WIRED is excited to announce the speakers on the Bupa Startup Stage at WIRED HEALTH, the forthcoming one-day-summit taking place on Friday, April 24.

The Bupa Startup Stage will bring together both emerging and established entrepreneurs from the world of medicine and health, all charged with presenting brand new ideas, stimulating debate and showcasing what they perceive the future to be.

Confirmed speakers on the Bupa Startup Stage so far include:

  • Marcus Foster, Klarismo, which provides affordable MRI scans for amateur athletes and people curious about their physiology
  • Johann Huber, SOMA Analytics, which helps workers measure, manage and reduce stress in the workplace using a smartphone
  • Jorge Armanet, HealthUnlocked, the multi-lingual social network which has hundreds of online support communities for its 2.5 million users
  • Rich Khatib, Medopad, a mobile health operating system that allows doctors access to secure patient data and information when they need it
  • Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, NaturalCycles, a natural birth-control app that uses analytics instead of chemicals to prevent pregnancies
  • David Ingram, PIP by Galvanic Ltd, which allows users to understand and manage stress with a combination of apps and biosensors
  • Ana Maiques, Neuroelectrics, a wireless telemedicine platform to assist diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders

Designed to introduce, explain and predict the coming trends facing the medical and personal health industries, WIRED HEALTH will once again gather insight from scientists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders crafting the future of health, and offer a tight focus on this sector.

Speakers on the main stage at WIRED HEALTH include Gadi Amit, founder of NewDealDesign and the designer behind some of Silicon Valley's most exciting projects, who will discuss how sensors should act when they meet the body; Eleanor A Maguire, professor of cognitive neuroscience at UCL where she researches memory, studying how the brain allows us to find our way around and to remember our experiences along the way; Brad Perkins, chief medical officer at Human Longevity Inc, the company founded by Craig Venter, Peter Diamandis and Robert Hariri to fight age-related diseases; Cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center and professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, who will explain how video games are the future of medicine and education; Jen Hyatt, CEO of Big White Wall and a social entrepreneur using technology to transform mental healthcare; Clive G Brown, CTO of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a UK company that invented a DNA sequencer the size of a USB stick, who will speak on how their invention will enable an "internet of living things"; Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Society university research fellow and professor of cognitive neuroscience at UCL, who will speak about how brains develop during adolescence; Jack Kreindler, high-altitude medic and health- and future-technology evangelist who will present a special session curated by the Singularity University/Exponential Medicine. One speaker within this session with be: Marty Kohn, chief medical scientist at Sentrian, which is creating predictive analytic systems that integrate home monitoring with other health data. Kohn was formerly the chief medical scientist at IBM Research, overseeing the use of the Watson supercomputer in healthcare; Matteo Lai, cofounder and CEO of Empatica, a human data analytics company based in Milan and Boston. Empatica recently launched Embrace, the first medical-grade wearable for people with epilepsy and autism; Sophie de Oliveira Barata, a prosthetics artist creating gadget limbs for amputees, and the founder of the Alternative Limb Project; Lama Nachman, principal engineer at Intel Labs, and leader of the Anticipatory Computing Lab. She will speak about a three-year project to keep famous physicist Stephen Hawking communicating; Nigel Ackland, who describes himself as "an ordinary man with an extraordinary arm", and will speak about the experiences of living with a bionic prosthetic; Sonia Trigueros, co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Nanotechnology, who is using nanotech to develop new medicines such as a drug delivery system for cancer cells; Marc Koska, the British inventor of the iconic K1 auto-disable syringe - Koska's mission is to make the use of auto-disable syringes mandatory globally; and John F Cryan, a neuroscientist studying how the gut influences stress and behavior; Andy Walshe, director of high performance for Red Bull, where he works with international athletes. He was also part of Red Bull Stratos, leading the performance plan for Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking jump to Earth from the stratosphere in 2012. He will talk about elite human performance; Geoff McGrath, vice president at McLaren Applied Technologies, will describe how they are applying McLaren's experience in real-time data processing and predictive analytics in F1 to remote biotelemetry of patients in clinical trials; Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy Group UK, will talk about how advances in the behavioural sciences are transforming government approaches to public health.

WIRED HEALTH will be hosted once again at 30 Euston Square, home to the Royal College of General Practitioners, and will be a haven for disruptive thinking and innovation.

As with the annual flagship events and the magazine's other one-day summits, WIRED MONEY & WIRED RETAIL, WIRED HEALTH will bring together the most talented people, forward-thinking innovators and captivating thought leaders, both on stage and off.

Aimed at a high-level executive audience, attendees will enjoy the opportunity to network with like-minded, intellectually curious individuals from the sector including physicians, senior healthcare executives, innovators and investors, disrupters and incumbents.

There are a limited number of tickets available for WIRED HEALTH, at a price of £995*. For further information, or for registration, go to www.wired.co.uk/health15.

*A 10% discount is available to WIRED subscribers. A 50% discount is available for NHS or Government employees and for health sector startups.