b"SEPTEMBER 2023, NBIC SHOWCASE EVENTNBICs rst showcase event was a celebration which looked back at key achievements from Phase 1, whilst looking forward to exciting plans for Phase 2. The event took place at East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham and featured presentations and posters from the NBIC community. Attendees included representatives from our partner research institutions, industry/end-user partners that have contributed to NBIC projects, members of our advisory boards, our Directors, our Operational Team and researchers. JULY 2023, HRH The Princess Royal opened a new building, the Nucleus, at the University of Edinburgh. An art and physics exhibition showcasing artists' interpretations of biolms was displayed for the grand opening.JULY 2023, NBIC INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT TRAININGNBIC designed and delivered an industry engagement training event to East Midlands academics interested in engaging with NBIC or the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences doctoral training programme. JULY 2023, NBIC CEO KEYNOTE AT ONE HEALTH CONFERENCEThis event was delivered by NBIC Innovation and Partnership Manager The One Health 2023 conference, hosted by the Dorset Local EnterpriseWilliam Green and targeted early career researchers and provided Partnership (LEP), brought around 100 experts and senior decisiontraining and advice on areas of industrial unmet need, how to makers to Kingston Maurward College near Dorchester to share adviceeectively engage with industry and how to design a successful and insight on sustainability and our shared environment. NBIC CEO Jocollaborative project. Slater-Jeeries gave a keynote address titled, Industry, partnership and innovation. The talk highlighted the importance of strategic partnerships across academia and industries and showcased One Health focused projects. JULY 2023, NBIC SOFTWARE AND COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH SKILLS TRAININGNBIC hosted a free Software and Computational Research Skills online training workshop with the Southampton Research Software Group, JUNE 2023, BANFF INNOVATION SUMMIT designed to help researchers gain the skills needed to increase the NBICs CEO Professor Jo Slater-Jeeries attended the 2023 Baneciency and ecacy of their computational skills. The training covered Innovation Summit in Canada, invited as part of a delegation ofan introduction in how to use Bash, Git, Python and R.international leaders providing their commitment to accelerate investible projects in better agricultural, food and health. Jo is championing the project, International Platforms for Bioresource Technologies.MAY 2023, BIOFILM SEMINAR SERIESA new biolm seminar series, focusing on the interdisciplinary science of aggregated microbial communities and biolms, launched at the MAY 2023, NBIC SHOWCASE: SUPPORTING COLLABORATION FORUniversity of Edinburgh. The format of this series is accessible for PhD IMPACT IN BIOFILM RESEARCH students and is designed to stay broad enough that researchers from NBIC and Medilink Midlands organised a productive showcase toother disciplines interested in biolms will be able to contribute tosupport collaboration in the area of biolm research. During this the discussion. The seminar series is available online. stimulating and fast-paced morning, our attendees had the opportunity to hear about successful collaborations between academia and industry in the area of biolm research and innovations. APRIL 2023, NBIC ARUP ENGAGEMENT EVENTNBIC's Executive Management Team met with several directors and team leaders in ARUP's Water, Digital and materials teams at ARUP MARCH 2023, MICROBIOME ONE-HEALTH CONFERENCEheadquarters in london to discuss potential areas of collaboration and The Microbiome One-Health conference from Innovate UK KTN exploredbegan developing several collaborative projects.all things microbiome across the One Health Microbiome spectrum including human, animal, plant, and environment. NBIC CEO, Professor Jo Slater-Jeeries spoke on day 2 of the conference.MARCH 2023, CHANGE MAKERS LIVE 2023NBIC Liverpool Director Professor Rasmita Raval attended the business and innovation conference, Change Makers Live 2023, where she FEBRUARY 2023, NBIC ATTENDS PATHWAYS TO PRODUCTdelivered a talk on the importance of biolms. The presentation included DEVELOPMENT MEETING an educational piece on benecial and detrimental biolms, as well as Numerous representations from NBIC took part in the CBEs Pathways tohighlighting the multidisciplinary strength of the NBIC consortium across Product Development meeting in Arlington, VA, USA, with Paulinathe UK, and leadership within the global scientic biolm community.Rakowska delivering an invited talk on the UKs standpoint on biolm claims and methods in the medical devices sector.202318"