HPN Expo

  • Day 1

05 November 2025

  • 8:00 am - 9:00 am

    Main room

    Registration

  • 9:00 am - 9:05 am

    Main room

    Chair's opening remarks

    Josie Rudman

    Director of Nursing Professional and System Leadership
    NHS England

    We meet at a time of rapid transformation across the NHS. From the New Hospital Programme and the 10-Year Plan to the growing influence of artificial intelligence and virtual care, the questions facing healthcare leaders are increasingly...

  • 9:05 am - 9:45 am

    Main room

    Opening keynote panel – Health and care workforce of the future: how do we get there?

    Eamonn Gorman

    Deputy Director of Digital Transformation & Clinical Informatics for the New Hospital Programme
    NHS England

    Josie Rudman

    Director of Nursing Professional and System Leadership
    NHS England

    Dijana Vilic

    Head of Clinical Scientific Computing
    Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

    Hatim Abdulhussein

    Chief Executive
    Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

    We open the event with a keynote panel coming with industry leaders coming from across the ecosystem. They will address what will be needed from the workforce to be come smart, intelligent hospitals of the future. They will touch on thei...

  • 9:45 am - 10:00 am

    Main room

    Headline sponsor presentation

  • 10:05 am - 10:25 am

    Main room

    Dragons' Den - Speed presentations

    Our signature ‘Dragons’ Den’ session provides each solution provider with an opportunity to deliver a short pitch, explaining why they are here and how their services can help tackle some of the sector’s ongoing challenges.

  • 10:30 am - 11:20 am

    Main room

    Networking and business meetings

    10 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.

  • 11:25 am - 11:55 am

    Main room

    Panel discussion – The future of NHS estates: new and old

    Kay Mulcahy

    Associate Director of National Estates Operations
    NHS Estates and Facilities, NHS England - Commercial Directorate

    James Chadwick

    Associate Estates and Facilities Director – New QEH
    The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

    Neil McElduff

    Director of Estates and Facilities
    Medway NHS Foundation Trust

    This session brings together speakers coming from multiple angles, discussing the next steps for NHS hospitals and estates. Hear perspectives from national leads respectively focussing on existing and new hospital estates in addition, to...

  • 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

    Main room

    Platinum sponsor presentation

  • 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm

    Main room

    Platinum sponsor presentation

  • 12:30 pm - 1:10 pm

    Main room

    Networking lunch

    An opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers to talk over the learnings from the event. Lunch is served buffet style and a range of options are available to cater for different dietary requirements.

  • 1:10 pm - 1:35 pm

    Main room

    Interactive discussion – Fireside Chat: Shifting to Preventative and predictive care: Identifying risks with geonomics

    Alexander Deng

    Programme Lead for NHS Fellowship in Clinical AI
    Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

    James Teo

    Joint Clinical Director for Data and AI
    Guys & St Thomas Hospital & Kings College Hospital

    Following on from the NHS 10-Year Plan’s call for a shift to a predict and prevent model rather than one of diagnose and treat, this fireside chat will cover how using geonomics and precision medicine in routine care can lead to si...

  • 1:40 pm - 2:15 pm

    Main room

    Gold sponsor presentations

  • 2:20 pm - 3:10 pm

    Main room

    Networking and business meetings

    10 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.

  • 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

    Main room

    Keynote presentation – What makes a future hospital?

    Eamonn Gorman

    Deputy Director of Digital Transformation & Clinical Informatics for the New Hospital Programme
    NHS England

    Hear from a senior leader from the New Hospital Programme on updates following the changes earlier this year within NHS England.

  • 3:45 pm - 3:50 pm

    Main room

    Focus groups – Achieving Intelligent Hospital capabilities

    The New Hospital Programme has set out a set of minimum capabilities needed to attain the status of an intelligent hospital, they are grouped into three categories: Fabric, Footprint and Flow. Join one of the three breakout sessions whic...

  • 4:20 pm - 4:30 pm

    Main room

    Reflections and next actions/commitments

    Josie Rudman

    Director of Nursing Professional and System Leadership
    NHS England

  • 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

    Main room

    Networking drinks reception

  • 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

    Focus group 1

    Achieving Intelligent Hospital capabilities – Fabric

    James Clegg

    Head of Digital Innovation
    Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    Lisa Yates

    Senior Commercial Analyst, Digital & Information Services
    Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust

    Fabric is the foundation comprising of information technology, cloud infrastructure, cyber security and innovative tech underpinning a new hospital. Hear from those who have been behind these projects.

  • 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

    Focus group 2

    Achieving Intelligent Hospital capabilities – Footprint

    Matea Deliu

    Clinical Lead Primary Care Digital Delivery
    NHS South East London Integrated Care System

    Tara Donnelly

    Founder
    Digital Care

    Footprint is the technologies that connect hospital estates and the wider care ecosystem. Such as remote monitoring, virtual wards and community care. Join this session to discuss best practices in virtual and remote care.

  • 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm

    Focus group 3

    Achieving Intelligent Hospital capabilities – Flow

    Josie Rudman

    Director of Nursing Professional and System Leadership
    NHS England

    Robert Watson

    Chief Nursing Projects Officer
    James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Flow encompasses the operating model of hospitals such as clinical pathways, patient flow, data capture with a heavy focus on digital. Understand the optimal operating model in this session.

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