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Date:17 Aug
Time:14:00 - 16:00
Venue:The Maersk Tower, Copenhagen University

20 years anniversary Medicon Valley Alliance

Please join us in celebrating 20 years of bringing the academia, industry, hospitals and regional government of Medicon Valley Life Science together.

Date: August 17th, 2017
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Venue: The Maersk Tower, Blegdamsvej 3B, 2200 Copenhagen N, top floor

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PROGRAM

14:00

Registration & Networking

14:30

Welcome by Trine Winterø & Petter Hartman

14:35

Vision for life science in Medicon Valley
by Søren Bregenholt

14:45

Life science – a crucial key to growth in Greater  Copenhagen
by Lars Gaardhøj

14:50

Networking

15:20

ESS – a Swedish-Danish success story
by Sindra Petersson Årsköld

15:25

NEXT – A succesful private/public partnership
by Thomas Kongstad Petersen

15:30

The how & why of Danish-Swedish life science collaboration
by Carl Borrebaeck & Nils Brünner

15:40

Networking

16:00

End

SPEAKERS

The following speakers will share their vision for the future of Medicon Valley:

SØREN BREGENHOLT
Corporate Vice President
Novo Nordisk A/S
Chairman of the MVA Board

CARL BORREBAECK
Professor & Entrepreneur
Lund University 

NILS BRÜNNER
Professor & Entrepreneur
University of Copenhagen

LARS GAARDHØJ
Chairman of the Business
and Growth Committee
in the Capital Region of Denmark

THOMAS KONGSTAD PETERSEN
Vice President
LEO Pharma A/S
Chairman of NEXT Partnership

SINDRA PETERSSON ÅRSKÖLD
Senior adviser
European Spallation Source

WELCOME BY

TRINE WINTERØ
Vice Dean
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
University of Copenhagen

 PETTER HARTMAN
CEO
Medicon Valley Alliance

20 years of Medicon Valley and Medicon Valley Alliance

Greater Copenhagen has developed into the leading Nordic region for life science in the past ten years. The majority of the Danish life science companies are located in the Region, and Medicon Valley overshadows the other Nordic countries when it comes to the number of international patent applications for life science. On the other side of the Strait in the Skåne region, a new beacon is being erected with the new materials research facilities ESS and MAX IV, which will become an important resource for the Region’s life science companies.

On MVA’s founding day in 1997, 23 regional actors applied for membership. MVA became a fully fledged membership organization in 2000 and today we have approximately 250 members. Together they employ approximately 140.000 people within life science. They represent the region’s triple helix and include universities, hospitals, human life science businesses, regional governments and service providers.

Read more about the history of Medicon Valley Alliance here.

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