A two-day NHS healthcare innovation festival in London, structured as several parallel shows under one roof, connecting NHS professionals with health-tech entrepreneurs, AI solutions, procurement leaders and medtech investors, and free to attend for NHS staff.
GIANT Health, the Global Innovation and New Technology health event, is an annual healthcare innovation festival held at the Business Design Centre in London. It runs as several concurrent shows across two days, covering NHS systems, procurement, AI and the future hospital, and it draws around 3,000 delegates from across the NHS, the health-tech industry and the investment community. The event is free to attend for NHS staff and structures its content around the priorities of NHS organisations, with a startup and investor component running alongside.
GIANT Health closes the EMEA digital health year by putting NHS professionals and health-tech innovators in the same building. Its purpose is adoption and connection inside the UK health system: helping NHS organisations find and assess new technology, and helping founders and investors reach NHS buyers. The festival format, with parallel shows under one roof, lets a delegate move between procurement, AI and clinical-service content in a single visit.
Content spans the priorities of the NHS innovation agenda:
GIANT Health is built as several parallel shows, including:
A startup pitch component runs for health-tech companies seeking investment.
The programme draws NHS leaders, clinicians and innovators. Recent and recurring participants include Penny Dash, Professor Nora Colton and Dr Keith Grimes, with the full 2026 line-up confirmed closer to the event.
Both, by design. The content is anchored in NHS priorities and is free for NHS staff, while a health-tech industry and investor layer runs alongside to connect suppliers and founders with NHS buyers.
Both are UK NHS-focused, but they sit at opposite ends of the year and differ in form. HETT is an ExCeL exhibition with CPD-certified streams in late September; GIANT Health is a December festival of parallel shows at the Business Design Centre with a stronger startup and investor component.
GIANT Health is held at the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1, in Islington. The venue is a central London exhibition and conference centre well served by public transport.
GIANT Health is the United Kingdom-based independent organiser of the festival, focused on connecting NHS professionals with health-tech entrepreneurs, investors and innovators. It maintains a large community of NHS leaders and innovators and positions the event as the UK's reference NHS innovation festival.
GIANT Health closes the EMEA digital health year in London as an NHS innovation festival: free for NHS staff, structured as several parallel shows on AI, procurement and the future hospital, and built to put health-tech founders in front of the people who actually buy in the NHS.
Registration is open through the official website. NHS staff attend free with an institutional email; academics pay 50 GBP; business tickets start at 100 GBP at the super early-bird rate and executive tickets at 202 GBP, both rising through tiered deadlines towards the event. All non-NHS tickets are subject to UK VAT.
Yes. NHS staff attend free with a valid institutional email. Non-NHS tickets are tiered, from academic rates to business and executive passes.
At the Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1.
Yes. The festival offers CPD accreditation across its programme.
| Official website | https://www.giant.health/ |
| Tickets | https://www.giant.health/tickets |
| Venue | https://www.businessdesigncentre.co.uk/ |