I am chairing an Innovate UK event at Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxfordshire on March 10. The event theme is “accelerating British innovation”. It is an invitation-only and free-to-attend event for innovation and venture professionals. Let me know if you would like to come. The topics for discussion include:
• The future of the car and urban transportation: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a car? Or is modern transport now a software delivery vehicle?
• The disruptive utility: How can low-carbon supply-side solutions and demand-side innovation be combined profitably and sustainably while keeping the lights on?
• Financing for accelerated innovation: Have British innovators ever had it this good?
• Advanced materials and manufacturing for a lightweight, super-strong, self-healing world
We have great speakers from great investment companies and corporations including Ian Drew, chief marketing officer, Arm Holdings; Andreas von Richter, partner, Ecomobilité Ventures; Mathew Burke, head of technology ventures, Williams Advanced Engineering; Jon Salkeld, technology director, Castrol Innoventures; James Mawson, founder and editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing; Fabrice Bienfait, Environmental Technologies Fund; Jim Totty, Sustainable Technology Investors; Simon King, Octopus Investments; James Downing, Silicon Valley Bank; Nigel Walker, Access to Finance, Innovate UK; Kevin Baughan, director of technology and innovation, Innovate UK; Albert Fischer, managing director, Yellow&Blue Investment Management; Sara Bell, CEO, Tempus Energy; Rob Saunders, head of energy, Innovate UK; Iain Bomphray, chief technology specialist – lightweight structures, Williams; Tim Langan, CleanTeq Holdings; Pascal Siegwart, partner, Aster Capital; Neil Johnston, head of emerging technologies and industries, Innovate UK.
To see the conference agenda, visit www.london-eif.com/events.html