EI Innovate is our annual engagement event that provides insight into the Earlham Institute's research, exploring opportunities for innovation and collaboration.

At the Earlham Institute, we aim to achieve impact from our research and expertise through collaborations and partnerships.

This year's event will focus on the innovation journey. We start with examples of how we nurture and develop our early career scientists and set them up for success. We will also showcase examples of how we are building our networks, and developing new industry partnerships and collaborations to deliver innovation on the ground, and showcase how we scale up innovations and help embed them into the work of others.

We have been running EI Innovate since 2019 and striving to provide an excellent experience for the attendees. Delegates consistently give us positive feedback commenting on event’s structure, its balanced mix of academic and non-academic presentations that makes content accessible to a broader audience, and the ample networking opportunities.

Come along to hear more about our exciting activities, learn about diverse ways of engaging with us and discover how you can benefit from our expertise and capabilities.
🎟️ Early-bird tickets now on sale
📅 15 October 2025 09.30-17.00

Who is this event for?

EI Innovate provides the platform to connect across disciplines and between academia and industry to discuss current scientific and technical advances and industry challenges.

Each year EI Innovate brings together attendees from a range of sectors including agri-food, biotech, med-tech sectors, clinicians, developers of instrumentation, tools, products and services for genomics and bioinformatics.

This year's programme focuses on the journey to success, and is split into three sessions that span the innovation pipeline.

Activate: developing early career scientists
For scientists that want to further their career though a post-graduate degree or a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP), there are benefits to having an industrial partner involved in their project and bringing a more commercial angle to their work and improve employability.

In this session you will hear from early career scientists working with Elsoms, Tozer Seeds, Microbiotica, and Germinal.
Collaborate: propelling our partnerships
By building our network of partners, together we can enhance our creative problem-solving and innovations, and tackle complex challenges more effectively by leveraging combined expertise and fostering creative thinking and novel approaches.

Innovate: showcasing the latest technologies
In this session you will hear about some of our partnership activities with Syngenta, Tropic, and AstraZeneca.
In this session you can hear about the latest technologies and activities we are translating and scaling up.

You will hear about our engineering biology capabilities and the Earlham Biofoundry - a BBSRC National Bioscience Research Infrastructure enabling the UK biotech communities to undertake large-scale projects by providing expertise in synthetic biology and access to automated workflows.