Going Digital – Empowering Innovators to Engage with the NHS of Tomorrow - Arise

Innovation Hubs are delighted to be collaborating with Medilink Midlands and Innovate UK in a series of events for autumn and winter 2025/26. The first of these looks at one the common themes in the NHS’s current 10-year plan, which aims to make the NHS fit for the future.

Insight 1: Building Digital Health Tools for the NHS

This is event is brought to you by a partnership with Medilink Midlands and Innovate UK. Explore how to design and deploy effective, scalable digital apps tailored for NHS use, from prototype to practical implementation.

Agenda

10.00am Registration & networking
10.30am Introduction and Welcome by Arise & Medilink Midlands teams
Event Chair: Dr Beverley Vaughan
10.45am Setting the challenge and how innovators step up – Dr Michael Watts MBA MBChB BSc (Hons) Young Health Tech Leader of the Year 2024, Health Tech World, Co-Founder and CEO, Blüm Health Ltd, NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow, NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur & Mentor
11.15am Lightning pitches

• Matt Levis, Heal of Technology – Sudometrics® & SkyRocket PytoPharma
• Muntazir Panjwani, Director – Vibe Agency
• Uzma Sajjad, Founder – RescQ
• Jamie Tidman, CEO – ND Lens

• Regulatory: John Connah – EG Technologies
• R&D Tax: Peter Clark and Younes Fegheh-Hassanpour – RCKPartners
• Innovate UK: Mike Hard, Ecosystem Innovation Growth Specialist
12.00pm Networking lunch
1:00pm Depart

Place: Arise Chelmsford Innovation Hub, Alan Cherry Drive Chelmsford CM1 1QT