Discovery Park will be attending these upcoming events. Join us to build your network and discuss the latest industry developments.
Wednesday 15th October 2025 
18.00 – 20.00 
London EC4A 3AG
This event is hosted by Abel + Imray.
Our Abel + Imray Investors + Innovators Meet Up series bring people together to start creating those connections through networking over informal drinks. Each event has an innovation theme to provide a focus to attract relevant investors and innovating businesses to be ‘in the room’.
The meet up is free to attend though places are limited, and places are restricted to 2 per organisation.
This event is hosted by Growing Kent & Medway.
Meet exciting plant-based food and drink businesses and hear from the innovators and researchers making our horticultural food systems more sustainable.
The event will include:
The morning will feature talks and presentations at the Orchards Event Centre, East Malling, before we move to the Mumford Building for networking, lunch and demonstration displays.
Lunch will be provided on the terrace overlooking the Niab vineyards.
Limited places are available for businesses to display their products during the networking session. Please email contact@growingkentandmedway.com if you would like to request a table.
We hope you can join us for this free event to celebrate the brilliant innovation taking place across our supply chains.
Find more information here.
The Centre for Advanced Diagnostics Development and Application (CADDA) is hosting a café-style event at Barclays Eagle Labs, Sandwich, designed to connect with diagnostics companies from across the region.
CADDA is a strategic programme with funding support from Research England.
It is a national programme set to drive innovation in human and animal diagnostics. CADDA is led by the University of Kent in partnership with The University of Manchester and University College London (UCL).
This informal session is an opportunity to:
Tea and coffee will be provided, and the session is open to all organisations with an interest in advancing diagnostics.
While registration isn’t required, we kindly ask you to sign up via Eventbrite (link) so we can tailor the session and make sure there’s enough coffee to go around.
If you’re unable to attend but would like to know more about CADDA or discuss opportunities to collaborate, please contact us at cadda@kent.ac.uk
We look forward to welcoming you to the Café and exploring how we can work together to drive diagnostics innovation.
South East Angels are excited to host their next Startup Roadshow in Kent, Canterbury on the 25th September, a free event bringing together founders, investors and others in the startup ecosystem for a morning of networking and startup showcases, with a panel of investor judges. This event, run by South East Angels, is a great opportunity for startups to present their ideas via a quickfire pitching session, and network with local funders and founders.
🔗For more information and to get your tickets
This event is hosted by SaySo Health.
The 9th Kent ENdoscopy Training Course on Endo-surgical Insight in Colorectal, Gastric, Oesophageal and HPB lesions.
A warm welcome to the K.EN.T Course 2025, a 3–day course which is taking place in Discovery Park, Sandwich, Kent on the 30th of September to the 1st of October 2025, now in its 9th successful year. The hands-on training day will be held at the academic premises of Discovery Park on the 2nd of October 2025.
For over two decades, the annual Genesis conference has brought key Life Science opinion leaders and stakeholders together to debate key trends, instigate deals and generate a vision of the future.
This event is hosted by London Life Sciences Week.
Join us on 16th – 21st November 2025 for London Life Sciences Week (LLSW). The annual event brings together industry leaders, innovators, and investors to unite the global biotech community for a week of unparalleled networking and dealmaking. Centered around the Jeffries European Healthcare Conference, the week attracts over 800 international senior decision-makers from Life Science companies and investor firms. The week kicks off with a ‘Welcome to London’ reception and features a series of satellite events to showcase London’s best life science initiatives to promote and celebrate life sciences in London. Don’t miss the chance to be part of this global gathering of networking and opportunity.
This event is hosted by West Midlands Life Sciences Week.
Join us in the West Midlands from September 15-19, 2025, for the inaugural WM Life Sciences Week, where innovation meets industry leadership.
West Midlands Life Sciences Week 2025 is a pioneering programme designed to bring together professionals, researchers, and businesses shaping the future of life sciences. Running from September 15 to 19, this week-long initiative will explore the latest advancements, medical breakthroughs, and innovative technologies.
This course is essential for:
Note: this course is also Module 21 of the MSc Regulatory Affairs.
This course will cover:
This course will enable you to:
CPD: This course provides 15 CPD hours upon successful completion.
To learn more about why Continuing Professional Development is important, visit our Lifelong Learning page.
Science Creates is bringing its EngBio Roadshow to Glasgow for the first time, in partnership with UKRI.
🗓️ 23rd July 2025
📍 Executive Rooms, Technology and Innovation Centre, G1 1RD
🕝 09:30-13:00
🎫 Free: Registration required
Whether you’re an academic, founder or supporter working within the thriving field of Synthetic and Engineering Biology, register now to secure your free spot and save the date in your calendar.
We are dedicated to supporting entrepreneurial scientists in Engineering Biology — could you be one of them?
Science Creates is a Deep Tech ecosystem that enables scientists and engineers to turn their groundbreaking discoveries into disruptive businesses that can revolutionise the health of people and the planet.
This July, we’ll be opening applications for our third fully-funded, UK-wide Engineering Biology Accelerator Programme — delivered in partnership with UKRI, qualified Deep Tech experts and leading global VCs.
The Science Creates accelerator team will be travelling to cities across the UK throughout July as part of their third Engineering Biology Roadshow.
Join us for the afternoon in Glasgow at the Technology and Innovation Centre (University of Strathclyde), where we’ll showcase research commercialisation support and host insightful speakers from the field, as we continue to grow our nationwide network to support innovation in Engineering Biology. We’ll also delve into the benefits of the upcoming equity-free accelerator and give tips on the application process.
Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided for networking at the end of the session.
Dr Joanna Sadler | University of Edinburgh
Microbial upcycling of diverse polyester waste streams
Dr Johann Partridge | TILT Collective
Dr Sahan Liyanagedera | BioPhoundry
Dr Catherine Fletcher | SCVC
Dr Elitsa Peeva | HGF
