Join Innovate UK for an insightful webinar designed to guide you through the Innovate UK funding landscape and provide tools to strengthen your grant application strategy.

Enabling innovation through regulation

An opportunity for colleagues from across the sector to come together for an evening of talks, lively discussion, and network.

Innovate UK, working with local civic leadership, has a new round of Competition funding for seven of the Innovate UK Launchpads as part of their portfolio of support for these place-based clusters. This further round of funding will support businesses leading impactful innovation projects within the targeted clusters

Rebecca is the COO at ExpressionEdits, a biotech start-up based in Cambridge, where she provides leadership and strategic direction to all business, financial and operations aspects of the organisation, including leading on all commercial partnership activities.

This session introduces the funded Digitalisation Capability Assessment Programme sponsored by the Smart Manufacturing Data Hub until January 2025, a collaborative effort between Heriot-Watt University and the capability assessment platform Vyne Analytics. The service addresses the high failure rate of digital transformation projects (50-70%) by offering a comprehensive assessment tool for manufacturing SMEs to check their digitalisation readiness.

Join LOWINFOOD for an informative morning and lunch with expert speakers and panellists, to share perspectives addressing seafood waste in Scotland. This event is hosted by The James Hutton Institute and is the final conference of the “LOWINFOOD” project, and we look forward to sharing and discussing the findings of the project.

This session introduces the funded Digitalisation Capability Assessment Programme sponsored by the Smart Manufacturing Data Hub until January 2025, a collaborative effort between Heriot-Watt University and the capability assessment platform Vyne Analytics. The service addresses the high failure rate of digital transformation projects (50-70%) by offering a comprehensive assessment tool for manufacturing SMEs to check their digitalisation readiness.

At this Crucible, guests will come together to find connections and synergies and form consortia to deliver solutions to the challenge posed at the beginning of the event. 

Lisa Thomas, Director, Forge Genetics will join us to discuss the challenges and rewards of developing a portfolio career, including the transition from academia to industry.  

The course offers a full day of guidance on the regulatory, technical and ethical issues which should be considered before the introduction of a cosmetic ingredient onto the market. It distils practical and useful information with case studies and examples and has been updated following its introduction last year.

This webinar hosted by Zero Waste Scotland will highlight the benefits and feasibility of installing CO2 recovery technology within the brewing industry.

Join us for an online workshop where you'll have the chance to hear from Co-Director Ivan Wall, Gary Lye and colleagues, as they share insights into how the Centre aims to coordinate, develop, and deliver training courses for the UK medicines manufacturing community.

Bringing together communities interested in biorefineries research and innovation and developing consortia.

Join Carbogenics at their webinar this September to find out how to drive your AD plant to peak performance. Explore common challenges faced in AD operations, pinpoint their root causes, and develop proactive strategies to overcome them. Delivered by Carbogenics’ very own AD expert David Vaughan.

Pearly Joubert, President , Women in Synthetic Biology Africa (WiSBA) will join us to discuss the Synthetic Biology scene in Africa, the gender gap in African biotech and challenges on the African continent.

Join the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA) and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum (IBLF), with support from Innovate UK, at Caxton House, Monday September 9th where we aim to create the foundations of a funding ‘Grand Challenge’ for the bio-based sector, which we will use to engage Government.

In this webinar we will discuss how CPI uses modelling & simulation to reduce risk in process scale-up for our customers, including those in the Agrifoodtech market.

A networking event, exploring how automation, digitalisation, and AI can optimise manufacturing processes for ATMPs and vaccines.

Join us on 25 July for the second IBioIC Careers Day. This informal event will give you the opportunity to meet future employees, give them advice on how to become industry-ready, and come away with vacancy candidates you’ve already met.

In this edition of our Women’s Hour series, Irina will discuss her non-linear career and how working in multiple different roles in different industries has prepared her for leadership. Irina will also focus on the transition from science to business and her current CEO role.

The importance of resource recovery in the water industry is increasing, not only as a means for mitigating its impact on the environment, but also for stimulating circular economy opportunities. Over recent years, water companies have been focused on energy as a resource to be recovered. However, there are still numerous unexploited opportunities that can be unlocked through research and innovation activities. Circular economy approaches will play a key role in delivering net zero by 2040 across the water sector in a changing climate, and will require a multidisciplinary approach to develop and deliver opportunities at pace.

Join Lisa Lambie, Managing Partner at Maroon Venture Fund, in this edition of the WiSB Women’s Hour – a regular opportunity to learn, share and support women and underrepresented genders in synthetic biology!