Joe Stringer Keynote Speaker

Healthtech expert and investor.
Former market leader for Google Health in EMEA.
Former lead at the healthtech team at Octopus Ventures.

Joe Stringer's Biography

Joe Stringer has over 24 years of experience in health technology, covering technology deployment and management consulting across healthcare systems around the world. Today, he is Executive Chair at Automata and an Advisory Board Member for Wellness Solutions and AI at Holland & Barrett. He also holds multiple advisory roles at businesses including Mettle, SymbioTex and AdviceInc, among others. He has founded several successful businesses in the sector and is now an early-stage healthtech investor.

Joe previously led the healthtech team at Octopus Ventures, one of Europe’s most active venture capital firms, with a vision to improve over a billion lives by backing category-defining healthtech companies. A firm believer in accessible and affordable healthcare for all, Joe is an active advocate for tackling healthcare through longevity and wellbeing, including in public health. He also served for six years as a Trustee of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).

Prior to Octopus Ventures, Joe was Market Leader for Google Health in EMEA and led the Ventures and Healthcare practices for EY in the UK. He is a proactive advocate for impact investing and the significant role that risk capital can play in developing affordable and accessible healthcare systems around the world, irrespective of how they are funded. He has contributed to a number of thought leadership reports on healthtech and is a contributor to the book Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond.

Healthcare & health technology

Scaling businesses in healthcare

Venture Capital & impact investing

The role of technology in affordable and accessible healthcare systems

He helps organisations harness health technology and innovation to improve healthcare outcomes, making care more accessible, affordable and effective through strategic investment and digital transformation.
He translates deep expertise in healthtech, venture capital and digital health into practical insights, enabling leaders to navigate innovation, scale transformative businesses and shape the future of healthcare.
He combines leadership experience across Google Health, Octopus Ventures and EY with board and investor perspectives, offering a unique view of how technology, investment and policy intersect to drive better health systems.
As a leading healthtech investor and adviser, he has backed pioneering companies and championed innovations that improve longevity, wellbeing and public health while accelerating the adoption of next-generation healthcare solutions.
His keynotes equip audiences to understand the future of healthcare, leverage emerging technologies responsibly and seize the opportunities created by digital health, AI and innovation in health systems.