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SUMMARY:The Future of Tech Talent Event - Sussex Innovation Centre
DESCRIPTION:📅 Date: 1st April 2025\n⏰ Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM\n📍 Location: Sussex Innovation Centre\, Falmer \nWe’re bringing together tech businesses\, academics\, and students for a panel discussion and networking event\, exploring how we can bridge the gap between education and industry and ensure that businesses can hire\, train\, and develop the next generation of tech talent. \n💡 Why This Event Matters: \n✅ Tech businesses can meet emerging talent & share what skills they need from graduates.\n✅ Students can learn how to stand out in the hiring process & connect with potential employers.\n✅ Academics can ensure that university training aligns with industry needs.\n✅ Networking opportunities for businesses\, educators\, and students – with free food! \n🎤 Speakers include: \n\nDab Apps\, Trusted Housesitters\, Splash BI\nIan Wakeman (Head of School for Engineering & Informatics\, University of Sussex)\nSpecial talk from Jess Banks on how businesses can collaborate with the university.\n\n🎟 Spaces are limited—register here: Event Link \nWe’d really appreciate it if you could share this event with your network—whether it’s via social media\, a newsletter\, or your Slack/community channels. If you’d like any pre-written social posts or emails to make sharing easier\, let me know and I’d be happy to provide them.
URL:https://www.ukspa.org.uk/event/the-future-of-tech-talent-event-sussex-innovation-centre/
LOCATION:Sussex Innovation Centre\, Falmer\, University of Sussex\, Science Park Square\, Falmer\,\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 9SB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:SAMPS (Sales and marketing professionals in science) European conference in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Your sales and marketing teams are an integral part of your business\, but there is currently a large gap in terms of support for them. \nThis is where SAMPS (sales and marketing professional in science) steps in. A not-for-profit group\, run entirely by volunteers\, SAMPS is our industry go-to for support. It’s free to sign up and become a member (Join SAMPS) and will give you access to the latest trends\, tools\, insights and innovations in scientific marketing via its webinar series\, blog\, networking events\, newsletters and in-person conferences. SAMPS also runs its own awards\, celebrating outstanding people and achievements across sales and marketing in our sectors. \nWith over 4\,000 members globally representing life sciences\, applied research tools and service providers\, CROs\, CDMOs\, biotechs\, healthcare and medical devices\, SAMPS is a stimulating community that adds real value to the day to day lived reality of sales and marketing. Wherever possible\, we share\, not just best practice\, but actual strategies that our members can implement in their respective businesses to improve aspects of their sales and marketing. \nOur sponsors support many of our activities and represent consultancies\, agencies\, media companies\, data mining services\, software vendors\, marketplaces and more. \nWe are delighted to bring the European SAMPS Conference to Cambridge this year\, a superb location at the heart of the European scientific industries and I would encourage you to register – it’s a great opportunity to meet other professionals and we have a compelling line up. \nOur keynote speaker for the conference is Oxford Nanopore’s Emma White\, famed in sales and marketing circles for founding ‘London Calling’ which is now a key calendar date for many of us embedded in the scientific industries. \nThe title of the conference is ‘Innovate and connect: mastering customer engagement’ – in this world where we are competing for time\, inbox space\, attention\, etc.\, we need to think about how we can innovate in our marketing and sales activities\, make budgets go further\, dare to do some things differently and how technology can help us. \nThe agenda also includes sessions from Caroline Robinson (Sandler training)\, Matt Wilkinson (Scrivven)\, Alex Rowthorn (System C) and a panel of key players from across our industry who will discuss topics such as better collaboration between sales and marketing teams\, rethinking the funnel in an age of AI\, influencer marketing etc. \nWe will also take a deep dive into persona development in a hands-on\, interactive workshop that will equip you with advanced persona development tools and interrogation methods to build out and test messaging. \nThe conference is on Thursday 3rd April in Cambridge\, at Wolfson College\, part of the University\, followed by a dinner in the evening at the Museum on Zoology in the centre of the city. For more info and to register\, go to: SAMPS Europe 2025 . Use discount code SedgwickUK15 for 15% off the ticket price. \nIf you want more information about SAMPS or would like to get involved\, please get in touch. On behalf of the board members at SAMPS\, we look forward to hearing from you!
URL:https://www.ukspa.org.uk/event/samps-sales-and-marketing-professionals-in-science-european-conference-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, CB3 9BB\, Cambridge\, CB3 9BB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Industry Events
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SUMMARY:Cambridge Wide Open Week
DESCRIPTION:The buzzing Cambridge Wide Open annual event returns in June\, this time as a week-long interactive festival showcasing Cambridge’s pioneers\, the companies of the future\, and opening the offices and workspaces that make up one of the world’s most vibrant ecosystems. \nBuilding on the momentum of the last two Cambridge Wide Open Days\, the event will run from 9 – 13th June 2025\, offering an immersive experience to global investors\, ecosystem CEO’s and employees\, sci-tech enthusiasts\, policymakers\, academics\, and curious residents alike. \nThe city’s leading companies and science parks will once again be opening their doors for rare behind-the-scenes tours where visitors can interact with the latest advancements in science that are shaping the future. \nCentral to the newly expanded Cambridge Wide Open Week (CWOW) event will be a two-day ‘Ventures Tour’ where cutting edge biotech/ techbio companies from start-up to series B will be making their investment pitches. These tours are aimed primarily at venture capitalists\, angel investors\, corporate investors and financial institutions\, who are interested in Cambridge\, and are looking for exciting investment opportunities in life sciences. These pitching events will be a showcase of the portfolio clients from Accelerate@Babraham\, Amadeus Capital\, Cambridge Angels\, Cambridge Enterprise\, Cambridge Innovation Capital\, Cambridge Judge Business School\, Innovate UK\, o2h Ventures\, Meltwind\, Parkwalk\, and Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst. \nCWOW will also include an eclectic mix of keynotes\, talks\, discussions\, workshops\, pitches\, masterclasses\, demos\, conferences\, networking receptions and community-driven events. New this year is the BIA TechBio X event and the AstraZeneca Exchange event\, both of which are taking place at the iconic DISC on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. There will also be a biotech bikers event\, a Community Day led by Form the Future in which local students are connected to careers in science\, a Creative Disruption Forum event\, a networking event by Conexen\, a o2h Group summer garden party\, and more. \nThe event is supported by a distinguished group of sponsors and partners\, including Mills & Reeve\, the title sponsor\, a key advocate for life sciences innovation\, alongside Keltie\, FORA\, Appleyard Lees\, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst\, Deloitte\, and ET Capital\, as well as engagement and promotion for this first-of-a-kind event powered by Cofinitive and the Cambridge Tech Podcast. \nThis is the third Cambridge Wide Open event organised by the o2h group whose vision is to seed new ideas in life sciences and technology. o2h co-founder and co-CEO Prashant Shah says: “Cambridge is one of the most exciting ecosystems in the world\, and this community-driven endeavour showcases the best of its places\, people\, and companies in the form of an interactive festival. We are excited about shaping a week of life sciences at the home of life sciences. \n“By bringing together such a dynamic group\, we aim to create opportunities for inspiration\, collaboration\, investment and knowledge-sharing. Last year\, more than 1\,000 people explored 160+ companies across 21+ venues where 177+ talks\, presentations\, tours\, demos\, and masterclasses took place during Cambridge Wide Open Day.”
URL:https://www.ukspa.org.uk/event/cambridge-wide-open-week/
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SUMMARY:The 2025 Innes Lecture Following the Pepper: Black berries\, Asian trade and European empires
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Innes Lecture is being delivered by Prof Sujit Sivasundaram\, Professor of World History at the University of Cambridge\, who will look at the history of pepper and the role it plays in the world. \nIt will be held on Tuesday 29 April in the John Innes Conference Centre at Norwich Research Park. The event is free to attend and open to all. Please book your tickets here. \nDoors open at 6pm with the lecture starting at 6.30pm. \nPepper is the most widely used spice in the world\, but its widespread use was not always certain or predictable. \nThis lecture follows pepper’s journey from its origins in South India\, across the Indian Ocean\, and through many different hands\, before the Portuguese sought to take control of it. \nThe way pepper was harvested and traded to meet growing demand helped shape the plantation economy. The combination of the plantation economy and European colonisation played a huge role in shaping the modern world. Looking at how pepper was cultivated and traded\, reveals different ecologies\, trade networks\, labour systems and cultural influences. \nProf Sivasundaram’s last book\, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire\, won both the British Academy Book Prize and the Jerry Bentley Prize for World History. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
URL:https://www.ukspa.org.uk/event/the-2025-innes-lecture-following-the-pepper-black-berries-asian-trade-and-european-empires/
LOCATION:John Innes Conference Centre at Norwich Research Park\, Colney Lane\, Norwich\, Norfolk\, NR4 7UH\, United Kingdom
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