Taking Healthcare into the future with Space: Cross-sector event 11 February 2020

Space technologies could help offer solutions to the factors involved in health concerns (Image credit: Shutterstock)

Space and Health collide!  Tuesday 11 February 2020 @ ECSAT, Harwell Campus 

This event will feature a series of cross-sector panel discussions and talks to discuss how space solutions can be developed to meet the emerging (and growing) needs of the healthcare market. 

From using technologies and services such as Earth Observation, Space Navigation and Telecommunications satellites, to creating solutions to counter the environmental and lifestyle factors which contribute to health concerns (such as skin cancer and vitamin D-related diseases); attendees will get a sense of how these two seemingly different sectors can hold the key to collaborative innovation. 

Speakers include siHealth, BASF, Public Health England, the NHS, the UK Space Agency and of course, ESA BASS! 

 

Programme 

10.00-10.30: Arrival and Registration

Image credit: Shutterstock

10.30-10.45: Welcome to ESA - Nick Appleyard (Head of Space Solutions, ESA)

10.45-11.00: Welcome to Harwell Campus - Barbara Ghinelli (Director of Business Development and Clusters, Harwell Campus)

11.00-11.15: Success stories of innovative space-based applications for healthcare - Emilio Simeone (Chairman and CEO, siHealth) and Marco Morelli
(Director and CTO, siHealth)

11.15-11.30: Space-based applications for the Personal Care market - Robert Parker (Director of New Business Development, BASF)

11.30-12.00: Coffee break and networking

12.00-12.45: Panel Discussion with Q&A: Innovations and business opportunities created by the cross-over between Space and Healthcare 

Chaired by Barbara Ghinelli (Harwell Campus), attended by:

- Martin Widmann (Senior Vice-President for Global Strategic Marketing, BASF)

- John O'Hagan (Head of the Laser and Optical Radiation Dosimetry Group, Public Health England)

- Emily Gravestock (Head of Applications Strategy, UK Space Agency)

- Nick Appleyard (Head of Space Solutions, ESA)

- Ewan Eadie (Head of Scientific Services for Photobiology, NHS Tayside - Ninewells Hospital of Dundee)

12.45-13.00: Concluding Remarks - Emilio Simeone (Chairman and CEO, siHealth) 

13:00-14:00: Networking Lunch 

Register for the event here

 

 

30 January 2020
Last updated at 13 February 2020 - 10:43