AIMMS Valorization Festival 2027: The Integrated Health Network
📅 28–29 January 2027 · 📍 VU Amsterdam, NU building
How do we get health innovation from the lab to patients faster? Through better connections.
The AIMMS Valorization Festival brings together researchers, spin-offs, start-ups, companies, hospitals, investors, tech transfer experts and regulators for two days of talks, conversations and new collaborations. It’s hosted by AIMMS, the Amsterdam Institute for Molecular and Life Sciences at VU Amsterdam. This edition is built around one theme: The Integrated Health Network. Good science alone isn’t enough; it takes the right people around the table to turn it into impact.
Keynotes
- Sander van Deventer, founder of VectorY
- Doron Shalit, General Manager, Regional Transformation and Innovation Lead at Bayer
- Blaze Stancampiano, Chief of Staff, Innovation Unit at Boehringer Ingelheim
Fireside chats
Candid conversations with people from science, industry and investment:
- Financing biotech innovation: what it really takes to fund a new idea
- Food, health & sustainability
- Is there a future for biotech in Europe?
Workshops
- EMA: practical regulatory support for developers of innovative medicines and technologies
- IXA-GO: building successful public-private collaborative grants and choosing the right partners
Lab tours
On both days you can step out of the conference hall and into our labs. The tours take you to the AIMMS research labs at VU Amsterdam, where you meet the scientists in their own workspace, see their facilities up close and get a feel for where future collaborations could start. Places are limited and are given out first come, first served.
Business Development Village
The heart of the festival. VU spin-offs, start-ups and research groups present their work, and companies and partners have their own spots. Come to find a partner or an investor, or to see what’s coming out of Amsterdam’s life sciences labs next. Companies interested in a spot of their own can get in touch.
Meet the future talent of life sciences
PhD candidates, postdocs and master students from the AIMMS talent programme take part on both days. They bring fresh ideas and are looking for their next step.
Who should come
Industry and business development professionals, investors, founders, researchers, clinicians, tech transfer and grant experts, and anyone who wants to help move health innovation forward.
Full Programme: https://www.aimms.nl/aimms-festival-2027/
Want to know more, or discuss a company spot in the BD Village? Get in touch with the AIMMS team at [email protected]
