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The Healthtech Investor Showcase 2025 will spotlight the UK as a world-leading hub for healthtech and life sciences innovation.
Taking place on Wednesday, 2nd April at Here East in London, the Investor Showcase will bring together leaders from the healthtech and life sciences sectors to explore the UK’s unique position in driving healthcare innovation.
With world-class research institutions, a thriving startup ecosystem, and direct access to the NHS for piloting and scaling new technologies, the UK leads in areas like vaccines, gene therapy, and synthetic biology. We will highlight our groundbreaking solutions addressing global healthcare challenges, and how this sector’s development can help fuel economic growth for the UK.
The Investor Showcase will convene an audience of 200 industry leaders – including investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers and academics at the forefront of the sector – to discuss how we can continue driving growth in this sector and solidify the UK’s global leadership.
Speakers:
- Steve Bates OBE, CEO, BioIndustry Association
- Alex Merwin, Head of Growth, Healthcare & Life Sciences Startups, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Dr. Angela Kukula, CEO, MedCity
- Caroline Cake, Co-founder & CEO, Neu Health
- Dominick Kennerson, Senior Vice President HealthTech, HSBC Innovation Banking
- Gavin Poole, CEO, Here East
- Heather Roxborough, Senior Partner, Health Tech, Oxford Science Enterprises
- Henry Whorwood, Managing Director, Beauhurst
- Dr. Janak Gunatilleke, Head of Health Data and Analytics, KPMG
- Dr. Lisa Page, Partner, Penningtons Manches Cooper
- Oli Barrett, Presenter & host
- Rancho Lee, APAC Partner, Simsan Ventures
- Dr. Rebecca Allam, Co-founder and CEO, PreActiv
- Dr. Robert Hornby, Investment Director, Mercia Ventures
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