​What's the key to creating the future of healthcare?

​What's the real foundation for Medicine 3.0? What on earth is Genomics? And why is it the key to predicting, diagnosing, and tailoring both prevention and treatment of disease?

​🧬 Join The Garvan Institute, What The Health, and Side Stage Ventures to kick off the year with our first Health innovation community event of the year - Unlocking the future of genomics in real life.

​Where we'll dive into what’s happening in genomics, what’s possible, and what we actually need to get there!

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​🥂  Networking - guaranteed bevs, bants and a few bites with brilliant people

​ 💡A lively Genomics panel discussion - hear from 4 experts from across the research, commercialisation, startup and investment arenas. Unlocking insights from personal DNA, to the latest research and business updates, and the interplay of genomics and AI

👋  Who's it for? All Health and Technology enthusiasts, experts, operators, investors, researchers, students - and everyone in between!

​🚨 Spaces strictly limited 
So make sure you register below to save your space to come along 👇 

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We can’t wait to see you there!✨

​💜  The Garvan Institute, What The Health & Side Stage Ventures

​🌟 Big thanks to our epic partners Medibank, AWS, Hola Health, and Shadowboxer for making it possible!

​Our all star panel:

​🧬 Associate Professor Jodie Ingles | Head of Clinical Genomics Laboratory; Program Director, Genomics and Inherited Disease @ Garvan Institute of Medical Research

​Jodie is a cardiac genetic counsellor in the Department of Cardiology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital with more than 20 years' experience working with families with inherited heart diseases. She is a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, receiving the Shirley E. Freeman award for innovation in 2022. In 2018 she received an NHMRC Excellence Award for the top-ranked Career Development Fellowship application. Her team is focused on finding ways to use cardiac genomics and genetic counselling to improve diagnosis, management and care for families with inherited cardiovascular diseases.

​🧬 Emily Casey | Principal @ Side Stage Ventures & Founder of What The Health

​Formerly a med school drop-out, Emily Casey is the Principal at Side Stage Ventures and the founder of HealthTech media company & community ‘What the Health’. She specializes in community building and aiding the growth of Healthtech companies through strategic brand development, partnerships, and effective communications. As a startup connector and Venture Capital Investor, she is dedicated to supporting and advancing innovation in the Health and broader technology sector

​🧬 Alex Gough | CEO & Co-Founder @ Sequins

Founder, investor and board member of genomics and life science startups - Alex is the CEO & Co- founder of Sequins, a synthetic DNA & RNA control startup spun out from the Garvan Institute. He was previously a board member and lead Series B investor at Inivata, until sale to Neogenomics. The Lead investor & founding board member at Nuclera(DNA synthesis). As well as a founding Partner of UK life science investor RT Partners (acquired by Future Planet Capital)

​More coming soon...

​About the organisers: 

​✨ The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is one of the largest genomic research facilities in Australia, with over 650 scientists harnessing all the information encoded in our genome to better diagnose, treat and prevent diseases that have the deepest impact on society. By being a global leader in discovery research and driving the translation of breakthroughs from the lab to the clinic, Garvan can revolutionise human health using the power of genomic information.

​🚀 Side Stage Ventures is a founder-led seed fund that backs the most ambitious Australian founders, writing cheques into the best early-stage companies and then leaning in to help founders build & scale.

​Founded by founders we’re building the seed fund that we wish we had when we were starting out. Investing early to help support with whatever is needed on the journey of building a startup from 0-1

​🍩 What the Health is Australia's go to for all things health tech and innovation. With a weekly newsletter fast growing community of >6500 from all parts of the health, tech and innovation ecosystem, and a private application only community for experts & enthusiasts.

​To keep on top of all things health tech and innovation, and join a crew passionate about improve healthcare - subscribe to their weekly newsletter!  💌