Business Growth Conference agenda

• 11:30 - Registration
• 11:30-12:30 - Networking Lunch - stand up / bowl food
• 12:35-12:45 - MC welcome
• 12:45-13:25 - Innovate UK CEO Indro Mukerjee - Welcome & keynote
• 13:25-13:30 - MC
• 13:30-13:50 - Max Adam, Innovate UK Deputy Director Business Growth - Propelling Business Growth: The Next Chapter
• 13:50-14:05 - Guy Woolley, Innovate UK COO - The Evolution of Operations: A Customer-Centric Lens
• 14:05-14:10 - MC
• 14:10-14:20 - Umerah Akram, LSE Head of Private Markets - Investment in Innovation: The View from the Capital Markets
• 14:20-15:00 - Panel: Investment Client Journey
  Chaired by Umerah Akram - LSEG
  Simon Finch - Floww
  Mike Denis - Akrivia
  Neil Dickinson - Holdson
  Joanne Phoenix - IUK Scaleup Director
• 15:00-15:05 - MC
• 15:05-15:20 - Break
• 15:25-16:15 - Domain Breakout - Digital and Technologies & Net Zero
  Net Zero
  Intro - Mike Pitts
  Venn Chesterton - Make and Use
  William Joyce - Industrial Decarbonisation
  Mike Pitts - Heat
  Josey Wardle - Mobility
  Sarah Tennison - Net Zero Systems
  Digital and Technologies
  Intro - Iain Mauchline
  Ian Mauchline - Semiconductors
  Jacob Wood - BridgeAI
  Ellie Wicks-Jones - Creative Industries
  Najwa Sidqi - Emerging and Enabling Technologies
  Tom Kirkham - Future Telecoms
• 16:20-16:25 - MC
• 16:25-17:00 - Panel: Place pathways to growth: from local to national to international
  Chaired by Martin McGurk - Innovate UK Business Growth
  Oliver St John - DSIT
  Rick Holland - Innovate UK
  Keirra Smith - DBT
  Alicia Law - DBT
  David Moule - Examplas
• 17:00-17:05 - MC
• 17:05-17:25 - Client Fireside Chat - Under the Doormat, Merilee Karr
• 17:25-17:30 - MC
• 17:30-17:55 - Panel: Products & Services
  Chaired by Scott O'Brien
  Lisa Hazelden, CPO
  Scott O'Brien, CIO
  Jon Kingsbury, CEO Innovate UK KTN
  Max Adam, Deputy Director Business Growth
  Nigel Walker, Deputy Director, Lending and Investment
  Heidi Bridger, Deputy Director, Innovation Infrastructure
• 17:55 - MC closes
• 19:15 - Casual street food dinner at the Glasshouse International Centre for Music

All sessions will be live streamed, with the exception of Registration, Networking lunch, Breaks, Domain Breakout sessions and Casual street food dinner.

• 8:00-8:45 - Arrival
• 8:45-8:55 - MC welcome
• 9:00-9:40 - Panel: Growing and scaling on a global stage
  Chaired by David Golding, Head of Global Innovation Partnerships
• 9:40-9:45 - MC
• 9:45-10:05 - Guest speaker: Irene Graham, The Scaleup Landscape
• 10:05-10:10 - MC
• 10:10-10:25 - Keynote: Innovating towards our Future Economy, Colin Tattam, Innovate UK KTN
• 10:25-10:30 - MC
• 10:30-11:00 - Break
• 11:05-12:05 - Domain/P&S Breakouts (Healthy Living & Agriculture, and Products & Services)
  P&S
  Intro - Colin Tattam
  Heidi Bridger - Catapults
  Bimba James - Smart
  Ian Brotherston - SBRI
  Nigel Walker - Lending and Investment
  Jemima Jones - Investor Partnerships
  Colin Tattam - Innovate UK KTN
  HLA
  Intro - Stella Peace
  Chris Danks - Agrifood
  Richard Hebdon
  Joanna da Silva - Medicines Manufacturing
  Tim Padgett - Engineering biology
• 12:05-12:15 - Movement time, MC
• 12:15-12:20 - MC
• 12:20-12:50 - Guest speaker - Margaret Heffernan
• 12:50-13:05 - Awards
• 13:05-13:20 - Event round up - Lisa Hazelden - CPO
• 13:20-13:25 - Business Growth Team - thanks and sign off
• 13:25 - Buffet lunch and networking

All sessions will be live streamed, with the exception of Arrival, Breaks, Domain/P&S Breakout sessions and Buffet lunch.