is a health-tech festival celebrating the best of health science and start-ups, organised by the not-for-profit VOYAGERS community. 

THE FIX is a hands-on, practical, mind-expanding, friendship-building, exploratory, curiosity-led, science-based, creative, artistic, participatory, decentralised, experimental, edgy, live, risky, urgent and unpredictable gathering of the talented people working on health technologies.

THE FIX is not a conference, don’t expect dull panels or crappy coffee. Health-tech is too important to waste time. Instead, we designed a festival to help participants make new friends, experience science in action, learn and share your knowledge, to inspire and be inspired. Bring your most engaged and curious festival mindset.

As well as speakers, THE FIX will feature a rich day of activities including inspiring stories, expert workshops, product demonstrations, musical performances, art installations, a participant-led “unconference”, tours of the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, a start-up pitch competition, speed networking and an evening party. This really will be the hottest event on campus!

Last year, at THE FIX’s sister climate-tech festival, THE HEAT, participants met nuclear-fusion start-ups, tasted future foods, witnessed carbon capture, experience climate-robotics demonstrations and much more. If you’re working in health-tech, save the date to be part of the celebrations.

Agenda outline: (still to be confirmed)

• 09:00 – VIP Breakfast (by invitation)
• 10:00 – Official Opening
• 10:10 – Keynote presentations – A lively, informed, engaging and tightly curated session of 10-minute keynote talks from key figures in health-tech.
• 12:30 – Networking picnic lunch – Your ticket will include a lunch voucher for a nutritious and tasty vegetarian picnic lunch.
• 13:30 – Unconference sessions [and] Six-Minute Ideas [and] the NHS Reverse Pitch
• 15:00 – Startup pitch battle [and] Ask Me Anything – meet the decision-makers
• 16:00 – Conversation Circles – Join a moderated discussion led by an expert. Topics include ‘Integrating medtech: real-world lessons, challenges and hacks’, ‘How not to fail as a startup working with the health system’, and ‘Trends and innovations in fem-tech’.
• 17:00 – Workshops & speed networking – You’ll have a choice of 40-minute workshops to participate in led by VOYAGERS with specialise skills to share.
• 18:30 – Networking party, music performances & food trucks – Enjoy a wide range of entertainment and continue networking until later in the evening. Want to perform? Tell us here.
• 22:00 – Official close; shuttles to Didcot Parkway train station

More details and speakers are being announced daily. Take a look at the creative minds working on, and delivering, the amazing content here. From keynote speakers and workshop leaders, to our conversation circle hosts and festival curators, the agenda is packed with the key people transforming health-tech.

About THE FIX

THE FIX is a project of David Rowan, founding UK editor-in-chief of WIRED, and the organiser of 25+ WIRED conferences. David runs the VOYAGERS community, as well as a climate-tech fund built on the community.