How do Accelerators, Incubators, Universities, and More Collaborate with Life Science Nation and RESI conferences? 

By Erika Wu, Business Development Manager, Global Tech Hubs, LSN

Life Science Nation’s RESI conferences aren’t just limited to early-stage life science startups and investors. There’s also another yet equally important group in this space: tech hubs.  

Tech hubs comprise of incubators, accelerators, non-profits, universities, and government organizations. A special thank you to our tech hubs at RESI JPM 2024 Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio), BIOCAT, Brisbane Economic Development Agency (BEDA), California Life Sciences (CLS), Connect, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Endless Frontiers Labs, Enterprise Singapore, Frederick National Laboratory, Life Sciences BC, MaRS Discovery District, Monash University, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Nest Catalyst, NLC, Ontario Brain Institute, Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization (OBIO), The Ganesha Lab, and Trade and Investment Queensland. These tech hubs attended RESI to learn from and partner with other startups and investors. 

Here are different ways that tech hubs interact with Life Science Nation (LSN) and the RESI conferences: 

Tech hubs & RESI collaboration: 

1. Ability to meet with investors, startups, and service providers
   
2. Ability to host an exhibition table and/or workshop with sponsorship

3. Ability to sponsor an Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) session featuring your startups in the same sector

4. Discounted rates! Promote a unique discount code for the “tech hub rate”. After 1 startup registers using the unique discount code, then 1 tech hub staff will get free registration to RESI 

Tech hubs & LSN (non-RESI collaboration): 

1. Sponsor an in-person or virtual education course for selected startups. In 2023, we hosted education courses with BioMedSA, CLS, Georgia Bio, GA Tech VentureLab, HKSTP, Government of Ontario, OBIO, and BEDA.

2. Sponsor the LSN Investor Database subscription for your startups 

Interest in attending an upcoming RESI? Our next RESI is in Atlanta, March 25-27. The first day on March 25th will be held in-person in Atlanta, Georgia at The Whitely Hotel (Buckhead) with 1-1 partnering meetings, Innovator’s Pitch Challenge (IPC) sessions, investor-led panels, sponsored workshops, exhibition, and a cocktail reception. The remaining two days, March 26-27th, will be virtual 1-1 partnering meetings only. The partnering platform LSN uses for RESI is called Meeting Mojo which will be launched 3 weeks beforehand for attendees to utilize to book meetings.

Contact Erika Wu e.wu@lifesciencenation.com for the discounted “tech hub rate” or any other questions you may have about joining LSN as a tech hub.