Disruption, Talent and the Global Biotech Ecosystem

Date

13.06.2019 17:30 - 20:00

Location

Biopôle SA 5 Route de la Corniche 1066 Epalinges

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The aim of the workshop is to discuss disruptive thinking and how it translates into your teams

Biological science is moving at an incredible pace. Only 100 years ago, Eli Metchnikoff set the direction of modern medicine by taking a simple tree thorn and applying it to a starfish. From this, he discovered phagocytosis, a central process in all diseases. Metchnikoff was ‘disruptive’ in his technology and thinking.

Tony Sedgwick is a fifth-generation student of Metchnikoff and will discuss our recent advancement in disruption, looking at the evolution of Biotech and global ecosystems and how it translates into people. The aim of the workshop is to describe how disruptive talent is at the heart of biotech.

Programme:

17h30 - Welcome by Olivier Philippe, Director of Business Development and Corporate Relations at Biopôle and Nathalie Rowell, CEO at Virdis Group.

17h45-18h45 - Workshop

18h45-19h30 - Apéro & Networking

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