Research to Enterprise Summit.
02 May 2008
17 June 2008 at 6pm in Whitworth Hall.
The Research to Enterprise Summit should be an exciting event and is designed to raise the profile of enterprise and the commercialisation of research at the University of Manchester.
The event, organised by MSEC (Manchester Science Enterprise Centre) and funded by EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), will be an opportunity for researchers in all Faculties, whether at postgraduate, postdoctoral or staff level, to be inspired to become more enterprising in whatever their career holds for them in the future - be it academia, industry or in starting their own business.
Hosted by Manchester University graduate Maggie Philbin, an impressive line up of enterprising speakers has been assembled who will share their interesting stories with the audience.
Speakers include:
- Maggie Philbin - a University of Manchester graduate who was a reporter and presenter for BBC TV's Tomorrows World for eight years, reporting on life-changing technologies.
- Luke Johnson - studied medicine at Oxford University before embarking on his entrepreneurial career. He founded Signature restaurants, which includes The Ivy and Le Caprice, acquired Pizza Express, started the Strada restaurant chain and is now chairman of Channel 4 and head of a venture capital firm, Risk Capital Partners.
- Ian Livingstone OBE - born and educated in Manchester and the man behind Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider computer games as creative director of Eidos. Ian also co-founded Games Workshop, which pioneered fantasy adventure games.
- Alasdair Rawsthorne - a lecturer in computer science at The University of Manchester. His company, Transitive, based on his research, enables applications designed for one computer operating system to operate on others, including between PCs and Macs. The company, based in California and Manchester, now has over seventy patents.
- Rod Benson - a University of Manchester graduate and former Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca. Rod is now a Managing Director of Imagen Biotech, the only dedicated high content biology biotech company in the UK.
- Professor Rod Coombs - the University's Vice-President for Innovation and Economic Development with international experience of innovation, technological change and commercial development.
If you register to attend you will have the chance to win some fantastic prizes, including a Macbook Air, five iPod touch's and ten iPod Nanos - with maybe some additional surprises on the night. But you must turn up to see if you have won!
To book, please contact:
- Claire Gill at claire.gill@manchester.ac.uk, with your name, School and any special dietary requirements
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