Room E
Climate change is regarded as one of the greatest challenges facing our society. There is a scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that we can expect further rises in sea levels, greater extremes of temperature, increased flooding, drought, and extreme weather events with implications for the way we will live in the future.
In this session we consider the business of designing homes and workplaces, not just for the current climate, but the one that is coming. We will look at the projections of what our future UK climate will be and explore how to approach the challenges of designing for this future climate.
Key benefits of attending:
- Learn more about the changing climate and how design needs to adapt accordingly
- Take the opportunity to discuss the key issues of design in a changing environment
- Help shape the Technology Strategy Board strategy for a future competition on Designing for Future Climate
This session is aimed at those interested in learning more about climate change and brainstorming solutions to the challenges of design in a changing environment. It will be of interest to attendees from a broad range of backgrounds including the design, sustainability, green, and manufacturing or buildings industries.
Speakers contributing will include Roger Street of UK Climate Impacts Programme and Bill Gething of Architecture and Sustainability and chair of the Design for Future Climate working group. Facilitation will be carried out by the Technology Strategy Board Low Impact Building Innovation Platform team: Richard Miller, Platform Leader; and Fionnuala Costello and Neil Morgan, both Lead Technologists.
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Room C
In the healthcare sector a key challenge for business and practitioners alike is the development and adoption of high quality rapid diagnostic devices for infectious diseases, in line with the priorities identified by the Department of Health and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This is the focus of the Technology Strategy Board’s Innovation Platform on the Detection & Identification of Infectious Agents (DIIA).
Clinically useful diagnostics should be decision making tools that provide solutions to unmet needs and play a critical role in disease/ health management. Introducing clinically useful diagnostic devices at the point of care is especially challenging, as a change in the way patients are managed may be needed; with implications for staff responsibilities, training needs and hospital management. To be commercially viable and sustainable, these innovative devices will need to be sufficiently rapid, sensitive, specific to individual diseases and effective for both positive and negative results.
This seminar is aimed at diagnostic developers and businesses as well as healthcare providers interested in the adoption of point-of-care diagnostics into the NHS.
Join the Technology Strategy Board’s DIIA Innovation Platform leaders, Dr Meredith Bradbury and Dr Penny Wilson, to look at this topic from both a clinical and a business perspective.
Room D
The challenges of achieving CO2 emission reduction and renewable energy targets are also an opportunity for growth and innovation. Come along to find out about the newly established Energy Generation and Supply (EGS) KTN, how it can help stimulating these opportunities and how you can get involved. You will also meet representatives of UK organisations that support innovation, get to know about their activities, upcoming opportunities and how they work together.
This seminar is aimed both to businesses and academics that are already active in the energy generation and supply sector, and to those that are considering how to grow in this sector.
By joining you will meet representatives of the organisations that will deliver the new Energy Generation and Supply KTN (including TWI, Advanced Power Generation Technology Forum, AEA, Synnogy, the UK Energy Research Centre, and The Industry Technology Facilitator) as well as representatives of the Carbon Trust, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Energy Technology Institute, the Research Councils’ Energy Programme and the Technology Strategy Board.