Looking ahead

Next steps

We have prioritised our next steps through the consultation and roadmapping process and identified the major deliverables to achieve our ambition for Connect: Health Tech.

By 2023 we will:

• Deliver a state-of-the-art digital platform that focuses on ease of use and intuitive design to boost community interactions and include functionality to live stream events, make introductions, enhance navigation, host expert groups in specific areas, exchange knowledge, run funding competitions and access shared project management space.
• Transition from physical to digital knowledge exchange. This requires innovative human facilitation behind the scenes to join the dots, recognise synergies and stimulate connections.
• Activate Super-Connectors, individuals with unprecedented access to the multi-disciplinary scientific and business community.
• Scale-up the digital research, business and enterprise community by co-stimulation of intellectual and commercial curiosity to mobilise the research base.
• Map and effectively utilise a co-ordinated support structure to take forward and convert connections into profitable projects which accelerate the design, development and testing of data driven diagnostics and therapies. This support structure includes technology transfer, business schools, research operations, incubators, accelerators, shared facilities and mentorship programmes, and will ensure that the pipeline of projects spearheaded have access to the knowledge and support they need to progress.