WE Innovate Final 2019 Event Booklet

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WE INNOVATE FINAL 2019 Thursday 7 March Imperial College London #WEInnovate #ICEntMonth19

Sponsored by BP

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AGENDA

CONTENTS

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03 Welcome from Professor Maggie Dallman

Welcome from Professor Maggie Dallman

04 Foreword from our sponsor

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05 About the programme

Finalist pitches

20:00 Young innovators presentations

06 WE Innovate cohort 2018/19 07 Judging panel 09 Finalists

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14 Supporting young innovators

WE Innovate prize winners announced

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20:25

16 WE Innovators: Alumni news

Drinks reception

21:00 Event close

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Lauren Dennis: In memorium

Thank you

18 Imperial Enterprise Lab

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WELCOME

Professor Maggie Dallman Vice-President (International) & Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships), Imperial College London

It is my pleasure to welcome you this evening on behalf of Imperial College London to the WE Innovate Final 2019, to hear from some of our top female student innovators and entrepreneurs.

The long-standing gender inequality in many of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) subjects as well as business is well known, and as a scientist it has been my passion to encourage other women to realise their potential and work towards change.

Since its launch in 2014, I have enjoyed championing the programme both within and outside of Imperial, and seeing the community of female student entrepreneurs grow.

Harnessing some of the best STEM talent and providing a platform to develop innovative ideas into enterprising projects, WE Innovate gives female Imperial students both the skills and confidence to develop into successful entrepreneurs.

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I would like to extend our special thanks to BP, Santander Universities, Octopus Ventures and Engineers in Business Fellowships for their support of the programme this year, and to all the industry and business experts who have guided our talented female entrepreneurs as part of the WE Innovate programme.

I wish you all an interesting and entertaining evening.

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SPONSOR

Foreword We are delighted to be working with Imperial College London and the WE Innovate teams.

As the world’s population continues to grow, innovation will bring new opportunities to billions of people. We see possibilities everywhere to help the world transition to a lower carbon future; university partnerships and venturing continue to support our ambition of advancing the energy transition.

This programme is, therefore, a natural fit on both fronts; in supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs through sharing our venturing know-how and in highlighting the power of building strong partnerships through greater diversity and inclusion.

Anna-Marie Greenaway Global Director for International University Partnerships, BP

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About the programme The WE Innovate programme is split into two phases: PHASE 1

PHASE 2

Developing a commercial idea and leadership skills

Advancing entrepreneurial skills and knowledge

Participants take part in:

Business coaching and pitch training

The Final

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Masterclasses on topics including customer discovery, leadership and investment

Networking with investors, industry and female business leaders

Semi-finalist have the opportunity to showcase their ideas to event attendees and the five finalists pitch to a panel of expert judges to win a share of the ÂŁ30,000 prize fund.

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WE Innovate cohort 2018/2019 Our semifinalist teams are innovating to:

37%

Bio – F Solutions Marine Valton

miCHIP Martina Oliver Huidobro

SCALE SUSTAINABILITY:

Orbit Materials Sophie Paisley-Marshall

ENHANCE THE EVERYDAY:

Habi Tabi Cecilia Martinez-Miranda

Clickr by Pitch In Josephine Latreille

H2Sea Carlota Bozal-Ginesta

Rock N Roll Lauren Dowling

Common Goods Talia Hussain

Hippocampus Nora Mohammed

Infinitoys Andrea Bustamante

WE Innovate 2018/19 in numbers:

06 MONTHS 43 TEAMS

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REVOLUTIONISE HEALTHCARE:

Cadget Suchaya Mahuttanatan

Nordic Pearls Laerke Mop Rasmussen

16%

47%

BGSkin Carmen Barragan

Nutritank Ally Jaffee Tommy Changavy Kajamuhan IDNA Molly Steadman GutFeeling Carla Smith Brightcure Chiara Heide NUTRISPACE Krsna Mohnani

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Judging panel We are joined by an expert panel who will select prize winners based on three weighted categories:

40%

The innovative or entrepreneurial idea

40%

Potential for commercialisation

20%

Required expertise in the team

Our expert judging panel will award:

£15k First prize:

£10k

Second and third prizes totalling:

The Lauren Dennis Award:

£5k

Our live audience will award:

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Phase 2 and the WE Innovate prize fund is kindly sponsored by BP.

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The judges SIR PATRICK VALLANCE Sir Patrick Vallance FRS FMedSci FRCP is Government Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) and Head of the Government Science and Engineering (GSE) profession. His personal research was in the area of diseases of blood vessels and endothelial biology. Patrick was President, R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from 2012 until 2017. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President, Medicines Discovery and Development. He joined the company in May 2006 as Head of Drug Discovery. He was a member of the GSK Board and the Corporate Executive Team. During his period as head of R&D over 14 new medicines were approved for use worldwide, for diseases ranging from cancer to asthma and HIV.

KATE BINGHAM In her 26 years at SV, Kate’s biotech investments have resulted in the launch of six drugs for the treatment of patients with inflammatory and autoimmune disease and cancer. She is one of six Managing Partners serving on the firm’s Investment Committee, which managed seven venture capital funds and one public fund for life sciences investing in US and Europe.

Kate is responsible for biotech investments which include investments in small-molecule drug discovery and development projects, biotherapeutic development projects, and drug discovery platforms in a broad range of clinical areas.

SANDRA EAGER

PRIYA GUHA

Sandra is Ventures Principal for BP Ventures.

She comes from a technology background with more than 17 years working internationally in the areas of solar, wind and water innovation. She is an active board member for a number of successful venture companies including Saltworks Technologies, a desalination company based in Vancouver and Drover, a UK based, “mobility as a service” company. Sandra holds a PhD in Electrochemical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Priya is a Venture Partner at Merian Ventures, a VC firm investing in womenled innovation, and is a Member of the Innovate UK Council. She was previously Ecosystem GM for San Francisco HQ-ed RocketSpace, launching their UK operations. Priya used to be a career diplomat, most recently posted as British Consul General in San Francisco.

She is on the Advisory Board of Tech London Advocates and Chairs the Board of Trustees of Modern Muse. Last year Priya was named Top 5 Asian Women in UK Tech and Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech.

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Finalists

Marine Valton Bio-F Solutions Eco-friendly bio-fertilisers based on natural microorganisms, with the aim to reduce damage to the environment and farmers’ costs, for more sustainable food production.

Bio-F is developing eco-friendly bio-fertilisers based on algae: these organisms grow on the free supply of sunlight, atmospheric CO2 and nitrogen to directly provide the most important nutrients to plants, thereby replacing chemical fertilisers. Our product is more efficient, both in terms of land use and farmers’ workload, minimising their costs and increasing revenue.

Our experiments showed a 242% increase in wheat production, greatly surpassing similar

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products in the market. Contributing directly to the circular economy by cleaning wastewater, our product also drastically reduces fertiliser lost into the environment and their destructive consequences, while contributing to a more sustainable food supply chain.

The team: Laura De Arroyo Garcia, Patrik Jones, Emanga Alobwede, Giorgio Perin, Viktoriia Nikonova

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Mint Suchaya Mahuttanatan Cadget A bioplastic cast that is breathable, comfortable, easily applied by doctors and affordable.

Cadget is a breathable and washable cast that’s less bulky but has the same strength as casts currently used.

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The cast can be put around the fracture area to be perfectly molded to the soft surface before it becomes rigid. Using Cadget requires no additional casting equipment on the scene which halves the operation time.

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Sophie Paisley-Marshall Orbit Materials Developing carbon-negative secondary raw construction materials from waste.

Orbit Materials have developed carbonnegative construction materials from waste residues. Orbit Materials promotes a circular economy through the development of a treatment which successfully improves the quality of a waste product so that it can be repurposed within construction applications.

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Furthermore, our technology reduces the strain on virgin raw materials whilst capturing carbon, thus making our residues carbon negative.

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Martina Oliver Huidobro miCHIP A portable blood testing device which allows diagnosis for a wide range of diseases.

The test detects small molecules called microRNA in the blood. These are powerful biomarkers for disease, but current tests require expensive laboratory equipment and require large amounts of blood to evaluate.

The first roll out of our technology will focus on pancreatic cancer to tackle late diagnosis.

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The team: Georg Wachter

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Changavy Kajamuhan Tommy Revolutionising how diabetes patients manage their disease with a non-invasive, affordable, continuous glucose monitor.

For decades, management of type 1 diabetes has largely remained the same. Tommy is here to change that. Tommy have developed a non-invasive and affordable wearable device, using AI, to accurately estimate glucose levels, giving patients with diabetes enough warning to prevent short and long-term complications.

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The team: Shad Asinger, Rohan Prasad

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Supporting young innovators Imperial College London supports female innovators from London schools. We are delighted to hear from two representatives from the Maker Challenge this evening.

THE MAKER CHALLENGE Aimed at school students local to White City aged 14-18, this programme gives participants the opportunity to develop an idea and see it through to creation.

Participants are able to design and develop a product or prototype based on their interests.

With access to cutting edge technologies, they learn to use a range of making tools and techniques with the support of Imperial staff

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and students. At the end of the programme participants showcase their projects for their families, teachers and friends, as well as presenting their ideas to a panel of judges to be in with the chance to win a prize.

We are joined by two innovators from the programme, Farheen Muhammed and Florrie Mantio.

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Lauren Dennis: In memoriam Lauren Dennis was an exceptional woman who commenced MSci Chemistry in October 2014. She was a finalist in our 2016 WE Innovate programme with her team Velox who developed a Livestock Test Disease Kit – an innovation that tackled Rift Valley Fever in cattle. Sadly in 2018 we lost Lauren to small bowel cancer.

Lauren was an absolute champion of all things entrepreneurship. She was a huge supporter of students working in this area – so much so that she undertook an internship working with the Enterprise Lab team in its inaugural year. The team in the Lab have many happy memories of working with Lauren on events and her playlists are still our ‘go to’ music.

Lauren was also an active member of the wider student community. She was Elected Wilkinson & Weeks Hall Representative; a Rectors

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Ambassador; a member of Imperial College African Caribbean Society; took part in Imperial Horizons; played for the College netball team and took part in competitions such as FoNSMAD and ACT Now. Lauren’s enthusiasm for life was infectious.

She will be remembered as an incredibly positive soul, thoughtful to the needs of others and loved by many. We hope this evening you will join us in remembering the impact of this incredible young woman.

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We Innovators: Alumni news

Olivia Ahn, Co-founder of Polipop (WE Innovate 2017) and Christina Petersen, Founder of LYS (WE Innovate 2016) spoke at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China.

Zainab Ahmed and Pashiini Supramaniam, Co-founders of QuickCount (WE Innovate 2018) won Imperial Innovations and Imperial Enterprise Lab’s Programmable competition – securing £10,000 of funding.

Charlotte McIntyre, Founder of AI Thyroid (WE Innovate 2018) was awarded the inaugural Imperial Enterprise Lab award for Entrepreneur of the Year for demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial qualities.

Ana-Luisa Neves, Co-founder of Momoby (WE Innovate 2017) was awarded an innovation prize at IDWeek, one of the biggest conferences in the world on infectious diseases, in San Francisco.

Read more about our programme alumni at: www.imperialenterpriselab.com WE Innovate —

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Thank you We would like to thank BP, Santander Universities, Octopus Ventures and Engineers in Business Fellowships for their support of the programme this year.

This programme could not exist without the support of individuals who share their time and expertise with WE Innovate female entrepreneurs.

We would like to extend particular thanks to the following: Anna-Marie Greenaway Prof. Alice Gast Prof. Maggie Dallman Kate Bingham Sir Patrick Vallance Priya Guha Sandra Eager Alexsis de Raadt St James Lia Barbopoulou Dr. Emma Chapman Dr. Anja Sinke Harleen Ahluwalia Chandresh Meghji Althea Taylor-Salmon Cathy Breeze Janet Murray Eleanor Saunders Terry Clark Dario Colombo Prof. Peter Childs Hannah Pitt Christina Petersen Alexa Segal Marianne Costigan Emma Slater Richard McDougall Adam Simmons Akriti Dokania Nicholas Sando Juliette Souliman Jana Dowling WE Innovate —

Riham Satti Olivia Ahn Ana-Luisa Neves Enass Abo-Hamed Eleanor Harding Gemma Milne Aaron Koshy Claudia Arnold Deepali Nangia Lee Mun Ching Monique Ho Natalie Shenker Queen Ilebode Rick Bilby Ron Lev Tanvir Ahmed Yannis Georgas Michael Moses Patrick Gilday Adithya Sreekumar Lola Wajskop Simon Hepworth Struan McDougall Davide Sangiovanni Rebecca Wilson Maren Bannon Teddy Kim Irma Gross Tong Gu Nadim Lahoud Rebecca Emery

Leticia Bombieri Esther Delignat Lavaud Rodriguez Olivia Sibony Kamran Adle Zihao Xu Hiten Thakrar Maria Jeansson Emelia Gobbe Ryan White Imperial College Advanced Hackspace Deborah Evanson Rebecca Middleton Alison Dexter Tina Chen Rozi Harsanyi Kia Da Silva Cunha George Hope Farah El Hachami Hansa Shree Augusta Critchley Rachael Katz Charlotte McIntyre Pashiini Supramaniam Ahreum Jung Ella Nokes Rob Cashman Didara Pernebayeva

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Imperial Enterprise Lab Supporting the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs “Our mission is to ensure that all students have the opportunity to develop the entrepreneurial skills, mind-set and networks they need to translate ground breaking ideas into world-leading impact – be it launching a new start-up venture or leading a new initiative within an existing organisation – for the benefit society as a whole.”

Ben Mumby-Croft, Director, Imperial Enterprise Lab

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IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE LAB Launched in October 2016, and located in the heart of the university’s South Kensington Campus, the Enterprise Lab is a dedicated co-working space and community for student entrepreneurs at Imperial College London.

Open to all students and recent alumni at Imperial, our programmes are designed to help students develop an entrepreneurial mind-set and apply it to their own personal ventures and their professional lives after graduating.

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EXTRA-CURRICULAR PROGRAMMES The Lab team delivers a range of extra-curricular entrepreneurship programmes, competitions and events that are freely available to all students at Imperial. From launching one the UK’s first university programmes dedicated to supporting female STEM entrepreneurs (WE Innovate) to running Imperial’s flagship student start-up competition Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC), and more besides. the Enterprise Lab team work with over 2,500 entrepreneurial students every year.

CO-WORKING SPACE Comprising over 2,000 square feet, the Enterprise Lab features a reception for hosting visitors; a studio with hang-out area where students can meet and work together; a work-out area for more formal business planning, workshops and events; a dedicated office for management and support staff; and a small, but state of- the-art boardroom to engage aspiring entrepreneurs and corporate executives alike.

BUSINESS COACHING AND MENTORING Finally, the Enterprise Lab also provides students with access to in-house expertise at all stages of their entrepreneurial journey.

From Idea Surgeries with a member of the team to give guidance on next steps, to professional business coaches and subject specialist Experts-in-Residence, all the way up to mentoring with seasoned startup founders and industry experts via the Imperial Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS).

Visit our website, www.imperialenterpriselab.com, to find out more and contact the team at enterprise.lab@imperial.ac.uk if you would like to support the Lab’s ongoing programmes and activities.

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