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Translational research innovation using virtual reality and 3D printing to facilitate multiple surgical teams in 23 hour operation to separate conjoined twins

Mark Wilson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Pre-Hospital Care Doctor. He is Professor of Brain Injury at Imperial College and the Gibson Chair of Pre-Hospital Care in the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. His area of interest is the hyper-acute management of brain injury and hypoxic brain injury. He has worked extensively overseas including with NASA (investigating intracranial pressure in Astronauts) and on many expeditions. He is co-founder and medical director of GoodSAM (www.goodsamapp.org) - a global platform that crowd sources trained responders in emergencies and enables urgent telemedical assessment of patients.

Dr. Michael Stein is CEO and Co-Chairman of Valo Therapeutics. He is a business leader and strategic adviser with C-suite experience in healthcare. Michael was the founding CEO of OxStem Ltd, an award-winning biotechnology spin-out from the University of Oxford. He has served as founding CEO for Doctor Care Anywhere, acquired by Synergix in 2015. In 2001, he co-founded the Map of Medicine Ltd (the Map) with University College London. As founding CEO (and later CMO), the Map was nationally licensed across NHS England (2005-15) and acquired by Hearst Business Media (HBM) in 2008, after which Michael transitioned to executive vice-president of healthcare innovation.

Mary Anne Hilliard currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. Committed to the concept that the best way to manage risk is to prevent it, she has led local and national grant funded initiatives to share risk data and advance “high reliability principles” in order to reduce serious adverse events and associated malpractice harm. Rahul Shah is Chief Counsel and Vice President for Medical Affairs at Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC. He is recognized as a leader in patient safety and quality improvement and has chaired and serves on myriad national committees related to patient safety and quality improvement. Under his leadership, Children’s National has received numerous safety and quality distinctions.

Steve Richards is one of Britain’s leading political commentators and broadcasters. He writes columns for the Guardian, Independent and FT. He is a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster and has presented BBC series on Blair, Miliband, Corbyn and May.

British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years. He served as Secretary of State for Transport from 2009 to 2010, and Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2015 to 2017

British Airways 747 Captain, 28 years flying experience, 20 years as a Trainer. Director of Aviatours Fly with Fear, running Flying with Confidence courses for BA for 25 years. First Class Honours Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering

Jo is one of the UK’s leading barristers specialising in child protection law rising to prominence for her work in contentious cases involving complex medical evidence and the death of a child. She acted in the case of Islington v Al Alas and Wray which brought the issue of Vitamin D deficiency and rickets masquerading as shaking injuries to medical and public attention. Her practice encompasses cases involving the death of / catastrophic injuries to a child, NAI, TRIAD , FII , child sex abuse, ritualized abuse , FGM though to ISIS radicalisation cases. Jo acted for 77 families in the Hillsborough Inquest’s charged with scrutinising the adequacy of the emergency medical response to the disaster.

Claire is a Consultant in Prehospital Care with London’s Air Ambulance (aka London HEMS) and in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Trauma at Kings College Hospital. She also has 19 years of military experience, including numerous operational deployments, and has been the Clinical Governance Lead for the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT). International experience of prehospital care and trauma systems, including fellowships in Baltimore, and in both military and civilian environments, have given her extensive experience to bring to her current roles and in addition as the Medical Adviser to the armed police in London.

For the last decade, Dr Clare Gerada has led the largest physician health service in Europe and led the Royal College of General Practitioners between 2011-2013, only the second women in history at its head. Clare trained in group analysis and uses her experience from this field to help understand why doctors are so unhappy. Clare is proud that she is still a front line GP and just passed her 26th year mile stone working in the same GP practice in South London.

Robin is a GP, born and trained in Toronto. He has been working in the NHS since 2007, largely in clinical governance. He is currently working as an Assistant Medical Director for the South East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust, a Clinical Advisor with NHS England, South-East team and as GP Lead for Primary Care Streaming in the A&E of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (Hastings and Eastbourne Hospitals). He has always been interested in medical error. Now his professional and personal lives have converged, in trying to make sense of the death of his son Julien, a third year Registrar in Anaesthesia.

Mike is a senior healthcare sector leader with nearly 30 years of experience, beginning as a paramedic. His specialities include critical care medicine, infectious diseases, military, aviation and pre-hospital medicine. In 2016, Mike moved to the UK for a sabbatical with London’s Air Ambulance. Having decided to remain in the UK, he served as Clinical Lead for an Air Ambulance in the counties and subsequently was recruited to join London's Air Ambulance's senior team for a period of two years to lead on the delivery of key objectives within their research strategy. Mike will be speaking at Risky Business about his role as first responder on the London Bridge terrorist attack.

Dr Richard Smith FRCA, is as a Consultant Trauma Resuscitation Anaesthetist at the Royal Stoke University Hospital Major Trauma Centre. His pre-hospital roles include working as a regular HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Service) doctor for both The Air Ambulance Service and the North West Air Ambulance. He is a MERIT (Medical Emergency Response Incident Team) Doctor for the North West Ambulance Service, for which he has completed major incident training, and a volunteer responder for the Cheshire and Shropshire BASICS scheme. In this capacity he attended the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017 as a volunteer responder.

Dr Anu Mitra is a Consultant Emergency Physician at Imperial College NHS Trust, based at Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals. He has been practising medicine for over 20 years. His specialist interests include medical education, point of care ultrasound and quality improvement, and he is the quality improvement lead for the London School of Emergency Medicine. He was the consultant in charge of the Emergency Department at St. Mary’s the night of the Grenfell Tower Fire. Having seen the unprecedented way the disaster affected him and his team, he has been placing more focus on staff wellbeing programmes.

Dame Inga Beale is a British businesswoman and the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London. A leading figure in the global insurance and reinsurance market for five years, Inga announced her departure from the role in June 2018, after overseeing numerous important cultural changes in the company. In December 2013, Inga was announced as the new CEO of Lloyd’s of London, the first woman to be promoted to this position in over three centuries of the company’s history. Throughout her career, Inga has been a strong proponent of inclusion and equality in the workplace, which contributed to her particular success in addressing numerous problems within Lloyd’s of London regarding chauvinism. Inga was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for her services to the economy.

Retired NASA Astronaut and American Engineer launched to the International Space Station with the crew of STS-128, participating in the first space walk of that mission. She is also an aquanaut crew member on NEEMO 9 mission where she worked with a 6 person crew for 18 days on The Aquarius under sea research habitat.

Yvonne Coghill is Professor of Primary Care and Head of Child Health at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London. Yvonne is currently the Director at NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) Implementation in NHS England. She is a member of the equality and diversity council at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in the United States where she has helped develop their inclusion strategy. Yvonne was awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in 2010 and was appointed to the position of Director for WRES implementation in June 2015. This year Yvonne has been awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing, a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list, an honorary fellowship from Kings College University, an honorary doctorate from Buckinghamshire University and has recently been voted one of the top 70 most inspirational nurses in the NHS over the last 70 years.

Tom played and coached with Harlequins for 17 years before retiring and setting up TMW Development, a Public Speaking, Leadership and Mentoring Company founded to assist, support and inspire people in the corporate world. With the story of ‘Bloodgate’, Tom has a unique insight into how a coercive and win-at-all-costs attitude can have a catastrophic impact on a business.

Amy has extensive experience managing some of the most high-profile, diverse challenges at the highest levels of U.S. government from countering violent extremism to promoting refugee resettlement to managing President Obama’s comprehensive effort to combat Zika, Ebola and other public health threats. Prior to joining the White House, Ms. Pope worked in several positions at the U.S. Department of Justice including as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division.

Andrew Roe joined London Fire Brigade aged 27 in 2002 following a number of years as a British Army Officer. After five years as a firefighter, he has undertaken roles such as Crew Manager, Watch Manager, Station Manager and Group Manager Rescue before being promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Operational Policy. As an Assistant Commissioner he led a review of all London Fire Brigade’s People Services before assuming his current role as Assistant Commissioner Fire Stations. Andrew has been the incident commander at a number of significant and major incidents including the Croydon tram crash and the Grenfell Tower Fire.

Paul has 25 years’ experience working in foresight consultancy advising clients on the strategic implications of social, demographic and economic change. His career has also included roles as Head of Research for BBC News and Director of Research for Which?. At Trajectory his clients include Bacardi, BBC, Big Lottery Fund, General Medical Council, Heineken, O2, Royal London, VisitEngland and Waitrose. Paul is a regular conference speaker and commentator. He has written for the FT and Harvard Business Review and presented BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought programme. Paul was previously CEO of the Future Foundation and a Director of The Henley Centre for Forecasting.

Hashi Mohamed is a Barrister at No 5 Chambers, specialising in planning and environment, and commercial litigation. He came to England in 1993 aged 9, without his parents and not speaking much English. He regularly writes for newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian and Prospect Magazine. Hashi has presented several documentaries on BBC Radio 4, including terrorism and how nations react, and Adventures in Social Mobility.

Hannah is a double Olympic medallist with the record-breaking Great Britain Women’s hockey team, culminating in winning Gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She has a doctorate in Exercise Physiology and has built a successful specialist nutrition consultancy business. Hannah made her international debut for England in 2004 against Germany at the age of 19. Since then, she has amassed over 150 caps for England and Great Britain. Hannah was part of the team that won Gold at the European Championships in 2015, Bronze at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and Silver at the 2012 Champions Trophy in Argentina. She now coaches the Great Britain Development Team and works with businesses and organisations to help create high performing teams with a culture founded on the development of a high level of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

Gillian Docherty is chief executive of The Data Lab, one of the eight innovation centres set up by the Scottish Government to enhance innovation and entrepreneurship across Scotland’s key economic sectors. Integral to delivering this is facilitating partnerships between industry and academia, supporting budding data science businesses and projects as well as funding first class, ground-breaking education programmes. Formerly of IBM, she’s recently been named CEO of the year at the Digital Technology Awards and is also one of the UK’s top ten most influential people in data according to DataIQ.

Terry Jones re-joined the NFU, the Voice of British Farming, as its Director General in April 2016. Following the UK’s vote to leave the EU, just six weeks into the role, Terry had to reshape the organisation’s priorities to meet a wide variety of member expectations. 2000 Days, the NFU’s new vision and strategy, is helping to build a resilient organisation which has the clear aim of creating a better future for its farming members. For the previous five years, he had been running food industry trade associations. In 2011 he joined the Food & Drink Federation (FDF) as its Director of Communications, where he sought to bring to life how food manufacturers could deliver increased rates of sustainable growth.

Former Formula One racing driver and 2016 Formula One World Champion, Nico Rosberg is the son of Finnish 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg. He was born in Germany and has dual nationality and drove for Williams F1 and Mercedes AMG Petronas under the German flag. Rosberg is, to date, the only driver other than Hamilton and Vettel to have won the Formula 1 title in the 2010s. He is the second second-generation Formula 1 champion, after Damon Hill, and the first to have achieved this feat during his father’s lifetime. Additionally, Rosberg is the first driver representing Germany to have won the title for a German team using a German-manufactured engine. Rosberg won the International Racing Driver Award at the 2016 Autosport Awards. The award was first won by his father Keke in 1982. He announced his immediate retirement from Formula One on 2 December 2016 at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony in Vienna, having reached the ‘pinnacle’ of his career.

By age six, Millie Knight had lost 92% of her sight in both eyes and at the same age started skiing. Today, at just 19 years old, Millie is a double Winter Paralympian, three-time Paralympic medallist and current World Para Alpine Downhill Champion – titles she won competing with her sighted ski guide, Brett Wild. Last year Millie was shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year and Sunday Times Young Sports Woman of the Year awards; and was also made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Kent for Commitment to Sport. In September this year, Millie will be going to University to study Psychology, before defending her downhill world title at the World Championship in Switzerland in March 2019.

Norman Tebbit is a British politician and life peer. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–83), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–85), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1985–87) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–87). He was a member of parliament from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (1970–74) and Chingford (1974–92). He retired from parliament for Chingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit, of Chingford. In July 2013, Tebbit was one of the guests on an episode of Peter Hennessy’s BBC radio 4 programme Reflections in which he talked about his life and career. Earlier that year he paid tribute to Margaret Thatcher, saying he wished there were “someone like her now”.

John Bird MBE is the founder of The Big Issue and currently president of The Big Issue Foundation Board of Trustees. With no party-political allegiance, The Big Issue campaigns on behalf of homeless and socially excluded people. In June 1993, The Big Issue went weekly, and regional sister titles were later established in cities around the UK and subsequently in Australia, South Africa and the USA. In June 1995, John Bird was awarded the MBE for ‘services to homeless people’ and in 2006 he received the prestigious Beacon Fellowship Prize for his energy and originality in raising awareness of homelessness and his support of homeless communities worldwide. John Bird was nominated for life peerage by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in October 2015 to become a non-party-political peer.

Dr Clifford Mann qualified in 1986 from London University. He undertook postgraduate training in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. He was appointed as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine to Taunton & Somerset Hospital in 1999. He has been Training Programme Director and Head of School for Emergency Medicine in South West England. In 2013 he was elected President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In 2015 he was credited by the HSJ as one of the ‘Top 10 Clinical Leaders in the NHS’ and in 2017 as one of the ‘hundred most influential people in health’. In 2016, Clifford was appointed National Clinical Advisor (A&E) at NHS England and in 2017 was appointed GIRFT National Clinical Co-Lead for NHSI. He was awarded an OBE for service to emergency medicine in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List. He continues to work as a full time EM clinician in Taunton.

Neil has been the Clinical Lead for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Yorkhill Children’s Hospital since 2012. Whilst working for the Newborn Emergency Transport Service in Sydney, Australia he developed an interest in PICU and subsequently trained in the specialty in the West of Scotland. After completing a fellowship in Vancouver, British Columbia he returned in 2007 to become a consultant. Neil’s interests include oxygen delivery, cardiac critical care and transport. His other main interest is patient safety and he is a Fellow of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme.

Previously Mark skippered the England Rugby squads (under 18’s, 19’s and 21’s) at numerous Six Nations and World Cup competitions. He went on to play professional rugby with Northampton Saints and won 100 premiership appearances. Mark has now progressed to the non-contact world of coaching and consulting in military organisations, risk industry and elite sport. Extraordinary results are demanded in professional sport, these will always require extraordinary behaviours and efforts by coaches and players alike. Some are exemplary serving any team as a model to learn from, others less so! Mark will give us an insight into the darker side of behaviour in elite sport, looking specifically at narcissism, and what we might learn from those unique settings.

Dr Mark O’Brien is an International Medical Education Consultant to the Medical Protection Society (MPS) and co-Founder and Medical Director of the Cognitive Institute, a subsidiary of MPS that specialised in training and education. Dr O’Brien also serves as a Board member of Mater Misericordiae Ltd., a large not for profit Healthcare and hospital group in Australia. Dr O’Brien was a Rural Family Physician with a strong involvement in Medical Education. Courses developed by him in clinical communication and professionalism have been undertaken by an estimated 200,000 clinicians in ten countries. He is a well-known and regarded consultant and expert trainer within the Asia-Pacific region in the areas of individual clinician remediation, clinical leadership and quality and safety. His work includes working with Hospital Boards and Executives to build strong cultures of safety and quality.

Cathy MacDonald is a former Hostage and Crisis Negotiator with Police Scotland. With years of practical experience behind her, coupled with her responsibility for training and developing police negotiator teams, Cathy can easily be described as a professional communicator who is highly skilled and practised.

Benita Alexander is Vice President of Production/Director at Efran Films, where she manages the production of a wide variety of film, TV and digital projects. Her documentary film, ‘He Lied About Everything’, produced by Efran Films and Investigation Discovery, premiered in the U.S. in February 2018, and is now being broadcast around the world. Benita was also the Co-Executive Producer and narrator for the 2016 TLC documentary ‘Breaking the Silence’. Prior to this, Benita spent 17 years in network television, producing long-form documentaries, breaking news, investigations, specials and hard news features for NBC. Her multiple awards include: Edward R. Murrow, 2 Emmys, 7 Emmy nominations, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, NABJ and Sigma Delta Chi.

Prof Harold Thimbleby is an internationally respected computer scientist who campaigns for improving healthcare computing, as thousands of people are harmed by poor computers every year. Harold is a popular speaker who has given over 550 invited talks in 30 different countries. He is an Honorary Fellow of the RCP, an advocate for the Clinical Human Factors Group, and on the World Health Organisation’s global patient safety network. His research team won the 2014 GE Healthcare Award for Outstanding Impact in Healthcare. His book Press On won several international prizes. Harold has been a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and a Leverhulme Trust Fellow. His web site is www.harold.thimbleby.net

Paul was a career Royal Marines Officer. He spent 24 years in Britain’s elite fighting-force, reaching the rank of Major and specialising in Reconnaissance and Mountain Warfare. Paul served in numerous operational arenas, including Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Afghanistan; and was cited for his leadership in both Belize and Bosnia. Since departing the military 10 years ago Paul has worked briefly in the film industry, making films in the Himalayas and in Afghanistan. He now spends his time developing teams and leaders within sport, business and industry, and he leads expeditions annually to Morocco, Tanzania, Norway and Nepal. As a Mountain Leader Officer, Paul was fortunate enough to climb and ski extensively around the globe. He was the senior member of the Royal Marines South Pole expedition – a military first.

Morwenna Hall, a chartered mechanical engineer, is the COO of developer Argent LLP. She is currently leading the design and delivery of several major projects at King’s Cross, including the Coal Drops Yard, a new shopping destination for London with 60 retail units in the repurposed Victorian coal sheds which will open to the public in October this year. Morwenna was the lead mechanical engineer for the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, which in 2012 won the most sought-after accolade in the industry – the RIBA Stirling Prize. In 2015 Morwenna featured in Property Week’s ‘Forty under 40’ list of young entrepreneurs, disrupters and leaders. Morwenna has a passion for all aspects of design and was one of the 27 women showcased in the 2014 ‘Women Fashion Power’ exhibition at the Design Museum, alongside Princess Diana, Dame Vivienne Westwood and Dame Zaha Hadid.

Mandy’s route to the top was tumultuous in every sense – awarded a RAF flying scholarship at 17, long before she even passed her driving test, she went on to win aerobatic competitions whilst still a student. However, despite her prowess in the skies, she failed the computer-based tests, taken by all potential RAF pilots. Undeterred, her self-belief and dogged determination persuaded the RAF to take her on as a test case, thereby overcoming seemingly insurmountable hurdles. Mandy relates her experiences of working within an elite team of fast jet operators with great clarity, outlining how the same values apply within any environment. She demonstrates only too well the importance of remaining calm under pressure and leading, quite literally, from the front, in order to get the best from herself and her team. Since leaving the RAF Mandy has served as a school governor, on the board of trustees at the Victory Services Club, London and is an ambassador for sport for Hampshire County Council.

Cardiff-born Jeremy Bowen, BBC Foreign Correspondent for more than 20 years and the BBC’s Middle East Editor is a journalist and television presenter. He joined the BBC in 1984 and has reported from more than 70 different countries, predominantly in the Middle East and in the Balkans. He reported during the Bosnian War and the Kosovo conflict, during which he was robbed at gunpoint by bandits. In 2013, while reporting for the BBC the protests in Egypt, he was shot in the head with shotgun pellets. He escaped without major injury. He was one of the few journalists inside Syria reporting on the civil war. In February 2015, he spoke with President Bashar al-Assad about the ongoing Syrian conflict during an exclusive BBC interview.

Youngest daughter of the well-known former champion amateur, trainer and television pundit Ted Walsh, Katie Walsh is one of the leading Irish amateur riders. She has a string of big race successes to her name including the Kerry National in 2014 and the biggest prize in Irish jump racing, the Irish Grand National, in April 2015, becoming only the third woman to ride the winner of the race. Three years earlier she rode her father’s Seabass to finish third in the Aintree Grand National, which was the best position ever attained by a female rider in the race. Katie enjoyed her first Grade 1 success when partnering the Willie Mullins-trained Blow By Blow to win the attheraces.com Champion INH Flat Race at Punchestown in 2016.

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Ian Goldin, a founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, was previously World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy. Positions held include Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 21 books, including Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance and The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks. He has been a Non-Executive Director on numerous boards, the Senior Independent Director on CDC, is a Trustee of Comic Relief and the Chair of CORE-Econ initiative to modernise the teaching of economics.

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