The Proud2bOps Annual Congress, powered by Meet Health Events
November 11th | TOGETHER Space, 88 Wood St, Barbican, London
The Proud2bOps Annual Congess, powered by Meet Health Events.
The foremost gathering of senior operational and digital leaders across the NHS returns in 2026, bigger, bolder and more essential than ever.
The 2026 Proud2bOps Annual Congress and Awards, powered by Meet Health Events, returns this November 11th and promises to be even bigger and better than before.
Bringing back some returning faces and welcoming some new ones, this year’s agenda, speaker line up and focused themes are designed to support the priorities and challenges of senior leaders across the NHS. Now in its fourth consecutive year, the Congress provides a space for honest discussion around the priorities shaping NHS operations: what is working, what is not, where innovation can make a genuine difference, and how leaders can move from individual initiatives to sustainable system-wide improvement.
The Congress is the intersection between those driving change across our healthcare system and those with the innovative solutions to enable the change and we cannot wait to open our doors to you all once again.
As the NHS continues to navigate significant operational and strategic pressures, these conversations between its leaders and our wider healthcare partners have never mattered more.
The Congress 2026 Speakers
Sarah Jane Marsh CBE
National Director of Urgent and Emergency Care and Deputy Chief Operating Officer for NHS England.
Sir Glen Burley
Deputy CEO, NHS England and Foundation Group Chief Executive Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Former NHS England Director and Permanent Secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care.
Samantha Jones
Matthew Trainer
Chief Executive Officer, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Group Chief Information Officer, The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell & West Birmingham Trust
Ravinder Sahota
Steve McManus
Interim CEO of the NHS College of Leadership and Management.
Ned Hobbs
Group Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust
Waqar Iqbal
Chief Adviser and Director of Delivery, NHS England
Deputy Chief Executive, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Charlotte Williams
Graham Lomax
Director of GIRFT National Implementation Team and GIRFT Elective Care National Team
Gurnak Dosanjh
Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland ICB
Tara Argent
Chief Operating Officer, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ayub Bhayat
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
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Profiles in Attendance
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Digital Officer
Director of Operations
Director of Informatics
Director of Transformation
Director of Strategy
Director of Patient Flow
Director of Winter
Head of Operations
Director of Digital Technology and Engineering
Director of Performance
Executive Director of Performance and Delivery
Director of Finance
Executive Director of Partnerships
Director of Delivery Improvement
Divisional Operations Director
Director of Digital Innovation
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Associate Chief Operating Officer
Director of Operations and Performance
Group Director of Operations
Deputy Director Transition and Transformation
Chief Clinical Transformation Officer
Director of Continuous Improvement and Transformation
Hundreds of NHS Leaders in Attendance
Hundreds of NHS Trusts, ICBs, NHS England leaders, and senior digital and operational executives are represented.
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