Cambridge Wide Open Day on 12 June will once again see the cream of Cambridge science and technology opening its doors to showcase some of the incredible work taking place in the city and its environs - the UK’s science and tech capital. .
Four main science clusters are involved:
\- Cambridge North including Allia FBC, Cambridge Science Park, and St John’s Innovation Centre;
\- Cambridge South including Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Babraham Research Campus, Unity Campus; Granta Park, Wellcome Genome Campus, Chesterford Research Park, Mill SciTech Park, and Melbourn Science Park;
\- Cambridge West including University of Cambridge West Hub, Cambridge Enterprise, Ideaspace, Cambridge Network, Cambridge Zero, impulse Maxwell Centre, and British Antarctic Survey; and
\- Cambridge City Centre including Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Judge Business School, Mills & Reeve, Allia Business Centre at Cambridge Guildhall, and Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership.
The event is organised by o2h Group and Mill Scitech Park, where the o2h Group is based, will additionally be holding pitch events, workshop, masterclasses and demos – plus a garden party at 4pm.
Highlights of the day will include Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership sustainability-focused startups demo event at 1pm, and a tour of their award-winning, ultra-sustainable innovation hub and coworking space.
Also, from Form the Future at Allia Future Business Centre will be a speed networking session for students to meet ecosystem professionals, and a drop-in clinic for employers looking to attract young people to their company or industry. At Cambridge Science Park, the Bradfield Centre will be hosting a series of talks and demonstrations including pioneering companies such as Raspberry Pi, Owlstone Medical, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Ignota Labs, NeuroXR, Cambridge Future Tech, and TusPark.
Melbourn Science Park will be showcasing a biodiversity project and presenting some of its tenants’ clever engineering solutions to life sciences. There will additionally be community-oriented activities on the park development and round the sustainable building complex. Unity Campus in Sawston will welcome visitors and offer the chance to meet tenants including Domainex and PhoreMost. And you can also explore the world-class facilities at Abcam on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
Prashant Shah, co-CEO and co-founder of o2h Group, said: “This is your once-a-year opportunity to experience the extensive thrill of Cambridge science, tech and innovation, and all in just one day.
“The idea is that people can ‘design their own day’ and pick the locations and companies that they are most interested in. For those who are not sure, we also have a bus tour option where we will select a range of venues and people can meet other interested parties on the tour.”
Full details about individual events, with maps and participants, here.
