All You Can Innovate returns to offer academics, start-ups, and funders exclusive access to diverse networking, learning, and collaboration opportunities all aimed at enhancing the impact of research in health and MedTech innovation.
Imperial College London is delighted to announce the return of its highly anticipated corporate speed-dating event, All You Can Innovate 2024 (AYCI).
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This includes over 60 Imperial academics, industry experts, representatives from charities, funders, investors and Imperial Enterprise
Utilising our online platform, you can engage in quick 25-minute meetings, facilitating efficient exploration of potential research collaborations and translational opportunities. AYCI transcends traditional networking, offering participation in panel discussions, presentations, and a poster competition, which provides a platform for you to showcase your work to an engaged and supportive innovation community.
We also invite you to join us for a networking lunch, fostering connections in a relaxed setting, and conclude the day with post-event drinks, ensuring ample opportunities for informal discussions and relationship-building.
Whether you’re an Imperial academic or an external funder, All You Can Innovate serves as your gateway to unlocking the full potential of research. Save the date for an event where collaboration and innovation converge!
What is the Agenda?
- 9.00 – Registration & Morning Coffee
- Charting your journey to commercialisation
- Session Chair: Simon Hepworth, Director, Enterprise
- 9.30 – Chair’s Opening Remarks
- Simon Hepworth, Director, Imperial Enterprise
- 9.35 – Exploring paths to translation with Imperial Enterprise
- Vjera Magdalenic-Moussavi, Director, Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation, medicine, Enterprise
- 9.50 – Bridging academia and industry – navigating the collaborative landscape
- Simon Youlton, Director, Early Strategic Partnerships, Novartis
- 10.10 – Navigating the investment landscape – transforming academic ventures into financial success
- Leigh Brody, Investment Manager, AlbionVC, UCL Technology Fund
- 10.30 – Panel Discussion: Translational paths are as distinctive as we are – unveiling varied paths to impactful innovation
- Panel Chair: Simon Hepworth, Director, Imperial Enterprise
- Vjera Magdalenic-Moussavi, Director, Industry Partnerships and Commercialisation, medicine, Enterprise
- Simon Youlton, Director, Early Strategic Partnerships, Novartis
- Leigh Brody, Investment Manager, UCL Technology Fund
- 11.00 – Morning Break & Refreshments
- Translational enablers
- Session Chair: Graham Cooke, Vice Dean, Research
- 11.30 – Exploring BRC resources for translational excellence
- Paul Craven, Head, Research Operations
- 11.50 – Revolutionising diagnostics with the Health Tech Research Centre
- Omar Butt, Strategic Development Lead, IVD HRC
- 12.10 – Imperial Enterprise Lab; accessing support for innovators and entrepreneurs
- Sarah Ranchev-Hale, Head, Imperial Enterprise Lab, Enterprise
- 12.30 – Advancing Healthcare Innovation with AI and I-X
- Aldo Faisal, Professor, AI & Neuroscience
- 12.50 – Q&A
- 13.00 – Networking Lunch & Poster Session
- Join us for a poster session over lunch to hear from some of the most impactful and insightful Imperial-led innovation.
- Academic Entrepreneurship
- Session Chair: Jonathan Weber, Director, Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre
- 14.30 – Barriers and Accelerators for new biomedical spinouts
- Mike Romanos, Associate Dean, Imperial Enterprise
- 14.50 – Strides with Untap Health – A WE Innovate & WE Accelerate Case Study
- Claire Trant, CEO & Founder, Untap Health
- 15.10 – Translating respiratory molecular pharmacology from bench to bedside
- Kazuhiro Ito, Principal Research Fellow, Respiratory Molecular Pharmacology
- 15.30 – Afternoon Networking Break
- Academic Entrepreneurship: Continued
- Session Chair: Jonathan Weber, Director, Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre
- 15.45 – Revolutionising the world of rapid molecular testing with ProtonDx
- Pantelis Georgiou, Professor, Biomedical Electronics
- 16.05 – Developing novel gene therapies for rare lung diseases
- Uta Griesenbach, Professor, Molecular Medicine
- 16.25 – Panel Discussion: Navigating translation: academic insights and lessons learned
- Panel Chair: Raymond Hill, Professor, Pharmacology
- Mike Romanos, Associate Dean, Imperial Enterprise
- Uta Griesenbach, Professor, Molecular Medicine
- Kazuhiro Ito, Principal Research Fellow, Respiratory Molecular Pharmacology
- Pantelis Georgiou, Professor, Biomedical Electronics
- 16.45 – Closing Remarks and End of All You Can Innovate 2024
- 17.00 – Networking Drinks
Speed Networking, powered by Inpart (formally Inova).
- Like speed dating, our speed networking will offer quick effective access to research collaborations and translational opportunities.
- To participate and gain access to the Inpart platform, please tick the box on the registration form.
- Technical information on accessing the platform will be sent in due course before the event.
Additional information:
- This is a ticketed event with limited space.
- Venue accessibility information can be viewed via AccessAble.
- This event is not primarily designed for Imperial Students. For information about Enterprise and Entrepreneurship for students – visit Imperial Enterprise Lab.
- Any questions, please contact enterprise@Imperial.ac.uk