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. 

George’s career in social services began supporting adults with learning disabilities, then people and families affected by problematic substance use. He has over 15 years’ experience of national workforce development, having been Operations Manager at STRADA and Workforce Development Manager at Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF). 

He leads the Digital Learning Team at SSSC, the regulator for the social work, social care and children and young people’s workforce in Scotland. 

He is interested in the opportunities and challenges posed by increasingly digitalised social services and how to equip the workforce to keep the people they support and their data safe. 

George is a board member at SDF and volunteers as a Children’s Hearings panel member. 

Dr Chris Williams is the Joint Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland and a salaried GP based in Grantown-on-Spey. 

Chris has been an NHS doctor in Scotland for over 20 years- occupying a wide variety of clinical posts in hospitals before a remote and rural GP training scheme took him around Orkney, Moray and Wester Ross. He has also worked in medical education roles including postgraduate, undergraduate and multidisciplinary positions. 

Chris has been actively involved in RCGP since he was a trainee and attending Scottish Council regularly since 2013. His interests include digital health and information governance. The policy priority for the Joint Chairs in Scotland is climate and sustainability. 

Rikke is the Digital Social Care Advisor with NHS Education for Scotland’s Digital Front Door programme, tasked with leading the programme’s activities in scoping and developing the Mycare.scot services for the social work and social care sector. She has a background as Portfolio Director for Social Care and Telecare within Digital Health and Care in Scottish Government, and as Director for Iriss before that. Rikke is a dedicated cross-sector collaborator with a track-record of creating sector change through joint ownership and action. 

Lorraine joined NHS Lanarkshire in 2003 as a CSW while studying Marketing and Accountancy at GCU. 
She later joined the NHS Graduate Scheme for General Management in 2008 before taking up a post within NHSL Digital Team in 2012.  

She has been involved with several large-scale projects such as TrakCare Implementation, eCasenote and Covid 19 immunisations.  Within her current remit she oversees the Information Management Team and Health Records functions which includes Referral Management Service, also known as RMS, Child Health and Immunisations.  

She is also a fellow of The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh (RCPE). 

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. 

Ruth is Policy Manager for Digital Health & Care at COSLA. Prior to joining COSLA she worked for Dumfries & Galloway Council and the Health & Social Care Partnership, first as a Social Worker and Social Work Manager and latterly as Strategic Planning and Commissioning Manager for Digital Health & Social Care. Ruth is passionate about using digital and data across health, Social Work and social care services to improve outcomes for people using and delivering services 

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.

Margaret is Head of Innovation for Care and Wellbeing.  She has over 20 years experience working with Scottish Government,  in strategic and programme delivery roles, bringing experience of significant change programmes along with  her clinical experience and  delivery roles with NHS Fife.    

Up until January 2024 Margaret led the   national cross sector TEC Programme in partnership with the NHS, Local Government, Third, Housing and Independent sector  providers aimed at supporting scale up and deployment in Scotland. This centred around the citizen and focused on improving access to services by using digital technologies and approaches to enable improved outcomes.  Margaret also championed a number of Digital Inclusion programmes and continues to lead the Digital Lifelines Scotland portfolio.  

Margaret leads the national Digital Health and Care Fest  proving a national and  international focus to developments in Scotland.  She is also involved in international projects and collaborations. 

Within DHI, Margaret’s role is to champion and lead the opportunities for digital innovation for integrated care and wellbeing bringing a spotlight to wider social care and housing opportunities.  

Margaret is a Trustee/Board member  of ENABLE Scotland and Hanover Housing Association. 

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 clinical informatician, digital leader and physician with 30 years of frontline clinical experience. The latter has shaped his holistic approach to the development and implementation of transformative and adaptable digital technologies that address the needs of Health and Social care.  At present, he is the lead for the national Digital Prescribing and Dispensing Pathways Programme, aimed at removing the paper prescription, eventually from all community settings. This will start with general practices, but with a design that can expand across all community care settings.  He remains passionate about empowering our care givers by giving access to the information they need to deliver high quality care, but more importantly give people access to their data, enabling them to make the best decisions for their wellbeing.  

David J. Lowe is Clinical Director of Innovation at the University of Glasgow, Emergency Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, and Clinical Lead for Innovation for the Scottish Government. With extensive experience fostering innovation in healthcare, he collaborates with academic and industry partners globally to develop cutting-edge devices, services, and solutions. He has led AI-focused initiatives as lead for the Digital Health Validation Lab, including applications in COVID-19, osteoporosis, and the development of AI solutions across a range of imaging modalities including echo, CT and X-Ray. David directs programmes implementing and evaluation technologies within clinical pathways focused on system redesign focusing on diagnostics and long term condition management. He is a founding member of the Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science- AI, part of UK Commission for AI Regulation in Heath and on the board for MHRA Airlock. Areas of focus are COPD, HF and lung cancer embedding new medtech and specifically AI solutions to support case-finding, diagnosis and prioritisation. 

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 previous CivTech Challenge Sponsor and to deliver major programmes for the NHS and wider public sector. 

Nicola Cooper is Head of Digital Futures at Scottish Care, where she works with providers, policymakers and partners to turn interest in AI into something usable, ethical and grounded in the realities of care. Her focus is on responsible adoption in real-world settings, supporting staff, strengthening inclusion, and addressing the structural pressures shaping Scotland’s health and social care system.