Dear Healthcare Technology Network members and other readers
April’s update highlights two successful recent events that spanned the full spectrum of both academia and industry: the Medtech start up seminar (organised by Anil Vaidya) and the inaugural pizza with industry event at the University of Manchester (the brainchild of Dr Alex Casson).
The Building a Medtech Start Up? Evening Seminar for Entrepreneurs event was a small intimate networking event in the format of an evening seminar this event took place at the Academy of Medical Sciences in London on the 16 March 2016.
We received great feedback. The evening event attracted 27 delegates and had 4 excellent talks from the speakers, speaking on how to build up a Medtech company. Will Richardson from TTP, spoke about, designing a medical device, Alex Denoon, Partner at Denoon Legal gave a presentation on, medical Device Regulations – what you need to think about. The raising money part of the evening was delivered by Inga Deakin from Imperial Innovations. And lastly the CEO of Zilico, Sameer Kothari, spoke about a case study ‘from design to market’. We have 3 of the 4 presentation available on Engineering Communities and all 4 presentations available on the IET.tv platform.
The Pizza with Industry: Healthcare Specialism event was a small networking event in the format of a workshop, this took place on the 2 March 2016 and attracted over 20 students to the University of Manchester. Students were invited to speak to thought leaders from various companies such as, GSK, TomTom and more. This was a great way to learn more about the many different paths people can take to achieve a successful career.
Events coming up are: the second Future of Medicine event, co-hosted with the Royal Society of Medicine on the 19th of May which features an incredible line up of speakers on topics related to the role of doctors in 2025; and the Network’s Annual Healthcare Lecture which will be held in November, following last year’s engaging presentation by Professor Rachel McKendry. As with many of our events, these award CPD credits and represent excellent opportunities to network with a wide range of specialists across healthtech and biomedical engineering.
The HTN is currently occupied with planning next October's schedule, with a range of both new and established forms of events promised. We are delighted to have the support of our experienced Technical Advisory Panel to assist us in this task.
Please remember to follow the HTN on Twitter @IETHealthTech and, as always, I look forward to meeting you at future events!
Dr Peter Bannister CEng
Chairman, IET Healthcare Technologies Network
prbannister@theiet.org