30 | THE BIG PITCH Alastair Darwood Doctor, Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Skarper and Founder of Inspired Ventilation Ltd Dr Alastair Darwood is a medical device innovator focusing on early-stage translation and prototyping. He has successfully exited two startups in the orthopaedic and anaesthetics sectors maintaining a close advisory role with their ongoing commercialisation and clinical trials. As a medical doctor, Alastair has completed his MRCS examination in addition to achieving a PhD in bioengineering from Imperial College, London. Outside of healthcare, Alastair co-founded Skarper, a startup developing a novel e-bike drive system in collaboration with Sir Chris Hoy and Red Bull Advanced Technologies. Inspired Ventilation is developing the IDAS (Inhalational Dynamic Analgesia and Sedation) system in collaboration with Intersurgical Ltd. IDAS aims to revolutionise the provision of on demand analgesia and mild to moderate sedation. www.inspiredventilation.com LinkedIn: /in/alastair-darwood-b43a6446 Lucrezia Cester AI Engineer, Clinical Scientist and Co-Founder of LightHearted AI Health Lucrezia developed an AI based optical stethoscope during her PhD. She then went to work in the NHS as an AI engineer and during this time she won a Topol Digital Fellowship which allowed her to develop the value proposition for her PhD project. She then started her own company. LightHearted has developed an operator free AI assisted laser-based stethoscope that can diagnose heart diseases in 10 seconds without the need of an expert. www.lighthearted.ai LinkedIn: /in/lucrezia-cester-phd-6740b7156/
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