Philip Breedon

Philip Breedon is Professor of Smart Technologies at Nottingham Trent University. Philip is the NTU lead for membership of the UK-Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UKRAS) network and is a member and lead assessor for the UK’s Department of Health National Institute for Health Research invention for innovation (NIHR i4i) funding panel. He is also a member of the Royal College of Surgeons MSK Robotic and Digital Surgery Subgroup and is a Royal Academy of Engineering mentor. His research interests and latest projects centre on new and emerging technologies and materials. This includes wearable technologies, 3D/4D printing, additive and subtractive manufacturing, rehabilitation technology, surgical robotics, cardiovascular devices, extended reality technologies and environments, the surgical pathway and investigative research related to the utilisation of ‘smart materials’ for medical applications.

Vineet Batta

Vineet works as a Fellow in Hip & Knee arthroplasty at Luton & Dunstable NHS University Hospital. He has built an app to "Automate Identification & Classification of all Orthopaedic Implants using AI” and currently collaborates with UK NJR to provide a solution to the global orthopaedic community for identifying unknown implants.