#MoreScience4Berlin

Berlin had many Nobel Prize Winners in the past. What would Researchers need today to make Extraordinary Science in Berlin? Maybe entrepreneurial spirits? More investors’ money? Labs? Long-term job perspectives in Berlin? Long term positions in Institutes? We want to meet and discuss about how to start a change. This is an online meetup. Max 11 pitches x 5 minutes, 60 mins discussion. We would like to hear your 5 minutes pitch about YOUR thoughts on what Researchers need, what would YOU need to make Extraordinary Science in Berlin. How can we bring Boston to Berlin? How can we introduce here a massive entrepreneurial spirit in biology, chemical, medical sciences? How can we create a reputation of Berlin as a place that funds and supports its research groups? Please contact me at jesus.delvalle at bayer.com and I would try to put your 5 minutes pitch in the agenda. We aim for concrete issues and solutions. Political or ideological presentations (…“that party should do this”…) will NOT be part of the agenda. Some MIT students, entrepreneurs and Biotech companies employees from Boston and Cambridge will participate as well. Those who RSVP will receive a link for the online meeting shortly before the start. I will update the agenda continuously while it develops. Thanks for joining! Let's go. #MoreScience4Berlin.

Special Thanks:

To the Speakers that joined, to those that wanted to speak but the agenda was already packed, to the fantastic crew, Tatjana Gust, Kiliana Suzart-Woischnik, Marjorie Gomez, Josepha Niebelschutz, Julia Hitzbleck, Jannis Busch, Jutta Klauer, Philipp Kretzer, Heike Hanspach, Kira Lenz, Berlin Buch Campus, Berlin Partner, Pfizer, Sanofi, Bayer.

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:40 Speakers 1
5:40 - 5:50 Meckerrunde / Bashing Berlin: Why it won't happen here
5:50 - 6:30 Speakers 2
6:30 - 6:45 Break-out sessions / Mission: How we will make it happen
6:45 - 6:55 Reports from the Mission sessions
6:55 - 7:00 Wrap-off by Kai-Uwe Bindseil, Berlin Partner
7:00 - 7:30 Networking / Bring your own drink

Speakers:

5:00 - 5:05 pm: Why should we do this? Henrik Seidel, bioinformatician at Bayer R&D and initiator of this discussion.
5:05 – 5:10 pm: Like in Cambridge. Stefan Oelrich, Bayer Pharma CEO and initiator of this discussion.
5:10 - 5:15 pm: Peter Albiez. Pfizer Germany CEO.
5:15 - 5:20 pm. Fabrizio Guidi. Sanofi Germany CEO.
5:20 - 5:25 pm. Christina Quensel. CEO Campus Berlin-Buch.
5:25 – 5:30 pm: Getting them to stay. David Garfield, Bayer R&D Bioinformatics.
5:30 - 5:35 pm: Life of an entrepreneurial researcher in academia & beyond. Olga Makarova. PI at the Centre of Infection Medicine, Vet School of FU-Berlin, co-organiser of the meetup "Researchers-Entrepreneurs".
5:35 - 5:40 pm: MIT’s iEcosystems Framework. Eric D. Yang, Boston. MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Organizer of the MIT COVID19 Challenge Series.
5:40 - 5:45 pm. MoreAI4Diagnosis - from Berlin. Vanessa Lemarié. Ada Health. Business Development Life Sciences.
5:45 - 5:50 pm. Marc Filerman, Boston. CEO German Accelerator.
5:50 - 5:55 pm. Recipe for a successful Innovation ecosystem. Chandra Ramanathan, Boston. Global Head of Open Innovation of Bayer R&D.
5:55 - 6:00 pm. Pablo David Rojas, Community Outreach Lead of Hacking Health Berlin.
6:00 - 6:05 pm. biotx.ai - learnings from a deep tech venture in Berlin. Marco Schmidt. CSO biotx.ai.
6:05 - 6:10 pm. Hannes Rothe. Entrepreneurship at FU Berlin, Founder of innovate 255 UG.
6:10 - 6:15 pm. Peter Strunk. Berlin Adlershof.
6:15 - 6:20 pm. Supporting the life science economy coming to and developing in Berlin. Kai Uwe Bindseil, Kira Lenz. Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie.
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Relevant Links:

A systematic MIT approach for assessing ‘innovation-driven entrepreneurship’ in ecosystems (iEcosystems): https://innovation.mit.edu/assets/BuddenMurray_Assessing-iEcosystems-Working-Paper_FINAL.pdf
Wie in Cambridge:
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/biomedizin-boom-in-berlin-wie-in-cambridge/25723684.html