Commercialising Cyber-security in HealthTech with Barclays Eagle Labs

Join Barclays Eagle Labs as they explore the vital aspect of health-based software and devices. Cyber-security and privacy can be complicated but for those who master them, they can provide a commercial advantage. So, speakers shall be discussing commercial approaches to software security and privacy in companies at the leading edge of health innovation, from both a practitioner and an academic perspective.

In this session you, the audience, will hear from a panel of experts across academia, entrepreneurs and business who will have a discussion on the approaches you can take in commercialising cyber security in HealthTech. The format will be interactive, with polls, votes and questions provided by yourselves.

Speakers:

Jen Estherby

Jen Estherby, Barclays Eagle Labs HealthTech Lead

Over the last 3 years, Jen has built a national ecosystem of HealthTech businesses to highlight and showcase new and emerging technologies in healthcare by bringing together industry experts, innovators, academics and health and social care providers to support the transformation of the healthcare industry through collaboration, innovation and technology.

Dan Prince

Dan Prince, Senior Lecturer in Security and Protection Science at Lancaster University. Dan specialises in Cyber Risk Management in complex socio-technical systems. He leads the PETRAS HIPSTER project, exploring ways to bring good cyber risk assessments to SME software development in Health IoT.

Caroline Laurenson

Caroline Laurenson, Managing Director of TL Tech Smart Home Solutions. TL Tech specialise in supporting people to maintain their independence in their own homes and are passionate about breaking down barriers to help people access digital solutions. In 2020, TL Tech pivoted its business to focus on supporting customers remotely in new innovative ways. In November 2020, Caroline and her team launched Kindspace, a voice application for Amazon Alexa that supports wellbeing, empowers self-care, helps to alleviate loneliness and supports mental health. 

Darren Crombie

Darren Crombie is passionate about social good, standing up, and standing out. Darren leads Upstream Health and Bridgit Care supporting the 1 billion people around the world that make the biggest difference to our lives and the health system; family carers.

Bridgit Care is a Social Enterprise that have been supported by Innovate UK, NHS England and SBRI funding over the last year to develop their family carer support platform and network. Bridgit care have developed several solutions to support carers including a digital online support tool, carers app, carer charity store, and technology-enabled care to help carers remotely support their loved ones.  

Bridgit also developed a new form of Social Care IoT solution called the home hub. This device provides a simple interface for elderly users, and captures a number of key health and environment readings that are sent to Azure for AI processing before triggering alerts and proposed actions to family members. Darren has lots of lessons to share on how to (and not to!) develop secure IoT solutions.

Topics covered:

• Key advice for dealing with security for those embarking in this space
• Recent and forthcoming cyber changes in health tech
• How to use cybersecurity for commercial gain?
• How do we talk about cybersecurity with developers to improve health tech?