GIANT health event launching in London on 16-18 November, 2016

The GIANT (Global Innovation and New Technology) health event is launching in London on 16-18 November. The event has attracted an impressive lineup of high-profile global speakers and is bringing together diverse stakeholders from different countries to London - emerging as the digital health capital of the world.

The event, hosted at the historical Coronet, at Elephant and Castle, brings together the best minds in the industry to share new thinking in health innovation and showcase new technologies that can help improve the health of our communities worldwide.

Over 200 speakers and panelists will be involved, including John Nosta, founder of NostaLab and member of Google health advisory board (USA), Shafi Ahmed, cancer surgeon at Royal London Hospital and virtual reality pioneer (UK), Aubrey De Grey, biomedical gerontologist (USA), Ali Parsa, CEO of Babylon Health, Dan Sheldon, digital strategy lead for the Department of Health and leaders from GE Healthcare, Samsung, Pearsons, Ubisoft and RB (formally Reckitt Benckiser).

The event is bringing music, art and science together in a creative forum, with performers and artists, including body architect Lucy McRae, participating. There will also be a focus on new and upcoming talent with a chance for startups to network with peers and investors.

John Nosta, founder of NostaLab, Google health advisory board and GIANT speaker said:

GIANT is an exciting global initiative needed at a time when developments in technology are driving profound changes in the delivery of healthcare and our own relationship with health – we need people coming together from all sectors to re-imagine the future of health and GIANT is the first of its kind to do this! GIANT will pull together talent and ideas from people around the world in what I am calling a GIANT ‘Collaboratory’.

Shafi Ahmed, VR cancer surgeon, Royal London Hospital and GIANT speaker said:

Technology is increasingly opening up access to health around the world. London is fast emerging as the digital health capital of the world and so an event like GIANT will bring together diverse stakeholders from the global health community to accelerate innovation, including pioneers from the USA, India, and Europe, from large global corporates through to SMEs and start-ups, covering pharma, biotech, NHS, IT, telcos, private health, investors and the general public.

Barry Shrier, co-founder of GIANT said:

GIANT was founded to deliver a simple vision, ‘to improve the health of humanity through technology and entrepreneurship’. GIANT aims to bring together people together with the ideas, passion and money to innovate from within and outside traditional healthcare industries to change business models and reshape the future for better health.

Tina Woods, head of Lansons Health, founding partner of GIANT, said:

All of us have a role to play in improving health outcomes and value for citizens and healthcare systems overall. We need to be open to new thinking in health, to help drive models from ‘sick care’ to ‘well care’, which is now made increasingly possible with the use of data and technology, alongside a growing imperative to look after our own health.

GIANT is supported by and benefits from valued partnerships including Lansons, Nabarro, Mativision, Pearsons, Health Education England, RB, Health Tech Women, and Aging 2.0.