Improving Healthcare via Open Data

Science Capital events bring together academics, business experts and investors to discuss the latest developments in the field and to build partnerships.

Upcoming Events:

Big Data Hackathon

from June 22 - 23 at Birmingham Science Park Aston, registration opens soon

Innovative Healthcare: from mechanism to medicine

on Wednesday September 25, speakers and date to be announced shortly

Low Carbon: advanced materials and technologies

speakers and date to be announced shortly

Recent Event

Digital World 2013: Understanding the Data Revolution with 12 keynote speakers from IBM, O2, Cambridge Intelligence, HortonWorks, Growth Intelligence, Aston & Warwick Universities

Also of interest:

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Showcase Day on May 20 with exhibits from the Centre for Liver Research (free)

Collaborate to Innovate on 21 May at Edgbaston Stadium, with industry experts debating the role that open innovation and collaboration can play for SMEs (free)

Birmingham 'Pitching for Management' at Wragge&Co on May 22

Universe of Sound featuring Holst’s Planets by the Philharmonia Orchestra at Birmingham Municipal Bank from 25 May - 16 June (free)

BizzInn Networking Event at new business incubator offering free office space and support to innovative start-ups at University of Birmingham on June 4 (free)

Smart Cities Event with Kurt Jacobs, Insider, Dr. Steve Harding, Birmingham City University, Tim Finch, IPPR, Raj Mack, Digital Birmingham, Paul Noon, UKTI at Millennium Point on June 7

TEDxBrum returns to Birmingham on June 8 at Millennium Point with speakers talking on ‘Marking the Map'

Aston Inspired Design & Engineering Showcase of design and engineering projects at Aston University on June 12-14 (free)

Conference on Digital Health: design: develop: deploy: evaluate by the Institute of Digital Healthcare at the University of Warwick on July 25 (free)

Recent speakers

Ian Nabney Aston University on tools for visualising and understanding big data
Amish Patel IBM on what it takes to build data-driven smarter cities
Mike Short Telefonica on connected and accessible Data for innovation
Radu Sora Polysemantic on opening data for improving businesses
Peter Roper Business Strategy Consultant on social media benefits for businesses
Farhat Khanim University of Birmingham on redeploying drugs to beat cancer
Jim Parle University of Birmingham on giving old drugs new purposes
Michael Overduin University of Birmingham on cancer drug discovery
Charlie Craddock University Hospitals Birmingham on translational medicine
Science Capital formation and where we're headed

More speaker presentations and press coverage.

Working together

Partnerships to organise events together with like-minded people and organisations

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Founding Partners

Vice Chancellor of Aston University will present the latest thinking from the Committee on Climate Change, revealing how the UK can adapt to climate change

Latest news

David Miliband on employing youth

Promoting business through open data

How open data could improve healthcare

How social media benefits business

How Big Data can help the SME market

Growth Strategy in Birmingham

Science Capital Business Plan Award Winners at Digital World 2013:

Deepak Pathak, WeWana:Play
Radu Sora, Polysemantic
Stuart Alexander, Lucidity Networks

NHS: The Health Information Revolution: a critical PDF Report on how to unlock the hidden value within the NHS for patient benefit

Big Data, the Library of Babel or the butter on our daily bread? Read more

Birmingham driving innovation in science and medicine and launch of the Edgbaston Medical Quarter

Plan to re-establish Greater Birmingham as a major economic driver

Science Capital focuses on Digital World 2013: Data Revolution with talks by Dr Mike Short CBE, Vice President, Telefonica Europe and Amish Patel, "big data guru" for IBM, as reported in The Information Daily

We're growing

Four new directors joined Science Capital in 2013:

Giles Brindley Founder of Quarto Perspective
Joe Tibbetts Founder of The Information Daily
Marcella Erskine Founder of Music Shakers
Richard Miner Regional Director, FD Solutions

Contacts to help get your ideas off the ground:

Technology and Innovation Futures West Midlands: covers 50% of the costs of industry specialists to examine and upgrade your existing technologies.

Business Development Programme run by GBSLEP for local SMEs offers £10k - £15k grants.

Innovation Network Grants provide £10k for a group of SMEs to collaborate in the region

SMART R&D grants for proof of market/concept/prototyping are available to single companies

List of SME support schemes from BIS

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