From Idea to Impact: An afternoon with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and Barclays Eagle Labs
Join Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) and Barclays Eagle Labs on 4 November for an inspiring afternoon bringing together healthcare innovators, AI pioneers, investors, founders and business leaders from across the South East.
This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from innovative businesses developing cutting-edge technologies, connect with investors actively supporting growth-stage companies, and learn how organisations such as Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and Barclays Eagle Labs help innovators navigate the journey from concept to adoption and scale.
You’ll hear from pioneering healthcare technology companies Panakeia and Nightingale & Sentinel, gain insights from Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and Maven Capital Partners, and leave with valuable new connections across the innovation ecosystem.
Whether you’re looking for funding, strategic partnerships, mentoring, healthcare market insight or simply the opportunity to connect with like-minded innovators, this event is for you.
📍 Event Agenda
3:30pm – Arrival & Networking
Arrive, grab a refreshment and begin building connections with founders, innovators, healthcare leaders, investors and members of the wider innovation ecosystem.
4:00pm – Welcome from Barclays Eagle Labs & Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
An introduction to the afternoon, highlighting the organisations, programmes and opportunities available to support innovative businesses across the region.
4:10pm – From Idea to Impact: Innovator Showcase
Hear directly from founders and innovators who are solving real-world challenges, building transformative technologies and navigating the journey from innovation to adoption.
Hasan, Commercial Director of Clinical Sales, Panakeia
Hasan leads revenue and commercial strategy for Panakeia’s AI-powered cancer diagnostics business. His focus is taking innovation from validation into routine clinical use, recruiting NHS sites for multisite evaluations, developing channel partnerships and supporting expansion into international markets including the US and India.
With more than 14 years of healthcare experience, Hasan has spent the last several years working within AI-driven healthcare businesses. Prior to joining Panakeia, he held commercial roles at Skin Analytics and Proximie, following nine years with Johnson & Johnson.
Throughout his career, Hasan has focused on the same challenge: helping innovative technologies reach patients by successfully navigating the NHS, from clinicians and pathologists to commissioners and healthcare systems.
About Panakeia
Panakeia is a world-leading in silico multi-omics company developing artificial intelligence solutions that uncover complete biology at scale and accelerate precision medicine research, drug discovery, development and clinical decision-making.
Its flagship platform, PANProfiler, uses a biology-first AI approach to determine biomarker status across DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites directly from routinely used pathology tissue images, helping clinicians access critical diagnostic information in minutes rather than days or weeks.
The platform has been independently validated through peer-reviewed publications, including Nature Communications Medicine, where it was recognised as one of the journal’s Top 25 papers of 2024.
Two UKCA-marked clinical products, PANProfiler Breast and PANProfiler Colorectal, are already being used within hospitals to support faster and more accessible precision diagnostics. Panakeia is currently supporting a multi-site NHS evaluation of PANProfiler Colorectal and was selected to participate in the MHRA’s AI Airlock regulatory sandbox, helping shape the future of AI diagnostic regulation in the UK.
Dr Alexandru-Átilá Morlocan, Founder, CEO & CSO, Nightingale & Sentinel
Dr Alexandru-Átilá Morlocan is an NHS Emergency Medicine physician, deep-tech architect and founder of Nightingale & Sentinel. Combining frontline clinical experience with advanced AI engineering, Atila is dedicated to building privacy-first artificial intelligence that solves systemic healthcare challenges.
A passionate advocate for clinician-led AI governance, he champions technology that supports healthcare professionals whilst ensuring diagnostic authority remains firmly in human hands.
About Nightingale & Sentinel
Nightingale & Sentinel has developed Virtual Witness, the world’s first privacy-first evidence layer for unwitnessed medical emergencies.
Every year, the NHS ambulance service responds to more than 3.3 million callouts involving people aged over 65, with falls accounting for a significant proportion of those emergencies. In care homes alone, an estimated 240,000 unwitnessed falls annually can result in diagnostic uncertainty, unnecessary ambulance callouts and avoidable hospital admissions.
Virtual Witness transforms existing camera infrastructure into passive clinical sensors. Within 40 seconds of an incident, clinicians receive an objective event report whilst raw footage is processed locally and immediately deleted, ensuring patient dignity and privacy.
Supported by NVIDIA Inception, Google for Startups, Barclays Eagle Labs, Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and Innovate UK Business Growth, Nightingale & Sentinel is launching its clinical pilot with South Central Ambulance Service this autumn.
4:40pm – Fireside Chat: Turning Innovation into Adoption and Growth
Athina Lockyer, Head of Portfolio, Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex
Athina leads portfolio activities within the Innovation and Enterprise team at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex. With more than 15 years of NHS experience, she has built an extensive track record of creating impactful partnerships between healthcare systems and innovative businesses.
Athina supports entrepreneurs both individually and through nationally delivered innovation programmes, helping accelerate adoption, spread and patient access to healthcare technologies. By aligning product development with system needs, evidence generation and market access requirements, she helps innovators successfully navigate the healthcare landscape.
Athina is dual-qualified as an Adult Nurse and Health Visitor, holds a Master’s degree in Public Health Practice and is a Darzi Fellow alumna.
Alex Lawrence Berkeley, Investment Manager, Maven Capital Partners
Alex is an Investment Manager within the South East Investment Fund (SEIF) managed by Maven Capital Partners.
Having spent more than a decade working within and alongside startups, Alex has built hands-on experience across energy, hydrogen, telecommunications, robotics, media, defence, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence. Following several successful startup exits, he now works from the investor side of the table, helping ambitious businesses secure growth capital.
The £210m South East Investment Fund, backed by the British Business Bank, supports businesses across Sussex, Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight. Maven manages the equity investment element of the fund, supporting later-stage startups, scale-ups and SMEs with growth investment.
Discussion Themes
- Supporting healthcare innovation across Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Navigating NHS adoption and market access
- What investors are looking for in innovative businesses
- Funding and growth opportunities for ambitious founders
- The future of healthcare innovation and AI
- Building the right partnerships to accelerate commercial success
5:10pm – Networking, Food & Drinks
Continue the conversation over refreshments while connecting with founders, healthcare innovators, investors, clinicians and business leaders.
This is an excellent opportunity to speak directly with the event speakers, learn about their innovation journeys and explore opportunities for future collaboration.
6:00pm – Event Close
Meet the Barclays Eagle Labs Team
Throughout the event you’ll have the opportunity to meet the Barclays Eagle Labs team and discover how we support businesses at every stage of growth.
Whether you’re seeking:
✅ Funding and investment opportunities
✅ Strategic introductions and partnerships
✅ Mentoring and expert guidance
✅ Innovation and growth programmes
✅ AI and technology support
✅ Connections across the wider ecosystem
our team will be on hand to help you explore the opportunities available and introduce you to the right people, programmes and networks.
Spaces are limited
Register today to join fellow innovators, investors, founders and healthcare leaders for an afternoon of insight, inspiration and meaningful connections.
Meet the innovators. Meet the investors. Discover what’s possible when great ideas are given the support they need to succeed.
