Events

Welsh Government - US in market team visit Cardiff : 26th September at the Maltings 9am - 11am. This is an opportunity to meet the Welsh Government’s team in North America to discuss opportunities for collaboration. If you’re a Welsh company interested in exporting/collaborating to/in North America or a North American company already in Wales...

The SBRI Centre of Excellence in collaboration with Welsh Government and Social Care Wales are seeking solutions which will address challenges in domiciliary care delivery, supporting the integration and sustainability aspirations set out in A Healthier Wales. The challenge seeks to identify and support the delivery of projects that can demonstrate the potential and scalability...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Health Technology Wales (HTW), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the National Health Service England (NHSE), the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Office for Life Sciences (OLS), and the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) are pleased to announce the launch of...

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, are investing up to £4.5m in innovation projects in the Creative Technologies Sector, to develop digital therapeutic Extended Reality (XR) solutions for mental health care. The aim is to enable improved delivery of mental health and wellbeing services, through the application of immersive technologies. This R&D funding is...

ABHI hosts its flagship UK HealthTech conference this October, bringing together industry leaders and experts for two days of networking and learning. The focus will be on understanding the UK landscape for HealthTech businesses, particularly in relation to market access and regulation, the two main challenges impacting company success. Day one will explore market access...

As a community of innovators and supporting services, we are pleased to showcase the resources available from agencies to the wider Medical & Healthcare organisations, inclusive of companies, academics and clinicians. The aim of this event is to highlight the current challenges in medical manufacturing and the associated supply chains in the local region and...

Registration is FREE to Medilink members including MediWales and SEHTA Non Members: £75 plus VAT You will be aware of the NHS’s Net Zero targets to support the global challenge of climate change. No doubt you will have already attended workshops on this topic, and there are numerous reference documents available to help you better...

The SME focused healthcare event driving collaborations between Business, Care & Clinicians & Academics Improving Health, Increasing Wealth For over 18 years, South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA) has developed an excellent reputation for support of its 1,400+ members, especially SMEs, through its one-to-one mentoring, fund-finding, consultancy and events programme. In 2022, we ran our...

Join British Business Bank in Cardiff for an event where you will hear all about early stage equity finance and how to ensure your start-up is in the best possible position before and after raising investment. We will have presentations from our expert partners introducing early stage equity and panels on understanding investors and maintaining...

Medilink Midlands have partnered with Health Innovation West Midlands and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to deliver this hour long informative webinar. With the launch of the new network of NHS England Secure Data Environments and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust leading this work for the West Midlands region, Our guest speaker, Hilary...

It's no secret that there is a gap for early scaling financial support in North Wales and the North West of England. However that doesn't mean that there's no help out there. Join British Business Bank on the 10th November for an event where they'll be discussing how to kickstart your business' growth by using...

On Monday 13 November BBB are running a webinar that will seek to raise awareness of Future Fund: Breakthrough, a £375m UK-wide programme delivered by British Patient Capital, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank. You will be joined on the webinar by other ecosystem stakeholders and businesses across the Devolved Nations, during which...

Central Biotechnology Services are excited to be hosting our annual Gene Expression Workshop by Thermo Fisher Scientific face-to-face in November on the Cardiff University Cathays Park site. This training workshop will include an introduction to gene expression, sample preparation, and workshops on both qPCR and microarray technologies; introducing these technologies, the range of applications and...

SEHTA and Hill Dickinson, a leading international law firm, are delighted to invite businesses in the healthcare and life sciences sectors to learn about delivery of devices, products and services for Virtual Wards. The session will provide practical tips on the opportunities available in the current market as well as how to address risks. The...

All organisations are invited to the first South East Wales Business Climate Coalition ‘Net Zero Action Business Event’ at the sbarc|spark Building on Friday 1st December from 9am to 13:30pm. The South East Wales Business Climate Coalition Mission is to –“Empower our businesses with the knowledge, resources - and voice – that enables them to...

In-Person Day 7 December 2023 Online Innovation Workshops 4, 5, 6 December 2023 The annual Genesis conference has been a pillar of the Life Science sector for over two decades. Bringing together key opinion leaders, investorsand innovators from across the sector to share insight, debate key trends and generate deals.We expect 2023 to be no...

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and the State Enterprise Medical Procurement of Ukraine organisation invite you to learn how your company can supply directly into Ukraine's healthcare system. WHY ATTEND? This webinar will set out key requirements, procurement processes and Ukraine's accredited supplier system. The briefing will be led by the State Enterprise...

Session 1: Explore the intricate product lifecycle of medical devices within the Chinese market. This includes a comprehensive overview of maintaining compliance with China's regulatory landscape, a crucial aspect for successful market entry and sustainability. Date: 17 January, 2024 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 London GMT (22:00 – 23:00 Beijing CST) Duration: 60 mins Agenda Highlights...

BioSeed, now in its seventh year, is taking place in London on Monday 22 January 2024 at County Hall, London. BioSeed is a fast-paced, one-day pitching event where innovative early-stage life sciences companies seeking seed funding, showcase to and meet with an extensive audience of active life sciences investors. Key features of the event include: Up to...

The vision for this special interest group is to create a forum for companies producing diagnostic technologies which involve the application of sensor systems and/or detection of biological interactions. Biosensing for diagnostics is a critical and ever-evolving field in the realm of healthcare and biotechnology. It encompasses a wide range of techniques and technologies aimed...

Session 2: The second session in the Department for Business and Trade Medical Device series shifts focus to the untapped potential within China's medical device sector. We'll discuss the significant opportunities for UK SMEs in addressing unmet medical needs, a key driver for innovation and market success in this region. Date: 24 January, 2024 Time:...

With the WHO declaring antimicrobial resistance (AMR) one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity and with 1.27 million deaths directly related to AMR plus antimicrobial-resistant infections playing a role in almost 5 million deaths in 2019, tackling the issue requires a united, multisectoral approach. Antimicrobial resistance: the next pandemic AMR occurs...

Join the Department for Business and Trade’s Export Support Service China team to explore the opportunities, issues and strategies in the life sciences sector in China. This is part of a series of webinars on a number of sectors and themes. There is another session covering Intellectual Property in China which can also be registered...

Medical Technology UK is the Exhibition & Conference for Medical Device Engineering. The two day conference includes speakers from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Owen Mumford, Johnson & Johnson and our key note speaker is Professor Tony Young OBE,  National Clinical Lead for Innovation at NHS England. You can view the full content programme below at: Learning...

Join MediWales at Bio-Europe Spring in Barcelona from the 18th - 20th March 2024 and expand your network and knowledge. After being held digitally the last three years, BIO-Europe Spring 2023 saw a record breaking 3,500+ total attendees representing over 1,400 companies and 53 countries in 2023, which resulted in a remarkable level of engagement...

Programme Summary & Why Singapore Delivered by Innovate UK, this engaging programme consists of a Get ready preparation phase, 5-day innovation visit to focus on Singapore, an exploitation workshop, and support from an Innovate UK innovation and growth specialist - helping your business to identify opportunities and develop innovation projects with partners in the country....

The NIHR are looking for innovative technologies with potentially high impact from researchers and clinicians, including those who may not have previously worked with the NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme. The i4i programme is a translational research funding scheme aimed at de-risking early-to-late stage medical devices, in vitro diagnostic devices and high-impact patient-focused digital...

The Annual Anglonordic Life Science Conference is back for 2024. Join us on the 18th April for the 20th edition of this must-attend conference.  You will have opportunities to: MEET decision makers at leading and upcoming drug discovery and technology companies from the UK and Nordic regions, and investment firms throughout Europe. LEARN from major...

Swansea University Research Institutes of the Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences (FHMLS) are hosting an Enterprise and Innovation event on the 17th April. With presentations including Innovate UK Regional Manager for Wales, shedding light on the numerous opportunities available through Innovate UK and their priorities, and  SBRI to highlight the opportunities they present. This...

BioTrinity is OBN's flagship event and the UK’s leading partnering and investment conference for the life sciences industry. The two-day conference is designed to catalyse growth for an audience of early stage and emerging life sciences R&D Companies, big pharma, active life sciences investors, emerging entrepreneurs and a broad mix of valued professional service and...

World Patient Safety Day 2023 had the theme "Engaging patients for patient safety": What does this mean for patients, families, clinicians, (engineers and researchers) in 2024? We are inviting you to meet patient safety experts and those affected and discuss barriers and opportunities for safer care. The meeting is hybrid, two of the sessions will...

Is your business ready to unleash the power of AI? Perhaps you find all the talk of artificial intelligence confusing or maybe you can see the benefits but are not sure where to begin with integrating it into your company. During the course of this event, we aim to demystify AI and equip business leaders...

5-6th June 2024 NEC, Birmingham The UK & Ireland's leading event for medical device manufacturing, the Med-Tech Innovation Expo event brings together leaders, engineers, innovators and manufacturers, connecting them with technology and innovation to facilitate the design and manufacture of life changing medical devices. The Med-Tech Innovation Expo is back, bigger and better than ever, offering...

Join this webinar session to find out how HecoAnalytics can help MedTech companies to gain the health analytics capability needed to robustly assess and sell their products to a global digital health economy. Increasingly health economic evidence is essential for products to be commissioned and gain adoption. SEHTA are delighted to bring you this webinar...

The SBRI Centre of Excellence are thrilled to be partnering with M-SParc, Anglesey for an in-person Spotlight and Case Studies Session on Monday 10th June, 9:00am-1:00pm, at M-SParc Anglesey. There will be a number of speakers including SBRI colleagues, who will outline the challenge led process in addition to public sector innovation and procurement experts and case...

From the 1st - 5th July Cardiff Metropolitan University are running a Research and Innovation Week 2024 and day 2 is all about academic and industry collaboration! They will be holding our Developing Effective Collaborations event on the morning of Tuesday 2nd July for businesses to find out more about funding, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and to...

New Horizons for Bio Innovation. Join One Nucleus in Cambridge for ON Helix! The one-day conference addresses key bio innovation trends, from developments in life science and technology research to their translation into new diagnostics, prevention tools or treatments. ON Helix offers a high content mix of plenary talks and panels from key opinion leaders,...

MediWales a regional partner of Medilink UK. Each year, the winners of the MediWales Innovation Awards are put forward for the Medilink UK National Awards. This year the Medilink UK National Awards will be on the 11th July in London. This event will be a luncheon with the winning companies at the London Institute of...

Is your business ready to unleash the power of AI? Perhaps you find all the talk of artificial intelligence confusing or maybe you can see the benefits but are not sure where to begin with integrating it into your company. During the course of this event, we aim to demystify chatbots and Large Language Models...

Join our growing TechBio community to connect with other BIA members sitting across drug discovery and patient care. Our keynote speakers have been announced and early bird discounts are only available for one more month - register by 31 July to take advantage of the offer. If you are a TechBio company looking for your...