Eddie Turnbull

Head of eHealth, Scottish Government

Eddie Turnbull is currently the Head of eHealth for The Scottish Government.  Eddie has worked for Scottish central government for 36 years, always with ICT leadership as a career anchor. He has held various non-ICT roles ranging from Accountable Officer/Director of Finance to Operations Manager for direct public services. 

Over the years he has directed a number of large national programmes with ICT as the major enabler.  His current role is to ensure that eHealth activity across NHSScotland is coordinated and supports the aims of the NHSScotland Quality Strategy, delivers joined-up provision of healthcare in pursuit of Scotland’s 2020 Vision of health and care, and ties in with the change and improvement agendas set out by The Scottish Government. 

He is actively involved is shaping and delivering a number of Scotland’s wider strategic digital initiatives.

Phil Stradling

Citizen Identity Lead, NHS England 

Phil is the Citizen Identity Lead at NHS England; a trusted advisor and program manager with experience in shaping and delivering IT strategies and programs for online services focusing on managing engagements with customers and partners to trial new services and technologies. Phil assists with the development and standardization of privacy enhancing technology to prevent tracking of users across sites.

David Calder

dallas lead, Innovate UK

David Calder is an engineer with a background in manufacturing and new product development gained primarily with Dutch giant, Philips. There he also held process engineering and customer support roles before a move to production management.

A change of sectors followed: New Product Development for a global filtration business, looking after their process filtration product pipelines aimed at bio-pharmaceuticals. Next move was to a research and technology organisation running projects from £10,000 consultancy to £1m programme management across most industrial sectors. This included Knowledge Transfer for the Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP) and David subsequently joined the newly formed KTN Ltd in April 2014.

KTN Ltd works alongside the Innovate UK in driving innovation.

Andrew Chitty 

dallas lead, Year Zero

A respected creative leader within the UK digital media sector Andrew currently works with Creative England, The Technology Strategy Board and TRC Media as a board and advisory board member.

He served as member of the Ministerial Steering Board on behalf of the DCMS/BIS for The Digital Britain Report and was Visiting Professor of Digital Media at University College Falmouth, having previously taught on the Masters programmes at INA (Paris) and the RCA (London).
His main business focus is as founder of Digital Life Sciences launched in 2013 which aims to be the UK’s first truly online health company, bringing bring the technology and creativity of the digital sector to meet the needs of healthcare providers and their patients. The DLS team are passionate about restructuring the relationship between healthcare provider and citizen, empowering the latter and delivering efficiencies, insight and redesigned services for the former.

Simon Bramwell

Dave Horsfield

dallas lead, Mi

Following a previous career in law enforcement as the Principal Trading Standards Officer at Liverpool City Council, Dave moved over to Liverpool PCT in 2009 to lead the development of partnerships and improvement of work place health.  This role expanded to include wider community involvement and the use of technology to support self-care.

Dave coordinated development and delivery of Liverpool’s dallas (delivering assisted living lifestyles at scale) bid and now manages this £17m programme under the ‘Mi – More Independent’ brand.