Activation Partners

This event brings together women working at the intersection of AI, deep-tech, and entrepreneurship to:

• ​Explore the frontiers of AI - with a spotlight on how advanced models are being applied across scientific disciplines, from drug discovery to materials design. We'll discuss what's new, and what's next.
• ​Share support - quick overviews on how Pillar VC can support you, and a spotlight on the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship.
• ​Deepen relationships - from academia, to industry, to venture. We're committed to ensuring you meet someone new, who can support your work long after the event ends.

This event brings together women working at the intersection of AI, deep-tech, and entrepreneurship to:

• ​Explore the frontiers of AI - with a spotlight on how advanced models are being applied across scientific disciplines, from drug discovery to materials design. We'll discuss what's new, and what's next.
• ​Share support - quick overviews on how Pillar VC can support you, and a spotlight on the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship.
• ​Deepen relationships - from academia, to industry, to venture. We're committed to ensuring you meet someone new, who can support your work long after the event ends.

This event offers a valuable opportunity to learn about the Catalyse Program, the Activator Program and Nucleate UK's role in advancing entrepreneurial initiatives in the biotech and life sciences sectors. Whether you are looking to commercialise your research or join an innovative venture, this gathering will provide insights into how the Program can support your goals.

This event offers a valuable opportunity to learn about the Catalyse Program, the Activator Program and Nucleate UK's role in advancing entrepreneurial initiatives in the biotech and life sciences sectors. Whether you are looking to commercialise your research or join an innovative venture, this gathering will provide insights into how the Program can support your goals.

This event brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, healthcare evaluators, and investors who are committed to advancing women's health innovation responsibly while meeting the enormous unmet demand for solutions.

This event brings together women working at the intersection of AI, deep-tech, and entrepreneurship to:

• ​Explore the frontiers of AI - with a spotlight on how advanced models are being applied across scientific disciplines, from drug discovery to materials design. We'll discuss what's new, and what's next.
• ​Share support - quick overviews on how Pillar VC can support you, and a spotlight on the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship.
• ​Deepen relationships - from academia, to industry, to venture. We're committed to ensuring you meet someone new, who can support your work long after the event ends.

Growth is the goal for every startup - but for many founders, knowing what focus on (and what to ignore) is the real challenge. Tactics are everywhere, time is limited, and the margin for error is small. So how do you scale without losing momentum or clarity?

Moving beyond theory and hype, the event focuses on the realities founders face when turning early traction into repeatable, sustainable growth.

Join the Symposium Social. Whether you’ve spent the day at the symposium or you're joining us for your weekly dose of innovation, this is where Manchester’s creative, academic, and tech communities collide. This event brings together filmmakers, founders, and researchers to explore the intersection of technology and human creativity.

Scotland is fast becoming a place where space is no longer just a sector, but a driver of the next economy, powering finance, climate, life sciences, security and data infrastructure.

This event brings together founders, investors, institutions, and ecosystem champions to explore how Scotland’s space-enabled companies are creating real commercial value – and why global capital is increasingly looking to the Scottish ecosystem for its next wave of opportunity.

Climate solutions now have to win on economics, not just ethics. Net zero as a slogan is losing political, investor and corporate favour. But the need for climate solutions has not gone away. 

What has changed is the burden of proof: If it doesn’t save or make money, it doesn’t scale. This event will focus on how founders and builders in climate can reposition, sell, price and deploy their technologies as a commercial product — without greenwashing and without pretending altruism is enough.

Join the Bind Research team for an interactive showcase, featuring talks and posters, highlighting the science, technology, and vision behind the UK’s first FRO tackling intrinsically disordered proteins. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with our researchers, explore early platform data, learn about new experimental and computational approaches, and discover how Bind is building the world’s first large-scale dataset for disordered protein drug discovery.

​Join us for an early evening exploration of the brain. Whether you’re interested in neurotech, neural interfaces, AI in neuroscience, wearable devices, brain health, or translating research into real-world impact – this event is for you.

Artificial intelligence and automation are reshaping scientific research, offering both exciting possibilities and challenges. We will explore how AI can accelerate discovery in materials chemistry and related disciplines, highlighting emerging trends, practical applications and collaborative opportunities for scientists and innovators.

This event is an opportunity to:

• ​Discover the latest innovations across the UK health tech ecosystem
• ​Meet and network with startups and scale-ups building cutting-edge solutions
• ​Collaborate with clinicians and operational colleagues on bold new innovation ideas
• ​Learn how to turn challenges into real-world projects and partnerships

How prepared are we for the challenges climate change is bringing? Communities and businesses are facing growing pressures to adapt as the impacts of climate change increase. We will explore how technological innovation can help mitigate risks, improve sustainability and strengthen resilience across society.

What if we could enhance the way our brains learn, heal, and adapt? Neurotechnology is rapidly redefining how we understand and interact with the human brain. We will explore emerging innovations, potential applications, and the transformative impact neurotech may have on health, wellbeing and society.