The Start Up Showcase

Join us for an exciting session showcasing four startups revolutionising digital healthcare.

Each startup will deliver a 15 minute presentation, demonstrating their innovative solutions aimed at improving patient care, streamlining medical processes, and enhancing healthcare accessibility.

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover cutting-edge advancements and engage with startups driving the future of healthcare technology

Presentations from:

iRhythm

Title: Zio XT: Redefining the Future of Cardiac Monitoring

Explore how the NHS is transforming cardiac and stroke diagnostics with the Zio XT—an AI-enabled, NICE-approved wearable ECG patch—through case studies showing how a direct-to-patient digital model improves accuracy, reduces wait times, and supports NHS goals on innovation and sustainability.

• The Problem: Challenges in traditional ECG pathways – delays, inefficiencies, and missed diagnoses.
• The Innovation: Introduction of the Zio XT AI-powered ambulatory ECG patch.
• Impact in Practice: Evidence from Liverpool and Dartford NHS Trusts.
• Alignment to NHS Long Term Plan: Meeting objectives on prevention, digitisation, and outpatient reform.
• Scaling for the Future: Sustainability, national deployment potential, and lessons learned.

ND Axon

Title: My Brain is My Startup: From Outsider to Neurotech Innovator

Hear how lived neurodivergent experience can fuel breakthrough innovation. Michael Jakubiak, founder of ND Axon, shares how reframing disability as design intelligence has led to globally recognised advances in mental health diagnostics and inclusive HR technology, offering a bold vision for systems that truly include difference.

• From exclusion to innovation: personal story of diagnosis and dismissal
• What is passive diagnostics and why it matters now
• Building ND Axon—breakthrough neurotech recognised by the European Innovation Council
• Ethics and equity in design: creating with patients, not just for them
• Future of work and healthcare: designing systems that include neurodivergence by default

Life Analytics

Title: Can Augmented Reality Encourage Remote Speech & Language Therapy and Facial Retraining?

This session introduces the UK’s first remote end-to-end facial palsy rehab service, showcasing how facial recognition, AR, and gamified tools provide clinicians with objective data and patients with faster, more personalised recovery.

• Facial Palsy
• Rehabilitation
• Remote Therapy
• Prescribed Digital Therapeutic
• Accessible

Prsonas

Title: Real Time Answers & Guidance: The Path to Superior Patient Support with iHealthAssist AI Avatars powered by PRSONAS

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust is using “Alex,” a multilingual AI avatar, to enhance patient and visitor engagement by answering questions, giving directions, and explaining services—reducing staff workload and setting a new standard for inclusive, tech-enabled NHS care.

• Enhancing patient and staff experience: How the multilingual AI avatar improves accessibility, supports diverse communities (including BSL), and reduces staff workload by automating repetitive queries.
• Driving improvement through data: Using insights from 800+ monthly interactions to inform continuous service design and better patient engagement.