TenU Innovation Summit: Accelerating Research to Market

Offering a unique platform to foster collaboration among founders, investors, and universities with the goal of driving innovation for economic growth.

Date:  20th May 2024 

Start: 09:30  End: 19:00 

Location: Mansion House, London, Mansion House Street, London, EC4N 8BH

The TenU Innovation Summit event brings together key stakeholders from the university, investment and founder communities who play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of innovation to solve global challenges. 

A central aspect of the event will be the launch of USIT for Software, a guide that provides clear and transparent recommendations with the goal of simplifying negotiations and accelerating software spin-out processes. 

Join the Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli in opening the event, Mr Andrew Griffith MP, Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology in offering the Ministerial Address and Lord Peter Mandelson on a fireside chat with Professor Dame Jessica Corner. 

Daniel Hulme, Chief AI Office at WPP and CEO and Founder of UCL spin-out Satalia, will offer an exciting keynote on the risks and rewards of AI. 

The agenda will also include discussions on relevant topics such as access to capital and The Mansion House Agreement, as well as reflections on sector next steps by key sector stakeholders. 

TenU is a international collaboration of leading technology transfer offices formed to share effective practices in research commercialisation with government and higher education communities, in order to increase the societal impact of research.

TenU comprises the technology transfer offices of the University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, and UCL in the UK; Columbia University, MIT and Stanford University in the USA; and KU Leuven in Belgium.

TenU is funded by Research England and hosted by Cambridge Enterprise.