Wellness events in 2009
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Textile Opportunities in Wellness and Health
Apr 09 2 Start: 09:30 End: 13:00
Expand your horizons – explore the wellness market opportunities for textiles
The global textiles market is undergoing rapid change. Smart engineered textiles are now being developed for their high performance capability, environmental sustainability, durability and comfort. Technologies, such as intelligent coating materials, wearable electronics and nanomaterials, are being incorporated into exciting new products.
Wellness and health is one of the fastest growing segments, and new applications are emerging – vital signs monitoring, sports coaching, therapeutic products and protection clothing.
There are significant commercial possibilities for companies with expertise in this area.
This event will allow you to:
• Find out about the growing global market for applications of technical textiles in the wellness and health arena
• Discuss the opportunities for and challenges to producing technical textile products in this field • Hear from two companies producing products for this market
• Learn about new research and development in technical textiles in Scotland
Agenda
09.30 – 10.00 Registration & Coffee 10.00 Welcome
10.00 – 10.20 Scene Setting – The Global Market Opportunity Kevin Wilson, UK Trade and Investment
10.20 – 10.40 Opportunities for Textiles in the Wellness and Health Market Rowan Norrie, Wellness and Health Innovation Project
10.40 – 11.10 Scottish SME Perspective Case Study 1: Culzean Textile Solutions Case Study 2: Exo2
11.10 – 11.30 Funding Opportunities for Technical Textiles Brian McCarthy, Materials Knowledge Transfer Network
11.30 – 11.50 Group Discussion – Q & A
11.50 – 12.00 Conclusion – Support Available in Scotland
12.00 - 13.00 Networking Lunch
LOCATION: Hillington Park Innovation Centre, Glasgow
To register for this event please contact forums@innovationcentre.org
Join the Wellness and Health Innovation Project and Interface in investigating these exciting opportunities in wellness and health textiles.
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Innovation for Success in Wellness
Apr 09 21 Start: 09:00 End: 17:00
Most ideas for new products are uninspired, resulting in minor modifications with lacklustre sales. More than ever, organisations are looking for ways to develop more innovative products and services that will have higher consumer impact. Systematic Inventive Thinking is a structured process to generate creative and viable ideas. It starts with what you know best – your existing business and products – and uses a logical approach to generate a flow of valid ideas, with the best selected for bottom-line results.
LOCATION: Aberdeen
To register your attendance at this event please email forums@innovationcentre.org
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Convergent Technologies Showcase and Conference
May 09 13 Start: 09:00 End: 13:00
Run in partnership with Stirling University Innovation Park, Scottish Health Innovations Ltd, EDTC and Nexxus, this major one day collaborative event will showcase technologies from a variety of companies that have the potential to meet future healthcare requirements. Its wide mix of participants will facilitate clinical feedback from end users of medical devices and business support where appropriate. The conference will also encompass a number of presentations and case studies, hosted by industry leaders and NHS innovators, which will identify technological advances and potential opportunities.
LOCATION: Stirling
To register your attendance at this event please contact http://tinyurl.com/convtech
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Web 2.0 Opportunities for Wellness and Health
Jun 09 12 Start: 09:30 End: 12:45
The demand for Web-based services for wellness and health consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals and researchers is growing rapidly. It is now widely recognised that utilising Web 2.0 technologies, as well as semantic web and virtual reality tools, for Wellness and Health 2.0 applications, services and tools opens endless possibilities. In particular, applications that, for example, allow individuals to take charge of their own health or those that provide mobile solutions have huge potential.
Wellness and Health Innovation are delighted to be able to bring together an exclusive group of experts that will inform, discuss and debate the market needs and opportunities for web 2.0 in the Wellness and Health market.
This event will allow you to:
- Gain access to this exciting new market opportunity
- Get an exclusive insight into the wellness and health market and its potential, predicted to treble by 2012
- Network with like-minded individuals and companies with relevant, complementary expertise in this area
- Access fantastic free services from Wellness and Health Innovation
- Find out about the membership benefits of ScotlandIS
Agenda
0930 - 1000
Registration, Tea & Coffee
1000 - 1015
Welcome from Wellness and Health Innovation
Tom Ogilvie, CEO, ICS Ltd1015 - 1100
Scene Setting
Tola Sergeant, Ovum1100 - 1120
Microsoft HealthVault
1120 - 1140
Coffee Break
1140 - 1200
Mobilising Wellness and Health
Nick Hunn, Mobile Data Association1200 - 1230
Scottish Business Case Studies
1230 - 1245
Question and Answer Session
Facilitated by Polly Purvis, ScotlandIS1245 - Close
Lunch and Networking
Join the Wellness and Health Innovation Project and ScotlandIS in investigating the exciting opportunities in web 2.0 for wellness and health.
www.innovationcentre.org/wellness www.scotlandis.com
This event will take place at Microsoft Edinburgh, Waverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG.Please email forums@innovationcentre.org or call 0141 585 6300 to register for this FREE event
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Opportunities for Electronics in Healthcare
Wellness and Health Innovation, in partnership with the Strathclyde Institute of Medical Devices, is running a workshop to look at the opportunities for electronics in healthcare. This event is designed to stimulate innovation, bringing together medical electronics companies with the academic and clinical communities. Beyond that, the event is an opportunity for electronics companies not currently involved in the wellness and healthcare arena to find out more about this lucrative and recession proof industry sector. The presentation session will feature several exciting new electronics based medical technology projects developed in the course of multidisciplinary research. -
Independent Assisted Living Conference
It is now widely recognised that Independent/Assistive Technologies promote greater independence by enabling people to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. Dr Kevin Doughty, former Director of Telehealth for Tunstall Group speaks on how to enable leading edge research to guide the design of telecare products. -
Licensing Executive Society Scotland Meeting
This event is being run in partnership with the Licensing Executives Society (LES) and Interface. It will explore two interesting examples of technology transfer in the wellness and health field, offering an excellent opportunity to discuss and debate the issues surrounding technology transfer in general and these examples in particular, as well as a chance to meet experts in this field. -
Making the Right Connections
Nov 09 12 Start: 09:30 End: 16:00
Meet Major Players that will Really Make a Difference!
Thursday 12 November 2009, seminar : 9:30 - 13:00, brokerage: 13:00 - 16:00
Hillington Park Innovation Centre, 1 Ainslie Road, Hillington Park, Glasgow, G52 4RUMeeting key partners that provide practical advice and information to ensure you grow your business quickly and in the right markets is difficult for any early stage SME. Therefore the Wellness and Health Innovation team have brought together some of the key players in the Wellness and Health market to meet with YOU.
Headlining this event will be Boots Centre for Innovation, set up to work closely with early stage companies or inventors to develop pioneering products for the Wellness and Health market. Boots plan to bring more ideas to market through working in partnership with external third parties and as a result are keen to meet with Scotland’s innovative wellness and health companies.
One of the companies Boots have already made connections with is PWB, a company which developed the Breast Light product in conjunction with Wide Blue in Scotland. Launched in June 2009, Breast Light is already the market leader and has developed its core market share overseas, rather than in the UK. PWB will share their experiences and advise on what an SME should do to launch their business in this evolving marketplace.
The seminar will also provide useful information on the future innovation strategies of Touch Bionics, The You Company and Scottish Development International sharing insight into the International market for Wellness and Health, specifically Japan.
We have a fantastic line-up of speakers, with a packed agenda
09.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee
10.00 Welcome from Wellness and Health Innovation Tom Ogilvie Innovation Centres (Scotland) Ltd
10.05 Where is the consumer wellness and healthcare market? Janette Hughes, Wellness and Health Initiative
10.20 Partnering for Consumer Wellness Boots Centre for Innovation
10.50 Lessons in launching a Wellness product pwbHealth (Breastlight)
11.10 Coffee Break
11.20 Launching Internationally - the Japanese perspective Scottish Development International
11.40 Growing Globally Touch Bionics
12.00 Launching into International Markets - The US Perspective, The You Company
12.20 Q&A Session
12.30 Lunch and Networking
13.15 Brokerage Meetings Boots Centre for Innovation, pwbHealth, Scottish Development International, Touch Bionics, The You CompanyA series of brokerage sessions will be running throughout the afternoon to give you the opportunity to discuss your innovation with these key players.
We are delighted to have secured a number of companies that could accelerate your business into the market.
Boots Centre for Innovation
Boots is interested in ideas and products that focus on the following consumer needs:- Improve ways to diagnose, treat and monitor key aspects of health, beauty and wellbeing through use of devices
- Support positive ageing through products and devices for mind and body
- Minimise the complications of living with chronic conditions
- Improve digestive health, particularly issues related to stress, poor diet and obesity
- Improve and maintain the health, look and feel of skin
- Minimise the severity and duration of pain
- Improve quality of sleep for everyone, including pregnant women, babies and the elderly
- Create more convenient methods of taking and using medicines and health products
- Improve the health and appearance of teeth and gums
- Improve the health, appearance and comfort of eyes
PWB Health
PWB Health brings together technology, research and management experience and is looking to work with companies to develop and market innovative personal early diagnostic and wellbeing products that have been designed for home use.
Touch Bionics
Touch Bionics is actively expanding its work in limb loss and limb impairment which embraces electromechanical engineering, controls software, human/machine interfaces for sensation and control, 3D shape acquisition and patient outcome studies. Additionally the Company is expanding its plans into other technologies and therapies that interface devices with humans (bionics) in order to leverage its growing sales channels and clinical footprint – therefore, companies wishing to scale their market reach quickly are of interest.
The You Company
The YOU Company provides cost effective health and wellness assessment service to the Occupational Health and Insurance Industries. The company is interested in working with companies that can help them harness the power of the internet and other technological solutions to facilitate the delivery of the product, bringing the health and wellness assessment to all at affordable prices.
Scottish Development International
Japan has the world's oldest population and by 2050, 40 percent will be 65 or older and demand for medical care will triple in the next 25 years. WHI in conjunction with SDI are planning an outward mission to Japan in March 2010 to give Scottish SMEs an opportunity to experience first-hand the challenges and opportunities in this market.
Wellness & Health Innovation
WHI has just completed its first year of operation. Come and meet a WHI advisor to find out more about the free-of-charge services available to accelerate your business growth.Places are limited to 6 meetings per partner, so act early to secure your place!
Please email wellness@innovationcentre.org or call 0141 229 1800 to register for this FREE event.
