A welcome address will be given with a short introduction to Empact Ventures, how the event is structured and important safety messages (E.g. emergency exists, fire alarms etc) and new opportunities

A welcome and introduction will be provided by our event:

• • Vee Mapunde, Co-Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research HealthTech Research Centre for Accelerated Surgical Care will provide an introduction to the NIHR, its programmes, and the support available for attendees
  • Madhur Srivastava, CEO, DocHQ will provide an introduction to its AI and Computer Vision work in the healthcare, fitness and wellness, and insurance sectors

This will be followed by an introduction to our host and supporting partners:

• • Dr David Bozward, Director of Entrepreneurship & Employability, GBS will provide an introduction to the institution, its courses, programmes and opportunities to collaborate or get involved with presentations delivered in

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  • Con Franklin, Director, Rosely Group will outline its work in the healthcare sector and the support for healthcare organisations through Rosely Group, SMEs through its Start PR firm and startups/scaleups through Briefly

The session will discuss the opportunities and concerns about what is happening in these areas in the UK, the NHS and PPIE and it will be presented by Madhur Srivastava (CEO, DocHQ)

Dr David Bozward (Director of Entrepreneurship and Employability, GBS) will chair a roundtable discussion in each of the 3 events with 4 panellists with our Leeds panellists

• Leeds Panellists
  • Sherin Matthew, Founder and CEO, AI Tech UK
  • Anastassia Bolotkova, Business Development Manager (MIDAS) and Global Business Development Director at Innovation Forum
  • Dr Chris McKee, Managing Director (UK), Better Medicine

• London Panellists:
  • Anastasia Chalkidou, Associate Director HealthTech (Medical Technologies and Interventional Procedures evaluation), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
  • Francesca Markland, Senior Programme Manager for Remote Monitoring and Virtual Wards – London Digital Team, NHS England
  • Michael Wright, Head of Innovation, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Birmingham 
  • Paul Dimitri, Head of Innovation, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
  • Peter Bailey (Head of Digital, My Dentist)
  • Solventum (Name TBC)

A carefully curated Pitch Session will be facilitated by the Global Tech for Good Competition, Super Connect for Good that will showcase local to global AI / HealthTech / MedTech innovations developed by 3 tech startups and 3 scaleups who will pitch to the Roundtable panellists and audience for pilots, partnerships and feedback:

A) Leeds Pitch Session

Pitchers

• Dr Chris McKee, Managing Director (UK), Better Medicine
• Nicholas Pucell, Founder and CEO, Purcell
• George Kowalski, Sales Director, Miicare
• Madhur Srivastava, Founder and CEO, DocHQ
• Ali Jawad PLY, Co-Founder, Accessercise
• Graham Ewing, Founder and CEO, Mimex Healthcare UK

B) Pitch Session

Pitchers: The companies will be announced here by January 2025 and if you’d like to pitch, please email hello@empact-ventures.com by 15th November 2024

Panelists

• Anastasia Chalkidou, Associate Director HealthTech (Medical Technologies and Interventional Procedures evaluation), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
• Francesca Markland, Senior Programme Manager for Remote Monitoring and Virtual Wards – London Digital Team, NHS England
• Michael Wright, Head of Innovation, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
• Na’ael Clarke, Commercial Manager, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

C) Birmingham 

Pitchers: The companies will be announced here by January 2025 and if you’d like to pitch, please email hello@empact-ventures.com by 15th November 2024

Panellists:

• Paul Dimitri, Head of Innovation, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
• Peter Bailey, Head of Digital, My Dentist
• Taryn Hobson, Key Account Manager, Solventum (formerly 3M Healthcare)
• Steve Farmery-Virgis, Birmingham Hospice Group

Following on from the morning session, attendees begin networking with speakers and attendees over lunch (kindly provided by GBS) and getting involved in:

• Super Connect Support*: The Super Connect team at Empact Ventures will super connect attendees with potential partners, clients, funders, business support or collaborators through the following:

• • Upon Arrival: Those who registered, opted in to be super connected and check-in as attendees on the day will receive 3 introductions by email to the wider Super Connect Network based on the information provided on the registration form
  • During the Event (Super Connector Support) – Attendees will be able to consult the Empact Ventures team to make a warm in-person introduction to speakers, partners, and exhibitors that they’d like to meet based on their broad needs
  • During the Event (Super Connect Wall) – Attendees will be able to view the photos of all speakers, exhibitors, partners and opted-in registrants will support them in finding them in the event
  • After the Event: Attendees will receive 3 more super connections to potential partners, clients, funders, collaborators or business support based on their original registration or in-event Super Connect form via the Super Connect Wall

• Business Support Expo: to enable attendees to connect with business support organisations providing advice, resources and opportunities to aspiring or existing startups, scaleups and SMEs

Learn More in the Rise of the Super Connectors piece in leading tech publication Maddyness here

Chaired by Dan Conneely, Employability and Entrepreneurship Mentoring Manager who will host the following panellists in our Leeds event:

• Eyad Hanash, Head of Operations, Embark Learning
• Hieu Tran, CEO, St James Clinic
• Steve Barker, CEO, MetaGedu

Note: The panelists for London and Birmingham, will be announced here by January 2025

At each event, we will be joined by 2 speakers who will do a quick 10-minute workshop on the following topics followed by 5 minutes of Q & A to help attendees understand their innovation funding options for their HealthTech ventures or projects covering:

• Grant Funding and Alternative Funding Options (e.g. debt, R & D Tax Credit Claims, Patent Box Relief, IP Leveraged Funding
• Raising Investment

Leeds Event

• Jean McCarthy, Innovation Funding Specialist, Visiativ UK
• Emma Cassidy, VC Investor, DSW Ventures

London Event

• Chris Barker, Innovation Funding Specialist, Visiativ UK
• Prakhar Pandey, Investment Associate, Angels Den

Birmingham Event

• Jean McCarthy, Innovation Funding Specialist, Visiativ UK
• Shahryar Barati, Founder, Project Ventures

Attendees will be able to register to join one of five roundtables in each of the events on the following topics as part of their registration that will provide an opportunity to connect with a cross-sector community of practice involved in the event’s theses with a nominee summarising their thoughts to share with the audience at the end:

• Sustainability in Healthcare (Chaired by: Empact Ventures)
• Health Inequalities (Chaired by NIHR)
• MSK (Chaired by DocHQ)
• Training, Skills and Capacity Building (Chaired by GBS)
• Mental Health and Wellbeing (Chaired by Rosely Group)
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Following on from the lunch session, attendees begin networking with speakers and attendees with refreshments (kindly provided by GBS) and getting involved in:

• Super Connect Support*: The Super Connect team at Empact Ventures will super connect attendees with potential partners, clients, funders, business support or collaborators through the following:

• • Upon Arrival: Those who registered, opted in to be super connected and check-in as attendees on the day will receive 3 introductions by email to the wider Super Connect Network based on the information provided on the registration form
• • During the Event (Super Connector Support) – Attendees will be able to consult the Empact Ventures team to make a warm in-person introduction to speakers, partners, and exhibitors that they’d like to meet based on their broad needs
• • During the Event (Super Connect Wall) – Attendees will be able to view the photos of all speakers, exhibitors, partners and opted-in registrants will support them in finding them in the event
• • After the Event: Attendees will receive 3 more super connections to potential partners, clients, funders, collaborators or business support based on their original registration or in-event Super Connect form via the Super Connect Wall

• Careers and Business Support Expo: to enable attendees to connect with potential employers from small to large organisations to explore new employment or internship opportunities with a selection of business support organisations providing advice to aspiring or existing startups, scaleups and SMEs

Learn More in the Rise of the Super Connectors piece in leading tech publication Maddyness here