Thursday 31 March 2022
Scale Space White City, 58 Wood Lane, London, W12 7RZ
08.45 - Registration
09.30 - Welcome
- Francisco Veloso, Dean, Imperial College Business School
09.45 - Opening keynote
- Dame Kate Bingham, Managing Partner, SV Health Investors
10.15 - How large companies can effectively engage with and utilise deep technologies
- Banmali Agrawala, President, Infrastructure and Defence & Aerospace, Tata Sons
- Haseeb Ahmad, Global Head of Value & Access and Commercial Development, Novartis
- Aldo Faisal, Professor of AI & Neuroscience, Imperial College London
- Moderator – Anu Wadhwa, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School
11.00 - Break
11.30 - Deep tech financing and alternative funding models
- Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment
- John Romeo, Managing Partner and CEO, Oliver Wyman Forum
- Divya Seshamani, Managing Partner, Greensphere Capital LLP
- Moderator - David Miles, Professor of Financial Economics, Imperial College Business School
12.15 - Lunch
13.15 - Solving global challenges with frontier deep technologies
- Dominic Falcao, Founding Director, Deep Science Ventures
- Nadir Khamissa, Chairman, Hello Group
- Katie Rae, CEO and Managing Partner, The Engine
- Moderator - Ramana Nanda, Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College Business School
14.00 - Break
14.30 - Supporting an innovative biomedical ecosystem
- Richard Broyd, Advisory Director, Blenheim Chalcot
- Penny Dash, Chair, NW London Integrated Care System
- Cheerag Shirodaria, CEO, Caristo Diagnostics
- Moderator - Simon Hepworth, Director, Enterprise, Imperial College London
15.15 - Applying frontier technologies to national security and beyond
- Deeph Chana, Co-Director of Institute for Security Science & Technology, Imperial College London
- Alex van Someren, Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security, Government Office for Science
- Moderator - Amanda Wolthuizen, Chief of Staff to the President and Director of Public Affairs, Imperial College London
16.00 - Closing remarks
- Ramana Nanda, Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Imperial College Business School
16.15 - Networking drinks
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