Nucleate Canada Presents - The Forum
🗓️ 20 May 2025 | Nucleate Canada: Partners Showcase @ Edmonton Unlimited
🗓️ 21 May 2025 | Nucleate Canada Presents - The Forum @ AMII
Nucleate Canada Presents The Forum 2025 on 21st May 2025 at Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii). As Nucleate Canada wraps up its inaugural Activator program, this event promises to be our biggest celebration yet!
This gathering will unite biotech innovators, investors, founders, and leaders from across the Nucleate ecosystem for a day of insights, collaborations, and celebrations.
✨ What to Expect?
Join us for a day of innovation and connection!
🌟 This is an incredible opportunity to engage with the future of Canadian biotech! 🌟
⏰ Morning Sessions
🎫 9:00 AM | Registration Opens
Grab your welcome package and morning refreshments!
🎙️ 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Panel
Working Backwards Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Canadian Biotech
Moderator: Lee Johnson (Partner, Mintz)
Featuring Biotech Leaders:
Jason Ding (CBO, Entos Pharmaceuticals)
David Poon (Co-Founder & Head of Corporate Development, DCx Biotherapeutics Corporation)
Allyson Tighe (CEO, Stereo Biotherapeutics)
📊 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | State of Nucleate
Exciting updates from Nucleate Canada's Co-Managing Directors.
🛠️ 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Activator Stories
Witness the seven Nucleate Activator founders take the stage to present their groundbreaking ventures.
🍲 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM | Lunch & Networking
⏰ Afternoon Sessions
💰 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Panel
Building Tomorrow's Biotech Investors on Cultivating Scientist-Founders
Moderator: Samantha Tabone (Partner, XEIA Venture Partners)
Featuring Investment Leaders:
Ashif Mawji (Managing Director, Scalegood Fund)
Milad Alucozai (General Partner, Pamir Ventures)
Kiersten Stead (Managing Partner, DCVC Bio)
🔬2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Showcase & Open Networking
- Explore cutting-edge innovations presented by Activator 2025 Finalists
- Visit Activator Team Rooms
- Make Valuable Connections
⏰ Evening Session @ Fu's Repair Shop
7:00 PM | Panel
AI in Drug Discovery: Bridging Hype and Hope
9:00 PM - till late | Nucleate After Party hosted by API
The Forum is powered by our Nucleate Canada Supporters:
Platinum: MNP Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Emerging and High Growth, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, JLABS @ Toronto
Gold: adMare BioInnovations, ERIN and Alberta Innovates, Edmonton Unlimited
Silver: Genome Alberta, Future Fields
We want to thank our HQ supporters for championing our open-access mission and empowering the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs!
Platinum: Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, MilliporeSigma
Philanthropic Support: Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Preferred Partners: Pillar VC, Amino Collective, Excedr, Mercury, Brex, Fedsprout
In-Kind Support: AcademicLabs, Lens.org, SynBioBeta
About the Event Host
Nucleate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders. With chapters spanning 41 geographic regions and participation from over 280 academic institutions, Nucleate sparks new intellectual communities and embeds emerging talent within a global biotech community. Through open-access educational programming, Nucleate helps democratize biotech innovation — removing barriers and helping founders concentrate on building transformational technologies.
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