Date and place

05.10.2023, Wrocław

Short description of the event

Wrocław Tech Date was an open-access trainings focused on Deep Tech intended to connect and create strong links with representatives of different groups of the knowledge triangle, so that they can share their experiences, problems, ideas and start new collaborations. The main aim of the Deep Tech Date was:

• exchanging knowledge and broadening the perspective around deep technologies, which are talked about a lot, but there is no systematic knowledge;
• integration of the scientific and startup communities, technology companies, students, organizations investing in technology development, innovators who want to develop or are already involved in the development of advanced technologies.

The main topics were focused on Med Tech – the discussion was focused around the following topics:

• What are the technological challenges in tomorrow’s medicine?
• What are the future scenarios for medtech?
• How to enter the market with breakthrough medical technology?

Future scenarios for MedTech discussion panel:

Filip Granek, Ph.D. Eng. – CEO of XTPL

Miron Tokarski, Ph.D – CEO of Genomtec

Joanna Cabaj, professor – Department Chemical PWr

Jakub Kuś, Ph.D. – Vice-Dean of the Faculty Psychology SWPS University

Paweł Wielgus, Ph.D. Eng. – CEO of KVARKO

Moderator: Olga Rac-Rumijowska, Ph.D. Eng. – Faculty of Electronics, Photonics and Microsystems of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Technological challenges in tomorrow’s medicine discussion panel:

Ph.D. n. med. Dariusz Jagielski, MD,  professor  – Dean of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology Faculty of Medicine

Maciej Wysocki – CEO and co-founder of BioCam

Monika Litwin, Ph.D. – Project Manager Pure Biologics

Marcin Biały – Flyps.io Partner

Moderator: Sylwia Baluta, Ph.D. – Faculty. Chemical PWr

How to enter the market with breakthrough medical technology discussion panel:

Victoriya Havrylyuk – Senior Implementation Manager Infermedica

Ahmed Elsaftawy, MD, PhD – Head of the Sub-Department of Limb Replantation, Microsurgery and Hand Surgery at the Hospital. Saint Jadwiga of Silesia in Trzebnica

Wiktoria Lenart, Ph.D. – Faculty Interior Architecture, Design and Scenography Academy of Fine Arts

Stanisław Karkosz – co-founder of Fido, SWPS University

Magdalena Wezner-Ptasińska, Ph.D. Eng. – patent attorney for Captor Therapeutics

Moderator: Emilia Niekrasz CEO of Moben Pharma

Digital Health and Design Thinking in Healthcare – speach

Prof. Arriel Benis, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Wrocław Tech Date was organized by Adacemic Entrepreneurship Incubator at WUST, Innomanu team from WUST, Center for Knowledge Transfer at the SWPS Universit, Deep Tech CEE Summit and Innovaive Poland Foundation

Agenda

13:00                    Welcome networking coffee

13:15                    Opening of the meeting Prof. Dariusz Łydżba, Vice-Rector for Cooperation of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

13:30 – 14:20     Future scenarios for MedTech

14:20 – 14:35     break

14:35 – 15:25     Technological challenges in tomorrow’s medicine

15:25 – 15:35     Invitation to the Deep Tech CEE Summit

15:35 – 15:50     break

15:50 – 16:40     How to enter the market with breakthrough medical technology

16:40-17:10       Digital Health and Design Thinking in Healthcare, Prof. Arriel Benis, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

16:40                    summary and invitation to the business mixer

List of participants

The participants represented various groups of Deep Tech ecosystem: scientists, technology startups, technology companies, VCs, organizations implementing programs targeted at deeptech. The event gathered 110 participants in total.

Lesson Learned

• Collaboration with students organization within hackathon gave the great possibility to identify the real Deep Tech Talents.
• Open Seminars led to new and strong partnerships
• Cooperation with student organizations can bring measurable results in the form of real adaptation to the needs of students in the field of development of innovations and businesses.
• Engineering students want to bring up to life many ideas related to the development of new products/services that can have real business applications.