Professor Rachel Dunscombe is the CEO of OpenEHR International and former CEO of the NHS Digital Academy. She has led services to enable health delivery for hospitals, community services and social care both regionally and at an international level. She provided the lead AI health policy advisory for the AI council, as well as advisory services to the Secretary of State for Health in the UK. Rachel has received a visiting professorship at Imperial College, London.

Tomaž Gornik is the CEO and founder of Better and a co-chair of openEHR International. He is an experienced manager of teams building world-class software products for more than 30 years and has a proven track record of delivering innovative turn-key solutions for large clients in healthcare, telecommunications, and finance. He is always challenging teams to build better software using state-of-the-art technology, architectures, and processes, and has a good understanding of software platforms, architecture, deployment, and business models.

Ian McNicoll is a former Scottish GP, who has been involved in healthcare informatics for nearly 30 years, working with and promoting openEHR technologies for the last 10 years. He is currently the Director of the openEHR Foundation Board.

With a passion for digital transformation, Nishali Patel is a Cancer Pharmacist and Clinical Lead in the Digital Medicines Programme at NHS England. She is leading on increasing adoption of the Electronic Prescription Service in Secondary care and is the Clinical Safety Officer for EPS FHIR. She recently led the national delivery of ‘Digital Prescriptions’ in the NHS App and is driving efforts towards enhancing prescription tracking as the next feature on the roadmap.

With over 25 years of clinical experience, Darren Powell is a Senior Clinical Lead for Live Services, NHS England. He is managing the operational activities of Live Services and is responsible for the clinical assurance of systems connecting to the live environment. He is the national lead for the live EPS where 1 billion digital prescriptions are sent every year from GPs to community pharmacies and has been engaged in rolling the latest development of EPS to secondary care and other care settings. He is also a consultant for NHS England to NHS Wales (GIG Cymru) to support and help develop their clinical assurance team for the rollout of the EPS.

Leo Martin-Scott has been working within the realm of digital medicines management for the past 8 years. He has been involved in the development of the NHS interoperability standards which have supported the integration of ePMA systems with other medicines management systems. He has led the deployment of Better Meds across 11 different sites in Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, spanning 3 different PAS systems. He has played a significant role in the integration of Better Meds with Somerset shared care record and the ongoing work on introducing EPS for secondary care at the Trust.

Dr Thitikorn Nuamek (Pao) is a clinical research fellow in electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) at The Christie. Originally from Thailand, he holds a first-class medical degree from Romania and has hospital training experience across four continents. He is passionate about advancing healthcare through technology and patient-centred research. In his current position, Pao is driving the trust-wide implementation of ePROMs and actively contributing to education and research initiatives. He is also the Technology Lead for the British Oncology Network for Undergraduate Societies (BONUS), developing a mobile app dedicated to education in cancer care.

With over 20 years of experience in healthcare management, Nick Tigere is currently the Head of Programme for the UCP at NHS South West London ICB. He provides strategic leadership to enable the programme to meet the local, clinical, and regional digital care planning priorities. He holds a Master of Healthcare Management from the University of Surrey, a Bachelor of Science from King’s College London, and a qualification from the HFMA (Healthcare Financial Management Association). He is passionate about improving the quality and accessibility of healthcare for everyone, and is always looking for new ways to leverage technology and data to achieve this goal.