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SUMMARY:IN-PERSON EVENT: Building Resilient High-Growth\, Globally Competitive Life Sciences Cluster: Finance and Investment
DESCRIPTION:Date: Tuesday 10th March \nTimes: 08:30am – 4:30pm \nVenue: Charnwood Campus Science Innovation and Technology Park \nAgenda\n08:30 – 09:15 | Arrival\, Registration & Networking    \n09:15 – 09:30 | Welcome & Opening Remarks   \n“The East Midlands gateway from innovation to commercialisation and manufacturing; Part 2: finance and investment.”  \n\nGosia Khrais BSc (Hons)\, PGDip\, CQI\, Director\, Charnwood Campus  \nRaghul Senthilnathan\, Innovation Advisor\, Medilink Midlands  \nAlexandra Archibald\, Project/Business Development Manager/GIS Specialist\, Midlands Innovation Health  \nNick McDonald\, Partner\, Marks & Clerk (Event Moderator) \n\n09:30 – 09:50 | Keynote Address: “The MHRA Innovation Accelerator – enabling life sciences innovation “   \n\nLouise Knowles\, Deputy Director\, MHRA Innovation Accelerator \n\n09:50 – 10:00 | ‘From Connection to Amplification: Collaborating for Life Sciences Growth at Charnwood Campus”   \n\n Sue Tilley\, Chair of the Leicestershire Business Voice   \n\nReclaiming leadership in Life Sciences Manufacturing and how it gets financed   \n10:00 – 10:15 | Industry Perspective: “Driving investment/capital attractiveness through manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement”   \n\nSpeaker – TBC\, Horiba \n\n10:15 – 10:45 | Panel 1: Building a Resilient Life Sciences Manufacturing Ecosystem. Moderated discussion with leaders from:   \n\nPanel – TBC\, Horiba  \nMonica Huang\, Country Head/General Manager Zydus UK  \nNick Smalley\, Vice President\, Regulatory Affairs\, Kindeva   \nDr. Andrew (Andy) Lewis\, Chief Scientific Officer\, Quotient Sciences  \nModerator: Graeme Cameron\, CEO\, Pennine Healthcare  \n\n10:45 – 11:20 | Networking Break & Expo (35 Minutes)   \n11:20 – 11:35 | Importance of scaling: “Why is it important to scale and how HINs can help Innovators to scale?”   \n\nNicole McGlennon\, Managing Director at Health Innovation Network East Midlands   \nNat Hutley\, Founder\, Koodos  \n\n11:35 – 12:05 | Panel 2: Financing Scale – What Investors Fund\, What They Don’t\, and Why\, Moderated discussion with leaders from:  \n\nBen Reasbeck\, Head of Life Sciences and Health Technology\, Barclays Innovation Banking  \nChristian Kumar\, Founder\, MedTech Makers Lab   \nAndrew Mumford\, CEO of Initiate Consultancy  \nSam Stephens\, Director\, TBAT Innovations Ltd \nLewis Stringer\, Senior Manager\, UK Network – East and South-East Midlands\, BBB \nModerator:  Nat Hutley\, Founder\, Koodos  \n\n12:05 – 12:20 | Spotlight Talk: MedTech Makers Lab Launch: The first Pan European Clinical Development Organisation overing Innovation\, Funding\, Clinical Adoption and Scale   \n\nChristian Kumar\, Founder\, MedTech Makers Lab   \n\n12:20 – 13:20 | Lunch & Expo (1 Hour)    \n13:15 -13:40 | Sponsor Talks (Main Conference area)  \n\nMartin Hyden\, Partner\, Marks & Clerk  \nDavid Hawkins\, CTO\, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant\, Sotas      \n\n13:40 – 13:50 | SPARK programme  \n\nMatthew Vassey\, SPARK Director (East Midlands)\, Aston University  \n\n13:50 – 14:00 | DSIT’s East Midlands lead for the TechFirst programme\,   \n\nGwilym Williams\, Regional Cyber\, Lead\, East Midlands  \n\n14:00 – 14:15 | Resilient Health Supply Chains: Strategic Assets for Investors in the UK   \n\nJan Godsell\, Dean at Loughborough Business School\, Prof of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy  \n\n14:15 – 14:30 | Regulatory Innovation for Faster Adoption: “Regulation as a Value Lever – Why regulation is not just a hurdle\, but a critical lever for de-risking innovation and attracting funding.”   \n\nDavid Hawkins\, CTO\, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant\, Sotas \n\n14:30 – 15:00 | Panel 3: From an Innovator to a CEO:   \n\nAdam McGuinness\, Senior Programme Manager\, Plug and Play \nNat Hutley\, Founder\, Koodos  \nLouise Knowles\, Deputy Director\, MHRA Innovation Accelerator  \nDavid Hawkins\, CTO\, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant\, Sotas  \nHelen Compton\, Stakeholder Engagement Manager\, NIHR  \nModerator: Al Mills\, Head of Business Development\, Sotas \n\n15:00 – 15:30 | Innovators’ pitches  \nModerated by Sam Stephens\, Director\, TBAT Innovations Ltd    \n\nStorke | Giovanni Verma \nMedtech Makers Lab | Christian Kumar \nWarmer Networks | Ben Ravilious\nEpic Medlab – Priti Joshi \nDMU – Chris Young  \n\n15:30 – 15:45 | Closing Remarks & Call to Action   \n\nRaghul Senthilnathan\, Innovation Advisor\, Medilink Midlands  \nNick McDonald\, Partner\, Marks & Clerk\n\n15:45 – 16:30 | Networking Reception   \n   \n  \n  \n  \n  \n   \n  \n 
URL:https://www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/building-resilient/
LOCATION:Charnwood Campus\, Bakewell Road\, Loughborough\, LE11 5RB
CATEGORIES:Medilink Partner Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Reena Mistry":MAILTO:reena@medilinkmidlands.com
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