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April 4th, 2016, London. WIRED today announces the first speakers on the
Bupa Startup Stage at WIRED HEALTH 2016, the one-day summit on the future
of health taking place on Friday, April 29.
The Bupa Startup Stage will bring together both emerging and established
entrepreneurs from the world of medicine and health, all charged with presenting
brand new ideas, stimulating debate and showcasing what they perceive the
future of health and care to be.
Confirmed speakers on the Bupa Startup Stage so far include:
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Laura Indolfi, CEO, PanTher Therapeutics
Maria Pereira, head of research, Gecko Biomedical
Ronan Cunningham, CEO, BrainWaveBank
Ben Fehnert, co-founder, Ctrl Group
Anne Bruinvels, founder, Px HealthCare
Thomas Harte, co-founder, MyRecovery
Nora Khaldi, founder & CSO, Nuritas
Danny Lange, founder and CEO, ChroniSense Medical
Mike LaVigne, co-founder and CPO, Clue
Dani Roig, co-founder and CBDO, Psious
Lihi Segal, founder and CEO, DayTwo
Cristian Pascual, co-founder, Teckel Medical
Ivana Schnur, co-founder and chief medical officer, Sensely
Jamie Druitt, CEO, TalkLife
Marek Sacha, CEO, Golden Era Club
Michael Seres, CEO, 11 Health
Carlos Rodarte, CEO, HealthRhythm
Ciara Clancy, founder and CEO, Beats Medical
Designed to introduce, explain and predict trends in the medical and personal
healthcare industries, WIRED HEALTH is a showcase for the extraordinary
innovators using technology to re-imagine the health sector. From diagnostics
and neuroscience, to data-driven healthcare and new material sciences helping
to re-build the human body, WIRED HEALTH is a haven for disruptive thinking
and innovation.
Speakers on the main stage at WIRED HEALTH include Jim O’Neill,
Commercial Secretary to the Treasury who is leading the UK Government’s
Review on Microbial Resistance. The former chief economist for Goldman Sachs
is credited with coining the term BRIC economies; Jeremy Farrar, head of the
Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving human
health, and a specialist in infectious diseases; John P. Donoghue, director of
the Wyss Center, whose BrainGate enables paralysed people to control robotic
limbs using their minds. He’s also tackling motor neuron disease with gene
therapy and building haptic prosthetics; John Hardy, chair, Department of
Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology. Pioneering the study of
Alzheimer’s, Hardy won the 2015 Breakthrough prize, the award backed by Mark
Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin; Gero Miesenböck, professor of physiology and
director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University of Oxford,
who has pioneered optogenetics, inventing techniques used for visualising and
controlling nerve cells with light; Vincent Walsh, professor of human brain
research, UCL, who is researching the effects of magnetic and electric brain
stimulation in the treatment of depression and sleep disorders, and applying it to
the world of sport; Anna Young, co-founder of MakerNurse, with which she is
turning nurses into hackers by bringing rapid prototyping tools into American
hospitals; Lucy McRae, a science-fiction artist, film maker and body architect
whose recent project, The Astronaut Aerobics Institute, is a fictional futuristic dayspa prepping the human body for space travel; Geraldine Hamilton, president
and chief scientific officer, Emulate, whose organs-on-chips could replace human
and animal test subjects. It won the London Design Museum’s Design of the Year
2015; Jose Gomez-Marquez, director of Little Devices Lab, MIT, who is the
inventor of Ampli and MEDIKit tools that allow medical staff to invent their own
medical devices, such as an Ebola diagnostic kit; Andrew JS Dawood, specialist
in periodontics and prosthodontics who uses 3D scanning technology and 3D
printing to rebuild the jaws, teeth and cheekbones of patients; and Josh
Stephenson, patient of Dawood who has had sections of his skull and body
removed following melanoma diagnosis. 3D printing helped reconstruct his
appearance; Jen Hyatt, founder, Big White Wall, the online community which
offers millions of mental health patients peer and professional support, selfmanagement tips and therapy; Kyu Rhee, Chief Health Officer, IBM, who
oversees the Health Unit for AI computer Watson. A physician focusing on public
health, he joined IBM in 2011 after working for the US Department of Health;
Craig Venter, biotechnologist & CEO, Human Longevity, Inc, who sequenced the
human genome in 2001. He created the first synthetic lifeforms and co-founded
genomics company Human Longevity – to boost human lifespan; Ye Yin, CEO,
BGI Genomics Co. Yin leads the largest genomics organisation in the world. BGI
offers genetic screening for inherited diseases, whole genome sequencing – for
people, animals and plants – and animal clone research; Jo Mountford, head of
Tissue and Cellular Therapeutics RDI, Scottish National Blood Transfusion
Service, whose team is trialling lab-grown blood. Her vision is to create an
unlimited supply of clean blood for transfusions; Molly Maloof, physician,
technologist and scientific wellness pioneer who advises multiple health
technology companies and operates a medical practice aimed at optimising the
health of Californian entrepreneurs; Tim Spector, professor of genetic
epidemiology at King’s College, London. As Founder of TwinsUK, Spector is
working with Human Longevity Inc. to conduct metabolomic analysis of 12,000
individuals in the programme.
Aimed at a high-level executive audience, attendees will enjoy the opportunity to
network with like-minded, intellectually curious individuals from the sector,
including physicians, senior healthcare executives, innovators and investors,
disrupters and incumbents. From helping humans to live longer and hacking our
performance, to repairing the body and understanding the brain, WIRED
HEALTH will explore the evolution of this critical sector.
Once again, WIRED HEALTH will be hosted at 30 Euston Square, home to the
Royal College of General Practitioners.
There are a limited number of tickets available for WIRED HEALTH, at a price of
£999*. Speakers will be announced in due course. For further information, or for
registration, go to www.wired.co.uk/health16.
*WIRED subscribers receive a 10% discount. A 50% discount is available for
NHS or UK Government employees and for health sector startups.
About WIRED
WIRED is recognised as the multimedia authority on the future, in print and digital. Since
launch in 2009, WIRED has won a host of awards including both Technology Magazine
of the Year and overall Magazine of the Year at the Digital Magazine Awards 2015, as
well as Cover of the Year, Magazine of the Year and Technology & Gadget Magazine of
the Year at the DMAs 2014, PPA Media Brand of the Year for Consumer Magazines in
2013, the BSME Art Director of the Year for Consumer Magazines in 2013 and the
BSME Editor of the Year Award for Special Interest Magazines in 2012. The WIRED
enhanced digital edition iPad app was in the top five ranked titles in the consumer
magazine lifestyle category as selected by iMonitor in 2013. The WIRED website,
www.wired.co.uk, currently has 1,892,652 unique users (Google Analytics Nov 2015-Jan
2016). WIRED Consulting creates tailored Shock and Awe sessions for senior
executives, by tapping into WIRED’s network intelligence, and WIRED Events is
designed to cut through the noise and deliver insights into what’s coming next across a
number of areas. Events include WIRED HEALTH, WIRED MONEY, WIRED RETAIL,
WIRED 2016 and WIRED 2016: NEXT GENERATION. www.wiredevent.co.uk.
About Bupa
Bupa’s purpose is longer, healthier, happier lives. As a leading global health and care
company, we offer health insurance, medical subscription schemes and other health and
care funding products; we run care homes, retirement and care villages, primary care,
diagnostic and wellness centres, hospitals and dental clinics. We also provide workplace
health services, health assessments and long-term condition management services.
Approximately 71% of Bupa’s revenue is from health insurance, with the balance coming
from health and care provision. This includes our 17 hospitals, 3201 clinics, 456 care
homes and 37 retirement villages, 6281 dental centres, and 36 optical outlets. We
employ 84,000 people and have 32 million customers in 190 countries, principally in the
UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, New Zealand and Chile, as well as Saudi Arabia, Hong
Kong, India, Thailand and the US. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits to
provide more and better healthcare and fulfill our purpose. To read more about our
business around the world visit www.bupa.com.
For media queries please contact Harriet Robertson or Richard Pickard on 020 7152 3388/3474
or by email to [email protected] or [email protected].
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This includes 192 sites that are both dental centres and health or wellbeing clinics.