Biotech meetup presentation December 2014

1. BIOTECHNOLOGY RIGA
MEETUP
RIGA, LATVIA, DECEMBER 12, 2014

2. Rihards Gailums
Twitter: @RihardsGailums
rihards.gailums@rhtu.edu.lv

3. Agenda
• Personal Introductions;
• History and background of meetup group;
• Speakers: Tom Schmidt, Accelerace Life, "Regional Life Sciences
Acceleration possibilities";
• Acknowledgement of largest ecosystem players;
• Introductions of BioTech Startups;
• Featured Startup;
• Anouncements;
• Summary

4. Introduction
Who am I
What I am doing
What is my Biotech /LifeScience /
HealthCare experience

5. Exponential Technologies

6. New faculty | DevelopMent of programm | MOOC course
Bioengineering
„Bioengineering is jointly supported by the RHTU and the RSU School of Medicine.”
The Bioengineering (BioE) major enables students to combine engineering and the life sciences in ways that advance
scientific discovery, healthcare and medicine, manufacturing, environmental quality, culture, education, and policy.
Students who major in BioE earn a fundamental engineering degree for which the raw materials, underlying basic
sciences, fundamental toolkit, and future frontiers are all defined by the unique properties of living systems.
Students will complete engineering fundamentals courses, including an introduction to BioE and computer
programming.

7. The Star tup
Universi ty
Latvia Tech and
Entrepreneurship
meetup network

8. Riga BioTechnology Meetup
UI/UX Riga Meetup
Riga Drone Meetup
Riga Mobile App Developer
Meetup
Kick-off Meetup
December 12, THE Mill
December Meetup
December 15, THE Mill
Drone Kick-off Meetup
December 16, THE Mill
Kick-off Meetup
December 17, THE Mill

9. Riga Startup: Idea to IPO
CUDA parallel programming and
gaming meetup Riga
3D Printing Riga
Meetup
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
Meetup
Find you Co-founder
December 18, THE Mill
December CUDA Meetup
December 22, THE Mill
January 3D Printing
January 8, RTU Design
Factory
JanuARY Meetup
jANUARy 26, THE Mill

10. Life Sciences
Bioengineering
Health startups
Healthcare IT
Biology
Genetics
Biological Engineering
DIYbio
Biotech & Medical
Biotechnology

11. Classification

13. Featured events

14. IMPORTANT companies

15. Featured Startup

17. Sponsors

18. Technology and Entrepreneurship education

19. For Startups by Meetup members:
$1800 per year of FREE Azure cloud services
Free Microsoft software and tools

20. Latvijas Garantiju Aģentūra
Government corporations which supports Latvian entepreneurs
and helps in realisation of their business ideas.

21. Speakers

22. Biotech Startup pitch

23. Announcements
- Whant to develop Biotech project?;
- Looking for Biotech developer, job offers;
- Biotech service offers;
- Event announcements;
- Start-up projects, introductions.

24. Summary
•Latvian Biotech ecosystem development
challenges;
•Meetup group future developments;
•Next Speakers;
•Next Topics;
•Meetup Group marketing channels.