How Can Executive Coaching Support Today’s Life Science and Tech Founders?

📅 Tuesday, 28th April⏰ 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (doors from 9:30 AM)📍 71 Queen Victoria Street, London, EC4V 4AY

 

Founder development is often deprioritised, even as investors expect stronger leadership under pressure. Coaching is not a luxury, it is increasingly a condition of investment and a driver of commercial success. In this workshop, founders will hear from experienced coaches working at the intersection of leadership, growth, and complexity, exploring how coaching provides trusted thinking space to sharpen judgement, navigate uncertainty, manage competing demands, and build the capacity required to lead with confidence and sustainable momentum in an evolving ecosystem.

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PING Conference 2026 in association with EMIG

Date: Monday 8 June 2026
Time: 12:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA
Price: Early bird tickets between £170 +VAT and £210 +VAT (Available until Friday, 17 April 2026)

Over the past year, the UK life sciences sector has faced uncertainty around investment, reimbursement and tariffs, alongside the Government’s ambitious Industrial Strategy and Life Sciences Sector Plan.

PING 2026 comes at a key moment to explore what this means in practice. In collaboration with the Ethical Medicines Industry Group (EMIG), the conference will cover the Sector Plan, regulatory innovation, NHS opportunities, health data, advanced therapies, manufacturing and export, as well as industry perspectives.

Taking place in London at Victoria House, the conference brings together leaders from across the sector for discussion and networking.

Toasted Sandwich Toastmasters

⏰ 11:45-13:00 📍 Barclays Eagle Labs, Discovery Park

What If One Hour a Week Could Change Everything?

Have you ever wished you could express yourself more clearly in meetings? Speak with confidence in front of a group? Or simply feel more at ease sharing your ideas?

If so, you’re not alone — and you’re not without options.

Join us for an engaging session where we’ll explore the world of Toastmasters — a global community that’s helped millions of people become better communicators, stronger leaders, and more confident individuals.

In this session, you’ll discover:

  • What really happens in a Toastmasters meeting
  • How you can build skills that boost your career, enrich your relationships, and elevate your everyday conversations
  • Why Toastmasters is one of the most supportive, empowering environments for personal growth

Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or someone who avoids the spotlight, this talk is for you. Come curious — leave inspired.

Reserve your free spot here.

OBN BioSeed

Owned and organised by OBN​, BioSeed is a fast-paced, one-day pitching event where innovative early-stage life sciences companies seeking seed funding, showcase to and meet with an extensive audience of active life sciences investors.

BioSeed attendance is exclusively for:

  • Early stage R&D companies seeking seed stage funding – all therapy and technological areas are welcome
  • Technology Transfer teams from academic institutions seeking funding for their spin out companies
  • Life sciences Investors looking for new funding opportunities
  • A limited number of corporate and industry sponsors

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Carbon 6 Academy of Science Open Evening

Carbon 6 Academy of Science is a pioneering new specialist sixth form, located at leading science and innovation campus Discovery Park. Benefiting from world-class lab facilities and industry connections, Carbon 6 provides the ideal learning environment for ambitious students who are passionate about a career in STEM or looking to study science at University.

Learn more about the facilities at our open day on Thursday 26th March, 6:00pm – 8:00pm:

Please register your interest ahead of attending by selecting the time required using the Book Now link below

Visit Website: https://discovery-park.co.uk/lp/carbon-6-academy-of-science/

NIHR BioResource Drop-In

Drop-in sessions with Dr Heather Ramsay to find out more about the NIHR BioResource

The NIHR BioResource is a unique and powerful resource for studying disease mechanisms and investigating the links between genes, the environment, health and disease, and enabling scientific discoveries. We have over 330,000 consented volunteers, from the general population and patients with common and rare diseases, who have donated a blood sample, granted access to their health records and genomic data, and are willing to be recalled to participate in academic and industry-led experimental medicine and clinical research studies. Recruitment is on a national and local level, with 18 local BioResource centres across England, including Cambridge.

Find out more and book a slot here.

The Big STEM Challenge

The ultimate inter-schools competition

which is all about inspiring and engaging young minds in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM)! We’re on a mission to ignite your curiosity and creativity, and we want to see your amazing projects that showcase the best of STEM.

Whether you’ve built a robot, designed an app, conducted experiments or created something entirely unique, enter by 30th September 2025! The showcase STEM Fair will be hosted at the Discovery Park on Friday 17th October.

Find out more, book tickets, and enter your school here.

Investors + Innovators Meet Up (Biotech and MedTech)

📅 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.

🔗For more information and to get your tickets

Growing Kent & Medway Showcase Celebration

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:

  • Talks from local policy makers and funders
  • Presentations on cutting-edge science and technology developments in food and farming
  • Taste new food and drink products developed with support from Growing Kent & Medway
  • Network with other Growing Kent & Medway members; businesses, technical research specialists, funders, and business support experts
  • Tours of Niab’s research facilities, including the glasshouses, Wine Innovation Centre, research vineyards and growth rooms
  • Plus, hear about the next phase of place-based innovation for our sector.

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.