Helen Thomas and Dr Malte Gerhold to speak at Rewired 2025

Helen Thomas, chief executive of Digital Health and Care Wales, and Dr Malte Gerhold, director of innovation and improvement at The Health Foundation, have been confirmed as speakers for Digital Health Rewired 2025. 

They will present at the digital health conference, which is taking place at the NEC in Birmingham on 18-19 March 2025.

Both Thomas and Gerhold are recognised leaders in driving digital change and promise to provide insight into practical ways to accelerate transformation in healthcare.

Thomas is a digital pioneer who has been instrumental in helping the NHS in Wales to adopt data and digital advances at pace and scale.

In 2022, she was named part of Computing UK’s IT Leaders 100 – a list of the most influential IT leaders in the UK and was named Digital NHS CEO of the year at the Digital Health Networks Awards in 2021.

Thomas returns to Rewired following her popular session in 2024, titled ‘Building the Digital Workforce’, which focused on the skills required to harness digital and data for NHS modernisation, including lessons learnt from her time helping to coordinate Wales’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Gerhold is a recognised voice on the power and potential of digital change and has experience in leading collaborations across health and social care.

Following roles at digital start-up Birdie and the Care Quality Commission, he is now helping think tank, The Health Foundation to deliver radical innovation and improvement in health and care services through new digital technologies and data.

Thomas and Dr Gerhold will join keynote speakers Dr Jessica Morley, postdoctoral research associate at Yale University’s Digital Ethics Centre, and Mike Bracken, founding partner of digital change consultancy Public Digital.

Also speaking at the event are Professor Rachel Dunscombe, chief executive at OpenEHR International and Professor Henrique Martins, associate professor in health management and leadership at the University of Beira Interior Portugal and the University Institute of Lisbon.

Co-headline sponsored by The Access Group,  Rewired 2025 will see NHS leaders joined by healthcare providers and planners, researchers, and academics, established industry leaders, suppliers and promising startups.

The theme for 2025 is ‘achieving productivity, equity and improved outcomes through digital health’ and the event will feature insights and inspiration for anyone wanting to learn from the UK’s best digital health speakers and NHS case studies.

Rewired 2025 is free for those in the NHS and public sector. Private sector tickets are available from £495 +VAT.

Register here and book your accommodation early to secure the best rates.

Would you like to speak at Rewired 2025? The call for presentations is now open for applications. Apply here.