2010 Conference Day 1 (confirmed to date)

Wednesday 2 June 2010

08:00 Registration and Breakfast

08.00 CEO/Speakers Breakfast (James Watson Room)

State of the Nation

09:30 Keynote Speaker Session

• Professor Dame Julia Polak, Emeritus Professor attached to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

10:00 Ernst & Young's Beyond Borders Global biotechnology report 2010

• Mr Ian Oliver (Senior Manager) & Mr Chad Whitehead (Partner), Ernst & Young

10:30 Morning Refreshments

Financial Models of the Future

11:10

Advances in science and technology are key to the development of disruptive technologies. Increasingly these reflect multidisciplinary teams and lead to the development of complex products. The routes for their development and commercialisation are therefore untried and untested. Come and hear how investors and businesses view these challenges and manage the risk of the "unknown"?

Chair

• Dr Cathy Prescott, CEO Biolatris

Session Speakers

• Dr Eleanor Mitchell, Head of Commercialisation within Life Sciences, Scottish Enterprise
  
• Dr Mike Mitchell, Healthcare Analyst, Seymour Pierce
  
• Dr John Shields, Principal, Science and Technology Abingworth
• François M. Meurgey, Acting Head of Market Access, TiGenix nv

12:30 Lunch

Diseases Relating to Ageing

14:00

The socio-economic pressures to help people remain healthy throughout life are underpinned by new innovations and advances in technology. Yet the ageing process is accompanied by new challenges to which new solutions and management strategies must be found. This session will explore the factors associated with the ageing process, and highlight new innovations addressing a range of age-related conditions.

Chair

• Mark Treherne, CEO, Senexis Ltd

Session Speakers

• Dr Jonathan Powell, Ex Director of Integrative Physiology in Unilever Discover Research
  
• Professor Nick Wareham, Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit
  
• Dr Menelas Pangalos, Senior Vice President & CSO, Pfizer
• Professor Michael Cawthorne, Director of Metabolic Research & Professorial Research Fellow, University of Buckingham

15:30 Afternoon Refreshments

Company Presentations

16:15

Biotech and medtech companies will give short presentations on their businesses and technologies followed by questions from the floor.

Auditorium

• Biotica
  
• Eagle Genomics
  
• Horizon Discovery
  
• Pathology Diagnostics
  
• Twistdx Ltd
  
• Xention Ltd
  
• Selcia Ltd

18:30 Conference bar opens in Murrays

19:00 Networking Ceilidh Dinner