Impact From Life Science: Shaping Opportunities at the Intersection of Technologies
Peer into the convergence of technologies
Are you an R&D senior specialist, an industrial scientist, and/or a domain expert from the industry and research and are you interested in learnings from the latest technological developments within life sciences, then this 4-day course at DTU is for you.
Many of todays and tomorrows innovations happen where technologies intersect. We will explore how to lead the opportunity frontier from life sciences and from other key enabling technologies such as advanced manufacturing and materials, nano-electronics and photonics, AI, and cybersecurity. This is important because these technologies are the driving forces in Europe’s technological sovereignty agenda.
The participants in the course will have unparalleled access to the latest research within and across life science and bioengineering from DTU, established companies, and startups.
An empowering experience at the intersection of life sciences and other technologies
This course will provide you with tools to increase your impact within your organization and on your industrial sector. You will explore the state of the art across scientific opportunities, technological ecosystems, hone leadership, and networking skills to shape corporate agendas, influence business decisions, and public policies.
We have developed a novel set of learning methodologies for this course, which aims to give you a unique and tailored experience with executive education for senior specialists and industrial scientists. Through this you will gain valuable insights through engagement with leading researchers, industry experts, startup founders, and fellow learners, but also address your role as a leader in your field and as a domain expert.
Nurture big opportunities
You will engage with your peer domain experts as well as with top academics across disciplines and explore the possibilities that the convergence between these technologies reveals. Our best professors will be forming a faculty selected specifically for this course.
Together with peers from across Europe and the inspiring faculty, you will be able to discuss game-changing opportunities.
Interested in participating?
Sign up now or contact our Senior Executive Officer if you want to learn more about this course or if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you!
Keynote speakers
In the course, we have invited exclusive and highly relevant guest speakers. These experts bring a wealth of knowledge and experience, and offers unique insights that will enrich your learning experience and provide real-world value.
Read about the speakers below.
Join a European community of practice
This course is just the beginning. By attending, you will join a community of practice across industries and the best technical universities in Europe with deep experts from the following fields: advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, life-science technologies, micro/nano-electronics and photonics, AI, security, and connectivity.
This course is a prelude to the pioneering European executive programme for top tech engineers and experts, ELPIS
“The European Leadership Program for Industrial Leadership” which will be launched in June 2025.
Why Should You Take This Course?
Are you ready to question the status quo? To combine your deep expertise and many years of experience in a specialized field or domain with the input of university experts and peers from other industries to formulate bold proposals for the convergence of technologies and the benefit of your company?
We invite you on an exceptional executive journey to explore current stakes and horizons in the development of technologies learning from leading life science companies and experts with top academics and peers. A journey where participants will discuss significant inflection points and opportunities in their field.
After completing the course, you will receive an executive certificate of participation from DTU.
What will you learn?
- Comprehensive understanding:
Gain multifaceted comprehension of the broader field of life science, covering the technologies at play and looking into the groundbreaking interdisciplinary findings coming out of this field of research and gaining insights from the industry.
- Enabling technologies to forge progress across the life science field:
Gain an in-depth understanding of how key enabling technologies are at play in advancing a broader field of life sciences. - Exploration of the role of entrepreneurship in life science advances:
Explore student, research, industrial startups, deep tech spin-offs, and the role they play in advancing the field through technology. - Develop an understanding of leadership in the convergence of technology:
Develop your understanding of what it will take to move the enabling technology agenda ahead in your organization or company, and indeed your entire industry. - Provoke opportunities:
Relating the insights into new research to the core competencies of your organization, peer discussions help deepen your thinking, formulate a portfolio of hypotheses, and think future-back. - Qualify and invest in opportunities:
From skillset requirements to business models and ecosystems, the features of the opportunities are contrasted, drawing inspiration from startups, scaleups, and foundations with a long-term horizon. - Reflecting on and practicing the skills to influence corporate agenda and public policies:
How do opportunities happen? What does it take from a research leader? What resources can you enlist? How can you continue developing the opportunity beyond this week?
Participant Profile
We invite the following to apply for the ELPIS program. Professionals from diverse high-level roles in industrial science, R&D, product development, and innovation, so called “Deep Knowledge Experts” or “Knowledge Holders” within specific domains or industries who are curious about learning from other fields.
Examples for job titles of participants:
- Senior R&D Specialist
- Head of R&D
- Lead Scientist
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Director of Product
- They could also be the founder of a tech startup
In their current positions, participants should do the following
Participants should play a crucial role in in fostering and leading innovation, driving technological advancements, and maintaining their companies’ competitive edge. As a key leader in their field, they’re responsible for identifying strategies to secure the future growth of both their research domain and organization.
Access requirements: You should have many years of experience in your industry, where you are recognized as a domain expert. A master’s degree in engineering or another STEM field is required, with a PhD and research experience in academia or industry preferred. An endorsement from a member of your executive management would be advantageous, as it supports the time commitment needed for on-site training. You should have a deep understanding of the technologies relevant to your business area and/or specialized expertise in research and development. You should also be eager to broaden your perspective beyond your own industry, exploring trends across sectors and collaborating with fellow experts to discover the next major opportunities in technology and how key enabling technologies are shaping the future.
A novel approach to drive scientific leadership
We have developed a novel approach specifically for the senior specialist to drive scientific leadership.
The novel pedagogy for the ELPIS program consists of:
- A science leadership mindset, rooted in the language of science, and promoting specific attitudes and mindsets, such as curiosity, questioning one’s assumptions, evidence-based rigor, combinatorial approaches, communicating the complex in simple terms, humor and optimism.
- An opportunity creation process, reflected in the sequence of activities during each and across all modules, from uncovering industry or technology inflection points to generating provocative insights, turning insights into opportunities, calibrating and experimenting to refine the opportunities, and aligning opportunities with the innovation agenda,
- A careful mix of activities to “walk the talk”, including keynotes and presentations, live cases, workshops, peer learning, networking events and exercises on influence/partnering, aiming to create or refine actual opportunities for your company.
Program
We use an approach to the 4-day course with the main objective to carve out a landscape for opportunity creation for the participants. Together, we aim to uncover relevant “Industry and Technology Inflection Points in Life Sciences”, and by generating provocative curiosity, we aim to provide you with insights to take home to your company and industry. By drawing inspiration from startups and industry leaders, and from engaging in peer and expert dialogue, we seek to chart out a specialist leadership pathway that will bring you insights to influence the innovation agenda in your expert field or domain.
- Day 1 Setting the Stage: Life Sciences as an opportunity field
Featuring a keynote speaker from DTU on how life sciences shape the future opportunity field. We will examine your role as a domain expert in leading developments in technology and engage with the EU agendas for research and technology and how they drive and support business opportunities and innovation. For this we have invited Sofie Carsten Nielsen and Lia Leffland as speakers. - Day 2 Becoming Engaged: Provoking a set of opportunities
We will engage with a panel of distinct speakers from DTU life science departments that will bring up the most recent developments in key enabling technologies that drive development in life science. Furthermore, we will enter dialogue with a group of life science and bioengineering startups about the need for constant exchange between research and industry. - Day 3 Becoming Invested: Zooming in on particular opportunities
Visiting the Danish life science and bio solutions ecosystem, we will talk with key representatives about creating opportunities at the intersection of technologies and science at leading companies as well as examining the role of private foundations in pushing research. - Day 4 Developing Leadership: Making opportunities happen
How can you as a senior specialist and industrial scientist develop your leadership within R&D and product development to shape the corporate agenda? We will examine your role as a research leader and discuss how you can contribute most effectively to converting technologies for innovation.
If you want to see the full detailed program, you can find it here. There may be changes to the program.
The Faculty
Discover the latest in life science research from the DTU life sciences departments such as Bioengineering, HealthTech, Chemistry and BioSustain: A faculty handpicked for this course consisting of mostly senior academics who will present the state-of-the-art in the field.
Academic lead of the course
Panel Facilitator
Keynote speaker DTU
Keynote speaker external
Faculty Key Enabling Technology
Faculty deep tech startups
DTU Science Park
DTU Food
Companies to be visited
On day 3 of the course, you will visit the 3 companies, Novonesis, Novo Nordisk and Novo Nordisk Fonden.
Companies we are collaborating with
What is the ELPIS programme?
The European Leadership Program for Industrial Scientists (ELPIS) is a new executive education, which will be launched in June 2025. The course “Impact From Life Science: Shaping Opportunities at the Intersection of Technologies” is a prelude to the pioneering European executive programme for top tech engineers and experts. Six leading European technical universities have partnered with DTU on this project, assembling a carefully selected team of top faculty from various departments, alongside distinguished external speakers from leading institutions and companies.
ELIPS aim to address the challenges faced by European industries and companies, which are under pressure to remain competitive globally. To achieve this, companies need to identify the biggest opportunities for innovation through research in AI, biotech and photonics and effectively capture these opportunity- and innovation spaces.
The programme introduces a unique approach to leadership for specialists, blending interdisciplinary insights to identify growth opportunities at the intersection of key technologies like life sciences, advanced materials, photonics, and AI. It aims to help participants shape company strategies through research leadership while building a network of science and technology leaders across Europe.
Programme design
The Programme consists of 5 modules each of 4 days length, and are in-person and will be held on-site at the seven different universities in Europe. The first module “Leadership for Specialists” is followed by 3 technology modules and finalized by a Capstone Project module.
What is EuroTeQ?
EuroTeQ is an European University Alliance consisting of 7 of the leading technical universities EuroTeQ Engineering University • Engineer the future with us! (eurotech-universities.eu)) DTU, CTU, TalTech, EPFL, TU/e, l’X, TUM.
Together the seven universities unveil a groundbreaking executive program for leading engineers and scientists to catalyze the European industries of tomorrow.
This Executive Program brings together senior industrial specialists & scientists from industry with leading professors and researchers from the most highly ranked technical universities in Europe to catalyze the development of leadership in the field of Key Enabling Technologies and thereby strengthen the competitiveness of European industries of tomorrow. More information will follow soon.