Sponsors

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West Yorkshire Combined Authority

We are working for a brighter West Yorkshire. We want to make our region the best place to live, work and do business. A region that is prosperous, well connected, safe, inclusive and an engine room of ideas and creativity where anyone can make a home.
Alongside the five West Yorkshire local authorities, we work in partnership to deliver services and investments that directly benefit the people in our region: transforming lives, boosting opportunity, connecting people and communities.

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Event Sponsor

York Health Economics Consortium

York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) is a health economics consulting company owned by the University of York. It provides a range of services to help clients demonstrate the value of health innovation, including economic modelling, literature searching, evidence reviews, network meta-analyses, patient-reported outcomes, service review and applied research and training to the NHS and the pharmaceutical and health care industries. Clients include MedTech and digital health companies, NHS England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS trusts and large multi-national pharmaceutical, device and nutrition companies. YHEC combines rigorous research standards with efficient project delivery.

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Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber

We are the health innovation adoption experts. Our mission is to improve health and life outcomes and stimulate growth in the health and life sciences sector. We connect organisations across the health and care ecosystem to a rich pipeline of innovation and support innovators to develop, implement and evaluate their solutions.

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Nexus

Nexus is a vibrant community for innovators and entrepreneurs. We help turn your big ideas into reality, whether that’s developing a new product or growing a successful business.
Nexus brings together the brightest minds from business, technology and academia. Our community of high growth businesses is located across the globe but has its physical base in a state-of-the-art innovation hub on the University of Leeds campus.

We offer support to pioneering businesses who share a commitment to making a positive impact on health.
Whether that's through digital products, medtech innovations or data-driven services with the potential to transform healthcare delivery. We introduce these businesses into Leeds' thriving health ecosystem, where we can help them research and develop products, build viable commercial propositions and open the door for wider deployment through the health services.

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Optum

Optum and EMIS have come together as one organisation, uniting two leaders in healthcare innovation. EMIS’s expertise in enabling the NHS to deliver integrated care through technology, combined with Optum’s global expertise in advanced analytics and medicines optimisation, makes us uniquely positioned to drive meaningful change. Together, we’re supporting the NHS’s vision for integrated, streamlined, and efficient healthcare - helping people live healthier lives and making health systems work better for everyone.

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Sponsorship is a fantastic way to promote your brand in association with the life sciences industry.

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