The 1st edition of the Discovery to Innovation in Animal Health (DIAH) conference will be organized on 6-8 February 2024, in Ghent.
The DIAH-conference will be characterised by:
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- A limited number of participants (eg. max. 300 delegates) and more, informal, interactions between them
- A focus on co-development and R&D-collaborations between industry and academia/research organisations
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The goals and objectives of the conference are to:
- enable networking among different actors in the field, including researchers, academia, funders, and industry
- improve access of industry to front-edge technologies and expertise in academia
- familiarize researchers with the innovation pipeline process, stages of product development, IP and the regulatory frameworks
- learn young and entrepreneurial researchers to pitch their technology to industry
- align valuation of breakthrough technologies by universities and industry and manage expectations at both sides
- pinpoint differences in culture and objectives between academia and industry, find solutions to overcome them and present best practices of working together
- facilitate researchers scaling up new discoveries/proof of concepts/prototypes to marketable innovations
- show the value of the animal health sector to innovators, funders and industries that are less familiar with the sector but have interesting technologies
- demonstrate the value of interesting ecosystems for innovation in animal health and stimulate collaboration between them
- stimulate (international) public private partnerships for innovation in animal health
- get to know each other better, both when doing business and having fun