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
Unlocking Leadership & Innovation in Tech (London Tech Week 2024)
🦸🏽♀️Unlocking Leadership & Innovation in Tech - London Tech Week🦸♂️
A 25-minute podcast with the best bits from Upstream and Imperial Enterprise Department's event at 2024's London Tech Week.
It took place at Scale Space White City where an expert panel discussed the leadership and strategies required to encourage and introduce innovation into a company’s culture and practices.
White City Innovation District: Home to world-leading researchers and ground-breaking enterprises working on today’s greatest challenges and shaping tomorrow’s world: https://www.whitecityinnovationdistrict.org.uk/
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PANEL
Dr Shakiba Kaveh, CEO - MitraBio
Shakiba is CEO of Mitra Bio which is building a non-invasive skin multi-omics platform to unravel skin health and delay ageing. The global anti-aging market was worth $60 billion in 2020. However for the past 50 years, skincare and anti-ageing products have targeted the signs of ageing - such as eliminating wrinkles - rather than stopping cellular ageing itself.
Mitrabio has raised investment from Illumina Accelerator, Entrepreneur First, First-in Ventures and Cambridge & Peterborough Combined Authority. It is developing a longevity tool for skincare companies based on DNA methylation signatures which are associated with skin quality and age. This will differentiate skin conditions (old vs young; UV-damaged vs healthy) and lead to skincare personalisation and development of novel anti-ageing formulations.
Shakiba has a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge, over five years' experience in management consultancy, and is a former scientist at L'Oréal.
Jasper Joyce - Director of People Acceleration - Blenheim Chalcot: Jasper leads People operations at BC. This includes leading the Red Team (BC's dedicated training organisation) and the BC Centre for Generative AI Innovation, as well as HR operations. Jasper also supports BC's Edtech portfolio, including being CEO and then Chair of the Board at Avado. Before joining Blenheim Chalcot, Jasper was part of the founding team of a new university. Prior to this he was a strategy consultant working across education and adjacent sectors.
Professor Markus Perkmann - Vice-Dean (Research and Faculty) Imperial College Business School
Markus is Vice-Dean (Research & Faculty) and academic director of the Imperial Enterprise Lab. He curates the Entrepreneurial Journey, Imperial's experiential start-up programme across all of its MBA programmes.
In his research, Markus focuses on several areas. First, he studies science-based organizations and science-based entrepreneurship. He has a particular interest in the interface between the world of academic science and industry, and special hybrid organizations that can bridge both worlds. Second, he is interested in social valuation, i.e. how individuals, firms and products are evaluated by others and how this process is affected by biases and pre-conceptio