The Royal Academy of Engineering’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) programme supports talented entrepreneurs from around the globe to turn their engineering innovations into impactful, sustainable businesses.

Please join us as we welcome five LIF Awardees who have travelled from across the globe to Future Space to share ideas and find out more about the MedTech ecosystem in The West.

The day will consist of:

8:30am – Networking Breakfast

9:30am – Interactive workshop – Co-Design: building collaboration into your innovation with an introduction from Sanjoy Shah, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Southmead Hospital)

Midday – Lunch with be provided

1pm – Pitch your healthtech business to our panel from the local ecosystem and hear pitches from our international entrepreneurs

3pm Optional tours of Health Tech Hub, Bristol Robotics Lab and Future Space

4pm Close

Our pitching panel judges

• Richard Luxton (Institute of Bio Sensing / Medilink SW / Director of Heath Tech Hub UWE)
• Alex Leach (Health Innovations West of England)
• Sanjoy Shah, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust)
• Kat Thackray (One Health Tech Bristol / Mace & Mentor)

If you would like to pitch your health tech idea alongside our 5 international entrepreneurs, please contact tquan-nicholls@oxin.co.uk. Places are limited.

Who is this event for?

Please sign up if you are

• an innovator in healthtech, medtech or deeptech
• a health professional with an interest in innovation
• a professional working to support the healthtech ecosytem
• an academic working in collaboration with businesses, clinicians and patient care
• keen to make international links to innovators, academics, businesses and providers

This event is by invitation only – please contact tquan-nicholls@oxin.co.uk if you would like to discuss attending.