
Mike Andersson
Mike is a healthcare informatics and information governance consultant. He has worked in healthcare IT for most of his career including five years as an IT Director in the NHS.
He has been involved in IT standards, not only in health care but also other fields, for many years and has considerable experience of developing and assuring technical as well as professional standards.
He is the Vice Chair for technical standards on the BCS (British Computer Society) Health & Care Executive and is its representative on the PRSB (Professional Record Standards Body) Advisory Board.

Mark Frayne
Mark has 20 years of experience working in IT. After graduating in Economics and gaining experience in the banking and legal IT sectors, he joined the NHS in 2005 to work at Aneurin Bevan Health Board as a software developer on a number of clinical systems, before becoming Head of Software Development. His current role is Lead Applications Design Architect for the NHS Wales Informatics Service, where he specialises in integrating local health board and national clinical systems to present a single view of the patient record, which can be accessed and viewed by clinicians across health sector boundaries.

Dunmail Hodkinson
As CTO at Black Pear Software, Dunmail is designing systems to support next-generation healthcare that requires interoperability and mobile ICT. His work is currently focussed on using HL7 FHIR to enable standard interfaces to UK GP systems that will enable shared and extended care.
He has been involved in health informatics for more than 10 years, after a career change from research science; as technical Architect for Apollo Medical Systems Ltd., he designed and implemented systems used to extract and aggregate primary care data for national programs.

Richard Kavanagh
Richard has over 18 years of extensive experience specialising in healthcare data architectures and interoperability.
For approximately 15 years, he led the national interoperability standards team for the NHS in England, where he played a pivotal role in numerous national projects involving HL7v2, HL7v3, CDA, and FHIR standards.
Transitioning to the private sector, Richard contributed his expertise to Graphnet Health, a prominent provider of Shared Care record systems. Here he architected data platforms capable of seamlessly integrating FHIR, SNOMED, and other essential healthcare standards.
Subsequently, Richard assumed a role as a Data Consultant at Kainos, where he collaborated on projects spanning the UK and international landscape. His focus revolved around implementing data standards, predominantly FHIR, into enterprise-level systems.
Currently, Richard serves as the Head of Technology UK&I at Better, an organisation dedicated to leveraging healthcare standards to develop cutting-edge healthcare platforms. In this capacity, he orchestrates the utilisation of healthcare standards to construct innovative solutions for healthcare organisations.

Omar Khan

Ben McAlister
Ben is a Senior Solution Strategist at Cerner where he works on their interoperability development strategy with a focus on European markets. Prior to joining Cerner 10 years ago he worked at an Acute Hospital Trust as a Service Development Manager for Planning and Commissioning and as an Information Manager. He studied Health Informatics at UCL and is an Associate Vice Chair of Standards for the British Computer Society (BCS) Health and Care Group and is the BCS nominated representative on the British Standards Institute IST/35 Health Informatics Committee.

Louise Parberry
In her role as a Sales Engineer at InterSystems, Louise has provided healthcare software suppliers with both high level architectural advice and low level technical solutions. Involved with HL7 since 2002, she has assisted with implementations at over 15 trusts. Other projects have included the CSC TIE and MHS, ITK ADT and PDS Spine Mini Services and connecting to SCI Gateway, Louise is also the TC v2 Subgroup Supplier Co-chair, the IHE UK Supplier Co-chair, and been active in PRSB, DHACA and TechUK meetings.

Philip Scott
Philip worked in the NHS from 1994-2009, and since then in academic health and care informatics. Philip is Programme Director of the MSc in Digital Skills for the Health and Care Professions at University of Wales Trinity St David (UWTSD). He is Deputy Editor of BMJ Health & Care Informatics, and national representative to the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI). He co-chairs the BCS working group on computable biomedical knowledge.

Rik Smithies
Rik Smithies is an independent HL7 FHIR consultant and trainer.
He has over 25 years in the healthcare software industry, as a developer and architect of health systems.
Rik is a former Chair of HL7 UK, an official HL7 International FHIR tutor, and was elected a Fellow of HL7 International in 2022, to mark two decades of volunteer service.
An active member and committer on the FHIR development team, in early 2013 Rik created the first UK FHIR client and demonstration server implementation.

Mike Snowden
Mike was a “Lead” on BT’s London LSP team, with responsibilities for interoperability and specification, at both national message and institutional data levels. His background is in integration & interoperability, standards and Messaging architectures, where he has more than 35 years’ experience.
While no longer actively developing connected Health solutions, he remains active in Blue light solutions, and is a passionate advocate of data in healthcare.

Ian Townend
Ian has over 15 years’ experience in health IT. After graduating he joined NHS Connecting for Health developing HL7v3 messages for the Spine before expanding to work on the NHS Data Model and Dictionary as well as SNOMED. He left NHS Connecting for Health to join NHS England as the Data Projects Lead working on standards, data sets and on the care.data programme. Following this he moved to work within the architecture team as Lead Architect for NHS England across a range of architecture and standards domains.
In 2020 Ian became the Chief Architect for NHSX leading across a range of architecture domain areas including Enterprise, Identity, Cloud, Infrastructure and Data as well as supporting a range of programmes across NHSX such as Child Health and Maternity, Patient Facing Services, PODAC and medicines.
Ian has previously served as a co-chair for the data types group within HL7 UK as well a range of co-chair positions with HL7 International including data types, templates and patient care.

Sophie Lowsley
Sophie holds the position of solutions architect at Interweave. Interweave is an NHS asset which provide a shared care record platform. She has over 20 years of experience in the software/IT industry and has worked for the NHS in various technical roles since 2009. Prior to joining Interweave, Sophie worked as a full stack developer for an acute NHS trust. During this time she developed and integrated various clinical systems, using a number of industry recognised data and information standards. In her current role, she has been heavily involved in developing FHIR profiles for enabling interoperability between health and care providers within the interweave product stack.