The GIANT Health Event takes place on 8-9 December 2025 at Business Design Centre, London N1 0QH.
Why this matters for your business
Sir Jim Mackey, Penny Dash, and commercial directors from NHS trusts across England will be speaking. They’re the people approving budgets and procurement decisions for 2025/26.
Last year, 72% of attendees held direct purchasing authority or influenced NHS procurement. Most came to find solutions they could commission.
Who’s attending
Confirmed speakers include:
- Sir Jim Mackey, CEO, NHS England
- Penny Dash, Chair, NHS England
- Rob Knott, Commercial Director, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- David Lawson, Director of Medical Technology & Innovation, DHSC
- Peter Lewis, CEO, Somerset NHS FT
- Dr Paul Gilluley, Chief Medical Officer, NHS North East London
- CEOs and Commercial Directors from trusts and ICBs nationwide
Space is limited. Ticket prices increase by £300 on 1 December.
Each year The GIANT Health Event convenes, and connects you personally, directly, with the most senior leaders and influencers in NHS. For example:
- Richard Meddings, Chair, NHS England
- Rima Makarem, Chair at Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB.
- Mairead McCormick , Chief Executive Officer , Kent NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Nora Colton, Director, the Global Business School for Health
- Professor David Loughton , Chief Executive, the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Professor Dame Lesley Regan , Women’s Health Ambassador England;
- Professor Dr Anna David , Director at Institute for Women’s Health, University College London
- Michael Bell, Chair of South West London ICB & Chairman at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust
- Andrew Bland, Chief Executive, NHS South East London ICB
- Amy Darlington, Executive Director, Imperial Health College
- Joe Harrison, Chief Executive at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Max Jones Chief Digital Information Officer NHS North Yorkshire ICB.
- Dame Barbara Hakin – Former Deputy CEO, NHS
- Lord James O’Shaughnessy – former British Government Minister for Health
- Maria Caulfield – Women’s Health Minister For England
- Professor Asif Ahmed – Founder and first Chancellor: Aston University Medical School
- Amanda Begley – Co-founder and National Director for the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)
- Dr Henrietta Hughes – NHS National Patient Safety Commissioner
In 2024 GIANT Health successfully delivered six highly-rated shows which blended ideas, innovations, and discussions about the latest breakthroughs in AI in healthcare, women’s health, mental health, and investing in innovation amongst other topics. Our line-up of senior healthcare leaders and other experts were inspiring speakers and did a stellar job of motivating us to think further of what the next few years need to look like to improve the experience of both patients and clinicians.
We support major brands in healthcare technology, + thousands of established health-tech SMEs, + numerous startups; to facilitate commercially valuable connections with corporate partners, institutional investors, and NHS hospital leaders.
For 10 years GIANT Health has produced:
“The UK’s largest and most valuable NHS innovation and healthcare technology events”
– Financial Times newspaper.
GIANT Health is a national NHS and technology innovation community of over 345,000 people; “everybody whose business is NHS healthcare, technology, and innovation”, and GIANT Health is:
“The UK’s leading magnet for innovation in healthcare” – BBC
