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Introduction & objectiveThere is a clear need in the animal health sector in Europe to bring early developers (academia, research organisations, spin-offs/start-ups) and medium- to big size companies together to facilitate interaction and collaboration between them and thus stimulate innovation.To fill this gap we will organize a conference differentiating from B2B conferences and focussing on innovation in animal health through collaboration in the phase of predevelopment/discovery/proof-of-concept: Discovery to Innovation in Animal Health (DIAH).The DIAH-conference will be characterised by:A limited number of participants (eg. max. 200 delegates) and more, informal, interactions between thema focus on co-development and R&D-collaborations between industry and academia/research organisationsThe goals and objectives of the conference are toenable networking among different actors in the field, including researchers, academia, funders, and industryimprove access of industry to front-edge technologies and expertise in academiafamiliarize researchers with the innovation pipeline process, stages of product development, IP and the regulatory frameworkslearn young and entrepreneurial researchers to pitch their technology to industryalign valuation of breakthrough technologies by universities and industry and manage expectations at both sidespinpoint differences in culture and objectives between academia and industry, find solutions to overcome them and present best practices of working togetherfacilitate researchers scaling up new discoveries/proof of concepts/prototypes to marketable innovationsshow the value of the animal health sector to innovators, funders and industries that are less familiar with the sector but have interesting technologiesdemonstrate the value of interesting ecosystems for innovation in animal health and stimulate collaboration between themstimulate (international) public private partnerships for innovation in animal healthget to know each other better, both when doing business and having funFor more information on the programme and sponsoring opportunities, download the prospectus [PDF].

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