About us

Lexi Brown is a media planner at Mindshare UK, specialising in new media and technology for communications. This, with her passion for geography after studying at the University of Bristol, has led her to write for “Digital Diversity” and showcase examples of how technology and new methods of communication are improving the developing world, and helping individuals escape […]

Annette Brüls is Corporate Vice President for EMEA, Canada, and Latin America at Edwards Lifesciences, a position she has held since August 2024. She is also the current chair of MedTech Europe’s Cardiovascular Sector Group. Prior to joining Edwards, Brüls was the CEO of Medela, a leading breast pump brand and medical device manufacturer. Previously, […]

Vice President of Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions EMEA, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies. Alenka joined Johnson & Johnson more than 20 years ago and has held several roles of increasing local and regional responsibility across Johnson & Johnson sectors. A MedTech enthusiast who continues to challenge what’s possible in healthcare, towards ensuring that each patient […]

Bekki Burbidge is Deputy Chief Executive at the sexual health charity FPA, where she also leads the communications and information team and heads up the Sexwise programme. Before joining FPA in 2010, she worked in communications and digital roles for a number of other charities.

David Byrne began his career as a barrister in Ireland in 1970, became Attorney General ofIreland in 1997, and was appointed the first European Commissioner for Health and ConsumerProtection from 1999 to 2004. Since retiring from membership of the EU Commission, Mr. Byrne acted as Special Envoy to theDirector-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) […]

Karen Campbell, the current President of ISTAP, is an adjunct faculty member for the Master’s of Clinical Science in Wound Healing at Western University in London ON Canada. In addition, she is an associate scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. She has functioned as an advanced practice nurse in wound and continence care, and […]

Experienced professional in Market Access and Value-Based Healthcare within the Medical Devices industry, currently serving as EMEA Market Access Manager at Solventum, with a strong background in strategic leadership, health economics, stakeholder engagement, and multiple certifications and trainings in healthcare and business administration.

Former Chief Executive of Eucomed

Alexandre Ceccaldi is the General Secretary of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN), the think tank of medical applications of nanotechnologies in Europe, and coordinator of the NOBEL European Project, which acts for the convergence of all emerging medtech including digital health. He holds a PhD in biology (University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris) […]

Julie is a Senior Scientist for Siemens Healthineers in Assay Development.

Mark has been Managing Director of Translucency Limited, a reimbursement consultancy based in the UK and with an associate network across Western Europe since 1999. Prior to that he was Director of the English National Centre for Clinical Audit, after three years as Senior Medical Office in the UK Department of Health responsible for clinical […]

Kian Fan Chung is Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of Experimental Studies at National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Respiratory Physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.  He has a major interest in developing precision medicine and treatments as applied to asthma and chronic obstructive airways disease. Other research focus include […]