FIME
2022-07-27 08:00 - 2022-07-29 17:00 (Europe/London)
Are you wanting to target the African continent? Perhaps the Americas is of interest for your company?
Exhibiting at international trade shows offers companies a platform like no other to showcase products or services, raise your company profile globally, generate new business and network with a huge range of professionals, all under one roof.
Medilink UK are proud to support British companies at the following healthcare exhibitions (the leading and largest in the regions), offering a full spectrum of support to make your experience as easy, stress-free and cost-effective as possible.
With a 30-year reputation, FIME has established itself as the can’t-miss healthcare trade show in the Americas. Taking place from 27 – 29 July 2022 (in Miami Beach, Florida), FIME will welcome more than 12,000 medical & trade professionals from across the United States and Latin America, to do business with 700 exhibitors from across 40 countries.
Get in touch to discuss your requirements, for further information and the prices: international@medilink.co.uk ; 0114 232 9272

IN-PERSON EVENT: UK House - Data Driven Healthcare
2022-08-01 - 2022-08-02 | The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR
The UK House programme is designed to deliver high-level sectoral business events showcasing UK capability and innovation, and to facilitate business connectivity between UK enterprises and both international buyers and investors. On Monday 1 August, the UK House programme will focus on “Data Driven Healthcare”. This will be followed on Tuesday 2 August with a West Midlands Sector Showcase event.
Forward-thinking and people-focused. Our healthcare system is the jewel in the UK’s crown. The West Midlands itself is no exception, hosting eight hospitals combined with over thirty-five regional centres of clinical research, with one in five of all UK trials carried out in the region.
The region’s Data-Driven Healthcare proposition is built upon four distinct pillars of opportunity: digital, data, diagnostics and devices. With unparalleled access to electronic clinical and genomic data, we have the capabilities to test and implement new healthcare interventions, unlike any other region.
Our unparalleled manufacturing expertise and tech capabilities enable firms to prototype, test and commercialise within the region – bench to bedside.
The five leading universities produce over 11,000 graduates in medical sciences each year and a further 6,000 graduates in the engineering and computing fields. The pool for recruitment continues to grow and become even richer in talent.
All of the sessions from 1 August are available to view on demand here: https://www.events.great.gov.uk/website/7419/datadrivenhealthcare/

Overview of session themes (Monday 1 August)
Focussing on healthcare challenges that transcend nations and challenge preconceptions about ‘developed/developing’ systems:

Facilitating greater access to care
Health services vs ‘illness’ services
Healthy ageing and elderly care
Impact of/tackling health data poverty
Tackling bias in system design, clinical trials
Patient participation and empowerment
Non-communicable disease
Healthcare workforce and healthcare infrastructure of the future
Power of big data to enable health improvement (WHO MOU)

Click here for full programme details and to register your interest.
West Midlands Sector Showcase Day (Tuesday 2 August)
The West Midlands Sector Showcase Days are a unique and exclusive in-person opportunity for businesses and investors considering expanding or investing in the UK.
Coinciding with UK House, the Data-Driven Healthcare sector showcase day (Tuesday 2 August) will bring together a select cohort of industry leaders and innovators.
Designed to equip you with an immersive first-hand experience of the region’s business landscape and sector strengths, delegates will benefit from exclusive business leader plenary sessions, complimentary visits to key sector assets and a networking reception.
Register your interest to explore opportunities in:

HealthTech: digital, data, diagnostics, devices
Selling into healthcare systems

Led by the region’s official economic development agency, the West Midlands Growth Company in conjunction with the Department for International Trade, a dedicated team will be on-hand to answer any questions from delegates and take forward opportunities for collaboration with the West Midlands.

WEBINAR: BBSRC/DEFRA Endemic Livestock Diseases Programme
2022-08-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2022-09-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
The BBSRC are offering two informative webinars to coincide with the Phase 2 launch of the BBSRC/DEFRA Endemic Livestock Diseases. These sessions offer the chance for those interested in applying for the funding to learn more about the opportunity and to pose their questions to those allocating the funds.
Book your place today
BBSRC/DEFRA Endemic Livestock Diseases Programme
The Endemic Livestock Diseases Initiative aims to meaningfully reduce the overall level and impact of endemic disease on the UK livestock sector, to improve productivity and the health and welfare of animals. The initiative will bring academia and businesses together to co-create novel prevention and intervention solutions.
All projects must include at least one business project partner. The full economic cost of your project can be up to £1,000,000 over 3 years. BBSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost. The business project partner must contribute at least 10% cash (or in-kind) of the full economic cost of the project.
Project collaborators are crucial participants in the proposals. They may encompass a wide range of stakeholders, including:

farmers
businesses
innovators
veterinary practitioners
data management service providers

Businesses must be UK-based or have UK-based research activity.
Projects should address the themes below. The scope is solutions-focused and research and translation activities that cut across the themes are encouraged.

Digital agriculture
Genetics and breeding
Farm management
Vaccine platforms and technologies
Novel therapeutics
Co-infection

Exclusions from this call include bovine TB and animal nutrition.
For more information about the initiative, click here.

Materials Research Exchange 2022
2022-08-25 08:00 - 17:00
MRE 2022 will be taking place 3–5 October 2022 and will be delivered face to face with a virtual add-on for selected seminars. The event is organised and run by Innovate UK KTN, taking place at the Business Design Centre in London and will be full of new insights about what materials research and innovations are taking place to help the UK recover, become more resilient and grow. Confirmed sponsors and exhibitors include Henry Royce Institute, STFC, IOM3, UK Tribology Network, Potter Clarkson, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Materials Research Facility, the Transforming Foundation Industries (TFI) and Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenges, IMechE, IET, IOM3, IOP, Algreen, Green Graphene, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Cranfield University, Imperial College London, The University of Manchester, University of Leeds, University of Liverpool and The University of Sheffield.
Full event programme will be coming next week.
Click here to register, view exhibitor opportunities, and find out more about the event, including our sponsors and confirmed exhibitors.

IN-PERSON EVENT: City of Mentor, Ohio - Fifth Annual Conference on Innovation & Trade
2022-09-05 - 2022-09-07 | City of Mentor, Ohio
The Northeast Ohio region is home to some of the leading medical institutions in the United States, including the Cleveland Clinic, and the region has developed one of the nation’s most important biomedical clusters.
The City of Mentor, Ohio is pleased to offer you this opportunity to learn more about the advantages of doing business in Northeast Ohio and the City of Mentor, particularly in the healthcare industry, through the 5th Annual Conference on Innovation and Trade. Over 700 biomedical firms are located here, including over 400 medical device manufacturers specializing in imaging, neurostimulation, orthopedics, cardiovascular, and sterilization. Among these are world leaders such as General Electric Healthcare, Siemens, Toshiba, Hitachi, Philips Healthcare, and STERIS.
Ohio’s commitment to supporting investment in the biotech industry and these centers of excellence and innovation have driven Ohio’s biomedical industry to grow by 59% since the year
2000, now employing over 80,000 experienced workers. Mentor, Ohio is strategically located in the heart of this cluster and ready to assist international biomedical and technical companies
to invest for success.
This three-day conference includes a packed programme of keynote talks, seminars, informal networking opportunities and an evening reception.
For more information on how Medilink Midlands can support your attendance at this conference, please get in touch.
To learn more about the City of Mentor International Conference on Innovation and Trade and to register for additional information, please click here. Booking details can be found here.

WEBINAR: 3D Printing in Healthcare
2022-09-07 10:00 - 11:30
The next webinar in the Additive Manufacturing Special Interest Group series is taking place on Wednesday 7th September. The session will focus on the latest innovations and developments in 3D Printing across the healthcare sector. Chaired by Ruth Goodridge, our programme includes talks from:

Sophie Cox, Associate Professor in Healthcare Technologies, University of Birmingham
Henry Pinchbeck, CEO, 3D Lifeprints
Peter Llewelyn Evans, Maxillofacial Laboratory Services Manager, Swansea Bay UHB.

See below for speaker profiles and presentation titles
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Speaker Profiles

Henry Pinchbeck, CEO, 3D LifePrints
Presentation title: Personalising Surgery: Medical 3D printing at the Point of Care
3D LifePrints is a leading Personalised Surgery and Medical 3D Printing company. Its focus is the design and manufacture of patient specific medical devices. 3D LifePrints’ USP is that it provides its services from embedded facilities at the Point of Care within host hospitals, allowing the clinicians direct access to the full range of 3D technologies. 3D LifePrints recently opened its first facility in the USA, at the Texas Medical Center. Henry Pinchbeck is a Founder and the CEO of 3D LifePrints. A scientist by training, he is an experienced businessman and a UK qualified solicitor. As CEO, Henry is responsible for all 3D LifePrints’ global activities but particularly concentrates on the development of the medical 3D printing sector in the UK and USA.
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Peter Llewelyn Evans, Maxillofacial Laboratory Services Manager, Maxillofacial Laboratory
Presentation title: The Application of 3D Printing in Head and Neck Reconstruction
Peter’s career started studying Maxillofacial Prosthetics in London in 1987. He moved to South Wales to join the Welsh Craniofacial Implant Team in 1989, a team that pioneered the use of Craniofacial Implants at St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow. The Unit relocated to Morriston Hospital, Swansea in 1998 where he is the manager of the Maxillofacial Laboratory Services.
His main areas of interest include facial prosthetics for children, craniofacial implantology and 3D modelling and imaging. He has published extensively on the use of digital technology in Maxillofacial surgery and technology and in particular on the integration of digital technologies into facial prosthetics. Peter has also lectured in the UK and worldwide.
Peter is a fellow of the IMPT, founder member of the British Facial and Audiological Implant Group (BFAIG), a founder member and Secretary of the Centre for Applied Technology in Surgery (CARTIS) and Secretary to the Advanced Digital Technologies (ADT) Foundation.

Dr Sophie Cox, Associate Professor in Healthcare Technologies, University of Birmingham
Presentation title: Moving additive manufacturing beyond anatomically customised implants
Sophie is an Associate Professor in healthcare technologies at the University of Birmingham and leads the Centre for Custom Medical Devices. Her research focuses on exploiting additive manufacturing for the production of personalised metallic implants to replace or regenerate skeletal tissues. The team predominantly works on developing strategies to add functionality through surface modification or modification of device designs. In this talk she shall share three case studies to highlight that we may merge the design freedoms of 3d printing with biomaterials advancements to move custom medical devices into a new era that delivers additional patient benefits.
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the INSTILS programme, attendance is not restricted to the region and is open to all.
DURATION: 1.5 hours

In-person event: MedTech Integrates 2022
2022-09-12 08:00 - 17:00 | Leonardo Royal Hotel, London Tower Bridge
*Please note that this event has been rescheduled from 21st June 2022. See bottom of this page for note from organisers regarding tickets already booked.*

Focused on technology, diagnostics, devices, therapeutics organisations, and regulators
Inspired by the success of this year’s MedTech Integrates in June 2021, Life Science Integrates is delighted to announce the third MedTech Integrates conference. This one-day gathering of technology, diagnostics, devices and therapeutics organisations, as well as clinicians and regulators, provides a platform to discuss the major challenges impacting the MedTech sector.
Addressing the needs of the MedTech community to overcome the challenges needed to achieve a transformation of diagnostics and devices in healthcare, MedTech Integrates will be to a face-to-face one-day conference, taking place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London Tower Bridge on 12 September 2022.
To view the full programme and to book your place, click here.

Note from organisers:
As you are no doubt aware, the RMT have planned a number of rail and tube strikes in June; the first of which is planned for 12 September, the date of MedTech Integrates. If this strike goes ahead, we realise the impact this would have for our delegates, speakers, sponsors and innovators.
As such, we have taken the very difficult decision to postpone the event until Monday 12 September (at the same venue). Please note:
All tickets will remain valid and we will transfer these to 12 September.
There are no changes to the agenda timings or session content.
We apologise for the inconvenience, which is of course out of our immediate control. Please rest assured we took this decision to ensure as little disruption as possible and that MedTech Integrates 2022 remains a hugely successful event.

WEBINAR: Infection Control: What has Covid taught us?
2022-09-14 09:30 - 13:00
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL NOW BE HELD ONLINE**
The latest session in the Infectious Diseases Special Interest Group (SIG) series is taking place on Wednesday 14 September. Organised in partnership with De Montfort University, the session will be chaired by Dr Maitreyi Shivkumar, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, and will include three presentations from our expert panel (see programme and speaker profiles below for full details).
To book your free spot at this ONLINE event, please click here.
Speakers and presentation titles

Dr Maitreyi Shivkumar, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University
Session Chair
Maitreyi Shivkumar is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology in the School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University. Her research interests are in developing novel antivirals and understanding host-virus interactions, with a focus on coronaviruses and HIV. She has also developed coronavirus models and systems to evaluate environmental stability and antiviral efficacy of disinfectants against human coronaviruses.

Dr Enrico Ferrari, Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln
Presentation title: The mechanism of adsorption of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein onto solid materials: Can new knowledge contribute to infection control?
Enrico studied for his BSc+MSc in Biotechnology at the University of Udine, Italy between 1996 and 2001. He subsequently completed a PhD in Nanotechnology, graduating from the University of Trieste, Italy in 2007. Enrico went on the undertake a Postdoc in Biophotonics from 2007 to 2009 at CNR, Trieste, Italy, followed by a Postdoc in Molecular Neurobiology between 2009 and 2012 at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK. He joined University of Lincoln’s School of Life Sciences in 2012, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology. Enrico primarily studies the mechanism of interaction between biomolecules and nanoparticles and applies this knowledge to the field of nanobiotechnology.

Dr Gracy Sailo-Lebeau, Director of Technical Projects and Head of R&D, Residual Barrier Technology Ltd
Presentation title: Are biodegradable disinfectants effective against dry surface biofilms and multi drug resistant bacteria?
Gracy oversees the R&D department at Residual Barrier Technology where I take the lead role in new and innovative product development from concept to launch. Gracy has a BSc in Plant Pathology and MSc in Agricultural Microbiology, and obtained a PhD in Environmental Microbiology at Coventry University in 2008. As a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Gracy investigated the antimicrobial properties of plants and chemicals and have since worked in commercial research, new disinfectant development, regulatory affairs, infection control and hygiene related areas.

Siobhan Murphy, Regulatory Specialist, Contec Cleanroom Ltd.
Presentation Title: EU and GB Biocidal Products Regulation – A Post-Brexit Update
Siobhan is a Regulatory Specialist with over 10 years experience in the field of chemical regulations, primarily biocidal product legislation. Having previously worked as a consultant, Siobhan joined Contec in April 2018 to manage the authorisation of their cleanroom disinfectants in the EU, GB and global markets.
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This free-to-attend event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme, attendance is not restricted to companies in the Leicester/Leicestershire area and is open to all.

IN-PERSON EVENT: Engaging with MedTech and HealthTech to support SMEs
2022-09-14 09:30 - 14:45 | Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2RS
The DEMAND Hub (Data-Enabled Medical technologies and Devices Hub), brought to you by the University of Birmingham, is delighted to bring you this SME engagement event that will provide support to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to access the right expertise that will enable them to successfully collaborate and move novel ideas from products and services through to apps and data technologies.
The event will provide delegates with an opportunity to engage with experts working within the field of medical innovation translation – including representatives from Medilink Midlands – and will focus on how collaboration is key for the success of these innovations from the laboratory through to the clinic and towards commercial exploitation.
The event will also offer a unique pitching opportunity for SMEs to receive 1-to-1 coaching from experts working within the field of commercialisation and technology translation.
For more information and to book your spot, click here.

IN-PERSON EVENT: 7th Molecular Microbiology Conference
2022-09-15 - 2022-09-16
The 7th Molecular Microbiology conference, sponsored by AltaBioscience, will take place at the University of Birmingham, UK on 15th – 16th September 2022. This event is a fantastic opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research in microbiology from leading UK and international researchers with talks and posters covering the latest trends on interactions between microbes and their environment, gene expression and RNA biology, bacterial cell structures, replication and cell division, and human pathogens.
For more information and to book your place, click here.
About the Molecular Microbiology (Mol Micro) Conference
The Conference was first organised by Jörg Vogel (University of Würzburg) and John Helmann (Cornell University) eleven years ago (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07852.x). It celebrates the journal of the same name that has long been a gold standard for publishing in the field. Speakers are drawn from the journal’s recent authors and it also provides opportunities for early career researchers to present their work.
Confirmed speakers:

Julia van Kessel: Indiana State University (USA)
Tom Santangelo: Colorado State University (USA)
Thorsten Mascher: Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
Klas Flardh: Lund University (Sweden)
Angelika Gründling (Imperial College London)
Kristina Jonas: Stockholm University (Sweden)
Dirk Schüler: University of Bayreuth (Germany)
Eva Frickel (University of Birmingham (UK)

The full schedule can be found here.
Conference fees and booking:
Standard registration ends 26th August 2022.
Student rate:

Early bird: £100 (EXTENDED UNTIL 20th May 2022)
Regular rate: £200 (after 20th May 2022)

Academic/Professional rate:

Early bird: £150 (EXTENDED UNTIL 20th May 2022)
Regular: £250 (after 20th May 2022)

ONLINE EVENT: NHS Scan4Safety Healthcare Supplier Forum
2022-09-29 08:00 - 17:00
This is a live virtual forum delivered via Zoom on Wednesday 12 October 2022 from 10:00am–1:30pm.
Join us for this online forum to hear from leaders in England, Scotland and Wales about their plans to use open global standards to improve patient safety and supply chain processes for their Scan4Safety programmes.
Hear the latest from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) about the future regulation of medical devices.
NHS Supply Chain will also be presenting on their strategy and the continued adoption of GS1 standards.
There will also be presentations from suppliers that have implemented GS1 standards for UDI.
For more information and to book your place, click here.

WEBINAR: An Overview of the Future UK Medical Device Regulation
2022-09-29 14:00 - 15:00
SEHTA are pleased to offer you a FREE to attend webinar session with IVDeology on an overview of the main points from the UK government’s response to consultation on the future UK Medical Device Regulation.
Overview of Webinar
A chance for attendees to listen to an appraisal of the government’s responses to the consultation results around the shape of the UK Medical Device Regulations going forward.
We will review the UKRP requirements with the Quality Person role, classification proposals, transition provisions to name a few.
There will be ample opportunity for questions at the end of the presentation.
Speaker profile: Stuart Angell, Managing Director & Co-founder, IVDeology
Stuart created IVDeology to provide clear, pragmatic advice and support to the IVD industry focusing on small and mid-size businesses who may not be so familiar with the requirements of IVD regulations in the UK, EU and the rest of the world.
IVDeology is a well established and growing UK company providing quality and regulatory consultancy, training and compliance services to the IVD industry.
Click here for more details and to register.

City of Mentor Midlands Meet Up
2022-10-05 17:30 - 20:30 | Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham, B15 2RS
Medilink Midlands and the Greater Birmingham Transatlantic Chamber of Commerce invite you to an informal evening to meet with colleagues from the City of Mentor.
We are delighted to be welcoming a team of representatives from our longstanding partners at the City of Mentor, Ohio to the UK on their latest trade mission, including:

Ken Filipiak, City Manager/CEO, City of Mentor
Kevin Malecek, Director of Economic Development and International Trade, City of Mentor
Kim Holizna from the Ohio Aerospace Institute (TBC)

This informal networking event, offers you the chance to scope out potential opportunities for entering the lucrative US market. The City of Mentor is a powerhouse of innovation, being home to more than 300 manufacturers with particular strengths in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, polymer, and biomedical industry clusters. This setting will provide a forum to discuss the prospects for investment in the City of Mentor, as well as establishing connections between UK healthcare, aerospace, and precision manufacturing businesses and appropriate partners and organisations in the US.
Uvamed, a Medilink member company, were introduced to our City of Mentor partners during their first visit in 2018 and have been working with them ever since. Keith Fawdington, Uvamed’s Director, writes:
“Uvamed has long held ambitions to expand into the US. Our products fulfil a real need in the American healthcare market and Medilink Midlands, working in collaboration with the City of Mentor and Uvamed, have helped us towards that ambition. Since attending the first Medilink Midlands trade mission in October 2018, Uvamed has worked with Medilink and the City of Mentor to establish US offices and make in-roads into America.”
For your chance to open the door to similar success, join us at the Edgbaston Park Hotel, Birmingham on Wednesday 5th October from 5.30pm .
Email zoeh@medilinkmidlands.com to confirm your place.
Further information on the City of Mentor can be found City of Mentor

EMAHSN Innovation Academy MODULE J: Navigating the Digital Health Landscape
2022-10-06 10:30 - 11:30
The East Midlands Academic Health Science Network Innovation Academy is open to anyone to register. Once registered, participants will have access to a range of modules, each including a webinar, live Q&A session with the experts and online resources.The webinars are on demand, so can be accessed at any time, with the live Q&A session for each module being scheduled throughout 2022
For further details/to watch the ON-DEMAND webinar or join the live Q&A session please CLICK HERE to Sign up for the Academy and to register for this module.
This module will provide you with a broad overview of the digital health landscape and the factors that digital health innovators may need to consider. These include involving people in the development of your product and value proposition. There are a wide range of digital stakeholders within the NHS which can make it challenging to navigate.
Mikes differentiates these stakeholders along with highlighting the regulations and evidence around digital health. The concept of digital health reimbursement is also covered throughout this module, signposting to key resources to help innovators understand more about each of these factors.
Presenter / expert

Mike Watson – Digital Lead, EMAHSN

WEBINAR: Routes to Funding
2022-10-06 11:00 - 12:00
Silverstone Technology Cluster
Medilink Midlands, as a long-established membership organisation, has links and relationships with a wide variety of companies and organisations across the health support landscape both regionally and nationally.
In this webinar, supported by Hexagon, they will be looking at what Medilink Midlands can do to support business in the MedTech/Health and Wellbeing areas as well as any transitioning or considering development towards the health sector.
They will be covering the grants still available through Medilink Midlands and looking at what else is out there in the funding landscape at that time (Autumn 2022) across the Midlands region.
They will also look through the most common errors when completing grant application forms.
We will provide Medilink Midlands experts in all these areas but also will be inviting Innovate UK/Innovate Edge and other funding bodies to participate particularly if there is a specific ‘call’ coming up autumn 2022.
Book your ‘FREE’ place HERE.
Timings: 11.00am – 12.00noon
This is an online Webinar, supported by Hexagon and joining instructions will be sent to you the day before to join via Zoom.

WEBINAR: Making Sense of Intellectual Property for Medtech Start-Ups
2022-10-11 10:00 - 11:00
This talk is aimed at inventors and technologists, leaders and entrepreneurs at medtech start-ups and early stage companies.
Intellectual property is the most important asset of most tech start-ups. Ensuring that your IP is protected in an appropriate way is a significant consideration when seeking funding to grow and underpins the future success of your company.
This talk outlines things to consider when you are starting out to put your IP strategy on a good path to protect your innovation, get ready for investment and avoid some common mistakes.
Join Medilink, Dr Daniel Hudson, UK and European Patent Attorney, Partner at Potter Clarkson and Clark Crawford, Innovation & Commercial Services lead, West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) at this webinar to understand and ‘make sense’ of intellectual property in the medtech space.
DURATION: 1 hour
TO SECURE YOUR FREE PLACE CLICK HERE
Speaker:

Dr Daniel Hudson, UK and European Patent Attorney, Partner at Potter Clarkson
Daniel is a partner in the electronics and computing patent group at Potter Clarkson, an award-winning, top-tier firm of European patent and trade mark attorneys and IP solicitors. He works with innovative organisations to recognise and protection inventions. Dan drafts and prosecutes UK and European patent applications in the digital heath space, and works with patent attorneys around the world to manage the international prosecution of families of patent applications. He particularly enjoys addressing the challenges involved with prosecuting related families of patent applications to obtain comprehensive protection for his clients’ inventions in view of their commercial objectives.

NEW DATE - WEBINAR: Video Marketing for Life Science Companies: Increasing Awareness, Engagement, and Investment Potential
2022-10-12 10:00 - 11:00
NEW DATE! This event was original scheduled for Tuesday 4 October but had to be unavoidably postponed.
Now, more than ever, video provides incredible opportunities, enabling organisations to promote products, explain processes and raise the profile of their brand. In this Life Sciences Marketing Special Interest Group (SIG) webinar, we will be discussing how life science organisations can harness the power of video – tailoring it to the needs of their organisation and audience. We’ll be discussing how video can be used to tell powerful stories, enable viewers to process high volumes of content, communicate complex subject matters and increase their appeal to investors in engaging and memorable ways.
The presentation will be hosted by Robin Bodicoat, Head of Marketing at Touchlight, and the guest presenter will be Tim Bassford, an award-winning filmmaker and Creative Director of Turbine Creative, who specialises in marketing for the life science industry. Tim will provide insights and recommendations on relevant and innovative video solutions related to the industry, which will increase awareness amongst your customer base, maximise client relationships, and support collaboration amongst your employees.
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Learning points include:
• Different video solutions – various video types that can be used to meet different needs
• Latest innovations in video – which can empower Life Science organisations
• How to get the most out of video – practical tips and key considerations
• Delivering video – the most appropriate and successful platforms to use for your needs
• Budget – what sort of costs to expect, and what can be achieved for different budgets
Plus there will be time for the audience to ask questions.
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses, the value of which is £190, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the INSTILS programme, attendance is not restricted to companies in the D2N2/NG area and is open to all.
DURATION: 1 hour
Speaker Profiles:

Robin Bodicoat – Head of Marketing, Touchlight
Robin is the CIM qualified, Head of Marketing at Touchlight Genetics, a London-based biotech focused on the discovery and development of DNA-based genetic medicines, including DNA vaccines and gene therapies. He is also an active Board Member of the BMC (Business Marketing Club), which is the independent voice of the B2B marketing industry. He has 20+ years’ experience in Life Sciences, Pharma and Healthcare, with knowledge in marketing campaign planning and strategy, and brand development. In 2017 he managed the global re-brand of Quotient Sciences

Tim Bassford, Creative Director, Turbine Creative
Tim is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Turbine Creative, a Nottingham based creative agency working with ambitious brands both locally and across the world. Tim has previously provided expert content marketing services to organisations such as Thermo Fisher Scientific, Beckman Coulter, Johnson & Johnson, the BBC and Team GB to name a few. Tim has over 15 years’ experience in the creation of engaging video content for B2B clients and has won industry awards along the way for his innovative, creative and diverse portfolio.

SEHTA 2022 MedTech Expo
2022-10-13 09:00 - 17:30
For over 17 years, South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA) has developed an excellent reputation for support of its 1,400+ members, especially SMEs, through its one-to-one mentoring, fund-finding, consultancy and events programme.
Last year we ran our 2nd International MedTech Expo & Conference, as hybrid – a combination of an attended in-person and virtual event, aimed at SME’s, Corporates, Academics & NHS Healthcare Providers, designed to take the programme of support to another level. We had 35 Sponsors and Exhibitors from all over the UK, Europe and Rest of the World and over 150 delegates took part.
For 2022 we are organising this event as an attended live event only.
Programme:
EXPO OPENS – 09:00
CONFERENCE STARTS – 10:00
EXPO CLOSES – 17:00
CONFERENCE CLOSES – 17:30
Click here for more information and to register.

IN-PERSON EVENT: Women's Health: A Holistic Approach
2022-10-18 09:30 - 13:30 | MeetPoint Midlands, Conference Centre, 28 High Street, Kegworth, Derbyshire, DE74 2DA
Tuesday 18th October marks World Menopause Day. We’ll be hosting our next Food Supplements Special Interest Group (SIG) to mark the occasion, with an in-person event dedicated to exploring how nutrition and supplementation can positively impact women’s health. The event will be held at Meetpoint Midlands in Kegworth.
In addition to updates from our event partners, Jenson R+ (Janet Worrell and Mihai Inceu) and SIG co-organiser, Nick Bennett (ADM Protexin), we’ll hear presentations from guest speakers including:

Esther Mills Roberts, HFMA – Collagen: Research, Regulations and Opportunities
George Donnely, Hemogad – Ferritin: Unmet needs and Solutions
Jolanta Borkowska, The Holistic Pharmacist – A holistic approach to perimenopause and menopause: How functional testing, nutrition, supplements and lifestyle factors can help balance hormones and ease symptoms

This event is open to all and intends to provide both an overview of the latest developments and opportunities in the sector, as well as practical guidance for those wishing to learn more about how supplementation, nutrition and lifestyle choices can positively impact women’s health. Secure your place at this timely event via the link below.

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Speaker profiles

Janet Worrell, Head of Regulatory Affairs, JensonR+
Presentation: Introduction and Panel Chair
Janet is based at JensonR+ Limited’s Nottingham office. She previously ran her own consultancy business, consult2deliver limited, where she collaborated with OTC Experts. She developed her regulatory skills at Thomas Kerfoot and Medeva, before moving to 3M as the global regulatory lead for Qvar. Her first role in OTC medicines began at Boots the Chemist, before transferring to senior roles within Boots Healthcare International. She subsequently worked at Vectura, and later became Head of Innovative Regulatory Affairs at Boots Pharmaceuticals. Janet is the co-founder of the Food Supplements SIG.

Nick Bennett, Head of Product Development, ADM Protexin
Presentation Title: Andropause and Menopause
Nick’s career in food supplements spans over 25 years. He has worked with organisations of all sizes, focusing on the technical and regulatory aspects that underpin product development. His passion is designing formulations that contain a worthwhile and appropriate amount of each ingredient, as well as increasing consumer understanding around choosing worthwhile products that suit their budget and individual needs. A registered nutritionist for 20 years, Nick is excited about joining ADM Protexin as Head of Product Development, producing pre, pro and postbiotic based products for animals and humans which can profoundly support health and wellbeing.

Mihai Inceu, Senior Regulatory Officer, JensonR+
Presentation Title: Product Characterisation: Natural Health Products
Mihai is currently based in London and Nottingham for JensonR+ Ltd. While at the Faculty of Chemistry in Cluj-Napoca, Mihai was awarded a research scholarship for a study monitoring pesticide residue in Romanian wines, while also working on developing extraction techniques to enable the identification of fake food products on the market.
After a short spell at Ranbaxy as a Bioequivalence Scientist, Mihai worked for 5 years at Nelsons within quality control, quality assurance, and later Regulatory Affairs, where he focused on food supplements, cosmetics, traditional herbal remedies and homeopathic remedies. He has expertise in regulatory complications relating to uncategorised products

Esther Mills-Roberts, Director of Communications, HMFA
Presentation Topic: Collagen: Research, Regulations, Opportunities
Esther Mills-Roberts is Director of Communications at the Health Food Manufacturers’ Association. She is a registered AfN nutritionist, and BANT registered nutritional therapist. Well-known for her passion for nutritional science, Esther enthusiastically communicates at every level; business, practitioner and the consumer. She spent many years editing and writing for publications ranging from Journals, through to trade health publications, consumer press and digital

Jolanta Borkowska, The Holistic Pharmacist
Presentation Title: A Holistic Approach to Menopause: How Functional Testing, Nutrition, Supplements and Lifestyle Factors Can Help Balance Hormones and Ease Symptoms
Jolanta Borkowska is a holistic pharmacist and nutritional therapist, helping people transform their health using advanced scientific testing and personalised nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

George Donnelly, Founder & CEO, HemoGAD
Presentation Title/Topic: Ferritin: Unmet needs and Potential Solutions
George Donnelly is the Inventor, Founder and CEO of HemoGAD. A diagnosis of Haemochromatosis in his early 40’s led George to study the effects of Iron overload. Considered a patient expert with his peers, his goal is to educate and help patients manage their care routines effectively.

This free-to-attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the INSTILS programme, attendance is not restricted to companies in the Derby/Derbyshire/Nottingham/Nottinghamshire area and is open to all.

IN-PERSON EVENT: The Future of Remote Monitoring and Virtual Wards
2022-10-19 09:30 - 14:00 | iCentrum, Innovation Birmingham, Holt Street, Birmingham, B7 4BB, Holt Street, Birmingham, B7 4BB, United Kingdom
This event is part of the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) industry event programme, aimed to support the West Midlands innovation ecosystem, and to make the West Midlands healthier, more productive and deliver the best possible clinical outcomes for patients.
Event overview:
Since covid we have seen a rapid rise of acceptance and use with remote monitoring and virtual wards within the health care sector, and this in person event will look at the past, present, and future demands within the remote monitoring and virtual ward landscape, and what individuals, including innovators, suppliers, clinicians, and service providers need to collectively consider.
Event to cover:

What is the technical scope
What is required (DTAC, regulations and requirements)
Who are the customers? And how to approach
Integrated care, do we have the systems to facilitate?
Market opportunities (NHS structure, procurement and accessibility)
What is the future and potential future requirements
Funding & support

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With presentations including:

Thomas Llewellyn, Remote Monitoring Lead, WMAHSN
Fiona Costello, VP of National Accreditations, ORCHA
Adrian Smith, WM5G Health & Care Sector Lead, WM5G and Head of Digital Transformation, NHS Arden & GEM CSU
Ian Newington, Head of Special Projects, Innovation Programmes and IP, NIHR
Dr Masood Ahmed, Chief Digital Officer, WMAHSN
Chris Dyke, Connectivity Manager, Medilink Midlands
Ewa Truchanowicz, Managing Director, Dignio
Dr Noel O’Kelly, Clinical Director (Spirit Digital) Spirit Health

You will also have the chance to put your questions to our panellist of experts.
Nearby parking is available at Faraday Wharf ( same postcode as iCentrum).
If travelling by train, it is an approximate 15 minute walk from Snow Hill or New Street train station.

IN-PERSON EVENT: NHS Adoption of Medical Devices: Pathway to Procurement
2022-10-20 09:30 - 13:30 | Charnwood Campus, Bakewell Road, Loughborough, LE11 5RB
Want expert guidance on how to get your medical device adopted into the NHS? Don’t miss the latest session in our series of events organised in partnership with CHEATA, taking place in person at Charnwood Campus on Thursday 20th October. Our panel brings together leaders from across the NHS, including:

Natasha Brown, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) Procurement
Professor Dan Clark OBE, Head of Clinical Engineering for NUH
Simon Hall, National Clinical Engagement and Implementation Manager, NHS Supply Chain
Dr Sarah Bolton, Business Manager, CHEATA

This is your opportunity to gain insight from those involved with all stages of the adoption process, and will include ample time to pose your own questions to the panel.

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Speaker profiles

Dr Sarah Bolton, Business Manager, CHEATA
Sarah has been the Business Manager for CHEATA since August 2016. Prior to joining CHEATA, Sarah was responsible for Healthcare and Medical Devices at Pera Technology, a role which included project delivery, client engagement and management, project planning and management as well as bid writing for major UK and EC funding bodies. Sarah is an experienced research scientist with a background in academic and clinical inflammation research where she undertook her post-doctoral studies on inflammatory mechanisms in the brain and activation mechanisms of eosinophils in asthma. She joined AstraZeneca in 2004 as an Experimental Pathologist in the Respiratory and Inflammation Therapy area, specialising in translation pathology of COPD and asthma. After leaving AZ, Sarah worked as an independent consultant continuing the experimental pathology work for a range of academic and commercial clients.
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.

Professor Dan Clark OBE, Head of Clinical Engineering, Nottingham University Hospitals & Director, CHEATA
Dan leads the Clinical Engineering service at Nottingham University Hospitals, one of the largest in Europe, which provides the full scope of equipment services including: device evaluation, commissioning, service and maintenance, decommissioning and disposal. He has considerable experience of evaluating new technologies and medical devices and introducing them into the healthcare setting. Dan also holds an honorary chair in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and is co-director of the Centre for Healthcare Technologies, a unique collaborative venture between Nottingham University and NUH NHS Trust specialising in the acceleration of curiosity driven science into adopted medical technology. He also chairs the NUH NHS Trust’s Medical Devices Group and sits on a number of trust-wide risk committees. Finally, Dan was an expert member of the NICE Medical Technology Advisory Committee (MTAC) for 10 years until his “retirement” from the committee in 2019. Dan is a director and founder member of CHEATA since its inception in late 2014. Dan was awarded an OBE for Services to Clinical Engineering particularly during Covid-19 in the 2021 New Years Honours.

Simon Hall, National Clinical Lead, NHS Supply Chain
Originally working in urology in London, Simon has spent the majority of his nursing career in community services. Returning to acute care, he became lead nurse for tissue viability at University Hospitals Bristol (UHB), wining the trust’s rising star award for service improvement.
Simon was seconded to work in the Department of Health to establish if clinical input positively impacted the procurement of healthcare products. He returned to UHB as Deputy Head of Nursing, before joining CPP as the National Clinical Lead for Tower 5 within NHS Supply Chain.

Natasha Brown, Deputy Head of Procurement, Nottingham University Hospitals
Natasha has a wealth of public sector procurement experience and hold the procurement and supply chain industry qualification (MCIPS). Natasha holds a Law degree which has provided a solid foundation into the procurement and supply chain profession, and her experience includes procurement within local authorities, universities and housing associations as well as the NHS.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the INSTILS programme, attendance is not restricted to the region and is open to all.

WEBINAR: Using LIMS to Support MHRA and HTA Auditing
2022-10-20 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
Interactive Software are delighted to be hosting a live webinar on the 20th October from 2.30 – 3.30pm for Biobank Managers and laboratory professionals who would like to understand more about using LIMS to support MHRA and HTA auditing.
The agenda:

An introduction to Interactive Software
LIMS for auditing and quality compliance
Nottingham University – client case study

The team at Interactive Software will talk and guide you through how a laboratory information management system (LIMS) can help support your lab processes to meet the requirements for regulatory compliance with the MHRA and the Human Tissue Act (HTA).
Compliance is all about quality. By improving your data quality through use of timely capture, management, validation and formatting of sample information, a well-designed LIMS will give you complete traceability for compliance and quality assurance.
Interactive Software are well placed to offer advice and assistance. As developers of the Achiever Medical web-based, laboratory information management system, our software is trusted by Biobanks, pharma, research labs and biorepositories to manage, analyse and process laboratory data accurately and securely. It is designed to instil good laboratory practice and automate lab workflows to increase efficiency and productivity.
To register your interest, click here.

HYBRID EVENT: Digital Technologies for Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing
2022-10-27 10:00 - 14:00 | Harlow Innovation Park, CM17 9LX
To mark the launch of the collaborative project between Medilink Midlands and the ARISE Innovation Hub, part of Anglia Ruskin University, we will be hosting an exciting hybrid event on Thursday 27th October. The event will be held at Harlow Innovation Park, located in Essex, within the established London-Stansted-Cambridge corridor.
For the first in our series of events held in collaboration with ARISE, we’re taking the MedTech and Systems Special Interest Group (SIG) on the road. Born out of our longstanding partnership with Nottingham Trent University (NTU), this special interest group has met several times a year since it was first established in 2016, and is a great example of how networks of this kind can strengthen connections between academia, clinicians and industry.
This next event in the series explores how digital technologies are providing innovative solutions that are positively impacting mental health care and wellbeing more widely. We’ll hear talks from specialists working across this swiftly developing field, covering topics ranging from AI and machine learning, through to app-based interventions and interactive physical devices.
The event will be introduced by Professor Yvonne Barnett, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University and Medilink Midlands Board Member. Our presentations will be chaired by Professor Phil Breedon, Professor of Smart Technologies at NTU and leader of the MedTech and Systems Special Interest Group since its launch.
We will hear presentations on the day from:

Professor Graham Ball, Executive Director of the Medical Technologies Centre, Anglia Ruskin University & Founder-CSO of Intelligent Omics
Dr Joseph C. Manning, MBE, Clinical Associate Professor for the NIHR and HEE based at the University of Nottingham
Dr Sarah Wright, Global Account Director for Blueskeye,
Dr Will Farr, Chief Investigator within the NHS, Tangiball
Emilios Lemoniatis, Director, Frontline Buddy & Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Digital Ethics/Innovation, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Offered as a hybrid event, we’d be delighted to welcome you in person on the day. We’ll be creating a dedicated networking space alongside the formal presentations, as well as offering a tour of the facility. We encourage you to bring along your banners and any other take-home resources to facilitate connections between attendees and hopefully spark future collaborations.
To join us in person at Harlow Innovation Park, click on the button below.
Speaker Profiles

Professor Graham Ball, Executive Director of the Medical Technologies Centre, Anglia Ruskin University & Founder-CSO of Intelligent Omics
Presentation title: Digital Innovations for Mental Health – A Partnership Approach
Prof Graham Ball is the Executive Director of the Medical Technologies Research Centre at Anglia Ruskin University and founder-CSO of Intelligent Omics. Prof Ball specializes in the application of innovative artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to the analysis of complex data in the biomolecular, biomedical, and pharmacological domains.
Prof Ball has led the development and validation of bioinformatics algorithms using Machine learning to mine molecular data for the last 20 years. He has focused on applying these approaches to public data repositories leveraging actionable and translational features from the data. He has published over 200 journal papers and 7 patents in this area. After a PhD (UN-funded) modelling environmental systems, in 2000 he shifted his focus to analysis of proteomic and genomic data; searching for proteins and genes associated with cancer. His current research focuses on innovative computational methods that allow the identification of optimized biomarker panels, molecular systems of disease and druggable biology.

Dr Joseph Manning MBE, Clinical-Academic Children’s Nurse, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust
Presentation title: The SAPhE Pathway Study – Using Digital Innovation to Enhance the Safety of Children and Young People Experiencing Mental Health Crisis in Acute Paediatric Care.
Joseph is a Clinical-Academic Children’s Nurse with a strong national and international profile within the fields of nursing, paediatric critical care, and clinical academic capacity and capability development. He is the first registered children’s nurse in the UK to be awarded an HEE NIHR ICA Clinical Lectureship and is seen as a trailblazer in his field.
He has meaningful concurrent engagement in clinical practice and research, holding frontline healthcare and senior leadership roles at Nottingham Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professorship (Research) / Deputy Director of the Centre for Children and Young People Health Research at the University of Nottingham. Joseph leads a methodologically diverse and clinically focused programme of research with a mission to improve the experiences, outcomes and lives of children, young people and their families that access acute care. Over the past decade he has received more than £5.4 million in competitive grant capture from national and international funders. His contribution and leadership to the nursing profession, clinical academic careers, and nursing research has been recognised by being a recipient of a Chief Nursing Officer for England Gold Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 and by Her Majesty the Queen’s with a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2021.

Dr Sarah Wright, Global Account Director, Blueskeye AI
Presentation title: Using BlueSkeye AI Face Sensing Technology to Improve Quality of Life
After graduating in Anthropology at Swansea University, Sarah worked in market research in the Travel & Tourism sector before leading a European Funded programme to support Leadership Development in Industrial South Wales which in turn introduced Sarah to Telos Partners. At Telos Partners, Sarah led and supported programmes of work with public, private and voluntary sector organisations focussing on sustainable growth and development. Throughout this time Sarah continued with her academic interests completing an MSc in Social Research and her PhD. Sarah’s doctoral research focused on patient-centred care in outpatient settings. Sarah has 10 years’ experience working various roles in the health sector. Before joining BlueSkeye AI, she previously led the roll out of Patients Know Best in the devolved nations and has contributed to the review and evaluation of the delivery of local mental health services and dermatology services in Wales. Sarah is also the Vice Chair for an all Wales skin charity, Skin Care Cymru and set up the first Cross Party Group on Skin that raises the profile of skin health in Wales. Sarah is a trustee of the Telos Foundation, an organisation that supports and encourages sustainability and growth amongst social enterprises in the UK. At BlueSkeye AI, Sarah leads the commercial and research partnerships that use BlueSkeye AI technology.

Dr Will Farr, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, NHS Clinical Entrepreneur
Presentation title:“Tangiball”: Acceptability of a Smart Toy for the Clinical Detection of Sensori-Motor Dysfunction in Children with Possible Autism Aged 2-5
Will worked as a primary school teacher over 20 years and worked as a year 6, 5, and reception teacher. Whilst in this role he was a DH, AHT, SENCO, and co-ordinator in IT, PE, KS2, Humanities, and Literacy.
Will now works with collaborators across the University and Healthcare sectors in various Chief Investigator or Co-applicant roles, to assess and improve the diagnostic pathways for children with possible autism, digital innovation for diagnosis, and use of AI for individualised therapy.

Emilios Lemoniatis, Director, Frontline Buddy & Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist – Digital Ethics/Innovation, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Presentation title: Frontline Buddy: Peer Support for a Frontline Workforce with Organisational Data Insights
“Working in a context of limited resources and challenging circumstances, I have been drawn to the world of innovation and digital development as a way of enabling citizens to access high quality mental health services. Working clinically with complex cases has enabled me to creatively transfer my skillset into working with systems and people to acknowledge difficulties in the way we work as well as find ways to adapt and change. This has led me to my current position where I practice within a portfolio of teams with shared themes of adverse experience, neurodiversity and complexity.
I bring my experience of talking through difficulties as a psychiatrist to help people think creatively and dialogically. This helps people develop themselves and consider the materials they are working with to develop new insights and concepts. Having been on the NHS England Clinical Entrepreneur programme since 2019 both as a entrepreneur and as a mentor to start-ups in mental health, I am a go-to person to guide new developments in mental health as well as understanding and living the entrepreneurial spirit of the work involved. This has also helped me further develop my network that I have been developing nationally and internationally of people, products and companies in this field for over 15 years.”

WEBINAR: Clinical Trials: Your Questions Answered
2022-11-01 10:00 - 11:00
This year’s final instalment of our Clinical Trials special interest group series, organised in partnership with Afortiori Development, brings together a panel of experts to answer your questions relating to clinical trials from planning through to delivery.
Rather than formal presentations, this hour-long session will take a roundtable discussion / Q&A format. If you’re currently planning or implementing a clinical trial, or anticipate doing so in the near future, it’s an invaluable opportunity to gain in-depth, tailored responses to any questions you may have to ensure the success of your clinical trial.
Our panel brings together specialists from our partners at Afortiori, alongside guest speakers from other industry leaders.
Joining us on the day will be:

Dr Nicola Wall, Afortiori Development
Jo Goble, Afortiori Development
Cheryl Bailey, Afortiori Development
Dr Danielle Bodicoat, Afortiori Development
Kate Pym, Pym’s Consultancy
Matthew Burton, IMed Consultancy

Full speaker profiles will follow shortly. For now, click the link below to secure your place today.
Book your free place now
This free-to-attend event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.
Please note: whilst this event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme, attendance is not restricted to companies in the Leicester/Leicestershire area and is open to all.
DURATION: 1 hour

EMAHSN Innovation Academy MODULE H Live Q&A Session: Why and how to involve patients and the public in your healthcare innovation
2022-11-08 10:00 - 11:00
The East Midlands Academic Health Science Network Innovation Academy is open to anyone to register. Once registered, participants will have access to a range of modules, each including a webinar, live Q&A session with the experts and online resources.The webinars are on demand, so can be accessed at any time, with the live Q&A session for each module being scheduled throughout 2022
For further details/to watch the ON-DEMAND webinar or join the live Q&A session please CLICK HERE to Sign up for the Academy and to register for this module.
This module explores what Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is and why it is so important to involve people from the start and throughout. It also gets you to think about where you are with PPI as you inform, engage, involve and co-produce with people as you develop your innovation or service.
It also covers the three important drivers for involving patients and the public in healthcare innovation and why these are critical to getting your innovation moving within the NHS.
Presenter/ expert
Shahnaz Aziz – Patient Public Leadership and Equality Lead, EMAHSN

IN-PERSON EVENT: Building Resilience into the UK's Life Sciences Sector
2022-11-08 13:00 - 17:00 | Charnwood Campus, Bakewell Road, Loughborough, LE11 5RB
Part of the Leicester Business Festival Programme, this in-person event focuses on how to increase your business resilience. Join an expert panel of local business leaders who will be sharing their experience of building resilience into their business. We’ll hear from those working in supply chain, shoring and finance through to talks on leadership and skills.
The event programme includes presentations from:

Stefan Ogrodzinski, CEO, BioStratus Group
Chris Hobson, East Midlands Chamber
Graeme Cameron, CEO, Pennine Healthcare
Dr Faz Chowdhury, Founder & CEO, Nemaura
Tim Robinson, Commercial Director, EMAHSN
Gosia Khrais, Director, Charnwood Campus
Helen Compton, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, NIHR
Malcolm Youll, Managing Director, Weiss Technik UK
Julian Patel, Commercial Manager, EMAHSN

For more information and to book our place, click here.

IN-PERSON EVENT: Open House: Cross-sector opportunities for Midlands SMEs
2022-11-10 09:30 - 16:30 | British Motor Museum, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ
Four business-led sector organisations are coming together to host a unique Cross Sector Open House. The event is being delivered by Aerospace Unlocking Potential*, which is led by the University of Nottingham in Partnership with the Midlands Aerospace Alliance, and supports companies to diversify into and out of aerospace and aviation.
Midlands Aerospace Alliance, Medilink Midlands, Rail Forum and the Motorsport Industry Association will share their knowledge of recent developments and current and future opportunities for SMEs across the Midlands. Case study SMEs will demonstrate how they have successfully diversified into other sectors.
Teams from the four organisations will be on hand to field enquiries about their sector. Additional support is available through Aerospace UP for any SMEs wanting to diversify into (or from) aerospace, aviation, space or advanced air mobility.

We know that great ideas and technologies from businesses that are experts in one sector can be applied to solve problems in another – this event is designed to help things along by providing a forum for Midlands companies to network across all sectors and learn from one another.
This event is funded by Aerospace Unlocking Potential which enables Midlands SMEs to attend for free (please check criteria at booking page).
Topics to include (all still to be confirmed)

Developments / Opportunities in aerospace
Developments / Opportunities in rail
Advanced Air Mobility – future supply chain opportunities
Developments / Opportunities in motorsport
Space – future supply chain opportunities
Developments / Opportunities in MedTech
Aerospace UP funding and available support
SME case studies
Panel Q&A sessions
Networking sessions

Date: Thursday 10th November 2022
Venue: British Motor Museum, Banbury Road, Gaydon, Warwickshire, CV35 0BJ (Free museum ticket included)
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IN-PERSON EVENT: Connected Healthcare Programme (Modules 1-3)
2022-11-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Friars House, Manor House Drive, Coventry, CV1 2TE
Split into 6 modules, the Connected Healthcare Programme is brought to you by West Midlands 5G and designed for healthcare organisations. Join us to discover how to accelerate connectivity, innovation and benefit adoption to transform the Healthcare Industry.
This first session on Thursday 10th November will cover Modules 1-3. Modules 4-6 will be delivered on Thursday 17th November.
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Module 1 – The 5G Triangle?

Dimensions of 5G & its releases (Including Standards)
5G Applications
The 5G Environment
Where are you within the 5G triangle?

Module 2 – Pillars of Application

Prevention, early diagnosis, LTCs and emergency response
The Four Key Pillars and the associated Use Cases

Module 3 – Digital Strategy

The NHS Strategy to Digital Transformation with SMEs
An overview to the key aspects of a business strategy & developing a clear vision for 5G to the service offering
The NHS’s Digital Journey

* SME qualifying criteria

This programme is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In-order to qualify for a free space on the programme, an organisation needs to satisfy the following criteria: Organisation Size: Be a Start-up or SME (A small and medium-sized enterprise covers enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding 50 million Euro, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding 43 million Euro)
Location: Registered or trading in the Black Country LEP region or the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP region.

HYBRID WORKSHOP: EU Interreg AiBle: Robert Intelligence for Rehabilitation
2022-11-11 13:00 - 16:30 | Online
The EU Interreg AiBle Project are pleased to offer you the opportunity to join us for this workshop on Robotic Intelligence for Rehabilitation, either in-person at Portsmouth University or virtually via the ONLINE platform.

AiBle is a 3-year cross-border EU Interreg project about an upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton robot based on AI and cloud computing.

The workshop objective is to create a discussion platform on intersections between the fields of rehabilitation, robotics, and human-computer/robot interaction.
Click here for more information about the project and to book your place.

GMT
CET
Programme
Programme

13:00 – 13:10
14:00 – 14:10
Welcome and Introduction to AiBle
Prof Zhaojie Ju, Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics, University of Portsmouth, UK
Accueil et Introduction à AiBle
Prof Zhaojie Ju,
Professeur d’apprentissage automatique et de robotique, Université de Portsmouth, UK

13:10 – 13:55
14:10 – 14:55
Computational Intelligence for Multiscopic Topological Twin
Prof. Naoyuki Kubota, Professor of Robotics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Intelligence computationnelle pour le jumeau topologique multiscopique
Prof. Naoyuki Kubota,
Professeur de robotique,
Université métropolitaine de Tokyo, Japon

13:55 – 14:40
14:55 – 15:40
Wearable Sensing/Intervention for Healthcare
Dr Zhiqiang Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK
Détection/intervention portable pour les soins de santé
Dr Zhiqiang Zhang, Professeur Associé, Université de Leeds, UK

14:40 – 14:50
15:40 – 15:50
Break
Pause

14:50 – 15:35

15:50 – 16:35

Assistive Technology for personal and clinical rehabilitation
Stephen Ruffle, Director, Rebotics Technology Ltd
Technologie d’assistance pour la réadaptation personnelle et Clinique
Stephen Volant, Directeur, Rebotics Technology Ltd

15:35 – 16:20
16:35 – 17:20
Practical VR games for upper limb rehabilitation following stroke
Prof. Venky Dubey, Professor Of Medical Robotics, Bournemouth University, UK
Jeux pratiques en réalité virtuelle pour la rééducation du membre supérieur après un AVC
Prof. Venky Dubey, Professeur de Robotique Médicale, Université de Bournemouth, UK

16:20 – 16:30
17:20 – 17:30
Closing Comments
Mots de clôture
