Events

Date: 6 - 8 September
Location: Edinburgh University, Scotland.

The need in healthcare to detect biomolecular species such as proteins, oligonucleotides (DNA and RNA) and cells for diagnostics is driving the current development of physical techniques. The development is generally based on optical, electrochemical and mass spectrometric transduction to enable these measurements. These are now also being exploited in array formats, enabling the development of high throughput detection to inform systems biology and pathway medicine by giving new insights into biomolecular pathways and the identification of new target analytes.

This is a highly topical and exciting area which opens up the real prospect of theranostics (the use of diagnostics in informing patient specific therapy), but for which development and optimisation of detection requires an understanding and control of the fundamental physical processes occurring both in sensing and in signal transduction and the comparatives merits of alternative detection strategies.  For high throughput detection, bioinformatics (the processing and interpretation of vast amounts of data) also presents a real challenge.

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Date: 13 September
Location: Holiday Inn, Guildford

If you are considering exporting your healthcare goods or services around the globe, you could benefit from a free 30 minute one-to-one meeting with our visiting Market Experts from Europe.

Our market specialists have an in-depth knowledge of the Healthcare/Lifesciences sectors including the market for biotechnology, medical devices, medical aids and over the-counter medication.

Meetings are available with the following Market Experts from:

• The Netherlands
• Spain
• Denmark
• Germany
• Sweden
• Belgium
• Poland
• Bulgaria

Benefits from attending a meeting include:

• An overview of business opportunities in healthcare/lifesciences
• Useful cultural tips
• Access to relevant business contacts/websites
• Answers to your specific questions face-to-face 

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Date: 15 September
Location: IET, Savoy Place, London

Imaging is ubiquitous in many important sectors (security, medical, life sciences, creative media, earth observation) and the UK has been at the forefront of advances in image capture, processing and display. During the day you can network with and hear presentations from a range of leading companies and academics covering everything from imaging hardware to image processing and display and applications in sectors as diverse as medical, media, security and 3D mapping. Hear from:

• Sharp Laboratories – 3D Displays – past, present and future
• Microsoft Research – Computer Vision at Microsoft
• Eykona - Handheld 3D Imaging: Wound assessment and beyond
• Waterfall Solutions - Image processing for image fusion applications and live 3D image reconstruction for surveillance
• Brunel University –  next generation 3D vision systems - beyond stereo
• Kromek - Pioneering digital colour 3D x-ray imaging - from medical to security markets
• NHS Innovations East - Novel medical applications of sensing and imaging, with a NHS perspective

British Geological Survey and Vertalis – Geovisionary, 3D data integration and visualisation

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Date: 23 September
Location: Princeton, NJ
United States

The NJTC Clean Energy Summit, to be held on September 23, 2010 will bring together leaders in the emerging industries of energy conservation, climate control and renewable energy sources from the entire mid-Atlantic region.  Attendees will include representatives from major utilities, as well as companies engaged in alternative energy solutions (wind, solar, nuclear power), and regulators from BPU and other governmental agencies.

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Date: 27 - 28 September
Location: Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK

The principles underlying the design and operation of water and wastewater treatment infrastructure have undergone large changes over the past five years.  The Water Industry is now faced with seemingly contradictory requirements to deliver large reductions in its carbon footprint (enforced by the Carbon Reduction Commitment), whilst gearing up to meet the much tighter standards of the Water Framework Directive and delivering both of these at a reduced cost to the consumer.  A common political response to this dilemma is to state glibly that the industry will require more innovation.  Innovation has a role to play, but its potential to deliver solutions of the magnitude required by the industry should not be overestimated.  This is particularly the case in view of the scale of the carbon and energy reductions that are required and the quite short timescales over which these reductions must be delivered.  But such challenges pose opportunities and many in the industry relish the prospects of moving out of recession by delivering a new generation of low-energy options, constructed and operated with a much reduced carbon footprint.  There was a similar optimism two decades ago, following the privatisation of the water industry: a period which oversaw a plethora of innovative treatment alternatives, although few of these now survive.  It is the purpose of this Conference to explore how the industry is gearing up to the immediate challenges by both increasing the efficiency of existing technology whilst pushing forward with the development of more novel approaches.   It is intended to provide an interactive environment where those who are offering the new ideas and solutions, can interact with and learn from those who have been involved with the successes and failures of the previous century

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Date: 28 - 29 September
Location: NEC, Birmingham, UK

Showcasing the very latest sensing and related technologies and innovations for applications in science, commerce and industry, this brand new event will provide an unparalleled business environment for the effective and meaningful transfer of information and knowledge within the field of sensing.

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Date: 29 September - 1 October
Location: Yokohama, Japan

BioJapan2010 will revolve around four main themes : 1) Health , 2)Environment/Low Carbon, 3) Food (Functional Food, GMO), and 4) Clusters & Bio-ventures. Opinion leaders in biotechnology from Japanese and overseas major companies, venture companies, financial institutions and other support industry entities, national and local governments, and other organizations will gather for this event to discuss the future of bioindustry and solutions for the current problems. Together with you, we intend to create a major trend that further accelerates the reborn biotech industrialization.

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Date: 11 - 13 October
Location: Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany

The conference will deal with four principal themes:  monitoring, understanding, acting, and lessons learned.

The programme will relate to the topics outlined on the conference webpage, with particular emphasis on prevention and how water companies prepare a strategy, and on unusual or unpredictable emergency situations.  

The proceedings will be published by the RSC who has published the proceedings from the three previous Water Contamination Emergencies conferences.

This conference will provide a significant networking opportunity, and will be of interest to: 
-public health professionals
-water companies and regulators
-environmental protection professionals
-risk and business continuity managers
-emergency planners
-local authorities
-service and support providers
-detection equipment suppliers
-monitor and test kit manufacturers
-disaster recovery specialists
-water security experts
-water distribution modeller

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Date: 12 October
Location: London, UK

Innovate is the leading networking, conference and exhibition event for businesses to meet other businesses, government and academia with the aim of making innovation happen – creating opportunity and growth for the future. Hosted by the Technology Strategy Board, Innovate 2010 has been expanded by a third, with more stimulating speakers and cutting-edge technology exhibits.. 

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Date: 14 October
Location: London, UK

Following the merger of the Sensors & Instrumentation KTN with the Photonics & Plastic Electronics and the Electronics KTNs; the Advanced Instrumentation Group is being relaunched as part of the new Electronics, Sensors, Photonics KTN.

This first event on the 14th October examines the issues relating to taking a laboratory based instrument and bringing it up to full field deployment.

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Date: 18 October
Location: UWE, Bristol, UK

This workshop is jointly hosted by IBST and Bristol Vision Institute. The workshop will deliver a programme of lectures from leading practitioners and image processing specialists. It will present the technologies underpinning current day medical imaging and the challenges that exist, alongside a range of potential signal processing solutions. Many of these will be taken from alternative application areas. It aims to attract a broad audience including clinicians and academics, and to stimulate discussion around some of these key challenges. 

Further details about the event will follow

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Event Flyer

Date: 28 October
Location: Bath, UK

Keynote speakers at the conference are:

• Dr Debbie Buckley-Golder, Head of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Technology Strategy Board
• Professor Simon Donell, Consultant and Honorary Professor Orthopaedics, Norwich University Hospital
• Dr Peter Laitenberger, VP Research & Technology Development, Sphere Medical, Cambridge
• Dr Liz Philpots, Head of Research Practice, Association of Medical Research Charities
  
  NEW – Session 
  
  “How to Prepare and Submit Successful KTP Proposals - Meet the KTP Advisers for informal  Discussion”
   
  Delegates will have the opportunity to find out more about key elements in preparing Knowledge Transfer Partnerships proposals, and engage in confidential discussions with an Adviser on potential KTP projects.   
  This session will be run by Dr Ray McKee, Knowledge Transfer Adviser, South East Region.
  
  The updated programme will be issued in the next week.

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Date: 15 - 17 November
Location: Munich, Germany

BIO-Europe is the preeminent partnering conference for the life sciences. BIO-Europe brings together international decision makers from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and financial sectors, offering networking opportunities, workshop and panel participation, a high profile exhibition, and private, prescheduled one-to-one meetings.

Delegates from all parts of the biotechnology value chain come to BIO-Europe to quickly identify, engage and enter into strategic relationships that drive their businesses successfully forward. Investment and collaboration opportunities developed in prior BIO-Europe conferences have produces many highly successful business partnerships.

The BIO-Europe 2010 partnering event is expected to draw over 2,500 industry attendees for three days of high level networking, representing upwards of 1,400 companies from 50 countries

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Date: 16 - 17 November
Location: Thistle Grand Hotel, Bristol, UK

Recent advances in analytical technologies and methods in the biosciences have led to a 'data deluge', both in terms of the volume and the complexity of data generated by biological experiments. New ways of interpreting, manipulating and presenting bioscience data are urgently needed to allow researchers to fully exploit the data arising from their experiments. The experiences from other data-rich disciplines in visualising such data give a valuable insight into what can be achieved with modern visualisation technologies and methods. The insights and expertise from computational and information sciences and the creative arts and design are essential for this.

BBSRC and AHRC recognises this as an area where some facilitated networking between different disciplines would be beneficial, and is holding a workshop to bring experts together to explore some of the challenges and possible solutions to the visualisation of biological data, bringing to bear the expertise of the creative and information research disciplines.

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Date: 25 - 26 January
Location: Royal Horticultural Halls & Conference Centre, London, UK

Investment in bioenergies is set to rise in the UK! The international "Energy from Biomass and Waste UK" (EBW UK) conference and exhibition provides the number one meeting place for this rapidly growing market. This is where vendors, buyers, investors, municipal representatives, legislators and scientists from around the world come together to talk new projects and business.

• The contribution of biomass and waste-to-energy conversion to climate
  protection and energy efficiency.
• Anaerobic digestion: producing biogas for electricity, heat or vehicle fuel
  from agricultural, food waste, and other residuals.
• Landfill-gas-to-energy: reducing harmful methane emissions by energy
  recovery from landfill gas.
• Biomass CHP: co-generation of heat and power from different feedstocks.
• Biofuel production: sustainable and affordable fuels from renewable resources.
• Waste-to-energy: optimal plant design and operation with regards to high energy efficiency and full compliance with environmental standards.
• Mechanical biological treatment: reducing waste, producing refuse derived fuels.
• Siting and permitting issues for bioenergy and waste-to-energy plants.
• Policy, legislation and funding opportunities for biomass and waste in
  the UK and Europe.

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Date: 25 - 26 January
Location: NPL, London, UK

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Date: 21 - 24 March
Location: Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The ASSET Research Centre (Queen's University Belfast) in collaboration with safefood are delighted to announce a major International Conference on food safety, to be held at Queen's University Belfast (21-24 March 2011).

The ability to protect the integrity of the food supply chain is a massive challenge but one which is of the utmost importance to protect the consumer.  This encompasses the threats posed by microbiological and chemical contamination of the supply chain along with guaranteeing the authenticity of food products to combat fraudulent practices and control adulteration for economic, food safety and cultural reasons.

The conference to be held in Belfast will concentrate on three key themes:

• Reviewing recent progress in delivering safe and authentic food to the consumer
• Identifying the greatest current and emerging threats to the integrity of the agri-food supply
• Delivering new analytical means of verifying the integrity of the agri-food supply chain

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