The Main Stage Day 1 agenda is below. Stay tuned for Day 2, for more thought-provoking sessions and keynote presentations (including the mystery keynote speaker).

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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. 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
10:30
  1. Keynote Speaker To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
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 Helene Kretzmer
    Helene Kretzmer, Professor of Computational Genomics - Hasso Plattner Institute
    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. More Details To Be Announced Shortly
    Main Stage
    30 mins
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