Having started her career as a clinical pharmacist training in both NHS Lanarkshire and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Jann worked through progressively senior roles in her professional field.  

She then progressed through a number of wider hospital and healthcare management roles, including Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer in NHS Fife before being appointed as a Chief Executive, initially with NHS Golden Jubilee and then, in December 2022, with NHS Lanarkshire. 

Jann was appointed as NHSGGC’s Chief Executive on 1st February 2025. 

Christine McLaughlin CBE is Co-Director of Population Health in Scottish Government.  This role includes responsibility for oversight of Health and Care Reform and for Digital Health and Care. Christine has held a number of roles in Scottish Government Health & Care Directorates, including Director of Covid-19 Test & Protect, and Director of Health Finance. Christine began her career working in the NHS, where she held a number of senior finance roles.  She then spent 6 years in management consulting roles with PwC, KPMG and Capgemini, working with public sector clients on financial transformation.  Christine is a Chartered Public Finance Accountant and a Charity Trustee with Carnegie UK. 

Professor Dominiczak is a world-leading cardiovascular scientist and clinical academic. Her major research interests include hypertension, cardiovascular genomics, and precision medicine. She has published extensively in top peer-reviewed journals (over 550 publications, a h-index of 123 according to Web of Science). Between 2010 and 2020 she was Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow. She was the driving force behind the fundraising, development and delivery of the University’s clinical academic campus at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where she led a triple helix partnership between academia, the NHS, and industry to accelerate innovation, maximize patient benefits and economic growth.  Dame Anna is a member of several editorial boards and, from 2012 – 2022, was Editor-in-Chief of Hypertension, journal of the American Heart Association. Currently, she is Editor-in Chief of Precision Medicine, a new Prism journal of the Cambridge Press. In March 2020, Anna led the establishment of Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow to provide rapid Covid–19 diagnostics, and then was asked to become Director of Laboratories at the UK Department of Health and Social Care to lead all 10 Lighthouse Laboratories across the UK, the role she fulfilled until 2022. In July 2022 Professor Dominiczak was appointed as Chief Scientist (Health) for the Scottish Government, where she leads and coordinates health research and innovation, working in partnership with the NHS, academia and industry to develop rapid translation and adoption of transformative innovations for the Scottish NHS.  

Paula Olin is a Home services leader with 27 years of experience working in the Social and Healthcare sector. She has a Masters degree in Administrative Sciences (Social and Healthcare Management) and is currently working for a Welfare area in Finland. She is interested in technology and how it could be an everyday part of clients living at home. 

Professor Gerald Lip is a leading figure in breast screening and medical innovation, holding key roles as the Clinical Director for breast screening in the North East of Scotland and is the current President of the British Society of Breast Radiology. He is also Scotland’s first Head of AI in Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, a testament to his pioneering work in integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare. 

A graduate of Trinity College Medicine, Professor Lip furthered his expertise with an MSc in Health Informatics and completed his radiology training in Aberdeen. His research significantly focuses on the application of AI in breast imaging, aiming to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of cancer detection. Notably, he is the Principal Investigator of the GEMINI prospective evaluation of mammography AI, a project supported by the NHS National Strategy for AI in Health and Social Care. 

 Beyond his clinical and research roles, Professor Lip is an active educator and trainer, contributing to the British Institute of Radiology AI special interest group. He frequently publishes and speaks on topics such as patient engagement, innovation in breast imaging techniques, and the safety and quality assurance of AI in medical practice. His work emphasizes how technology can improve patient care, striving to make advanced diagnostic tools accessible and effective for both medical professionals and the public.

Moira Mackenzie is Deputy Chief Executive at Scotland’s Innovation Centre for Digital Health and Care (DHI). DHI is hosted by the University of Strathclyde in an exciting collaboration with Glasgow School of Art. DHI’s recently published 10 year strategy sets out how it will achieve its mission to “transform great ideas into real solutions”. DHI inspires, enables and combines world-leading expertise with service, business and technical innovation to design and develop person-centred digital innovations which positively impact society. Moira’s extensive cross-sectoral expertise includes previous senior roles within the Scottish Government, NHS and Local Government. 

Nicola started her career with local government in 1998 and held several roles in South Lanarkshire Council in both frontline service delivery and in strategy/policy development.  

Nicola commenced working with COSLA, in December 2013 and covered welfare reform and devolved social security before taking on the housing and homelessness brief in autumn of 2017. Nicola has subsequently led both the Children and Young People team and Health and Social Care Team in COSLA. 

In October 2021, Nicola took on the role of Director of People Policy in COSLA and now provides day to day leadership for COSLA as a member of SMT. Nicola manages teams including Health and Social Care, Children and Young People, Strategic Migration and Digital Services. 

From the public to the private sectors and back again, Scott has worked in information and cyber security for over 20 years. Having held CISO positions in the private sector, he joined NHS NSS in 2020 and leads the mission to deliver a world class cyber security operations capability for Scotland’s Health Sector. He is excited by the opportunities that new technologies and ways of working bring to society and an advocate of cohesive security strategies to exploit these opportunities safely.

David works for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government and leads the team responsible for delivering Scotland’s Digital Telecare, Shared Alarm Receiving Centre and Telecare Data programmes. Prior to moving into this role, he was a Senior Manager with the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership for more than 10 years, providing senior level leadership to a portfolio of services including Community Equipment, Telecare and Citywide Supported Housing. David was also the Partnerships Lead Officer for Digital Telecare during this time. 

With a demonstrated history of working in the Technology Enabled Care, Housing and Third sector, David is skilled in Strategic Planning, Business Development, Organizational Development, Change Management and is a qualified Agile Practitioner. David also holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) focused in Public Sector Leadership. 

Dr Sam Patel is a consultant respiratory physician with 25 years of frontline clinical experience. He has worked in both the Scottish and English healthcare systems, undertaken research and completed his doctorate in Cardiorespiratory Physiology at Glasgow University. A decade ago, he expanded his lifelong interest in technology to the health sector and led the Scottish Government commission: ‘Closing the Loop’, aimed at improving electronic communication between Primary and Secondary care. Since then, Sam has been closely involved in the electronic management of medicines both in hospitals and in the community. To overcome his impostor syndrome, he undertook his masters in Global eHealth at Edinburgh University, graduating in 2018. He is a founding fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and is currently a Clinical eHealth Lead at NES Digital Services. His latest project is co-leading the work to deliver paperless digital prescribing in the community.

Professor David J Lowe is Clinical Director Innovation University of Glasgow, Emergency Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and Clinical Lead for Health Innovation for Scottish Government.

David has significant experience of creating the infrastructure and conditions to develop innovative devices, services and solutions with a range of industry and academic partners both UK and worldwide. He leads the Digital Health Validation Lab (DHVL.org) that seeks to develop evidence to validate technologies from concept through to pivotal trial.

He leads on range of projects focused on AI within clinical pathways for diagnostic and long term management in conditions such as Heart Failure, COPD and Lung Cancer. Such projects focus on developing multimodal AI/ML clinical decision support by embedding a data driven approach combined with patient co-management into clinical care pathways. David also established the EmQuire research group focusing on data, devices and decisions within Emergency Medicine.

Jonathan is the Deputy Director for Digital Health and Care in Scottish Government, and has overall responsibility for the Digital Health and Care Data Strategy for Scotland, and is currently leading the delivery of the Digital Front Door programme. 

Prior to his current role, Jonathan held a number of IT Project Management posts in the Public and Private Sector and has a strong track record on complex IT and eHealth project and programme delivery. His career in eHealth and IT includes the delivery of the Emergency Care Summary and Key Information Summary systems which were major achievements in improving patient care across Scotland. Proud to be a CivTech Challenge Sponsor and to deliver major programmes for the NHS and wider public sector. 

Nicola Cooper is the Technology and Digital Innovation Lead at Scottish Care, the representative body for Scotland’s independent social care sector. Recognised for her leadership in social care innovation, she works with partners across care, health, academia, and industry in Scotland and beyond. Nicola has been a driving force behind award-winning initiatives, bringing extensive expertise in designing and implementing technology for aged care. Passionate about shaping an ethical, human-led future for social care, she is committed to creating the conditions for sustainable and meaningful change.