The Agendaagenda below is correct 10 October 2025. All speakers listed are confirmed as of this date. The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the agenda.
18:00 Pre-conference Drinks Reception at the Hotel Stary Wine from Fantastic View Vineyard, Lesser Poland.
Wellcome:
Roland Kozlowski, LSBC, Poland/UK
Maciej Malewski, Sano, Poland
Talk: Putting Current Market Volatility into Historical Perspective: Navigating a Successful
Exit in Choppy Waters
Anthony Hartley, Gleacher Shacklock, UK
11:30 Talk: Title TBC
Piotr Garstecki, Scope Fluidics, Poland
12:00 Panel: Start-Up CEO panel – the financing (and other) challenges
Moderator: Mark Treherne, BBI, UK
Piotr Garstecki, Scope Fluidics, Poland
Jennifer Altomonte, Fusix, Germany
John Reid, CelticPharma, Ireland
Danuta Jeziorska, Oxford, UK
Ana Slipicevic, One Carbon Therapeutics, Sweden
Talk: Title TBC
Jacek Hławka. Hemolens, Poland
14.30 Panel: Being investment ready some VC and CXO perspectives
Moderator: Barbara Domayne-Hayman
Kreske Nicklesen, Kineo Finance, Switzerland
Klaudia Szklarczyk-Smolana, Intelliseq, Poland
Christian Tange, Capiital, Denmark
Matt Sagan, MoD Partners, Poland
Jacek Hławka. Hemolens, Poland
16.00 Panel: The thesis behind successful VC Investment
Moderator: Bharat Chudasama, Syneos Health, UK
Will West, Cellcentric, UK
Pawel Szczepanski, JJP Ventures, Poland
Maciej Wieloch, iff.VC, Poland
Christian Kumar, Capital Kinetics, UK
Tania Fernandez, Dreamcatcher Ventures, US
16.45 Panel: Public and private funds working with the two sources
Moderator: Marcin Szumowski, Molecure, Poland
Pawel Nowicki, BTM Fund, Poland
Magdalena Kulczycka, Biotech Innovation Institute, Poland
Przemysław Pilaszek, FiLeClo, Poland
Paweł Przewięźlikowski, Ryvu, Poland
Marta Winiarska, BioInMed, Poland
Wine provided by Fantastic View Vineyard (Poland)
8.45 Talk: BBI – Life Science MBA (Title TBC)
Chris Howie, BBI, UK
9.15 Company Pitch Competition in BBI Cambridge
Prize: Scholarship to the BBI Life Science MBA
Judges:
Aleksander Klosek, YouNick Mint, Poland
Martin Bonde, BiOrigin, Denmark
Juan R. Garcia, BBI, UK
Marios Nicolettis, Moondust Ventures, Czech Republic
Christian Kumar, Capital Kinetics, UK
Amine Benmoussa, Karista, France
Presenting Companies:
1. CheckEye
2. EFM
3. FindAir
4. GIRAFlow
5. InventMed
6. Living Networks
7. Medvoice
8. Melanos Care
9. MiCo Scientific
10. My Ovu
11. Ncage
12. Picralida
13. Polana Therapeutics
14. PsychoRest
15. StechoMe
16. Real Research
11.45 Talk: “Poland’s bet on AI and Digital Twins in healthcare”
Katarzyna Nicholson, Sano - Centre for Computational Medicine, Poland
12.15 Talk: EIT Update “Healthy Investment Central Eastern Europe (HICEE)”
Abigail Sidibe, EIT Health, Munich, Germany
12.30 Panel: How to gain Business Development traction (in the West)
Moderator: Will West, Cellcentric, UK
Tom Coulter, Dalriada, Poland / Canada
Łukasz Zybaczyński, BRP, Poland
Bharat Chudasama, Syneos Health, UK
Katarzyna Nicholson, Sano - Centre for Computational Medicine, Poland
Maurycy Zieliński, Molecure, Poland
Roland Kozlowski with BBI representation to announce Pitch Competition winner and Maciej Malewski (Sano) to close this year’s conference.