The Main Stage Day 1 and Day 2 agenda is below

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09:00
  1. The Future for Genomics and the NHS Shaped by New Government Strategies
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Dame Sue Hill
    Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer - NHS England
09:30
  1. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
10:00
  1. Keynote Address
    Main Stage
    15 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Minister Zubir Ahmed
    Minister Zubir Ahmed, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety - Department of Health and Social Care 
10:15
  1. Panel Discussion: Practical Strategies to Deliver the Next Decade of UK Health and Care – What’s Next for Our NHS?
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Dame Sue Hill
    Dame Sue Hill, Chief Scientific Officer - NHS England
    Speaker image for Richard Scott
    Richard Scott, Chief Executive Officer - Genomics England 
    Speaker image for Suzanne Rankin
    Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive Officer - Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
10:45
  1. Hope, Perseverance, and the Promise of Advanced Therapies
    Main Stage
    15 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Funmi Vanessa Ullam
    Funmi Vanessa Ullam, Patient Advocate and Founder - CrescentKids
11:00
  1. Networking Break
    Main Stage
    30 mins
11:30
  1. Nanopore Sequencing to Understand and Diagnose Brain Tumours
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Matthew Loose
    Matthew Loose, Academic Lead of DeepSeq - University of Nottingham
12:00
  1. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
12:30
  1. Panel Discussion: From Precision Medicine to Precision Analysis: Integrating Long-Reads as a Frontline Diagnostic
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Alena van Bommel
    Alena van Bommel, Associate Professor for Neuroepigenetics and Data Science at the Biomedical Center - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
    Speaker image for Anna Lindstrand
    Anna Lindstrand, Director of the Clinical Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory - Karolinska University Hospital
    Speaker image for Christopher Watson
    Christopher Watson, Associate Professor of Molecular Diagnostics - University of Leeds
13:00
  1. Lunch Break
    Main Stage
    70 mins
14:10
  1. Long-read Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Primary Mitochondrial DNA Disorders
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Robert Pitceathly
    Robert Pitceathly, Professor of Clinical Neurology and Mitochondrial Medicine - University College London
14:40
  1. New Frontiers – HiFi Sequencing Technology Updates
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Neil Ward
    Neil Ward, VP & GM EMEA - PacBio
    Speaker image for Mohammed Uddin
    Mohammed Uddin, Director, Centre for Applied and Translational Genomics (CATG) | Founder - MBRU | GenomeArc Inc.
15:10
  1. The Potential of Long-Reads to Uncover New Therapeutic Targets
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Wilfried Haerty
    Wilfried Haerty, Group Leader - Earlham Institute
15:40
  1. Networking Break
    Main Stage
    30 mins
16:10
  1. The Evolving Sequencing Landscape: How All the New Technologies Stack Up
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Michael Quail
    Michael Quail, Principal Scientist - R&D Sequencing - Wellcome Sanger Institute 
16:40
  1. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
17:10
  1. Long-Read Sequencing: Enabling High-Resolution Population and Medical Genomics
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Adam Ameur
    Adam Ameur, Associate Professor of Genomics and Bioinformatics - Uppsala University
09:00
  1. UK Biobank: Crowdsourcing Discovery Science
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Sir Rory Collins
    Sir Rory Collins, Chief Executive - UK Biobank
09:30
  1. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
10:00
  1. The Future of Clinical Trials in The UK: Aligning National Assets With Industry Needs
    Main Stage
    10 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Raghib Ali
    Raghib Ali, Chief Executive - Our Future Health
10:10
  1. Panel Discussion: Genomics, Strategy and the Next Decade of UK Life Sciences
    Main Stage
    50 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Dame Anna Dominiczak
    Dame Anna Dominiczak, Chief Scientific Adviser (Health) - Scottish Government
    Speaker image for Isabel Oliver
    Isabel Oliver, Chief Medical Officer - Welsh Government
    Speaker image for Lawrence Tallon
    Lawrence Tallon, Chief Executive - MHRA
    Speaker image for Steve Bates
    Steve Bates, Executive Chair - Office for Life Sciences
    Speaker image for Richard Torbett
    Richard Torbett, Chief Executive  - Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) 
    Speaker image for Beth Thompson
    Beth Thompson, Director of Policy & Partnerships - Wellcome Trust
    Speaker image for Raghib Ali
    Raghib Ali, Chief Executive - Our Future Health
11:00
  1. Networking Break
    Main Stage
    30 mins
11:30
  1. Pivoting the work of General Practice - a new dawn which uses data to create a proactive personalised preventive medicine approach.
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Adrian Hayter
    Adrian Hayter, Medical Director - Royal College of General Practitioners
12:00
  1. Tracking Inherited Cancer Risk: How the NIPR Enables Early Detection and Improved Care
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Helen Hanson
    Helen Hanson, Consultant in Clinical Genetics - Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
12:30
  1. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Christofer Toumazou
    Christofer Toumazou, Regius Professor of Engineering - Imperial College London
13:00
  1. Lunch Break
    Main Stage
    75 mins
14:15
  1. Pinprick Blood Test that Could Detect Disease 10 Years Before Symptoms
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Julian Mutz
    Julian Mutz, King’s Prize Research Fellow - King's College London
14:45
  1. Cracking Nature’s Code: How the Naked Mole-Rat’s DNA May Unlock Healthy Ageing
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Gabriel Balmus
    Gabriel Balmus, Group Leader - UK Dementia Research Institute, University of Cambridge
15:15
  1. From Rare Disease to Breakthrough: What First-In-Human Gene Therapy for Hunter Syndrome Means for Advanced Therapies
    Main Stage
    30 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Simon Jones
    Simon Jones, Consultant in Paediatric Inherited Metabolic Diseases - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
16:15
  1. Panel Discussion: Beyond Sick Care: Building a Prevention-Driven Health System in the UK?
    Main Stage
    45 mins
    Speakers
    Speaker image for Cosima Gretton
    Cosima Gretton, Executive Director of Digital Health and Deputy Chief Medical Officer -  Our Future Health
    Speaker image for Vageesh Jain
    Vageesh Jain, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Senior Lecturer - NHS South West London
    Speaker image for Shireen Kassam
    Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist, Lifestyle Medicine Physician - King’s College Hospital
    Speaker image for Thomas Beaney
    Thomas Beaney,  Clinical Research Fellow and GP - The George Institute for Global Health 
    Speaker image for Adrian Hayter
    Adrian Hayter, Medical Director - Royal College of General Practitioners