Following the resounding success of last year’s event, the 2025 Scientific Superpower Conference is set to bring together the brightest minds, visionaries, and leaders to shape the UK’s future as a global scientific superpower.
This year’s conference will feature a day of dynamic discussions, networking opportunities, and enterprising insights exploring how to build a globally competitive ecosystem that advances innovation and productivity.
Key Themes: Reframing Food Waste
Why Attend?
Can innovative freezing turn food waste into opportunity? Discover why frozen is the ‘hottest’ sustainability focus in 2025. Mitch Lee – Podcast Host & Senior NAM PACK’D explores how the world’s most wasted foods are being reframed.
You’ll also experience a tasting session with sensational plant-based goodies.
This is a FREE event – come to learn, taste and discuss!
Key Themes: The Transformative Role of AI in Food and Beverage Innovation
Why Attend?
Join Adam Starkey, founder of Green Gourmet Ltd and Managing Director of Panelitix.ai, for an insightful lunch and learn session exploring the intersection of AI and food innovation. Discover how Adam’s pioneering work is helping businesses leverage AI for competitive advantage and gain a glimpse into the technologies shaping the future of food and beverage innovation.
Key Themes: Food as Medicine and the Power of Culinary Medicine
Why Attend?
Join Dr Rupy Aujla, founder of The Doctor’s Kitchen, for an inspiring lunch and learn session exploring the transformative concept of food as medicine. A Sunday Times bestselling author and TV personality, Dr Rupy is on a mission to revolutionise how we think about food and its role in health.
Key Themes: Revolutionising Soft Drinks and Non-Alcoholic Spirits
Why Attend?
Join Julian Ebbutt, Managing Director of Alfresco Drinks, for a listen, lunch, and slurp session dedicated to innovation in the drinks industry. With over 30 years of experience in hospitality, Julian has driven the success of Alfresco Drinks by creating private-label soft drinks for brands like Pret a Manger, Itsu, Leon Restaurants, and TGI Fridays, as well as introducing award-winning non-alcoholic spirits.
Key Themes: Bringing Malaysian Cuisine to the World
Why Attend?
Join Mariae Hackett, founder of Dapur Mariae, for a live cooking and tasting demo that will transport you to the heart of Malaysia. Discover how Mariae transitioned from a three-decade career in healthcare to creating award-winning sauces, now making waves in Co-op and Selfridges.
Experience the vibrant flavours of Malaysian cuisine firsthand, and hear Mariae’s inspiring story of passion, perseverance, and her mission to make Malaysian food accessible to everyone.
Coulter Partners successfully completed a search assignment for Altimmune Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT), and is pleased to announce the placement of biopharmaceutical industry executives Teri Lawver and Jerry Durso to its Board of Directors.
Altimmune is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative next-generation peptide-based therapeutics. The Company is developing pemvidutide, a GLP-1/glucagon dual receptor agonist for the treatment of obesity, MASH and other indications.
We are growing our scientific team at ExpressionEdits and are offering an opportunity to join us in a full-time role as a Senior Laboratory Technician based at our laboratories in the Babraham Research Campus near Cambridge.
About ExpressionEdits:
At ExpressionEdits, we are revolutionizing biotechnology to create therapeutics that nobody else can. We have gone back to the basic building block of the field, the transgene, which has remained essentially stagnant since the 1970s, and re-invented its design based on our proprietary method of intronization.
Job type: Full-time
Location: Oxford, with hybrid working options available
Right to work: Sponsorship Available
Application submission: CV and cover letter via our website www.omass.com/working-here/
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