Post by Yosha Pathak

I got into University of Cambridge! (as a founder panellist that is) 😂🥳 At the Cambridge Health Futures Conference Conference this weekend, I had the opportunity to sit on a founders panel discussing what it actually looks like to build in the health tech space as a medical student. We spoke equity, work-life balance, how content creation can help build an innovative community and more to a brilliant audience. The TLDR of the event; 1. The NHS is not “hard to navigate” by accident. It is complex because it is designed around safety, not speed. If you are building in this space, you are not just solving a clinical problem. 2. Clinical credibility is not optional. Leaving medicine doesn't need to be an inevitability. 3. AI is not the differentiator anymore. Everyone is building with AI. The real question is whether it integrates meaningfully into existing workflows, and becomes a product people would genuinely pay for and benefit from. 4. The best time to start was yesterday and the second best was today. Imposter syndrome eats up at everyone, but getting investors, doctors, boards of directors to believe in you, begins with self concept. 5. The best founders in HealthTech are obsessed with the problem, not the trend. This space does not reward hype for long. It was a pleasure to represent Orbion Connect with Tristan Derry and our wonderful marketing intern Tara Williams. If you'd like early access to healthtech opportunities not listed on traditional job boards or even this feed, sign up to our waitlist while it's still open: https://connect.orbion.uk Drop a comment if you'd like to connect (apologies, I've exceeded max tags, pop any i've missed below!) - Dr Alice McGee Flo Health Inc. on life inside a Tech unicorn Dr Yath Premadasan - @Dr Muhunthan Thillai Qureight on the reality of being a Clinician-CEO - Abhishek Patel & @Dr Filippos Papadopoulos Mansfield Advisors on how AI is reshaping the healthcare market - @Dr Antony Rix Lucida Medical on what you actually need to know about AI as a developer/user/researcher - Ellie Spillane Costello Medical on how to build the evidence base to sell to the NHS - Danielle Brightman Numan on product thinking and clinical safety - @Prof Bola Grace, PhD, MBA (UCL on inclusive innovation and women's health - Dr. Vishaal Virani, MBBS personal branding and the YouTube Health career Lovely seeing familiar faces smashing it! Yasmin Baker More than Medics Myles Kisekka Breaking Into Medtech, Samuel Botros, Oxford MedTech Society, Maria Diamond @Lea (let's catch up properly!) A huge thank you to the amazing committee → Neil Sardesai thank you making Orbion the offical media partner! Queenie H. W. Wong Maria Solovyeva Sharon Ho Linda Tang Zoya Yasmine And the fellow panellists Lukas Pin, Amrit Rooprai Scholara and Yasmin Baker More than Medics! Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Orbion Media #HealthTech #conference #research #cambridgeuniversity #Founders #innovation #Startups