HTN is delighted to share an initial outline agenda for HTN Live 2026 – a unique collaboration experience for healthcare leaders.
Taking place 16 September 2026, at the Crowne Plaza in Leeds, HTN Live is a focused event centred around participation, and is set to provide 100 NHS leaders with: deep dive workshops, roundtables, insightful panel discussions, speed presentations, informal meeting opportunities and networking, curated speed networking and innovation showcases, and time to tackle challenges and collaborate.
Promising to be an event like no other, HTN Live will pose challenge questions, facilitate discussion and participation, and provide a place for conversations to go deeper.
We’re delighted to share for HTN Live 2026 we will be joined by Rackspace, Nervecentre, Imprivata, Restore Information Management, X-on Health, Civica, Aire Logic, and Noveva Software Group.
View the outline agenda here >
This month we also announced the first group of fantastic people supporting the agenda:
- Will Monaghan, Group CDIO, University Hospitals of Leicester and University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
- Kathryn Kaboutian, Group deputy CDIO, North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT
- Rob Birkett, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT/ Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Mark Crannage, Deputy CIO, Cambridgeshire Community Services and Norfolk Community Health and Care
- Penny Kechagioglou, CCIO and Deputy CMO, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
- Amanda Jackson, Associate CCIO, Leeds Community Healthcare
- Lorna Allan, CDIO, Northern Care Alliance
- Ciara Moore, EPR Operations Director, Bath, Salisbury and Great Western Group
- Kelvyn Hipperson, Executive CIO, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly ICB, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust, and Cornwall Partnership NHS FT
- Sarah Hanbridge, CCIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
- Claire Humphreys, Divisional Chief Nurse Strategy, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
- Lucy Weeks, CNO, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare
- John Lynch, CCIO and Digital Clinical Lead, Suffolk and North East Essex ICB
- Misbah Mahmood, CXIO and CSO, Bradford District Care NHS FT
- Sarah Buchan, CIO and SIRO, Norfolk Community Health and Care and Cambridgeshire Community Services
- Ravinder Kaur Sahota, Group CIO, The Dudley Group and Sandwell and West Birmingham
- Mayur Vibhuti, CCIO, Kent and Medway ICB
- Lee Rickles, CIO, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Neill Crump, Group Associate Director of Innovation & Partnerships, The Dudley Group and Sandwell and West Birmingham
- Samson Ossai, Lead Digital Clinical Safety Officer, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Patrick Denston, PCN Digital Change Manager, Frimley ICB
- Tom Stocker, EPR Advisor, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
- Zephan Trent, Executive Director of Digital, Strategy, and Transformation, Mid and South Essex and Essex Partnership University
View the outline agenda here >
The event is free for NHS employees to attend and you can register your place here. For other guests wishing to attend, please email marketing@htn.co.uk
HTN Live 2025 was a huge success, an event where delegates participated, debated challenge questions, and deep dived into discussion, through a varied thought provoking agenda. HTN Live 2026 is set to be even better!
To get involved in the 2026 event, learn more here, or email marketing@htn.co.uk
For now, here’s some highlights from 2025!
