Breakout workshops
Attendees will have the opportunity to attend one of the workshops below. Registration for workshops will be opening shortly.
Does it have to take 10 years?
With the EPR mandate deadline fast approaching, NHS organisations face growing pressure to accelerate digital transformation at pace, without compromising care or overstretching resources. In this interactive session, Altera Digital Health will unpack how its proven, modular, and scalable approach to EPR deployment enables trusts to go live in a matter of months, lay robust digital foundations quickly, and rapidly deliver measurable benefits.
By getting the fundamentals in place early, organisations can free up capacity to explore broader opportunities, like harnessing AI, enhancing user experience, and driving deeper clinical innovation. Join us to explore how this flexible, phased model supports faster implementations, early wins, and long-term adaptability, proving that achieving digital maturity doesn’t have to take a decade.
Daniel Buck, Clinical Informatics Manager, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Johanna Kelly, CNIO, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Paul Downie, CCIO, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Chair: Steve Hardy, CTO, Altera Digital Health
Hosted by Altera Digital Health.
In testing times, how do you build a convincing business case that balances operational costs, productivity and clinical benefits?
As the NHS prepares its highly-anticipated 10-year plan, focusing on three major shifts from—hospital to community care, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention—IT and health informatics staff must be ready to build strong business cases for rapid change.
The Darzi review showed that NHS services are at their breaking point and require radical change. In these challenging times, what makes a good health IT business case?
This interactive workshop, drawing on experience with over 100 NHS Trusts and insights from CCIO, CNIO, and CIO leaders, will dive deep into crafting business cases that showcase operational and frontline value. Delegates will leave with a blueprint and checklist to help them create a compelling technology proposal.
Daniel Johnston, Director Clinical Ops Int., ACNIO, NHS CSO, Imprivata
Phillipa Winter, ex NHS CCIO and CIO
Chair: Andy Wilcox, Sr. Product Manager, Shared Services, Imprivata
Hosted by Imprivata.
10-Year Plan, My EPR, and Me: Setting the Pace for Progress
In this panel session, Sir David Sloman leads a conversation on the NHS 10-Year Plan, exploring what it will take to deliver meaningful, sustainable progress across the system. With a focus on the strategic role of EPRs in enabling long-term transformation, the discussion will go beyond timelines – unpacking why getting implementation right from the start is essential, not only to avoid costly retrofitting, but to lay the groundwork for future optimisation.
Rather than focusing solely on speed, this session takes a system-wide view: from operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making to improved patient outcomes and workforce enablement. We’ll examine why ‘go-live’ is just one milestone in a broader transformation journey, and how the 10-Year Plan presents a rare opportunity to fundamentally reshape how EPRs are implemented, integrated, and leveraged across the NHS.
Sir David Sloman, Ex-COO NHSE, NHS London Director, CEO at various NHS Trusts; Senior Advisory Consultant; SDMS Advisory Ltd
Daniel Eyre, Regional Vice President, Business Development, CereCore International
David Walliker, CDIO Manchester NHS FT, Faculty member, University of Warwick Business School
Sian Clark, CDIO, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS FT
James Hawkins, CDIO, York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Hosted by CereCore.
How Amazon Creates a Culture of Innovates
This immersive session explores Amazon’s customer-obsessed culture and innovation methodology through hands-on experiences with cutting-edge healthcare solutions. Leaders will see AWS cloud infrastructure empowering innovation, Alexa voice technology for patient engagement, Amazon One biometric authentication which powers amazon Fresh Stores, and logistics solutions transforming healthcare delivery. Through real NHS customer case studies, participants will discover how AWS-powered solutions drive measurable outcomes: reducing operational costs, consolidating fragmented data landscapes into unified platforms, and enhancing workforce productivity through AI-driven automation. The session includes overview on how the NHS can use Amazon’s “working backwards” innovation framework, enabling leaders to apply customer-obsession principles to their own digital transformation challenge.
Chris Suter, Chief Technology Officer, UK Healthcare, AWS
Dr Prabs Arumugam, Clinical Innovation Lead, AWS
Hosted by AWS.
Healthcare Digital Labour: AI Agents In-Action
This session will demonstrate how AI Agents can be configured against structured and unstructured data to empower patients and staff to help with use cases such as managing appointments and clinical encoding.
Diana Carter, Lead Account Solutions Engineer, Salesforce
Andrew Davey, Salesforce
Hosted by Salesforce.
Ready or not they’ve already got you
This session is designed to demonstrate the risk of attackers already being in your environment and get you ready to figure out what you’re going to do about it, even when you’re caught out!
Gary McAllister, Chief Technology Officer – Healthcare and Public Sector, Dell Technologies| UK&I
Hosted by Dell.
How much can you trust your EPR? (It’s only 30% of the story!)
EPRs are central to digital healthcare strategies — but what if they only tell part of the story? In this interactive session, we’ll explore the siloed 70% of patient information that sits outside the EPR: legacy systems, imaging, scanned documents, paper notes, and unstructured data that remains essential to clinical care.
Drawing on real-world NHS examples, and Maria’s journey from frontline nurse to digital transformation advocate, we’ll uncover why this missing data matters – not just for care quality, but for governance, strategy, and operational resilience. Expect a lively discussion and group activities designed to surface the blind spots in your own organisation’s data.
You’ll leave with practical ideas to help:
· Identify the sources of data outside your EPR
· Understand the clinical and operational risks of inaccessible information
· Build a strategy to unlock, integrate and use that data to its full potential.
Maria Moors, Senior Account Director, BridgeHead Software
Hosted by BridgeHead Software.
Reducing the time, cost, and complexity of integration
With the increasingly number and complexity of IT systems in healthcare, come and hear how the experts at InterSystems tackle modern NHS integration challenges, and what essentials you and your organisation should know.
Hosted by InterSystems.
