Innovate UK Business Growth Annual Conference 2023

Agenda

• Day 1

  11:30	Registration
  11:30-12:30	Networking Lunch – stand up / bowl food
  12:35-12:45	MC welcome
  12:45 – 13:25	Innovate UK CEO Indro Mukerjee – Welcome & keynote
  13:25-13:30	MC
  13:30–13:50	Max Adam, Innovate UK Deputy Director Business Growth – Propelling Business Growth – The Next Chapter
  13:50–14:05	Guy Woolley, Innovate UK COO – The Evolution of Operations: A Customer-Centric Lens
  14:05-14:10	MC
  14:10–14:20	Umerah Akram, LSE Head of Private Markets – Investment in Innovation: The View from the Capital Markets
  14:20–15:00	Panel: Investment Client Journey Chaired by Umerah Akram – LSEG Simon Finch – Floww Mike Denis – Akrivia Neil Dickinson – Holdson Joanne Phoenix – IUK Scaleup Director
  15:00-15:05	MC
  15:05– 15:20	Break
  15:25– 16:15	Domain Breakout – Digital and Technologies & Net Zero Net Zero Intro – Mike Pitts Venn Chesterton – Make and Use William Joyce – Industrial Decarbonisation  Mike Pitts – Heat Josey Wardle – Mobility  Sarah Tennison – Net Zero Systems D&T Intro – Iain Mauchline   Ian Mauchline – Semiconductors  Jacob Wood – Bridge AI Ellie Wicks-Jones – Creative Industries Najwa Sidqi – Emerging and Enabling Technologies  Tom Kirkham – Future Telecoms
  16:20 – 16:25	MC
  16:25-17:00	Panel: Place pathways to growth: from local to national to international Chaired by Martin McGurk – Innovate UK Business Growth  Oliver St John – DSIT  Rick Holland – Innovate UK Keirra Smith – DBT Alicia Law – DBT David Moule – Exemplas
  17:00– 17:05	MC
  17:05– 17:25	Client Fireside Chat – Under the Doormat, Merilee Kerr
  17:25 – 17:30	MC
  17:30– 17:55	Panel: Products & Services Panel Chaired by Scott O’Brien, CIO Lisa Hazelden, CPO Jon Kingsbury, CEO Innovate UK KTN Max Adam, DD Business Growth Nigel Walker, Deputy Director Lending and Investment Heidi Bridger, Deputy Director, Innovation Infrastructure
  17:55	MC closes
  19:15	Casual street food dinner at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music

• Day 2

  8:00 – 8:45	Arrival
  8:45 – 8:55	MC welcome
  9:00 – 9:40	Panel: Growing and scaling on a global stage Chaired by David Golding, Head of Global Innovation Partnerships
  9:40-9:45	MC
  9:45-10:05	Guest speaker: Irene Graham The Scaleup Landscape
  10:05-10:10	MC
  10:10– 10:25	Keynote: Innovating towards our Future Economy, Colin Tattam, Innovate UK KTN
  10:25–10:30	MC
  10:30 – 11:00	Break
  11:05–12:05	Domain/P&S Breakouts (Healthy Living & Agriculture and Products & Services) P&S Intro = Colin Tattam Heidi Bridger, Catapults Bimba James, Smart Ian Brotherston, SBRI  Nigel Walker, Innovation Loans Jemima Jones, Investor Partnerships Colin Tattam, Innovate UK KTN HLA Intro = Stella Peace  Chris Danks – Agrifood Richard Hebdon   Joanna da Silva – Medicines Manufacturing Tim Padgett – Engineering biology
  12:05-12:15	Movement time, MC
  12:15-12:20	MC
  12:20–12:50	Guest speaker, Margaret Heffernan
  12:50-13:05	Awards
  13:05– 13:20	Event roundup, Lisa Hazelden CPO
  13:20 – 13:25	Business Growth Team – thanks and sign off
  13:25	Buffet lunch and networking