Participants from engineering, healthcare, business and other disciplines will work in teams to develop solutions for real-world digital health problems. You'll learn from each other, with tech-focused participants gaining insights from those with domain expertise and non-coders getting hands-on experience in turning ideas into prototypes. The goal is to create at least a UI mockup (or prototype if possible). At the end of the day, judges will review the projects and select the best ideas based on innovation, feasibility, and impact.
Event
A full-day event where participants from different backgrounds come together to tackle real-world digital health challenges.
Saturday, 21 March 2026, 10:00 – 18:00Auditorium (A03), Monica Partridge Building, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Judges
Leslie DewhurstFounder, Health-AI
Leslie Dewhurst is the founder of Health-AI, a health tech company building AI-powered intelligent assistants for post-transplant patient care. He founded the company in 2020 after being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, going through dialysis, and receiving an altruistic kidney transplant. That personal experience drove him to build technology that helps patients manage their medication after transplant. Before Health-AI, Leslie spent his career in technology, transformation, and turnaround. His products are now used on three continents.
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Raman MinhasFounder, Acumen Medtech
Raman Minhas is an emergency medicine doctor turned medtech advisor, based in Nottingham. He spent seven years at the University of Nottingham as Industry Lead for Medtech and Health AI, partnering university innovations with industry. He also volunteers as a patient and public engagement representative for the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre. He now runs Acumen Medtech, supporting medtech startups with growth strategy and fundraising at seed and series A stage, having advised on over 100 million dollars in transactions.
Angus WallaceEmeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor Angus Wallace spent over 30 years as an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the University of Nottingham. He is probably best known publicly for performing life-saving surgery mid-flight on a British Airways plane in 1995, using a coat hanger as a trocar and a knife and fork to hold the incision open. He treated victims of the Kegworth air disaster in 1989 and his subsequent research into passenger injuries changed the brace position on all UK airlines. He also worked in sports medicine as Chairman of the National Sports Medicine Institute, treating athletes including Wayne Rooney ahead of the 2006 World Cup. In health informatics, he established the Faculty of Health Informatics at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2000 and served as Dean until 2005. He has authored over 350 research papers. He is now Chair of UK Digital Health and Care, a company he co-founded in 2023 to support health informatics standards and training across the UK.
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