White City Innovation District Podcast
Welcome to the White City Innovation District Podcast, brought to you from a vibrant ecosystem in London’s Hammersmith & Fulham. Fuelled by Imperial College's state-of-the-art campus and the borough’s forward-thinking Industrial Strategy, the district attracts a diverse array of entrepreneurs and innovators tackling the world's most pressing challenges. It’s a global hotspot where groundbreaking research meets real-world impact, fostering economic growth, job creation, and sustainable development. Tune in to hear about all the exciting events happening here and discover how Tomorrow Is Made Here.
White City Innovation District Podcast
Deep Tech Network Investor panel
Held in the slightly impenetrable, certainly secure Sir Michael Uren building, with just under 100 in attendance, we had a good mix of founders from the White City ecosystem and beyond, a handful of corporates and also university professors and students trying to get a taste for what’s to come, if they embark on a career as entrepreneurs.
Brilliantly chaired by John Anderson, Imperial’s Chief Investment Officer, this first one had a deliberately wide panel that spans the width of deep tech. Future investor panels will be focussed on specific verticals e.g. biotech, cleantech.
Big thank you to our panel for their contributions and for sticking around till the end to speak to the long line of attendees:
- Manjari Chandran-Ramesh (Partner, Amadeus Capital)
- Jonny Clifford (Partner, Entrepreneur First)
- Adrian Dan (Acting Chief Commercial Officer, NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic – DIANA)
- Amy Nommeots-Nomm PhD (Early-stage deep tech investor, Octopus Ventures)