EI Innovate is our annual engagement event that provides insight into the Earlham Institute's research, exploring opportunities for innovation and collaboration.  

This year we kick off with a focus on how we nurture and develop our early career scientists and set them up for success. We also will showcase examples of how we are building our networks and developing new industry partnerships and collaborations to deliver innovation on the ground.    

Come along to hear more about our exciting activities, and help support and grow our early career scientists to become the next generation of innovators, and how you can benefit from our expertise and talent.  

This year's programme focuses on the journey to success, and is split into three sessions that span the innovation pipeline.

Activate: developing early career scientists

• For scientists that want to further their career though a post-graduate degree or a knowledge transfer partnership (KTP), there are benefits to having an industrial partner involved in their project and bringing a more commercial angle to their work and improve employability.  
• In this session you will hear from early career scientists working with Elsoms, Tozer Seeds, and Germinal.
• There will also be a poster session at lunch time showcasing the different projects our students are involved in with a prize for the most interesting poster. 

Collaborate: propelling our partnerships

• By building our network of partners, together we can enhance our creative problem-solving and innovations, and tackle complex challenges more effectively by leveraging combined expertise and fostering creative thinking and novel approaches.  
• In this session you will hear about some of our partnership activities with Syngenta, Tropic, and AstraZeneca.  

Innovate: showcasing the latest technologies

• In this session you can hear about the latest technologies and activities we are translating and scaling up. You will hear about our engineering biology capabilities and the Earlham Biofoundry - a BBSRC National Bioscience Research Infrastructure enabling the UK biotech communities to undertake large-scale projects by providing expertise in synthetic biology and access to automated workflows.  
• You will also hear about our latest services offerings for large-scale genomics and analysis via our National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics.    
• Finally, you will hear from our Entrepreneur in Residence, Fiona Nielsen, who will talk about supporting researchers in bringing innovation to market through enterprise, and about our experience of supporting new ventures across NRP as part of NR 4ward project. 

EI Innovate events foster valuable conversations between academia and industry, helping us to build strategic partnerships and learn more about needs of our stakeholders.  

Exhibition Area

During EI Innovate we will be hosting exhibitors showcasing technologies and services relevant to our research and innovation areas. Exhibitors will have an opportunity to discuss applications of their technology with event attendees.   

Who is this event for

EI Innovate provides the platform to connect across disciplines and between academia and industry to discuss current scientific and technical advances and industry challenges.

Each year EI Innovate brings together attendees from a range of sectors including agri-food, biotech, med-tech sectors, clinicians, developers of instrumentation, tools, products and services for genomics and bioinformatics.  

This event will also be of interest to funders of life science innovation, government departments, and other academic organisations.

What to expect

We are planning a great interactive experience, with plenty of networking opportunities, including:

• Learn about our cutting-edge research, tools and technologies
• Gain insight into our ongoing collaborations  
• Understand how our expertise and facilities can be accessed  
• Establish new contacts and discuss potential ideas for new collaborations
• Tour our state-of-the-art platforms: High-Performance Sequencing, Single Cell and Spatial Analysis, and the Earlham Biofoundry