This unique series brings together leading stakeholders from industry, academia, government, funding bodies, charities, and the wider scientific community to address the major scientific and technological challenges of the next decade. Through talks and panel discussions, each conference features cutting-edge science on one topic or in one industry sector, and typically explores:
- The current state of relevant industry sectors
- Research gaps and future priorities
- Challenges associated with translating research into commercial success
- The skills base needed to deliver major scientific and technological advances
- How the UK can benefit from emerging science and technology
- Wider social and economic impacts
Past conference reports
- Advancing the science of human nutrition (YouTube video)
- The UK water industry: towards a resilient and sustainable future (PDF)
- Sustainable fashion: transdisciplinary approaches to innovation (PDF)
- Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour (PDF)
- Machine learning and AI in biological science, drug discovery and medicine (PDF)
- Innovation in sport: accelerating breakthroughs in engineering, optimisation and performance (PDF)
- Decarbonisation of electricity supply and land transport to meet net zero in the UK (YouTube video)
- The Science of COVID (PDF)
- Oligonucleotide therapeutics: challenges and opportunities (PDF)
- Women's health: Interventions across a lifetime (PDF)
- Diagnostics: building capacity and capability in the UK (PDF)
- Unlocking building sustainability (PDF)
- Sci-Fi: bridging climate science and green finance (PDF)
- Advances in anti-microbial innovation (PDF)
- Sustainable packaging: protecting products and the planet (PDF)
- Immuno-Oncology: How to get the immune system to beat cancer (PDF)
- Digital technologies and the planet: towards net zero (PDF)
- Trauma recovery (PDF)
- Healthy Ageing (PDF)
- Future food: health and sustainability (PDF)
- Photonics (PDF)
- Future skills for the life sciences (PDF)
- Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century (PDF)
- The microbiome: human medicine and agriculture in a microbial world (PDF)
- The CRISPR revolution: Changing life (PDF)
- Energy storage: Automotive and grids (PDF)
- The internet of things: Opportunities and threats (PDF)
- Mathematics for the modern economy (YouTube playlist)
- Synthetic biology: does industry get it? (PDF)
- From satellite to soil (PDF)
- Robotics and autonomous systems – Vision, challenges and actions (PDF)
- Machine learning (PDF)