‘FinHealthTech’: New opportunities at the intersection of health and wealth

This community-building event brings together experts across health, finance, technology, policy, and data science to discuss future directions for combined health and wealth management. The event opens with a clear agenda, introductions, and speakers sharing their visions and experiences in this space. It is followed by a panel & audience discussion and then a closed Roundtable to further scope opportunities and risks. The overall goal of this event is to generate a first-step Scoping Report and to map out possible future steps.

Date: 5th December 2019

Venue: The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Agenda

10:00—10:20 aM: WELCOME & OPENING ADDRESSES (Enigma Room)

  • Introduction: framing the context and purpose (Speaker: Becky Inkster)

  • Two experts set the stage on ‘What are the approaches being used for financial data?’ (Speaker: Gareth McNab, Nationwide, Co-Leader of Open Banking for Good) and ‘What are the approaches used for health data?’ (Speaker: Stan Shepherd, CEO, Instant Access Medical).

 

10:20—10:45 am: Lightning Talks (Enigma Room)

  • Monzo & Lyrical Kombat (5min): Building financial literacy.

  • Toucan (5min): Alliance banking.

  • Ducit.ai (5min): Deep financial assessment with Christians Against Poverty and Community Money Advice.

  • Wysa (5min): AI-enabled mental health chatbot exploring financial health.

 

10:45—11:15 am: Panel & Audience Discussion (Enigma Room)

  • Chair: Lukasz Szpruch, Director of Finance and Economics Programme, The Alan Turing Institute.

  • Panellists: Katie Alpin, Head of Research and Policy, Money & Mental Health Policy Institute; Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Director, National Problem Gambling Clinic and National Centre for Gaming Disorders; Niall Boyce, Editor, The Lancet Psychiatry; Jessica Lennard, Director of External Affairs, Data Science Lab, Visa.

 

11:15 am: End of Open Meeting / Coffee Break

 11:30—1 pm: Closed Roundtable Meeting (By Invitation; Board Room tbd) 

Scoping questions:

  • E.g., What is the state-of-play in each field (what data is being used)?

  • E.g., Where are the opportunities? What are the possible ‘quick win’ and longer term pathways to impact we could achieve?

  • E.g., What are the barriers and risks (data ethics, legal, professional, digital rights)?

1 pm: End of Meeting (Lunch not provided)

1:30—4 pm: Optional afternoon session (open to all)

Start to map out the specifics around topics discussed, questions raised etc. (e.g., what data sets are available? what specific pathways to impact are ready to build combined health and wealth strategies? What are the ethical issues?)