Sustainable Innovation: How Academic Partnerships Can Transform Your Business
Join the University of Salford and pro-manchester for an insightful morning exploring how Greater Manchester businesses can harness the power of biotechnology and biopharmaceutical innovation to drive sustainability, reduce costs, and gain competitive advantage in an increasingly environmentally conscious marketplace.
As businesses face mounting pressure to reduce their environmental footprint while maintaining profitability, biotechnology offers unprecedented solutions. From developing biodegradable packaging materials and sustainable manufacturing processes to creating novel therapeutics with reduced environmental impact, the convergence of biotech innovation and business sustainability presents remarkable opportunities for forward-thinking companies.
This event is designed for business leaders, sustainability managers, innovation directors, and entrepreneurs across Greater Manchester looking to integrate cutting-edge biotechnology into their operations. Whether you're in manufacturing, healthcare, food production, or emerging industries, you'll discover actionable insights for leveraging academic expertise to drive sustainable growth.
About the Speakers:
Ian is Professor in Microbial Genomics. His research uses multi-omic strategies to better understand microbial symbiosis and pathogenesis, host/microbe interactions and bacterial genome evolution. Throughout his career Ian has developed and adopted DNA sequencing technologies and applications across multiple disciplines and in both the wet-lab and computational biology settings, but mainly focused on infectious diseases. He maintains interests in DNA sequencing capacity building in low-middle income settings to support studies including emerging and neglected tropical diseases and vector-borne disease. He has helped attract over £2m in research funding from funders such as Wellcome, NERC, BBSRC, the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Jack Dixon, based in Eccles, GB, is currently a Head Brewer at Lark Hill Brewery. Jack Dixon brings experience from previous roles at SEVEN BRO7HERS BREWING CO and FIRST CHOP BREWING ARM LTD. Jack Dixon holds a Bachelor of Arts – BA in Music @ The University of Salford. With a robust skill set that includes Marketing, Brewing, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Craft Beer and more.
Dr Silvia Tedesco is the Associate Professor for Sustainability at the Salford Business School’s Centre for Sustainable Innovation. Silvia has a >10 year academic background with extensive scientific research focused on using biomass and waste organic materials to produce the energy, fuels, and chemicals for which we are currently over-reliant on non-renewable resources. Silvia is an active member of the BBSRC’s Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy (NIBBs): EBnet, BBNet and HVB. Her research has also featured significant involvement with SMEs, having collaborated with companies in Ireland, Italy and the UK. She has secured grants from a number of bodies in the UK and Ireland (e.g. Science Foundation Ireland, BBSRC, Innovate UK, EPSRC via SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub) and she is keen to collaborate on grant proposal submissions to further advance the art in biomass and waste conversion and valorisation using circular and decarbonising approaches.
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