WIRED Health is designed for executives seeking to engage with transformational technologies challenging the health industry, from neuroscience to treating cancer and delaying ageing, to the use of AI in health – with a focus on the fascinating innovations that are rapidly changing medicine and patient care. Delegates attending WIRED Health will have the opportunity to network with like-minded individuals from the sector, including physicians, senior healthcare executives, innovators and investors, disruptors and incumbents.

WIRED has announced the first nine speakers:

Robert Hariri, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Celularity

One of the most influential biotech entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Hariri is the former CEO of Celgene and co-founder of Human Longevity. His latest venture is Celularity, which has raised $250 million to develop stem cell technology to treat cancer and delay ageing. Hariri is an accomplished surgeon, biomedical scientist, jet engineer and serial entrepreneur.

Mei Mei Hu, Co-founder and CEO, United Neuroscience

Hu is developing a vaccine for Alzheimer's. Her company's goal is to democratise brain health by pioneering a new class of medicine called endobody vaccines, which are fully synthetic and train the body to safely and efficiently treat and prevent neurological disease. In 2019, Hu was honoured by TIME Magazine in their "100 Next List," and by Fortune Magazine as one of their "40 Under 40" innovators.

Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science; Director, The Vaccine Confidence Project Dept. Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Larson is the director of the WHO’s Vaccine Confidence Project™, an initiative tackling the anti-vax movement. Larson headed UNICEF’s strategy for the introduction of new vaccines and is the Principle Investigator of the project ensuring deployment, acceptance and compliance of an Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone.

Indra Joshi, Director of AI, NHSX

Joshi is one of the key people behind NHSX, an interdisciplinary team driving the digital transformation for the National Health Service. Joshi’s experience stretches across policy, digital health, national project strategy and implementation and is a Founding Member of One HealthTech – which campaigns for the need and importance of better inclusion in health technology.

Samuel Tisherman, Professor, Department of Surgery and the Program in Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland

Tisherman is working to save patients dying from trauma by placing them in suspended animation. He is conducting a clinical trial of this Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation, which uses hypothermia to "buy time" for resuscitative surgery.

Rachel Clarke, Palliative care physician for the National Health Service, former journalist, activist and author

Clarke is the bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands, a book about her experiences as a doctor for the NHS. Her new book, Dear Life, is about palliative care and dealing with her father's terminal cancer diagnosis – exploring love, loss, grief, dying and what really matters at the end of life.

Angela Saini, Science journalist, broadcaster and author

Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She regularly presents radio and television programmes on the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, and WIRED. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was published in 2019, and her previous book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, has been translated into eleven languages.

Maja Pantic, Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing, Imperial College London and Research Director, Samsung AI Centre Cambridge

Pantic is one of the world's leading experts in the research on machine understanding of human behaviour including vision-based detection, tracking, and analysis of human behavioural cues like facial expressions and body gestures, and multimodal analysis of human behaviours like laughter, social signals, and affective states.

Godfrey Nazareth, President and CEO, X-Biomedical, Inc.

Nazareth is a biomedical engineer developing next-gen medical simulation systems and surgical visualisation technology, with collaborations including the US Military, American Heart Association, University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. On a personal note, Nazareth proactively battles classical ALS; and uses a variety of self-built assistive devices to function, operate, and interact at the highest levels possible.

Additional names will be announced over the coming weeks.

WIRED Health’s Startup Showcase will be returning this year as a platform for entrepreneurs on the cusp of major influence to present their new products, solutions and technology. Last year, teenage entrepreneur Erin Smith won the WIRED Health Startup of the Year with FacePrint, an automated screening and monitoring tool for Parkinson’s disease using early-stage facial expression indicators. Startups will be carefully selected to pitch onstage at WIRED Health.

This year, the knowledge partners for WIRED Health are: EY and Honor.

There are a limited number of tickets available for WIRED Health; please note there are special rates available for startups/scaleups, investors and public sector employees. For further information, or for registration, go to wired.co.uk/partnerships/wired-health. WIRED Health 2020 will be held at Kings Place, London, N1 9AG on Wednesday 25th March 2020.