Workshops

How do you spot a trade mark or a patent worth investing in? What makes the perfect patent or trade mark? In this session, we’ll explore how Intellectual Property (IP) can be your competitive edge, helping your business grow and attract investment. We’ll dive into the due diligence process, discuss common pitfalls when managing an IP portfolio, and explore how to ensure you have the freedom to operate in your market. Through real-world case studies, we will help you identify key considerations to turn your IP into an investment-ready asset.

Join the Beauty Bio-Resilience Workshop to see how AI and precision fermentation can secure the ingredients your brand depends on, hosted by BBIA, CCUK and Twig. This workshop isn’t about new molecules - it’s about using Twig’s AI-powered bio-engineering to recreate the high-value ingredients you already love and move them from fields to fermentation tanks for greater purity, consistency, and sustainability.

Small- and medium-sized industrial emitters contribute almost a quarter of UK’s industrial CO2 emissions yet lack affordable and scalable carbon-capture technologies. Algae-based carbon capture and utilisation (ACCU) offers a promising solution to address this gap and create new value streams across multiple sectors. Bringing together industry leaders, investors, policymakers and academics, the session will explore the commercial potential of ACCU, sector-specific needs, viable business and finance models, and the regulatory and institutional conditions required for successful deployment. Delegates will co-develop insights that support viable commercial pathways and inform the wider adoption of ACCU technologies. These insights will directly contribute to a series of open-access case studies for ACCU implementation within different industries, to raise the profile of this important technology.

Although humanity started off exclusively using biomass as the source of chemicals and energy, finite and heavily polluting fossils have overtaken the role as the dominant energy and chemical source since the industrial revolution. Wood fibre offers an abundant, renewable carbon negative substrate with infinite potential to support and advance a design based circular bioeconomy across a myriad of products and sectors.

Scottish Enterprise is piloting activity which supports the growth potential of industry clusters taking full advantage of Scotland's assets, both rural and urban, natural, digital and physical through the development of a new Scottish Cluster Scheme. CPI have been commissioned by Scottish Enterprise on behalf of the Scottish Government and enterprise agencies to inform the design of a cluster development function that meets the needs of Scotland's life sciences industry, with the aim of stimulating inclusive and sustainable growth of the sector in the coming years.