bailey – Community Lead of Let's Do Digital, Locum Consultant, Clinician-Who-Codes