IBioIC25 is the 11th Annual Conference. This not-for-profit conference is the industry event of the year for the industrial biotechnology community in Scotland, and one of the pre-eminent events in the global biotech calendar. The conference attracts biotech professionals from industry, research and academia, as well as policy-makers, service providers, and emerging client sectors.
The 2025 conference will focus on delivering tangible benefits for attendees, including the cultivation of strategic partnerships, facilitating new connections and collaborations, providing examples of best practice, understanding regulations, and effective communication.
The conference attracts over 400 delegates from across the biotechnology sector and beyond. Conference attendees are made up of predominantly C-suite or senior level industry representatives from both large, established companies and emerging and start-up enterprises, as well as senior academics, researchers in industry or academia, students and recent graduates, investors, and policy makers.
Tickets are limited so book your place now.
Early bird rates are available until 6pm on Monday 20 January 2025.
Registration closes at 5pm on Monday 10 March 2025.
Join the University of Glasgow’s Living Laboratory programme for its Healthcare Innovation Symposium, where delegates from across academia, industry, and healthcare will come together to explore cutting-edge developments, emerging opportunities, and key challenges in the healthcare innovation landscape.
The symposium will highlight the Living Laboratory’s unique collaborative ecosystem, showcasing the importance of cross-sector partnerships in driving innovation and the adoption of new technologies.
What can you expect?
Attendees can expect engaging sessions around MedTech opportunities and advancements, strategies for generating evidence and its role in accelerating adoption, and insights into Living Laboratory assets and initiatives designed to drive innovation in Glasgow and across Scotland.
The event will introduce the Health Innovation Hub, which is set to further enhance the collaborative ecosystem and strengthen Glasgow’s position as a global leader in healthcare innovation.
Additionally, the symposium will offer valuable networking opportunities and interactive workshops, igniting innovation and nurturing ground-breaking ideas to accelerate innovation into healthcare and improve patient outcomes.
What is the Living Laboratory programme?
The Living Laboratory is a University of Glasgow-led programme that is dedicated to strengthening Glasgow’s position as a leader in healthcare innovation. By working in partnership with researchers, industry, clinicians and the public, they support the creation, refinement, and clinical evaluation of ground-breaking healthcare solutions that will transform patient outcomes.
By fostering a vibrant, collaborative ecosystem, the Living Laboratory is attracting businesses to Glasgow and fuelling the development and growth of local companies. This expanding industry cluster is creating new job opportunities, enhancing skills and driving local economic growth in Govan and Glasgow.
Stimulating local tech ecosystems has never been more critical. With flagship national programmes designed to widen the funnel for startups and scale-up tech companies, Futurescot’s Glasgow Tech Ecosystem conference brings together industry, government, and academic expertise poised to turn that ambition into a reality.
As we move into the critical delivery phase for Glasgow’s digital economy, local and national government funders will join with the regional agencies whose job it is to support and strengthen the tech sector and, of course, the tech companies looking to transform industries old and new across the Glasgow City Region.
By bringing together all the key players, Futurescot will help supercharge the tech ecosystem in 2024, setting the stage for a future where tech drives societal and economic growth for all.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how to navigate and work with the entire tech ecosystem in Glasgow – from the funders to the national and regional support organisations
- Hear the latest policy directives affecting your organisation – and how to respond to them
- Take advantage of the ‘triple helix’ effect: work with government, industry and academia to collaborate and innovate
- Discover new funding opportunities and practical initiatives that can help build and scale a tech business
- Hear from pioneering and inspiring tech leaders who have built successful businesses – and want to share their insights with the next generation coming up.
Jackie Sanderson and Elaine Sneddon of Interface will attend this event.
The UK Intellectual Property Office and Scottish Enterprise are coming together to hold a joint event at The Studio, Glasgow on 7 November 2024, 9.30am to 1.30pm.
SMEs are the backbone of the UK economy, accounting for more than 99% of the business population; they are vital to achieving economic growth and improving the UK’s productivity. Intellectual Property (IP) is positively associated with various indicators of business success, with recent evidence showing firms that register IP rights (IPRs) achieve 20% higher revenue per employee[1] and a likelihood ten times higher of accessing early-stage growth finance compared to their peers without IPR portfolios[2].
At the event, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) will highlight the support they provide to small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs), including the new financial support scheme for innovative businesses, IP Advance.
Scottish Enterprise (SE) will set out the opportunities for businesses to scale up their innovation and to access support for their intellectual property and business growth. This key area is identified in SE’s new Missions based approach, which aims to unlock thousands of new jobs and billions of pounds of global growth opportunities for a more successful, greener and fairer economy.
If you support businesses to recognise the potential value in their IP assets, this is your chance to hear more about the IPO’s support for SMEs and SE’s work to support businesses to leverage IP to achieve business growth.
The event, hosted at The Studio, will include keynote speeches from the IPO’s Ben Llewellyn-Jones, Director of Business & International Policy and Scottish Enterprise’s Head of Innovation, Alison Munro.
The event is open to the IP Professional community – including Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys, IP Legal Professionals and IP Commercialisation advisers. It will also provide networking opportunities with colleagues from across the host organisations as well as attendees from the IP Professional community.
Timings
Arrival and refreshments from 9.30am, with the event running from 10.00 to 12.30, followed by lunch and networking opportunities until 1.30pm.
[1] Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/intellectual-property-rights-and-firm-performance-in-the-european-union
[2] Patents, trade marks and startup finance – EUIPO (europa.eu) – https://www.euipo.europa.eu/en/publications/2023-startup-finance
The Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition, which is being held at the SEC Glasgow on the 23rd & 24th of October 2024, will serve as a national forum for manufacturers and operators involved throughout the associated supply chains from across Scotland to gather to discuss pressing issues facing the industry. The event is being organised in order to successfully connect key stakeholders across the full manufacturing spectrum in Scotland, including the food and drink, energy, renewables, electronics, aerospace, biopharma, medtech, healthcare, construction, textiles, procurement, and precision engineering sectors.
Event organiser, Premier Publishing & Events, has been staging similar exhibitions and conferences in England and Ireland for many years. An impressive line-up of manufacturing leaders, academics and government agencies who will engage in a stimulating blend of key note addresses and debates is being assembled for the Scottish event. The Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition in Glasgow will also feature an extensive exhibition showcasing the latest technological solutions and business services.
The event will cover various topical themes including:
- Industry 4.0
- 3D Printing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Smart Factory
- Lean & Continuous Improvement
- Robotics & Automation
- Financing Investment
- Industrial Blockchain
- Research & Development
- Precision Engineering
- QEHS
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Sustainability
- Procurement
- Government Policy and Industrial Strategy
- Exports
- Skills & Training
Visitors interested in improving the performance of their business can listen to case studies and technical presentations from leading global and Scottish manufacturing experts, and meet with providers of cutting edge technology.
The University of Glasgow is hosting the Scottish Roadshow for DAFNI: Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure on 22nd/23rd October. DAFNI is a computing platform which supports advanced research into national infrastructure, including transport, water, and energy and city scale modelling. All working in these areas with an interest in data are welcome to participate.
Day 1: involves presentations and lightning talks from DAFNI and academics from across Scotland to understand the research being undertaken that has benefitted from, and could benefit from using DAFNI.
Day 2: focuses on the ‘Challenges and Barriers of Data Sharing’. The DAFNI team are looking to collect evidence to inform a future funding case for further investment by government. Researchers, Government, Industry, Policy Makers, Data Sharing Experts, those working with Infrastructure, and the Engineering Community across Scotland are invited to contribute.
For details, and to register visit: DAFNI Roadshow Scotland
Join the Centre for Innovation Leadership at City of Glasgow College for a morning of networking and insights on how innovation culture & leadership can unlock growth for your business.
Wed 25 Sep 2024 (09.00 – 11.30)
City of Glasgow College,
Riverside Campus,
21 Thistle Street,
G5 9XB
The 12-month College Local Innovation Centres (CLIC) pilot project, funded by Innovate UK, will help businesses across the Glasgow City Region gain access to comprehensive support and guidance, dedicated to driving digital innovation and productivity.
You’ll also be able to hear from Amazon Web Services, who will be sharing their unique culture and how they drive innovation through four distinct elements: Culture, Mechanisms, Architecture, and Organization. Glasgow-based AWS Senior Customer Solutions Manager Naminder Dhami will talk about Amazon’s Culture of Innovation, and how any organisation can adopt similar ways of working.
The Centre for Innovation Leadership, hosted by City of Glasgow College, can help businesses navigate uncertainty and inspire innovation by leveraging the latest best practices.
We provide support on both innovation strategy development as well as using sector-leading tools and techniques, enabling your team to build successful innovation programmes and interventions.
This event will give you the chance to find out about the fully funded support and guidance you can access to drive productivity in your business.
Agenda
09:00 – 09:05 – Introduction
09:05 – 09:10 – The CLIC project
09:10 – 09:15 – The Centre for Innovation Leadership
09:15 – 10:45 – Uncovering Amazon’s culture of innovation
10:45 – 10:55 – Q&A
10:55 – 11:30 – Networking
The Scottish Alliance for Food SCAF annual Conference takes place on 19th August. This will be a hybrid event, with the option of joining online.
Location: Advanced Research Centre, Glasgow / Online
Date & Time
Conference: Monday 19th August 2024, 9.15-17.15 (networking until 18.30).
Unconference: Tuesday 20th August, 10.00 – 13.00
Programme:
09.15 – 10.30 SESSION 1: Welcome, Keynote and SCAF updates
10.30 – 11.15 Coffee break, Poster presentations and networking
11.15 – 12.45 SESSION 2: Oral presentations (SCAF pump priming projects and short communications)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch, posters, and networking
13.45 – 15.00 SESSION 3: Oral presentations (SCAF pump priming projects and short communications)
15.00 – 15.45 Coffee break, posters, and networking
15.45 – 17.15 SESSION 4: Cross-disciplinary collaboration (Panel discussion, horizon scanning, and opportunities in SCAF)
Howell Davies, Head of Strategic Programmes and Funding, at Interface will be attending this event.
The University of Glasgow, in collaboration with Scottish Enterprise, Innovate UK, the Scottish Government, and the Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) are putting on an exciting in-person networking and information event to promote the collaborative research and innovation opportunities that Horizon Europe has to offer. Discover how Horizon Europe has transformed ideas into successful projects across various sectors, and how yours could be next.
Horizon Europe is the world’s largest Research and Innovation (R&I) programme, with a budget of over £82bn. The programme runs from 2021 to 2027, and it is open to all types of R&I organisations, including large businesses, SMEs, academia, public institutions and third sector organisations.
The UK has historically been one of the best performers in European Research and Innovation Framework Programmes, and on average successful UK applicants to Pillar 2 and Pillar 3 receive around £450,000 although this figure could be much higher. A key part of Horizon Europe is building consortia with partners around the world, particularly now that UK entities can lead projects.
Howell Davies, Interface’s Head of Strategic Programmes and Funding, will be speaking at this event on “How do you define Innovation for the Food & Drink Sector?”