Last year’s hybrid conference featured world-class keynote speakers and opportunities to share science through submitted talks and posters with leading exhibitors and various networking events.

The keynotes from the 2025 Conference are now available on the HDR UK YouTube channel.

Key themes:

  • Transforming healthcare with AI
  • Data access and information governance
  • Routine healthcare data in clinical trials
  • Public health and health inequalities
  • Innovating the data infrastructure
  • Data-driven solutions to NHS pressures
  • Public and patient involvement and engagement (PPIE) throughout the research cycle
  • Addressing societal challenges by linking health and non-health records

Keynote speakers

Raghib Ali
Dr Raghib Ali  CEO, Chief Investigator and Chief Medical Officer, Our Future Health
Naomi Allen Chief Scientist, UK Biobank
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and Chief Scientific Advisor (Health) for the Scottish Government
Professor Ben Goldacre Director, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Dr John Halamka Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform
Gerrit Meijer Chief Science Officer, Health-RI, Netherlands
Ming Tang Interim Chief Digital & Information Officer, and Chief Data & Analytics Officer, NHS England
Dr Richard Torbett Chief Executive, ABPI
Dr Ellen Thomas Chief Medical Officer, Genomics England
Professor Angela Wood NIHR Research Professor of Biostatistics and Health Data Science at University of Cambridge; Associate Director/Theme Lead for Structured Data at BHF Data Science Centre; Co-Lead/Programme Director of Big Data for Complex Diseases Driver Programme

Why you should join us in 2027

Health Data Research UK’s annual conference will be a two-day, hybrid event to celebrate progress and bring people together to accelerate the trustworthy use of health data for public benefit. This is an event dedicated to celebrating how health data science can improve people’s lives.

Learn more and register your interest in attending

What to expect

The UK is in a unique position to realise the potential of health data, thanks to the NHS and its cradle-to-grave records for a population of over 65 million people. The last few years have demonstrated the enormous power of data to advance medical knowledge and deliver radical improvements to people’s lives. But there is much more that can be done through large-scale data, advanced analytics and innovative developments in data governance.  

Health Data Research UK’s annual conference will be a two-day, hybrid event to celebrate this progress and allow us to come together and continue to build momentum in the health data research revolution.

Where the conference took place in 2025

The conference was hosted in person in Glasgow, UK. Attendees joined in person and online and accessed all the sessions as live streams. 

Code of Conduct

View HDR UK’s Code of Conduct.

Watch back presentations and panel sessions from HDR UK Conference 2025

Sponsors

Human Data Sciences
Metadataworks
UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC) logo.
The UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC)

Exhibitors

ADR UK
Aridhia & Great Ormond Street Hospital
Barts Health NHS Trust
British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
Clinical Practice Research Datalink (MHRA)
DARE UK (Data and Analytics Research Environments UK)
Dementias Platform UK
East of England Secure Data Environment
Glasgow Convention Bureau
Health Data Research Gateway
Our Future Health
Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative
Macmillian Cancer Support
Northern Secure Data Environments (SDEs) Collaboration
PEDRI & Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE)
Research Data Scotland
Smart Data Research UK
SeRP UK
TriNetX
UK Health Data Research Alliance
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