Upcoming Innovation Events
We work to maximise opportunities for companies to interact with researchers and health and care professionals – a conversation can often spark new innovative ideas.
Keep up to date and find out more about the latest innovation events from across Scotland.
Public Sector Digital Transformation 2024
Date and Time: Tuesday 11th June 2024 09:30am-16:00pm
Location: Edinburgh Dynamic Earth
Event Info:
Holyrood Connect’s annual flagship Digital Transformation event for the Scottish public sector is returning to Edinburgh for another year.
Scotland’s public sector is on a journey to digital transformation. This conference will be a premier opportunity for delegates to engage with thought leaders and experts, and to learn about the latest digital developments.
Through a variety of session formats, including keynote addresses, panel discussions and interactive masterclasses, the event will provide real-life examples of digital transformation within the public sector for you to learn from.
You will gain insight into:
Scotland’s strategic direction of travel
The challenges of digital transformation and how they can be overcome
The value of Artificial Intelligence
Organisational culture change
Digital infrastructure
South-East Scotland NHS Innovation Intrapreneur Course - Registration open!
South-East Scotland NHS Innovation Intrapreneur Course
Thursday 30 May 2024 (0930-1630)
The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Discover the world of “Innovation Intrapreneurship” and learn how you can contribute and inspire others in ensuring the long-term sustainability of the NHS through the co-production of innovative products, services and processes.
NHS staff/students, local authority, academic and industry partners are invited from across the South East Scotland region (NHS Borders, NHS Fife and NHS Lothian) regardless of banding, role, profession or discipline.
We welcome all who have a passion for problem solving and thinking outside of the box!
Please note that this event will focus on NHS Lothian as an example, but the learning will be transferable to other Health Boards.
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AI in healthcare: IP and commercialisation
InnoScot Health
Date and Time: Wednesday, 29th May, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM GMT+1
Location: Online
Event Info:
The next webinar in formal NHS Scotland partner InnoScot Health’s educational series will be analysing the significant impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on healthcare and how innovators should best maximise and protect its benefits.
The free to join ‘lunch & learn’ session is entitled AI in healthcare: IP and commercialisation and will provide expansive insights on where Scottish healthcare is already deploying AI, where longer-term ambitions lie, and how to roll out innovations in this area. It will also offer legal perspectives on how best to protect the intellectual property inherent in innovative new ideas that include fast evolving AI technologies.
The interactive webinar will be introduced and led by InnoScot Health’s Head of Innovation Robert Rea who will welcome JD Blackwood, AI Strategy Lead for NHS Forth Valley and CTO & NHS National Programme Manager for the Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics (iCAIRD), one of the UK’s largest healthcare AI research programmes.
Joining them will be Joanna Boag-Thomson, Partner in the media and technology practice of leading law firm Shepherd & Wedderburn, and an accredited specialist in intellectual property law.
The accessible, bitesize ‘lunch & learn’ sessions are hosted on Microsoft Teams, regularly providing a platform for inspiring guest speakers whilst allowing InnoScot Health staff to share their deep knowledge and insights on innovation.
Pre submit your questions for our panel discussion to info@innoscot.com
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Futurescot
THE LEADING PUBLIC SECTOR CONFERENCE FOR DIGITAL HEALTH AND CARE LEADERS IN SCOTLAND
Date and Time: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Location: University of Strathclyde, Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow, Conference Timings: 08:30 – 16:30
Event Info:
The NHS is on a road to recovery. The health service is under strain and technology and innovation – if harnessed in the right way – can alleviate some of the pressures on the system. Health & Social Care Transformation 2024 is the annual conference bringing together the ‘triple helix’ of government, industry and academia to unlock the potential of technology and innovation to deliver better patient outcomes and move from an era of reactive to proactive care. Getting data to flow between hospitals, GP services, social care, pharmacists and allied health professionals is vital to that cause. There are also moves to foster a vibrant startup culture within the NHS and social care – removing bureaucratic hurdles and securing faster adoption of ground-breaking innovations. The conference will provide a platform for health and social care leaders working to effect positive change.
Learning Objectives:
- Global thought leadership on transforming health and social care systems at a strategic level
- Putting data and digital at the heart of responsive, user-centred design approaches to citizen healthcare
- Joining up data systems and making data ‘work’ at the point of use, improving frontline services and the experience of health and social care
- Identifying system blockages and working with health and social care leaders to overcome organisational and cultural barriers
- Understanding how to use AI to assist clinicians’ decision-making, automate clinical processes and give time back to care
- Show and tell: using inspiring case studies to inform best practice guidance for delivering transformative health and social care
- Embedding a startup culture within your organisation to enable frontline staff to contribute to the innovation ecosystem
NHS Scotland Event 2024
Date and Time: 10 June 2024
Location: SEC Glasgow
Event Info:
Over the past year, NHS Scotland and its partners across health and social care have once again risen to the challenges of delivering services during a time of unprecedented change. The collaborative efforts and adaptability demonstrated by our healthcare professionals highlight not only their resilience but also a steadfast commitment to the evolving needs of the population.
Addressing the short-to medium term demands, maintaining services and delivering effective person-centred care have been of fundamental importance to meeting the needs of our population right now.
However, we need to plan and deliver health and care in Scotland for the future. Working collaboratively to achieve practical and innovative solutions to the challenges we will face together will be a central focus for the NHS Scotland Event 2024.
The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic means frontline teams have been consistently challenged to find new and innovative ways to deliver high-quality services. We have witnessed examples of transformation and renewal in many parts of the health service, and it is these examples of best practice and collaboration that must be shared and extended into routine service delivery.
The NHS Scotland Event represents the collaborative endeavour across NHS Scotland and its partners and the Scottish Government to drive forward the recovery and reform of our health and care services so that the system becomes more effective, efficient and sustainable. Discussions around how this will work will incorporate the reform of NHS Scotland, and the establishment of a new National Care Service fit for the future.
Enabling people to access the right care in the right place is central to the long-term future of NHS Scotland and this year’s Event will create opportunities for colleagues to come together and explore how different parts of the service are working towards this goal.
The NHS Scotland Event will examine how our health and care services are working to integrate the government’s core priorities into the services they offer. This will include examples which focus on Public Health, prevention and innovation.
These include:
- Tackling poverty to improve the life expectancy of people across Scotland;
- Building in ways to achieve our country’s net zero target, which is fundamental to the health and well-being of everyone in Scotland; and
- Ensuring that the founding purpose of our NHS, to provide free healthcare at the point of need, is never lost.
- The Event will provide the opportunity for colleagues to share their experiences, explore new ways of working, celebrate success and work together to deliver the highest quality person-centred, safe and effective integrated care for every individual in Scotland.