***Please note we are now at capacity for this venue, therefore if you would like to be added to our waitlist please email [email protected]***

The life sciences sector is strategically important to UK plc and is already one of the most productive and innovative sectors of the economy. Our future success depends on it flourishing even further, which means creating an environment which enables the many successful life science companies that launch in UK to stay for the long-term, rather than relocate to other markets with better scaling opportunities or access to investment.

Join One Nucleus and RiverLabs at the Wellcome Collection for this event featuring former science Minister George Freeman MP’s first keynote speech since leaving office and a panel of life science experts and entrepreneurs, to explore what should be done to make the UK a scale-up market of choice. It will consider what are the key factors that influence companies’ decisions on where to locate, whether they are home-grown or global businesses, and ask what policy, investment and other changes can ensure the UK is as attractive and internationally competitive as possible.

18.00 – Registration and Networking

18.30 – Welcome from Riverlabs

18.40 – Keynote Speaker: George Freeman, Former Minister of State in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

19.00 – Panel discussion moderated by Lord O’Shaughnessy

Pam Garside, Chair, Cambridge Angels

Barbara Domayne-Hayman, KQ Labs Chair & Entrepreneur in Residence, The Francis Crick Institute

Charles Large, Founder & CEO, Autifony

Baroness Blackwood, Former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care

Sarah Blagden, Professor of Experimental Oncology at University of Oxford, Founder of RNA Guardian

19.45 – Q&A with the speakers

20.00 - Closing Remarks, Lord O’Shaughnessy

20.05 – Networking Reception

21.00 - Close