📍 1 Triton Square, London NW1 3BF
Validation can make or break early stage healthtech. Investors, healthcare providers, and regulators all want evidence, but where do founders begin when resources are limited?
Join healthtech innovators and industry experts to discuss practical pathways for generating early evidence, validating clinical need, and strengthening your value proposition. Discover how to build confidence in your solution, attract key supporters, and create the foundations for future funding, clinical adoption, and commercial success.
We're partnering with Global Tech Advocates Healthtech to bring a night of showcasers, insights and connection across the health landscape.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Our Thursday Gatherings are for you to make serendipitous connections and make things happen!
There will be meaningful networking opportunities throughout the night, accompanied by a selection of refreshments and activities:
Fun Zone
Get to know your fellow change-makers in a fun, interactive, and exciting way!
Take a quick break from changing the world and recharge by pinning your hometown on our giant map.
Conversation Corner
Looking to connect beyond the name tags?
Drop into our relaxed Conversation Corner, a cosy space where founders, ecosystem builders, and global thinkers come together to share stories, swap lessons, and innovate. Grab a drink, pull up a chair, and jump into the discussion.
Welcome remarks from VCL and partners.
Livi Bickford-Smith is a MedTech VC Investor with THENA Capital. Previously, as Associate Director for Pathway Transformation at AstraZeneca, she deployed digital health initiatives at scale in the NHS and international health systems. Livi helps early-stage medtech founders to navigate workflow integration, product adoption and routes to reimbursement
Jenni Dowley is the CEO & Founder of Building Bones, a bone health and osteoporosis management platform. Jenni is a chartered musculoskeletal physiotherapist turned digital health entrepreneur with over 10 years of clinical experience.
Gianpaolo Fusari is an award-winning Industrial Designer with over 15 years’ experience in product design and development in healthcare. He is Head of Products & Platforms at the Helix Centre, Imperial College London, where he leads research in rehabilitation working alongside stroke survivors, clinicians and NHS partners developing technology that makes high quality rehabilitation continuous, personalised, and accessible. His current work focuses on OnTrack Rehab, a wearable-based stroke rehabilitation platform.
Varaidzo (Vee) Mapunde, Co-Director at NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care. Experienced in leadership roles, developing and implementing strategy as part of research programme grants for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) in England. Vee provides guidance to innovators about needs-based solutions for the NHS.
Dr Youssof Oskrochi is a public health physician with deep experience in designing, testing and deploying safe, compliant and impactful digital health services at scale. He is also the Head of Safety & Data Protection at Curistica, which builds and deploys “high stakes” health technology.
📍 1 Triton Square, London NW1 3BF
Validation can make or break early stage healthtech. Investors, healthcare providers, and regulators all want evidence, but where do founders begin when resources are limited?
Join healthtech innovators and industry experts to discuss practical pathways for generating early evidence, validating clinical need, and strengthening your value proposition. Discover how to build confidence in your solution, attract key supporters, and create the foundations for future funding, clinical adoption, and commercial success.
We're partnering with Global Tech Advocates Healthtech to bring a night of showcasers, insights and connection across the health landscape.
Powered by Advanced Research + Invention Agency
Our Thursday Gatherings are for you to make serendipitous connections and make things happen!
There will be meaningful networking opportunities throughout the night, accompanied by a selection of refreshments and activities:
Fun Zone
Get to know your fellow change-makers in a fun, interactive, and exciting way!
Take a quick break from changing the world and recharge by pinning your hometown on our giant map.
Conversation Corner
Looking to connect beyond the name tags?
Drop into our relaxed Conversation Corner, a cosy space where founders, ecosystem builders, and global thinkers come together to share stories, swap lessons, and innovate. Grab a drink, pull up a chair, and jump into the discussion.
Welcome remarks from VCL and partners.
Livi Bickford-Smith is a MedTech VC Investor with THENA Capital. Previously, as Associate Director for Pathway Transformation at AstraZeneca, she deployed digital health initiatives at scale in the NHS and international health systems. Livi helps early-stage medtech founders to navigate workflow integration, product adoption and routes to reimbursement
Jenni Dowley is the CEO & Founder of Building Bones, a bone health and osteoporosis management platform. Jenni is a chartered musculoskeletal physiotherapist turned digital health entrepreneur with over 10 years of clinical experience.
Gianpaolo Fusari is an award-winning Industrial Designer with over 15 years’ experience in product design and development in healthcare. He is Head of Products & Platforms at the Helix Centre, Imperial College London, where he leads research in rehabilitation working alongside stroke survivors, clinicians and NHS partners developing technology that makes high quality rehabilitation continuous, personalised, and accessible. His current work focuses on OnTrack Rehab, a wearable-based stroke rehabilitation platform.
Varaidzo (Vee) Mapunde, Co-Director at NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care. Experienced in leadership roles, developing and implementing strategy as part of research programme grants for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) in England. Vee provides guidance to innovators about needs-based solutions for the NHS.
Dr Youssof Oskrochi is a public health physician with deep experience in designing, testing and deploying safe, compliant and impactful digital health services at scale. He is also the Head of Safety & Data Protection at Curistica, which builds and deploys “high stakes” health technology.