How to Grow your Start-up

Why attend?

The road to successful growth will be exhilarating, scary and littered with setbacks and challenges, and it’s important you are as prepared as you can be, to ensure you have the best chance of achieving results for both the company and future patients.

Our line-up of expert presenters will help share with you their experiences and so help you to avoid making common mistakes in those early stages that take additional, precious funds and management time to fix.

Topical discussions will include:

  • Mentoring – we will hear some secrets to success from entrepreneurs who have started and built successful companies.
  • Intellectual Property – specialists will share insight into the importance of protecting your Intellectual Property and having the right strategy in place from the start.
  • Funding – you will gain insight about grant funding available, how to access it and how to access funding from the private investment community
  • Talent and People – how to ensure you have the right people with the right knowledge and experience to support growth and the importance of establishing a healthy culture from the get-go.

Programme

17:30 Registration & networking
18:00 Welcome & Introductions
John Harris, CEO, OBN
Dr Elen Wade-Martins, Business Manager, Oxford BioEscalator

18:15 Keynote Presentations
Ryan Cawood, Founder & CEO, Oxford Genetics
Ryan will provide a case study focusing on starting and building a successful company

Siân Gill, Partner & Patent Attorney, Venner Shipley
Siân will be sharing an insight into the importance of protecting intellectual property and having the right strategy in place from the start

Matthew Frohn, Partner, Longwall Ventures
Matthew will provide an insight into available grant funding, how to access it and how to access funding from the private investment community

Wendy Tindsley, Senior Business Development Manager, Aigenpulse
Wendy will be discussing the successes of their recent recruitment drive to expand their business, and the importance of recruiting a team with the right talent at the right time

Geoff Hale, Managing Director, Bioarchitech
Geoff will be drawing on his experience of working with and mentoring start-up companies

19:30 Q&A Session
20:00 Networking over drinks and canapes
21:00 Event close