Hinxton, UK - Tuesday 31st March 2015
ELIXIR, DTL and Wageningen University held a successful two day ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum in Wageningen on 18-19 March 2015. Eighty delegates attended the interactive two-day event, including over 50 companies. Companies present included: large industry users such as Bayer, Syngenta and FrieslandCampina: smaller plant breeding and food companies such as Enza Zaden, Bejo Zaden and Nizo; IT companies such as Microsoft; and research-intensive SMEs such as Keygene, Genetwister and EdgeLeap.
Chair and host of the meeting, Richard Finkers of Wageningen University Research said, “I am delighted that such a large number of companies attended the meeting. This is testament to the importance of a high-quality public infrastructure for life science data. I am equally pleased that there was such deep interaction and discussion between delegates during the two days and I am confident that it will lead to further collaboration between industry and academia.”
Full details of the event, including the slides presented and photos, are available here.