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Chair Opening Address

Framing the day’s focus: how interoperability succeeds through collaboration, clinical workflow alignment, and shared accountability, not just technology.

Session Overview:

This presentation explores how national strategy, policy and operating models are shaping interoperability expectations across the NHS, with a particular focus on the impact in primary care. It will highlight what this means for GP practices, PCNs and community teams in terms of day-to-day clinical workflows, collaboration across care settings, and leadership accountability for digital transformation in practice.

Session Overview:

• Demetra Georgiou, Genomic Transformation Manager, Northwest London, Vice Chair, British Society of Genomic Medicine (Confirmed)
• Christopher Smith, Senior Informatics Project Manager, North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (Confirmed)
• John Fraser, Product Owner, Genomic Order Management Service, NHS England; Informatics Director, North East and Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service (Confirmed)

This session introduces the genomics informatics programmes led by NHS England, focused on accelerating the mainstreaming of genomic testing across the NHS. It explores how interoperability standards, including Genomic Order Management, are being developed to enable electronic requesting, reporting and integration of genomic data into clinical workflows.

The session then shifts to applied experience from the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, sharing lessons from acting as an Alpha partner testing national services and standards in real environments. The discussion highlights practical challenges encountered during integration, governance alignment, workflow redesign and stakeholder engagement, and how these were addressed in partnership with NHS England.

Main Sponsor Keynote - Concentric AI

Strategic insights from our headline partner on driving digital transformation in complex healthcare environments. Focus on solutions and innovations shaping the NHS digital future.

Morning Break & Networking

Chair Morning Reflection (Confirmed)

Sponsored Case Study - Solsta

Solsta (part of Solid State plc) is a world-leading medical supply partner for high technology devices and a catalyst for technological innovation.  Solsta has been supplying to the medical and healthcare sectors for over 50 years, both off-the-shelf and customised solutions. We understand the specific requirements and standards for medical equipment, as well as the challenges posed by component longevity and obsolescence.

Solsta also provides complete design-to-manufacture services. Our state-of-the-art UK Custom Solutions Centre features a 70 m² ISO14644-1 class 7 cleanroom with class 5 enclosure, and we have been awarded the ISO 13485:2016 accreditation at our design and manufacturing facilities in Weymouth and Pangbourne. With a proven track record in providing the quality and reliability needed for medical applications, we offer bespoke design and production engineering solutions with a focus on optoelectronic, display, sensor, detector, and laser technologies.  

We can provide bespoke cabling and housing assemblies, and replacements for obsolete products that are ‘like for like’ both mechanically and electronically. We help the medical community to solve problems, drawing on unmatched technical knowledge, connections and entrepreneurial spirit.

Operating at the heart of the electronics industry, we’re the trusted partner for our customers and suppliers. Solsta is the vital component linking up the electronics community.

Sponsored Case Study - ManageEngine

Navigating today’s identity security landscape means facing fragmented systems, rising machine identities, and persistent data silos. “Who’s Who?” tackles the chaotic ‘Wild West’ of identity threats, offering strategies to unify, secure, and manage identities—helping organisations survive relentless cyber risks and compliance burdens.

Session Overview:

This leadership interview explores how digital confidence is built across clinical teams and why interoperability depends as much on people as it does on systems.

Session Overview:

This session reframes waiting list management through a digital and interoperability lens. It explores how automated, interoperable CareQ pathways enable Trusts and Health Boards to support patients consistently while they wait without adding clinical or administrative burden by integrating with existing digital infrastructure and communication channels.

The focus is on how CareQ fits into the digital ecosystem, complements EPRs and patient engagement platforms, and enables scalable patient support aligned with NHS interoperability and digital maturity priorities.

Session Learning Outcomes - By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

1. Reframe waiting list management as a digital and interoperability challenge, not just an operational one.
2. Describe how CareQ functions as an automated, interoperable engagement layer that complements EPRs, PAS, and patient portals.
3. Understand how automation enables continuous patient support at scale, without increasing clinical or administrative workload.
4. Explain how CareQ uses interoperable workflows to deliver safe, assured digital health tools to patients while they wait.
5. Articulate the digital governance value of ORCHA assessment and ORCHA Assured status for reducing risk and procurement friction.
6. Identify opportunities to embed automated “waiting well” pathways within their organisation’s digital architecture and transformation roadmap.

Lunch & Networking

Hot buffet and informal discussion opportunities with NHS peers and suppliers.

Chair Afternoon Address (Confirmed)

Session Overview:

Leadership tactics I have found useful when delivering Digital Transformation projects – how to keep the Executive focussed on the true costs and the realisation of clinical benefits. 

Dr Ian McNicoll, Former GP and Clinical Informatics Leader, Interoperability and Data Standards, INTEROPen (Confirmed)

Dr Sabarna Mukhopadhya, Award-Winning Digital Health Leader 2025 | Solving Complex Healthcare Challenges with Clarity, Leadership & Impact | Digital Transformation Consultant (invited)

Session Overview:

Interoperability challenges in the NHS are often assumed to be technical, yet many of the most persistent barriers remain even when systems, standards and policy constraints are removed. This session focuses on the practical, human and cultural factors that continue to limit joined-up care in real NHS settings.

Drawing on frontline and national experience, the session explores how behaviours, trust, professional boundaries, governance clarity and organisational culture shape whether interoperability initiatives succeed or stall. Rather than focusing on standards or technology, the discussion centres on how people work together, how decisions are made, and how ownership and accountability are established across organisations.

Session Overview:

A deep dive into how automation can be used safely to strengthen interoperability and clinical workflows.

Food, Drinks & Networking

End of Day