The Innovation Forum is partnering with Johnson & Johnson Innovation and the EBD group in organising the Start-up Slam in Barcelona, Spain. We believe this event offers a rare opportunity for start-up companies from across our global network: to gain international exposure in front of a specialist life-sciences audience, to raise funding from a diverse range of global investors and to network with 1000’s of leading professionals.
All companies selected to pitch will receive a 70% discount on the BioEurope Spring conference rate.
The Innovation Forum is also organising a prize draw where you can win a FREE ticket to the entire BioEurope Spring conference and 3 FREE tickets to Innovation Forum 2017 in Oxford, UK (4-5 December 2017).
In order to take part in the prize draw you need to:
1) Apply to pitch during the Startup Slam (application form here)
2) Select the Innovation Forum at the bottom of the application form (“How did you hear about Startup Slam?”)
The winner will be chosen from a random draw from the startups selected to pitch at the Startup Slam.
The Application deadline is February 24th 2017, to apply please visit here.
What is Start-up Slam Barcelona?
Start-up Slam is a pitching competition offering emerging entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their company at BIO-Europe spring, the largest partnering conference in Europe serving the global biotechnology industry (20th-22nd March in Barcelona). The finalists companies will receive a special discounted rate on BIO-Europe spring registration and have the opportunity to go through 1-on-1 mentoring with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to make sure they are pitch perfect come competition day!
Why apply to pitch at BIO-Europe’s spring: Start-up Slam?
Increase your company’s visibility and generate interest among over 2,500 industry delegates in the pharmaceutical, medical technology and biotechnology industries. (many from a BD/Licensing background!).
Get mentorship and advice on how to improve your pitch: increasing your chance of raising funding.
Pitch your company to top-tier life-science/healthcare investors from global VC firms, corporate investors and private equity funds.
Get a discounted attendance rate (saving 1000’s of the list price). This is the only discount offered in the whole conference and reflects the central importance of the Start-up Slam!
Who should apply to pitch at BIO-Europe’s Start-up Slam?
Start-up companies who have raised up to $10M from seed up to post Series-A.
Companies active in Biotech, Medtech, Diagnostics or Pharmaceuticals (surprise us!)
Existing companies that are looking to spin-out a side programme.
The Application deadline is February 24th 2017,to apply please visit here.
Taking place on the 8-9th March 2017 in partnership with the Innovation Forum and NIHR, and developed by a cohort of thought leaders at J&J and Lilly this year’s congress marks the 10th anniversary of the world series.
The Clinical Innovation and Partnering Congress will be showcasing disruptive tech, game-changing innovation, novel partnering strategies to deliver clinical trials of the future with patient centricity at its heart.
Topics that will be covered include:
M-Health and wearables
Patient-centric clinical trials
Opportunities for clinical innovation.
Relationship management
Outsourcing strategies
How to future proof your clinical operations.
Trials and tribulations
Selected speakers:
Eric Low, Chief Executive Officer, Myeloma U.K.
Bert Hartog, Director Clinical R and D, R&D Operations – Innovation Leader, Johnson and Johnson
Yuri Martina, Vice President Clinical Operations, Shionogi Ltd
Stephen Nabarro, Head of Clinical Operations and Data Management Drug Development Office Strategy and Research Funding, Cancer Research UK
Jane Rhodes, Senior Director, New Initiatives, Innovation Hub, Biogen
Marc Sluijs, Digital health investment advisory, Merck
Are you a recent graduate or study towards a degree in Life Sciences or Engineering? Do you want to improve or develop your business acumen? Are you interested in meeting new people and organising events and workshops in Manchester?
Why not improve your CV by volunteering at the Innovation Forum!?
We are a non-for-profit organisation supported by 10,000 innovators. We seek to build connections between academia, industry and policy makers, thereby accelerating the speed of technology adoption for the benefit of the wider society. Find out more about us!
If you love life science and want to use your knowledge in the marketing, finance or sales environment, contact Innovation Forum (Manchester) and join our friendly and fast growing team!
Email your CV and tell us, why you want to join the Innovation Forum:
Photo: Mr Alan R Kell BSc MSc OBE, MD of Intelligent & Green Systems Ltd.; Chair, Cambridge Cleantech Smart Cities Group
Mr Alan R Kell BSc MSc OBE is a renowned leader of world-class projects, consultancy and research programmes focused on delivering smart sustainable innovation in cities, communities and buildings.
He operates as a governmental advisor, programme director and international consultant, and has been actively supporting the development of international activities in this area since 1999.
For six years (2007-2012) he was the industry co-chair of the UK-China Eco-cities and Green Building Group, and he continues to development and promote Britain’s international business interests in these fields.
He is actively involved in the implementation of the UK’s Smart Cities Programme, and in the establishment of international relationships to capitalize this programme.
In October 2013 he organised and chaired UK Trade & Investment’s first international business event on Smart Cities, and in September 2014 established the Cambridge Cleantech Smart Cities Group which is leading the UK’s commercial implementation of smart city solutions. During 2014 he was appointment as an Independent Advisor to the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities.
Since February 2015 he has been leading the project to establish the UK Smart Solutions Platform (SmartLink) to promote the UK’s commercial capabilities in this area.
In 2013 he was appointed as an Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth the Second for his services to UK-China collaboration in the development and delivery of sustainable buildings and cities.
Photo: Candace Johnson, President of EBAN – The European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players
Candace Johnson is a global infrastructure, network and innovation expert and entrepreneur. She is co-initiator of SES/ASTRA for which she was named an Officer of the Luxembourg Oak Leaf Crown and architect of SES Global, one of the world’s largest satellite systems for which she was named Commander of the Luxembourg Order of Merit. She is also founding President of Europe Online Investments S.A., the world’s first internet-based online service and satellite broadband network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network for which she was named an Officer of the German Federal Order of Merit. Ms. Johnson has recently co-founded Oceania Women’s Network Satellite (OWNSAT). OWNSAT has become a founding investor in the Pacific Satellite System based in Singapore, where Ms. Johnson is also a Member of the Board. Ms. Johnson is also founding President of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN). She has continued to be a long-time Member of the Board of Directors of all of these companies and organizations at various times throughout the years.
Ms. Johnson is also President of Johnson Paradigm Ventures (JPV) which is a principal founding shareholder with AXA, Caisse des Depots, Bayerische Landesbank, and the SPEF of Sophia Euro Lab, Europe’s first trans-border early-stage investment company based in Sophia Antipolis. JPV is also a principal founding shareholder in London-based Ariadne Capital, “Architecting Europe.net”, one of the earliest supporters and promoters of Skype, the global VoIP phenomenon. Ms. Johnson has served as Founding Member of the Boards of both companies.
In her personal capacity, Ms. Johnson is a Member of the Supervisory Boards of Garage Canada, Iris Capital (Europe) and was a founding member of Inovent (Turkey). Ms. Johnson is founding Member and was President of the Board of the Sophia Business Angels in Sophia Antipolis, France from 2006 – 2008 as well as founding president of three multi-million Euro investment vehicles, Succès Europe, Croissance Europe and Innovation Europe, together with Meeschaert Gestion Prive. Ms. Johnson is also Founding Member of the Cologne Business Angels, Galata Business Angels and Advisory Board of the Luxembourg Business Angels Network. Ms. Johnson was a minority owner of FMN, a German telephone manufacturing company, and a member of their Supervisory Council from 1993 – 2008. She was also a minority owner of Alpha Com, a wireless data manufacturing company.
Through her global investing activity, Ms. Johnson has widened her scope of expertise to include CleanTech and MedTech and has been actively involved in financing such companies as Nheolis, a unique home-turbine energy concept company, and CertiNergy, France’s first B2B2C energy-credit trading company as well as Quotient Diagnostic and AboDiag, life-sciences technology and services companies. In 2006, she created the Festival of the Fourth Dimension, the world’s first festival of the Arts, Technology, and Sciences, which has since become a major French government global initiative for Industrial Innovation and Creativity (Pole ICI) of which she became the 1st Vice President.
Ms. Johnson is a Non –Executive Director of SES-ESL, a publicly quoted corporation on the French Stock Exchange. She has also recently been elected as President of EBAN, the European Business Angel and Early-Stage Investment Network. Ms. Johnson is also the Co-Founder of the Global Board Ready Women initiative.
Ms. Johnson is also a member of the Advisory Board of numerous European and US ventures as well as being a Member of the Board of Governors of EDHEC, France’s largest business school, Sabanci University in Istanbul Turkey, and the International Board of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as being a Senior Enterprise Fellow for the University of Essex/LEEDS Program of the OECD. Recently, she has joined the Board of Advisors for the Techno Parks of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia (KACST). Ms. Johnson is a well-known speaker on innovation and entrepreneurship for such companies as Alcatel-Lucent, Qatar Telecom, IBM, Hewlett Packard, etc. and has been a featured speaker at the Cambridge University Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and the OECD International Entrepreneurship Forums in Shanghai, Riga, and Cape Town.
Ms. Johnson was also Vice President Worldwide of Iridium and brought it into the GSM MoU, the ITU and ETSI as well as obtaining its global frequencies and country codes. She was Director of Marketing for the German manufacturing company FuBa and globalized its manufacturing and commercial activities.
Ms. Johnson has been featured in articles in Time Magazine, the Financial Times, the Economist, Le Monde, WirtschaftsWoche, Manager Magazin, Les Echos, and the International Herald Tribune to name a few. She has been decorated as Commander of the Luxembourg Order of Merit and Officer of the Couronne de la Chene as well as Officer of the Bundesverdienst Kreuz 1. Klasse (FRG) for her work in de-regulation, innovation, privatization, and globalization and the specific projects named above. Further, Ms. Johnson is the second recipient ever of the UN-sponsored World Teleport Associations’ “Founders Award”. Ms. Johnson has also received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” along with Vinton Cerf and Tim Berners Lee from the World Communication Awards, the prestigious global telecoms organization in 2002. Ms. Johnson has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from The International Alliance of Women in 2012. Ms. Johnson holds Masters Degrees with Honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford Universities, a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College and her high-school degree from Punahou, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Photo: Sir Paul Judge, Business leader and philanthropist
Sir Paul Judge has wide international experience in the commercial, public, political and not-for-profit sectors.
He is an Alderman of the City of London, the President of the Association of MBAs, the Chairman of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, of the Museum of Brands and of St Dunstan’s College, a Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, a Member of the Council of the Crown Agents, a Special Adviser at Chatham House and the Foundation Master for the City of London Guild of Entrepreneurs. He has honorary degrees from Cambridge, Westminster, City and London South Bank universities.
Internationally he has been a Director on boards in the USA, Dubai, Johannesburg and Kenya. His honorary offices include being a Member of the Togolese President’s Investment Advisory Council, Chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Management at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and for RANEPA in Moscow and a Member of the Advisory Boards for the UK-India Business Council, for HEC in Paris and for the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Following his education at Cambridge University and at the Wharton Business School, Sir Paul worked for Cadbury Schweppes and then led the buyout of their food interests to form Premier Brands which was successfully sold in 1989. He was subsequently in the 1990’s Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative Party, a Ministerial Adviser at the Cabinet Office and a director of WPP Group plc, Boddington Group plc and Grosvenor Development Capital plc.
He has more recently been President of the Chartered Management Institute (2004-5) and the Chartered Institute of Marketing (2008-14), Chairman of the British-North American Committee (2001-14) and Royal Society of Arts (2003-6), Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors (2005-6), Chairman of Teachers TV (2005-8) and of the North American Advisory Council at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House (2008-13), a Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2008-10), Trustee and then Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association based in New York (2000-12), Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc (2005-13), a Director of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg (2003-12), of ENRC plc (2007-13), of Abraaj Capital of Dubai (2009-2015) and of Tempur-Sealy International of Kentucky (2004-16) and Sheriff of the City of London (2013-14). He was the key benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.
Photo: James Johnston, CEO & Co-founder of Open Utility
James Johnston is the CEO and co-founder of Open Utility, an innovative energy technology company with a mission to democratise energy. In 2015 they partnered with green energy supplier Good Energy to launch Piclo, the UK’s first online marketplace for buying and selling renewable electricity. Since the company’s inception in 2013, James and his co-founders have grown the team to 7 and secured over £1M in funding, including a £310K grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and private investment from Ian Marchant, former CEO of SSE. Open Utility won Startup of theYear award at European Utility Week and is one of Bloomberg’s Business Innovators 2016.
Photo: Sarah Haywood, Chief Executive Officer of MedCity
Sarah Haywood became Chief Executive Officer of MedCity in December 2015, after fulfilling the role in an acting capacity and then as COO since MedCity’s launch in April 2014.
Sarah is a graduate of the NHS Management Training Scheme in Wales and started her career in the NHS, working in a number of NHS Trusts, including Great Ormond Street NHS Foundation Trust, before joining Novartis Pharmaceuticals Research as the Head of Operations for a neuroscience drug discovery unit, located on the UCL campus.
From there, Sarah joined the civil service and undertook a number of roles as a member of the Senior Civil Service, including leading the DTI (now BIS) Bioscience Unit before it became part of the Office for Life Sciences. Her last role in BIS was leading the design and legislation for the extension of the right to request flexible working and the shared parental leave system. In January 2014 she joined London & Partners where she worked with Dr Eliot Forster to establish MedCity.
Sarah has a degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, a post graduate diploma in management and an MA in human resources management; she is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.
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Photo: Paul Bate, Director of NHS Services, Babylon
Paul Bate joined babylon in July 2016 and leads babylon’s work with the NHS.
Paul has been at the centre of policy and delivery on health for the last ten years, having worked at 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office and the Care Quality Commission as well as advising numerous NHS trusts, GP practices and commissioners.
Paul joins babylon from the Care Quality Commission, where he was a full Board Member and Executive Director of Strategy and Intelligence. He held national system roles including leading the Data and Outcomes domain of the Paperless 2020 programme. He was a member of the NHS Finance and Efficiency Board, New Models of Care Board and National Quality Improvement and Leadership Development group.
Prior to CQC, Paul worked at Downing Street for the Coalition Government, where he was the senior policy adviser on health and social care to both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister. He also worked for the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under the last Labour government, where he led the health team and ran national reviews on cancer, elective waiting times, long term conditions and healthcare acquired infections.
Paul has a strong background in strategy, finances and organisational design, including working for consultants McKinsey & Company and as a director of 2020 Delivery. He achieved his doctorate in particle physics from the University of Manchester in 1999.
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