THE FIX will bring alive the optimism of health-tech — with product demos, music, art, expert workshops and storytelling. In the coming weeks, we’ll showcase some of the creative minds who are working on content.
The talented team that are putting THE FIX together.
THE FIX's Head of Content
THE FIX's Curator
of Participants
THE FIX's Partnership Curator
THE FIX's Curator of Stories
THE FIX's Curator of
Healthcare Disruption
THE FIX's Logistics Curator
THE FIX's Curator of
Human-Machine Interaction
THE FIX’s Curator
of Middle-East Health-Tech Talent
THE FIX's Curator of Women's
Health & FemTech
THE FIX's Curator of AI for Life
Science and MedTech
THE FIX's Curator of
Longevity and Geroscience
THE FIX's Curator of
Putting Innovation into Practice
THE FIX's Curator
of Psychedelics Innovation
THE FIX's Curator of the Festival Rock Band
THE FIX's Music Curator
THE FIX's Curator of
the Bristol Area Community
There will be no dull panels or over-long keynotes at THE FIX.
Instead, festival-goers will experience short, lively presentations from some of the key people transforming health-tech. We’ll announce speakers over the coming months. If you’d like to share a story, email david@voyagers.io
Explore the transformative role of AI in healthcare, with insights curated by THE FIX’s Curator of AI for Life Science and MedTech, Shwen Gwee.
Delve into the latest in longevity and anti-aging, with insights curated by Dr. Jack Kreindler, THE FIX’s Curator of Longevity and Geroscience.
Discover the cutting-edge potential of psychedelics in mental health, with insights curated by Alex Adams, THE FIX’s Curator of Psychedelics Innovation.
Explore groundbreaking advancements in women’s health and femtech, curated by Karina Vazirova, THE FIX’s Curator of Women’s Health & FemTech.
Uncover the latest innovations in diagnostics, transforming healthcare through cutting-edge technology and insights.
Explore transformative health-system innovation, with insights curated by Dr. Harpreet Sood, THE FIX’s Curator of Putting Innovation into Practice.
Get involved in an open discussion on an interesting topic. Participants will be able to choose which conversation circle to sign up for in advance. We’ll announce conversation circles over the coming months. If you’d like to lead one, email david@voyagers.io
How to reach tens of millions
of revenue in European health tech
How not to fail as a startup
working with the health system
Trends and innovations in
fem-tech
The next trends in
preventative healthcare
How digital healthcare can enable
new therapies and care pathways
for neurodegenerative diseases
It’s a festival. Not a conference. So participants will get hands-on at THE FIX. We’ll announce product demos over the coming months. If you’d like to showcase an amazing health-tech product, email david@voyagers.io
Festival-goers will broaden their knowledge in compelling interactive sessions led by experts. More workshops to be announced.
Developing digital innovation is hard. Getting clinicians and the health systems to buy it and use it is even harder. This workshop will unpack how Startups and SME’s can avoid purgatory in the buying cycle with lessons from two industry veterans working at the coal face of scaling digital innovation.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
More information on workshops will be released over the coming months.
From drumbeats to DJs, we will bring the festival vibe to THE FIX. Musicians, performers and art at THE FIX are yet to be announced.
David Rowan is founder of VOYAGERS and chief curator of THE FIX. He was founding UK editor-in-chief of WIRED and wrote the book “Non-Bullshit Innovation” (Penguin). David also runs the VOYAGERS Health-Tech Fund.
Mariana is the VOYAGERS Community Builder, responsible for building valuable connections between the 3,500+ people in the VOYAGERS community of people working on impactful things in climate tech, health tech and more. Her role includes organising three-day adventure weekends in magical places; local dinner meetups in 24 cities; online workshops and networking; direct introductions between VOYAGERS; and other online and offline activities that build peer support.
What started off as a marketing career in the corporate world turned into a mission to support climate-tech founders solving what I believe is the most pressing issue of our era: the rapid collapse of our natural world. A large part of my time is devoted to enabling dialogue, fostering collaboration, creating inspiration-inducing, action-triggering events and experiences that I hope will lead to a better tomorrow. Another big part goes to enjoying the here and the now with my wife and two kids, most likely playing outside near our home in Hamburg, Germany.
Joe Rowan is VOYAGERS’ Chief of Staff and curator of stories at THE FIX. He’s writing stories about participants for the festival magazine, as well as all other content that goes out on THE FIX’s social-media channels. He is also helping to put together the agenda, including finding speakers, and helping with the general logistics of the festival.
Benedikt is Founder & CEO of Sanome, building a Human Digital Twin to help clinical teams detect patient health changes earlier. A serial founder (5 ventures), he mentors for the Royal Academy of Engineering and lectures at the University of Cambridge. He’s passionate about clinical AI, early detection & prevention, translating innovation into healthcare practice, continuous evidence generation and the future of healthcare.
Michelle is the event lead at Fusion Events, an agency based in Oxfordshire that specialises in managing events that have sustainability at their core. Working in the events sector for 20+ years, she has experience managing an unusual variety of events, including festivals, award ceremonies, conferences and technology showcases — all of which feed into THE FIX’s varied programme. Michelle is an IEMA associate member.
Dr Keith Grimes is the founder of Curistica, a clinical innovation consultancy working with visionary health tech leaders to create safe and effective products that improve patients’ lives. A digital health doctor with 29 years of experience as a GP, Keith is recognised as an industry thought leader in AI and regularly speaks and teaches on the subject. He is passionate about leading the way for the next generation of digital clinicians and finding ways that we can use tech to improve outcomes, opportunity and stronger communities.
Sophie is the Founder and CEO of Nabta Health, a hybrid healthcare platform for women enabling the accelerated detection, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic diseases in women in emerging markets. Sophie’s lifetime ambition is to make healthcare affordable and accessible for all women.
Karina is passionate about advancing innovation in women’s health and FemTech globally. She is the co-founder of FemTech Lab, a global accelerator and community with a portfolio of 70+ startups in women’s health. On her new show MOTHER-podcast, Karina interviews visionary innovators, scientists, investors and artists about cutting-edge ideas in science, tech and female biology. At the FIX, we will imagine how to turn those ideas into a reality.
Shwen serves as the fractional Chief Representative – USA (HealthTech) for Basel Area Business & Innovation and runs an independent consulting practice specializing in Digital Strategy, Corporate Innovation, and Generative AI. He is the founder of #GenAI4Pharma, a global series spotlighting Generative AI’s impact on biopharma, and an Executive in Residence for Springboard Enterprises. With 20 years of experience, including senior leadership roles at Bristol Myers Squibb and Novartis, Shwen has a proven track record in digital innovation, ecosystem building, and advising startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Jack Kreindler is a doctor, health-tech innovator and explorer who has particular experience in extreme challenges, human performance science and medicine for extending health-span and quality of life in serious illness. He’s the founder and CEO of WellFounded, researching the limits of human performance, resilience, survivorship and healthspan, and of the Centre for Health and Human Performance in Harley Street, bringing together leading human performance scientists to help patients to get better outcomes, from elite athletes to the most critically ill.
Dr. Harpreet Sood is a NHS primary care doctor and a partner at the Hurley Group—one of the largest primary care providers in the UK—and a health technologist. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Primary Care at Huma, one of the UK’s leading digital health companies, where he focused on developing digitally enabled primary healthcare services. He also actively advises healthcare, technology companies and investors, on strategy and commercial, market entry and digital transformation.
Alex recently co-founded the Psychedelic Action Task Force with Prof. David Nutt as a science and clinician-led initiative to democratise psychedelic healthcare and reform nonsensical drug policy. He is also co-founder of the Psocial Foundation – the UK’s first ecosystem dedicated to supporting professionals in the psychedelic healthcare and mental health fields. Alex is an award-winning activist and has been an advisor to, and investor in, numerous health tech companies. His life’s mission is to redress the global mental health crisis through greater understanding of, and access to, psychedelic therapies.
Rabin Yaghoubi, who has creatively crowdsourced the VOYAGERS Band for this evening’s entertainment, is the chief corporate development officer at Aleph Group, the global leader in powering digital media growth in over 130 emerging markets. Previously, he was chief commercial officer at Babylon Health, ran strategic partnerships for Google in EMEA (including launching key products like Maps and Shopping) and managed DoubleClick’s media business globally. Rabin is a prolific angel investor and advisor, having acted as EIR at Seedcamp, Europe’s leading early-stage fund, and invested in and advised over 50 early and late-stage digital businesses.
Nathalie Nahai is an artist, musician and founder of the Flourishing Futures Salon. Author of the bestselling book, Webs of Influence, she works at the intersection of psychology, technology and the arts.
Briony works across the creative and tech industries in Greater Bristol to optimise the conditions for business success. She is a connector, facilitator, and problem-solver often found focusing on economic and human health and how the two intertwine. She’s a practicing nutritional therapist and founder of the Bristol Business Bugle which exists to connect, inform, and celebrate across creative, tech, and innovation.
Bill Liao is a prominent Australian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist. He is a venture partner at SOSV and co-founded CoderDojo, a global movement to teach young people to code. Liao is passionate about technology, sustainability, and social impact, and has been a driving force behind numerous successful startups and initiatives.
Ariane is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Baseimmune. Ariane is specialised in vaccine development and has a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford.
Tess is the co-founder and CEO of Béa Fertility, a UK startup transforming the fertility care pathway to deliver effective, proven and affordable fertility care as a first step, prior to IVF. Prior to founding Béa in 2021, Tess led her own marketing agency, taught executive-level strategy internationally as a part of the IIBD institute and was the first woman to teach female entrepreneurs at the GVA Accelerator in Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad is founder and CEO of Patients Know Best, which today has over 4.8 million registered patients and is working with over 100 health providers to release around 26.5 million data points every month. He trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge; worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health; and was a management consultant to US hospitals at The Advisory Board Company. Mohammad is the author of seven books, including Personal health records: A guide for clinicians and Streamlining Hospital-Patient Communication: Developing High Impact Patient Portals. He recently published his latest global book on the topic: Personal Health Records for Governments. In 2012, he was elected an Ashoka Fellow as a social entrepreneur for the contributions he has made to patient care.
All health startups are looking to go from zero to one, but with a fragmented healthcare market and a range of potential routes, understanding that path can be tricky. We will be digging into the difficulties in ascertaining early product success, and where in the journey is pivoting likely to be vital. We will also cover the risks and rewards of pilot studies, what pitfalls companies have run into, and where opportunities for success exist. Dr Thomas Maggs will lead a discussion, bringing his experience in supporting early stage health startups from conception, through funding, to MVP delivery.
Valentina Milanova will lead a conversation exploring the latest advancements and future directions in the field. She will share insights on how these innovations are shaping the industry and discuss the challenges and opportunities they present.
Disrupting healthcare through early intervention and preventative healthcare measures can change healthcare from reactive to proactive. With the global preventative healthcare market projected to surpass $504B this year, we’ll share critical innovative diagnostics and processes that can transform the healthcare paradigm as we know it.
How new drugs (in the pipeline and post market approval) drive demand for novel biomarkers and more objective diagnosis and disease (and drug efficacy) progression, new digital care pathways built for drug companions and for rehab, solutions for caregivers and enabling aging-in-place.
Dembis Thioung, renowned as a master of the dunduns in West African music, embodies the rich cultural tapestry of Senegal. Born in 1986 to a Serer Griot mother and a Peul/Fula Laube father in Dakar, Dembis was immersed in traditional Senegalese music from a young age. His upbringing alongside his professional dancer mother and drum-maker father laid the foundation for his lifelong passion for percussion. Dembis honed his craft at prestigious cultural centres in Senegal, refining his skills on instruments like the Dundun, Djembe, Sabar, and Asico drums. Embracing his cultural heritage, Dembis is deeply connected to the Senegalese Baye Fall Brotherhood, influenced by the teachings of Cheikh Ahamdou Bamba. Since relocating to the UK in 2010, Dembis has become a sought-after performer and educator. He has collaborated with numerous artists and companies across Europe and the Caribbean, including Irineu Nogueira’s Afro-Brazilian Dance Company and Akomaasa Performing Arts Academy. Additionally, Dembis fosters community engagement through weekly drum and dance circles, creating spaces for connection and spiritual exploration. His versatility extends beyond West African rhythms, as he collaborates with artists worldwide, showcasing his ability to bridge cultural divides through music.
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