The North East Life Sciences Conference 2024 was hosted by National World in Newcastle city centre on Thursday, March 21.
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00:00 Had a brilliant day today meeting lots of really interesting innovators and companies
00:04 working in the life sciences space so really engaged and interested to see what we can
00:08 do next with the contracts that we've made.
00:10 This is the second running of the North East Life Sciences Conference.
00:14 It's great to see it still happening.
00:16 The first one was about two years ago.
00:19 Great thing to see is that I think we had more than tripled the number of exhibitors
00:22 this time so it's lovely to see that more and more of the local industry and organisations
00:27 are hearing about it and wanting to participate.
00:31 For me personally a great opportunity for learning all day both on the panels, there
00:36 were a number of panels throughout the day which were all excellent and a really nice
00:42 diverse set of voices.
00:43 Private sector, folks from life sciences, folks supporting sectors around it and things
00:48 like that.
00:51 Another nice thing is this space and the science and the community in terms of networking,
00:56 super easy so it was just both in terms of reconnecting with people that I've known
01:00 from the past but oftentimes haven't seen for many years now, partially because of the
01:04 pandemic but also just meeting new people as well both from the panel as well as from
01:09 the exhibits and so on and so forth.
01:11 It's been genuinely a very useful day and I'm really glad that I've been a part of
01:15 it.
01:16 I had the privilege of sitting on a panel with some fantastic colleagues from the university
01:21 and from the NHS and it was actually fantastic to hear about the single-mindedness focus
01:27 on wanting to work together and bring the region together when thinking about innovation
01:31 and skills particularly about the incorporation of digital technologies for the life sciences
01:35 and health.
01:36 It's been really good actually, we're a software company and we specialise in the
01:39 life sciences industry.
01:40 This launched into the UK about a year ago, we've been going 27 years in Spain so it's
01:45 really interesting to meet people in the life sciences industry who've all got the same
01:49 sort of mentality, all looking to move forward, great products, great innovations and ideal
01:54 for us.
01:55 It's been a really, really good event, really, really enjoyable.
01:57 I found the day really good, really pleased I came, made lots of new connections, caught
02:03 up with people, heard really inspiring, interesting discussions on the different panels, all about
02:11 the power of shouting about what we do that's fantastic in the North East, all about taking
02:16 time to collaborate, network, so got lots of inspiration to go back to Durham University
02:21 and do more of our amazing collaboration with the NHS, with industry, with the other universities
02:27 in the North East.
02:28 So yeah, it's been a great day.