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Join AWS at the UK AI Health Symposium to explore how artificial intelligence is moving from promise to practice across UK healthcare. This full-day symposium brings NHS leaders, healthtech innovators, clinicians, government officials, and AWS partners together for practical insight into where AI is working today, what it takes to scale it safely, and what comes next. Whether you lead a trust, build the technology, or shape policy, you will leave with real-world evidence, proven approaches, and the connections to turn AI ambition into patient impact.
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Bringing together perspectives from AWS, healthcare leaders, and a leading AI foundation model provider. Expect insights on how AI-driven personalisation at scale can improve patient experience, the vision behind building a new kind of AI-enabled healthcare from the ground up, and where AI adoption is genuinely landing across UK healthcare today.
Speakers:
Kira Levy, Head of Healthcare UK, AWS
Ben Allison, Director of Applied Science, Amazon Ads
Dr Shankar Sridharan, CCIO, GOSH & NHS National Clinical Lead for AI
Lee Spacagna, Solutions Engineer, OpenAI
Breaking Down Data Silos: Building an Interoperable NHS
Executive Track | Data and Interoperability
Location: Bartholomew Room
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Building an Interoperable NHS. Data is the foundation of every AI ambition in healthcare, but too often it is locked behind institutional walls. This session brings together the NHS and technology suppliers to explore national interoperability standards, federated learning approaches that train AI without moving patient data, and practical data platforms supporting the NHS today.
Speakers:
Ian Townend, Deputy CTO, NHS England
David O'Callaghan, Director of Data Platforms, NHS England
Christopher Wroath, Director Public Service Delivery, Scotland Technology Service
Dylan Clarke, Senior Data Engineer, London AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare
Administrative Burden to Clinical Value: AI-Powered Automation and Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare
Executive Track | AI and Productivity
Location: Harpley Room
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From Concept to Reality. What does a hospital look like when AI agents work alongside every team? This session explores the agentic hospital concept, intelligent content and workflow automation, and AWS's broader vision for multi-agent orchestration across clinical and operational functions.
Speakers:
Haroon Iqbal, Principle, Hyland
Peter Stone, Senior Solution Architect, Hyland
From Patient Data to Patient Intelligence
Technical Track | AI and Productivity
Location: Beaumont Room
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PDM, HealthLake and the Road to Agentic AI. Every healthcare organisation is being asked about AI, but the ones who succeed get their data foundation right first. NHS England, Aire Logic and AWS share how they are building the infrastructure to move from raw patient data to actionable patient intelligence.
Speakers:Â
Chris Rees, NHS England
Fraser Stewart, NHS England
Neal Jackson, Partnership and Alliance Director, Aire Logic
Mirza Baig, Healthcare Ai Principle, AWS
Navigating AI Safety and Security: Medical Device Regulation and Clinical Assurance
Technical Track | Classification and Governance
Location: Sidney Room
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Medical Device Regulation, Clinical Assurance, and Security. Deploying AI in healthcare means navigating complex regulatory and safety frameworks. Mantra Systems shares how to achieve SaMD certification with accelerated timelines, followed by AWS on clinical safety standards and DCB0129/DCB0160 compliance.
Speakers:
Simon Cumiskey, Chief SaMD Regulatory Consultant, Mantra Systems
Steven Byrne, Principal SaMD/AIaMD Expert, Scarlet (UK Approved Body)
Yass Omar, Head of Legal, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance, Heidi Health
Anthony Holmes, Head of Security, AWS
Moving Upstream: How Data and AI Are Powering Preventive Healthcare
Executive Track | Treatment to Prevention
Location: Bartholomew Room
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How Data and AI Are Powering Preventive Healthcare. Genomics plc presents how population-scale genomic risk models identify at-risk patients before symptoms appear.
Speakers:
Vincent Plagnol, Chief Scientific Officer, Genomics plc
Alex Eavis, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Genomics plc
Dr Shankar Sridharan, CCIO, GOSH & NHS National Clinical Lead for AI
Marion Burdin, Clinical Lead, Illumina
Anna Ashby, Account Manager, AWS
AI in Clinical Imaging: What's Real, What's Next
Executive Track | Digital Imaging
Location: Harpley Room
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What's Real, What's Next. Clinical imaging is one of the most mature areas for AI adoption in healthcare, yet significant untapped potential remains. This session brings together perspectives on what AI is delivering in radiology today and where the technology is heading.
Speakers:Â
Alex Lemm, Principal Tech Business Development, AWS
Sanyam Katyal, Consultant Radiologist, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust
Alex Triay Bagur, Senior Imaging Scientist, AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare
Sanjay M Parekh, Sr. Business Development Manager, Perspectum
Clinical Innovation Beyond the Hospital: Reimagining Community Care with AI
Technical Track | Hospital to Community
Location: Beaumont Room
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Follow an illustrative UK patient journey from first contact to community follow-up, exploring how AI could simplify access, support clinicians and help connect care across services. This technical session combines a demonstration, architectural walkthrough and audience discussion, examining Amazon Connect and Amazon Connect Health across patient engagement, appointment management, clinical preparation and documentation. We’ll explore integration with existing clinical systems, the role of human oversight, and practical considerations for UK deployment. Bring your challenges and questions as we discuss how these capabilities could support more coordinated care between hospital and community settings.
Speakers:
Abdilmajide Ali, Solutions Architect Healthcare, AWS
Mo Miah, Sr. WW Specialist SA, Amazon Connect, AWS
Mirza Baig, Principal PMT-ES HealthLake, AWS
Computer Vision in Clinical Operations: AI on the Front Line
Technical Track | Workforce Productivity
Location: Sidney Room
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When Scalpel AI needed to scale their surgical tray validation platform, three organisations came together to make it happen. Hear directly from Scalpel AI, AWS, and CloudScaler on how they went from proof of concept to production in just five weeks, serving 500+ AI models from a single Amazon SageMaker endpoint.
Speakers:
Shah Ahmed, Co-founder & CTO, Scalpel AI
Robert Clarke, Principal Cloud Engineer, CloudScaler
Arun Madhan, Senior SA Healthcare, AWS
Orla O'Regan, Account Manager, AWS
Care at Scale: AI-Driven Community Services
Executive Track | Hospital to Community
Location: Bartholomew Room
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AI-Driven Community Services. This session explores how AI-driven analytics are powering live capacity tracking across NHS Urgent Community Response, Virtual Ward, and Hospital at Home services, helping to release hundreds of hours of clinical capacity each month.
Speakers:
Joey Puglessi, Health Tech Account Manager, AWS
Taz Aldawoud, CEO/Founder, Doc Abode
Chris Garner, Assistant Director for Community Service Development, NHS West and North London ICB
Jack Porter, Co-Director, NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)
AI in Your Workforce Loop: Empowering the Healthcare Workforce
Executive Track | Workforce Productivity
Location: Harpley Room
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Empowering the Healthcare Workforce. IQVIA explores how AI supports knowledge workers and transforms operational roles across health and social care, starting with patient and staff need.
Speaker:
Paul Henderson, Global Head of Healthcare Consulting, IQVIA
Anas Nader, CEO, Patchwork
The Healthcare Agentic Mesh: Governing Multi-Agent AI at Scale
Technical Track | Data and Interoperability
Location: Beaumont Room
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Governing Multi-Agent AI at Scale. How do you govern dozens of autonomous agents across different vendors and runtimes, all acting on sensitive patient data? We unpack the open architecture built on MCP and A2A protocols, covering Agent Registry, distributed tracing, and how governance enables safe AI deployment.
Speakers:
Steve Faro, PS Principal SA, AWS
Dan Bailey, Former interim CTO Cabinet Office, IBM
Delivery Excellence in Regulated Healthcare: Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust
Technical Track | Classification and Governance
Location: Sidney Room
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Moving Fast Without Breaking Trust. This session explores how a regulated healthcare organisation maintains the rigorous security and reliability standards the sector demands while dramatically increasing delivery frequency and efficiency. Ideal for NHS and HealthTech leaders looking to accelerate their own delivery while keeping governance front and centre.
Speakers:
Tom Rees, Head of IT Ops, Healthcode
Maha Hegde, Enterprise Architect, Healthcode
Location: Main Stage
Getting Started with AI in Healthcare. The day closes with a panel bringing together voices from across the healthcare AI landscape. The session opens with a global overview of AI adoption in healthcare before moving into a structured panel discussion.
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Opening Remarks: Leanne Hurrell, Director, UK Regional Public Sector, AWS
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Panel Chair: Dr Rowland Illing, CMO and Director, AWS
Panellists:Â
Dr Ricardo Baptista Leite, Chief Executive, HealthAI (Global Regulatory Network)
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM, Founder and CEO, Proximie
Dame Caroline Clarke, Chief Executive, NHS Online
Closing Remarks: Dr Rowland Illing, CMO and Director, AWS
