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Advancement Summit for Life Sciences

October 9, 2020
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We are delighted to invite you to join us for the first ever Advancement Summit for Life Sciences (alumni relations, communications, fundraising). This is a joint initiative between CASE and EMBL, and we have agreed to run this conference online.

Welcome from the Chair

Tom Furnival-Adams

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to on behalf of EMBL for this first-of-its-kind summit for life sciences. I very much look forward to this opportunity to hear from an engaging range of experts and speakers, as well as to sharing ideas for best practice and future collaborations. I expect that delegates will return to their institutions with a clear vision of ways they can generate resources for their institutes through coordinated alumni relations, fundraising and communications activities that address their specific institutional needs.

Matthias Hentze, Director, EMBL

CASE EMBL

Whether you’re just getting started with your alumni relations programme or it is at a mature stage, this summit will equip you with the ideas, practical skills and inspiration to grow your offering smartly and effectively. This is a great opportunity to reflect on the profound and growing value of alumni relations for life sciences, explore approaches taken by similar institutions to yours and consider ways in which likeminded organisations can collaborate on future events. The summit will provide a platform to learn, share and be enthused by the potential of this rich but largely under-explored resource. Experts from the fields of life sciences and advancement (alumni relations, communications, fundraising) will moderate the sessions, discuss opportunities and challenges.

This is a valuable opportunity for directors and senior leaders of life sciences institutes, whose buy-in and commitment is essential to building a successful advancement programme, as well as heads of advancement, and anyone working in alumni relations, communications or fundraising within a life sciences environment. Build your network of peers, gain knowledge and inspiration, share tips, experiences and progress with likeminded professionals across all levels. We want this to be the beginning of an ongoing journey in professionalising advancement programmes and fostering productive collaborations between institutes.

All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

Thursday 8th October

Evening social activity

Friday 9th October

9:00 - 9:15  Welcome
Matthias Hentze, Director, EMBL
Bruce Bernstein, Executive Director, CASE

9:15 - 9:30  Setting the Scene
Nik Miller, Partner, More Partnership

9:30 - 10:30  Advancement from a Leader’s perspective

EMBL                                 Matthias Hentze, Director                         

VIB, Gent                          Jo Bury, Managing Director

CRG, Barcelona               Luis Serrano, Director                            

FMI, Basel                         Susan Gasser, Director

IIT, Genoa                         Stefano Gustincich, Deputy Director

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Break-out session - How can advancement help institutional goals?

  • Engaging leadership
  • Supporting research
  • Development careers
  • Industry engagement
  • Institutional profile raising

12:00 - 12:30 Wrap up

Confirmed Speakers

  • Matthias Hentze, Director, EMBL, Germany
  • Bruce Bernstein, Executive Director, CASE
  • Susan Gasser, FMI, Basel, Switzerland
  • Luis Serrano, Director, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain
  • Stefano Gustincich, Deputy Director, Life Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
  • Nik Miller, Partner, More Partnership

  • Jo Bury, Managing Director, VIB, Ghent, Belgium

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