Programme
Tuesday 1 December
09.30 – 09.40 |
Welcome and tribute to Simon Ellison Host Sponsor Welcome |
09:40 – 09.50 |
UK Strategy Update |
09.50 – 10.00 |
UK Manufacturing Perspective Dr Stephen Ward, Chief Manufacturing Officer, Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult |
10.00 - 10.15 | Break and networking |
10.45 – 11.00 |
Collaboration is key - academia, industry and government working together to deliver COVID19 vaccines Panel members: Dr Sandy Douglas, Academic Clinician, The Jenner Institute, Oxford University |
11.00 – 11.30 |
Break and networking |
11.30 – 12.15 |
What next for COVID19 Vaccines and Antibodies - portfolio and future strategy Vaccines Taskforce update – portfolio and future strategy Panel session: Professor Robin Shattock, Chair in Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London Closing reflections on how far we’ve come |
12.15 – 12.30 |
Richard Wilson Impact Award |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Early Career Researcher Poster flashes |
13.30 – 14.30 |
Networking |
14.30 – 14.55 |
LeaP presentation |
14.55 - 15.25 |
MMIP overview - strategy and progress update Andy Evans, VP Clinical Manufacturing and Supply, AstraZeneca and Chair of MMIP |
15.25 – 16.10 |
Peter Dunnill Award Presentation and lecture |
16.10 – 16.20 |
Summary and close of day one |
18.00 – 20.30 |
Evening Networking |
Wednesday 2 December
9.30 – 10.45 |
WORKSHOP 1 – Arthritis - From rehabilitation to remission Chair: Sharon Grimster, BIA MAC vice-Chair A history of biopharmaceutical development for Arthritis: early challenges and successes Autologous Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells for Rheumatoid Arthritis (AuToDeCRA) I’m a Believer! |
WORKSHOP 2 – #Empoweringdigitalskills Access to digital skills and data analysis is becoming increasingly important in finding solutions to today’s bioprocessing challenges. We need to ensure people within our industry have the digital skill sets they need. Demand already outstrips supply in many sectors and this is set to skyrocket as technology transforms business models. Pre-COVID the CBI reported that businesses were cautiously optimistic they would be able to access the digital skills they need in the future and we have all seen the effect the pandemic has had on digital infrastructure and ways of working. This session will present a number of different approaches currently being used successfully to upskill and attract new digital talent to our sector including innovative apprenticeships in data science and AI, application of digital solutions to bioprocessing challenges, exploiting data science to attract talent across sectors and launch of a new virtual learning platform for advanced therapies and vaccine manufacturing skills. Chair: Dr Kate Barclay Skills Overview/Launch of CATTS Learning pathways in Data Science & AI apprenticeships Digital apprenticeships Talent engineering using machine learning algorithms Launch of Advanced Therapies Skills Training Network online platform |
10.45 – 11.15 |
Networking |
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11.15 – 12:45 |
BIOPROCESS UK 4.0 TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE Mass photometry – a novel method to study biomolecules FourPlus: Immersive Technologies for the Life Sciences Sector Empowering the digitalisation and scale up of Cell & Gene therapies Microfluidics, a path towards safe, scalable, and affordable manufacturing of cell therapies Opvia Cloud Platform - a simpler way to collect, integrate and analyse bioprocessing data |
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12.45 – 13.45 |
Networking |
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13.45 – 15.00 |
BIOPROCESS UK 4.0 How technology innovation can potentially improve bioprocesses and achieve some of the objectives of Industry 4.0. Peptide-based biomaterials for 3D cell culture and bioprinting The opportunities and challenges of applying data analytics to biopharmaceutical processing |
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15.00 – 15.15 |
Closing summary and awards |
On 1st December we will welcome you to a virtual pub night at 'The Bioprocess Arms', where we will have a beer tasting experience.
We plan to have delivered to attendees who register to the event and provide their postal address by the deadline, up to availability, a beer tasting kit and a small food hamper. The deadline is 2pm on 20/11/2020. We will send out a link for this in due course.
The event will take place on Remo (https://remo.co/) and will be hosted by Ben McFarland. Ben McFarland is a specialist beer writer and the youngest person to have won the Beer Writer of the Year award. He is also a successful author and has made regular appearances on TV and Radio including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 2 and LBC, and is one half of the double act which performs the hilarious (and Edinburgh Fringe famous) shows “The Thinking Drinker’s Guide to Alcohol” and “Legends of Liquor”.
Guests will be required to work in teams of 8 to answer a number of pre-set questions. For the winning team members there will be a prize: Ben’s book ‘Thinking Drinkers: The Enlightened Imbiber’s Guide to Alcohol’
Draft timing:
6 - 6.30pm: The platform is accessible to guests
6.30 - 8pm: The beer tasting experience takes place
8 - 9.30pm: Guests can continue to network
Notes:
- Guests are not permitted to record the event in any form without the express permission of the Provider.
- The beer tasting kits will be delivered between 23rd November and 1st December via DHL by our supplier ‘The Tasting Quarter’.
- The hampers will be delivered between 23rd November and 1st December via DPD on a timed delivery by our supplier ‘The Artisan Smokehouse’.
- The beer tasting kit will contain 6 small bottles (≤ 50cl) of different brews.
- Hamper storage: Please follow the instructions on the individual products, regarding 'use-by' and 'best before' dates, and storage.
- Hamper dietary guidelines: The hampers we have pre-ordered are suitable for vegetarians. Please note that they contain cheese and nuts. For any specific queries please contact us.
- Please note that bers are made using cereals (e.g. barley, wheat etc.) which contain gluten. For any specific queries please contact us.
- Please read the Terms & Conditions.

Ben McFarland
Ben McFarland is a specialist beer writer and the youngest person to have won the Beer Writer of the Year award (an award he has subsequently won twice since). He has contributed to many publications including Esquire, Jamie Oliver Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, Time Out London and an array of drinks industry titles. He also co-writes a regular drinks column for The Daily Telegraph.
Ben is also a successful author. In 2008 he co-authored The Good Beer Guide West Coast USA, published by CAMRA. 2009 saw the release of World’s Best Beers: 1000 Unmissable Brews from Portland to Prague, published by Aurum Press. Boutique Beers: 500 of the World’s Finest Craft Brews was published in 2013 by Jacqui Small LLP. Most recently, Thinking Drinkers: An Enlightened Imbiber’s Guide to Alcohol, was co-authored in 2014, again published by Jacqui Small LLP.
Ben has also made regular experiences on TV and Radio including BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 2 and LBC, and is one half of the double act which performs the hilarious (and Edinburgh Fringe famous) shows “The Thinking Drinker’s Guide to Alcohol” and “Legends of Liquor”.