Graeme Reid is a Project Director for NHS Lanarkshire, the third largest health board in Scotland. Serving a population of over 650,000 patients across rural and urban communities in central Scotland, the health board employs around 12,000 staff working across the whole system including its three acute hospitals. 

He is responsible for the business case, procurement and construction of the new 450+ bed hospital. This is NHS Lanarkshire’s vision for a state-of-art hospital which harnesses digital technology to improve patient care and operational performance. The project is a Pathfinder project for the Scottish Government’s new Net Zero Carbon Public Sector Buildings standard. This has resulted in the requirement for an all-electric hospital.  

He is an Institution of Civil Engineers Chartered Engineer, registered with the Engineering Council with significant experience in project managing and leading multi-million-pound construction schemes within Scotland. He is currently undertaking an Executive MBA at the University of Strathclyde. 

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. 

Calum Campbell is the Digital Social Work Policy and Practice Advisor at Social Work Scotland and a qualified social worker. He has worked across statutory and third sector settings and has been with Social Work Scotland since January 2020. Digital innovation has been a consistent focus throughout his career, and he is passionate about future-proofing social work to meet the needs of a digital society. Calum believes digital approaches have the potential to transform practice, improving accessibility, efficiency, and outcomes for the people and communities social work supports. 

Rhiannon is the care technologist team manager at Kyndi, an assistive technology company based in Medway, Kent. Rhiannon leads a dedicated team that’s supports the use of assistive technology at the local hospital as well as in the community. Rhiannon is passionate about ensuring that technology makes a meaningful difference to people’s independence and quality of life.’ 

Industry perspective on building clinical digital systems

Dave Black is a senior digital leader at CGI and one of the UK’s leading health innovation consultants. He works with health and care leaders across the UK to design and deliver strategies which deliver people-first solutions to complex problems. He is passionate about building trusted partnerships to build practical, deliverable digital solutions aligned to clinical and operational priorities. At this event, Dave will share insights on using human insight and collaboration to enable sustainable digital transformation across Scotland’s health ecosystem. 

Justene Ewing is a senior leader at CGI, specialising in digital transformation across health and care. She works closely with NHS organisations and health partners to modernise services, improve patient outcomes and deliver sustainable change. With extensive experience in large-scale transformation programmes, Justene brings a practical understanding of the operational and technology challenges facing both primary and secondary care. She is passionate about collaborative delivery, ensuring solutions are designed with clinicians and operational teams. At this event, Justene will share insights on how health organisations can use technology, data and trusted partnerships to deliver measurable impact for patients and communities. 

Martin has worked in and around primary care in NHS Scotland for more than 30 years, including managing the Community Health Index (CHI), Scotland’s national patient index. In 2022- 2024 he led the CHI transformation programme, successfully migrating this valuable national resource to a new cloud-based, modern platform. 

He continues to seek opportunities for CHI to support transformation for the people of Scotland: working across the NHS, with COSLA and private care providers; ensuring CHI underpins mycare.scot delivery; and as Vice Chair of the CHI Management Board, oversees the governance of CHI, its data and roadmap 

Claire Ross is a Programme Manager at the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, where she leads delivery within the CHI in Local Government programme. She works closely with Local Authorities, the NHS, Health and Social Care Partnerships, social work and social care partners to improve access to accurate, joinedup information for the benefit of organisations, service users and staff. Claire has a long track record of delivering digital change across public services. She is known for her practical, collaborative approach and her focus on making technology meaningful for frontline staff and the people they support. 

Rohan Gunatillake heads up the user-centred design practice at NHS Education for Scotland and has been leading the design work behind MyCare.scot since late 2024. He has a background in public sector technology and digital innovation in the arts. Rohan spent six years as a trustee of the British Council and was once named by Wired magazine in their Smart List of 50 people who will change the world. 

Lisa Farrell leads work on healthcare robotics at the National Robotarium and plays a national role in accelerating the adoption of deep technologies through Scottish Enterprise’s Deep Tech Growth Programme. 

Working across government, health systems, academia and industry, Lisa focuses on one of the UK’s biggest innovation challenges: moving robotics from research into real-world deployment. Her work brings together robotics companies, health services and policymakers to develop practical pathways for adoption that improve services while supporting economic growth. 

Lisa is a recognised voice in the UK robotics ecosystem and is particularly interested in how emerging technologies can strengthen public services, productivity and inclusive access to future careers. 

Kenneth Bøgelund Ahrensberg focuses on strategic issues related to eHealth, health data, digital health financing and national strategy, with extensive experience in European and international collaboration. He has been involved in supporting the introduction of the European Health Data Space in Denmark, working closely with a broad range of stakeholders. 

Kenneth has a strong interest in the organisational dynamics that accompany the implementation of new technologies, particularly those that enable more patient-centred healthcare services, better use of resources and higher quality care. He holds a Master’s degree in Health Economics. 

With over 17 years of global experience in both public and private sectors (primarily healthcare), Yajuvendra has led large, regulated, multi-stakeholder programs and built strategies serving millions. His career began as a process and pathway refinement engineer in hospitals, evolving into leadership roles focused on compliance-driven outcomes. Certified by INSEAD Global Business School in Growth and Transformation, he drives digital transformation initiatives for clients, leveraging strengths in process optimisation and governance. As a Program Manager and AI Ambassador for NHS trusts, he works with customers to define safe AI onboarding processes, compliances & assessment guidelines to ensure robust adoption of AI tools and safeguarding patient data and clinical safety aligning with National frameworks. 

Sam O’Neill has spent the past decade working with public sector organisations across a range of technologies and projects. Today he is the Lead Account Executive for the UKI Public Sector at Freshworks, where he is responsible for ensuring the success of Freshworks’ 40+ NHS clients.  
 
More recently, Sam has been collaborating with a Scottish health board and is excited to share some of his insights and perspective with the wider health and social care community during the AI for Health & Social Care session at 3:10 PM – 4:30 PM. 

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. 

Christine McLaughlin is Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, NHS Scotland at Scottish Government. She is responsible for delivering the strategic and operational objectives of ministers in delivering health and care services.   

She has held several roles in Scottish Government, most recently as Co-Director of Population Heath, Director of Covid-19 Test & Protect and Director of Finance for Health & Care. 

Christine began her career in the NHS, where she qualified as a chartered public finance accountant and has held senior finance roles in territorial and national boards. She has worked in management consulting roles with PwC, KPMG and Capgemini, working with public sector clients to deliver major financial transformation.   

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak DBE MD FRCP FAHA FMedSci FRSE is Chief Scientist (Health) for the Scottish Government and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. 

Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak is a world-leading cardiovascular scientists and clinical academic . Her major research interest include hypertension, cardiovascular genomics and precision medicine. She has published over 550 peer-reviewed papers, with an h-index of 118, and has secured over £100 million in research funding. 

Professor Dominiczak held the British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Glasgow from 1997 to 2010, served as the Director of the BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre between 2000 and 2010, and was Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow between 2010 and 2020. She led the development of Glasgow’s clinical academic campus at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, including the Imaging Centre of Excellence and Clinical Innovation Zone, where she led a triple helix partnership between academia, the NHS, and industry to accelerate innovation, and maximise patient benefits and economic growth. 

She was awarded a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to cardiovascular and medical science. 

From 2020 to 2022, she was Director of Laboratories at the UK Department of Health and Social Care, leading the Lighthouse Laboratory network. 

In July 2022, Professor Dominiczak was appointed as the Chief Scientist (Health) for the Scottish Government where she leads and coordinates health research and innovation, working with the NHS, academia and industry to develop rapid translation and adoption of transformative innovations for the NHS Scotland. 

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.

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. 

 David brings extensive experience from the Technology Enabled Care, Housing, and Third sectors, demonstrating strong capabilities in strategic planning, business development, organisational development, and change management. He is a certified Agile Practitioner and holds a Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip) in Public Sector Leadership. In February 2026, David was honoured with the Holyrood Connect Digital Health and Care Digital Leader Award. 

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 leads work with independent-sector providers, policymakers, and partners to turn interest in AI and digital innovation into practical, ethical, and human-led solutions for social care. Her focus is on fostering responsible adoption of technology in real-world settings, supporting the workforce, strengthening inclusion and addressing the structural pressures facing Scotland’s care system. Nicola brings insight into the opportunities and challenges of AI in social care, grounded in the realities of frontline practice and system transformation.