This event, hosted by Zinc, will be an opportunity to hear from Catalyst Award holders as they share their vision, what’s needed to achieve it, and make connections in healthy ageing innovation.
Hear from Catalyst Award holders as they share their vision, what’s needed to achieve it, and make connections in healthy ageing innovation.
About this Event
The UKRI Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards, delivered in partnership with Zinc, provide funding and support to turn cutting-edge research into products and services that transform life for older people, adding quality years to later life.
Eight months into the programme, the first 11 successfully funded teams have made significant progress in their projects and are working on what’s needed to accelerate their journey to impact, and scale the project beyond the 12 month awards. Rather than wait until the end of the process to share the projects, this event allows sharing within a supportive community at this early point in time, to build connections and create opportunities.
Join us on 2 April to be part of a community of people supporting innovation for healthy ageing. You will hear the progress of the Catalyst teams so far, meet others working at the intersection of research and innovation for healthy ageing, and have opportunities to make and suggest connections with the teams to accelerate the journey from research findings to improved quality of later life.
The event will start with a short talk from Eric Kihlstrom (Chairman of Older, previously led establishment of the £98m Healthy Ageing Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund) on opportunities in the landscape of innovation for later life, and the role of researchers within it.
We will then hear 3 minute informal pitches from each of the Catalyst teams designed to spark opportunities for developing connections and collaborations within the healthy ageing innovation community.
Attendees may choose to join for the full event, or to join for presentations on the themes that interest them. Details on the themes, and suggested timings to catch those themes, are below.
Speakers:
Eric Kihlstrom
Eric is an established innovation professional with a background in large corporations as well as transformational new startups in technology and healthcare. Eric currently volunteers as the UK Ambassador to Aging2.0, a global network focused on improving the quality of life for older people. He also works part-time with Longevity International, the Secretariat for the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity. Eric is involved with a variety of innovation projects that focus on overcoming traditional barriers to healthy ageing in the UK and abroad.
Previously, Eric helped to launch the UK Government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - Healthy Ageing as the Interim Director. He was responsible for scoping the challenge and facilitating collaborations with industry, Government, 3rd sector and academia to unlock opportunities deriving from the UK and global demographic shift.
Agenda
These are expected timings, if you're joining for a particular section, please join 10 minutes before just in case timings change.
12.30-12.50 Welcome, and talk from Eric Kihlstrom
12.50 Theme 1: Movement
13.08 Theme 2: Homes and care homes
13.20 Theme 3: Monitoring and managing health
13.38 Theme 4: Maintaining activities and interaction
13.55 Close
Image credit: Centre for Ageing Better
Online Event OrganizerZinc
Organizer of Working towards impact in the Healthy Ageing Catalyst Awards - Zinc builds new companies that solve the developed world's toughest social issues.
Our Vision
Zinc exists to build and scale a brand-new way to solve the most important societal problems faced by the developed world. Our approach empowers the most talented and motivated people in the world to redirect their careers and have a large-scale social impact as entrepreneurs, researchers and intrapreneurs.
Mission-Led Approach
We focus on specific ‘missions’ with an intensive programme that includes our two products: Venture Builder and The Academy, in each mission.
We believe that missions unite, mobilise and organise the best talent, knowledge and capital that are needed to break through at scale.
We have 3 criteria for choosing a Zinc mission:1. It must tackle one of the great unmet needs in the developed world; 2. The target addressable market must exceed 100m people in the developed world alone; 3. There must be lots of unexploited opportunities to disrupt, extend and improve existing services through new technologies and insights from research.
Since we launched in 2017, we have been developing a unique ecosystem of diverse talent across many sectors, mobilising them around a common mission and building commercial and investable solutions to social problems.
We are building a new commercial innovation system for the social sciences, to increase the impact of existing research and to generate new R&D opportunities through our ventures. Zinc’s main financial backer is the London School of Economics. Zinc is also a member of the ASPECT consortium which is accelerating the commercial impact of social science.
