Registration and Breakfast

Parallel Company Presentations

Last year ERBI ran an inaugural competition to recognise exceptional performance by companies based in the East of England. This session brings together a selection of the entries to the 2008 ERBI Biotech and Medtech Awards. In this parallel session, biotech and medtech companies will give short presentations on their businesses and technologies followed by questions from the floor.

Sponsoring and chairing the Biotech Session - Peter Coe - Tudor Reilly

Coffee Break

The convergence of biotechnology and medical engineering is resulting in exciting biomedical technology solutions for healthcare applications. In addition to innovation in technology development and regulation, these products also require a new way of thinking from healthcare service providers and payers. The rules and criteria used for the adoption of new drugs and devices are not always compatible with products based on novel convergent technologies, leading to potential delays in their widespread use in healthcare.

The multidisciplinary panel, which includes biotech, medical device, clinical and healthcare payer representatives, will discuss the opportunities presented by these technologies and debate the questions surrounding their adoption in clinical practice.

• Mr Andrew Dillon, CEO, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Mr Barry Wilson, Global Healthcare Advisor, Former President Medtronic International, Honorary Chairman Eucomed
• Dr Eddie French, Director of the UK Pharmaceutical Sciences Vaccines Delivery Group, Pfizer
• Mr Simon Donell, Clinician, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (NNUH)
• Dr William Dolphin,CEO,Avita Medical

Lunch

Creating the Billion Dollar Company...

In this session serial entrepreneur, Andy Richards and three industry leaders look at the questions: "Do we need a billion dollar company?", "How do we go about creating it?" and "What type of company is most likely to succeed?"

Cambridge University – Student Presentations

Drinks reception in the Orchard

Tour starts