James is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management (Healthcare) at Imperial College Business School and a member of the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation. He is also a Carl Bennet Visiting Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden, and an Honorary Professor at University College London (Bartlett Real Estate Institute).

James has worked on healthcare innovation issues for over 25 years, especially the challenges innovators, companies and healthcare organisations face in ensuring innovations are adopted. He has led many research projects in the UK and abroad, including extensive work on the development and introduction of remote care technologies such as telehealth. His current projects are investigating the future of the UK biopharma sector. James has also worked on innovation in the built environment industries. Between 2006 and 2013 he led a major multi-partner research programme on healthcare infrastructure. His research has been published widely in leading journals and his latest book is Managing Innovation in Healthcare.

James advises and consults for government, health services, and health technology companies in the UK and abroad. He is currently a member of innovation advisory boards in the UK, Sweden and Canada. James teaches undergraduate, MSc, MBA and doctoral students, and executive education at Imperial College and Copenhagen Business School.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.barlow

www.linkedin.com/in/james-barlow-460a893

Education and experiences

MD, PhD, MBA (essentials, via London School of Economics and Political Sciences/LSE)

• Senior consultant (internal medicine) and senior lecturer at Karolinska Institute (KI)
• Chair of eHealth Doctors (within Swedish Medical Association)
• Co-founder of www.digitalcareresearch.se (Nordic Research Network on Digital Healthcare Services)
• Member of the Program Committee of Vitalis – Nordens ledande eHälsomöte
• Former Head of Emergency Department at Stockholm Southern County Hospital (Södersjukhuset), and part of the healthcare office of Region Stockholm.

For the past four years Nasim has been working focused on eHealth. 2018-2021. She was the Director of Quality and Research at Kry/Livi, the largest digital healthcare provider in Europe. During 2020 she operated as Chief Physician responsible for the national covid-19 testing and vaccination plan of Kry. During the last year, before joining Microsoft, she was the general manager of Mindler, the largest healthcare provider within mental health in Sweden.

Aims and passions 

The world around us is changing very fast. Digitalization gives us tools to democratize healthcare, to reach out broader and beyond socioeconomic barriers, and to co-create health, users of both ends (patients and professionals) together. Technology can also help to improve the working environment of healthcare personnel. Nasim wants to be an active part of this “digital transformation” of the healthcare system: to facilitate, enable, support, educate, and lead.

Gerdi is senior business developer at The Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC.) which is part of the University Medical Center of Utrecht. Within THINC. she is responsible for project lead generation, marketing and relations.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerdi-janssen-25727a/

Organization: THINC. (The Healthcare Innovation Center) is part of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Our mission is to make research accessible, in order today's healthcare innovations can become tomorrow's healthcare. We offer rigorous, tailored and highly efficient research to healthcare innovators. https://www.thinc.healthcare

• Digital Health Strategist and Innovator
• Independent Consultant / Director
• Immediate Past President, Digital Health Council, The Royal Society of Medicine, London
• Researcher & Lecturer, Innovation Management in Healthcare, Imperial College Business School
• linkedin.com/in/loylobo 
• @4LoyLobo

Profile: 
Loy is an experienced innovator and leader in Healthcare. He has taken a number of healthcare innovations from concept to market. He was a founder of the telehealth business at BT Global Health, and subsequently the Director of Strategy and Innovation.

Loy currently runs Wegyanik, a health innovation company that applies design, digital, and decision science to transform Healthcare. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Immediate Past President of its Digital Health Council. He also holds a number of teaching and advisory roles related to Healthcare and Life Sciences, and is a Non-Executive Director of an NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a visiting lecturer at Imperial College Business School on the subject of Leading Innovation in Healthcare.

Prior to working exclusively in Healthcare, Loy had over a decade of management consulting experience at a top-tier consulting firm. He led technology-enabled business transformation projects, working in ten different industries with clients ranging from family owned conglomerates to government agencies and global firms. He has an Executive MBA from London Business School.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loylobo/

Jaap is associate professor at Healthcare Innovation Research & Valorization at the Julius Center at the University Medical Center of Utrecht. In 2016, he co-initiated The Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC) to make innovation science accessible to innovators, also outside the academic environment. His research aims at transforming healthcare by accelerating the introduction of impactful innovations. https://www.linkedin.com/in/trappenburg/

Organization: THINC. (The Healthcare Innovation Center) is part of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Our mission is to make research accessible, in order today's healthcare innovations can become tomorrow's healthcare. We offer rigorous, tailored and highly efficient research to healthcare innovators. https://www.thinc.healthcare