Unlocking the Power of Start-Ups
– how start-ups can transform careers and companies. A joint webinar with the Institute of Physics.
About
Technology start-ups in the UK have the potential to supercharge innovation and drive economic growth—if we harness their transformative capabilities and dismantle the obstacles they face. By adding value, reducing risk, and recognising their promise early, we can elevate their contribution to the economy and unlock easier access to vital investment. At the same time, entrepreneurship will emerge as an increasingly compelling career path for the talented, visionary, and ambitious.
This webinar explores how start-ups can accelerate their progress, featuring an award-winning venture whose experience and potential speak volumes. We’ll examine why start-ups are an exciting career choice, how to enhance their growth trajectories, and how to shorten their path to commercialisation. We’ll also demonstrate how the value created within start-ups can be preserved and how the risks surrounding them can be significantly reduced.
This session is highly relevant not only for current start-ups and graduates, but also for companies—large and small—looking to spot opportunity early. By engaging with promising ventures from the outset, businesses can foster partnerships that create mutual value and expedite routes to market.
Universities, spinouts, incubators, and innovation centres are strongly encouraged to join us on 10th September for this information-rich event. Topics will include where to find start-ups, how to fund them, ways to get involved, and how to collaborate with them—even before they scale.
Speakers:
Dr Jeremy Holland (Crainio Ltd)
Dr Mark Scibor-Rylski (IET/IOP)
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
10 Sep 2025 - 09 Oct 2025
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Organiser
- Innovation Management TN
Speakers
Dr Jeremy Holland
Chief Executive Officer - Crainio Ltd
Jeremy has over 35 years of experience in digital technology, with a focus on healthcare. He began his career as a research assistant in AI in healthcare at St Thomas’ Hospital and holds a PhD in Computer Science from City University London (1991–1995).
His previous roles include work in healthcare technology consulting at Logica, and at the Centre for the Exploitation of Science and Technology (CEST).
He co-founded Konetic, a SaaS-based medical e-recruitment company, and was COO until its exit in 2014. Since then, he has worked with several early-stage healthtech and clinical software ventures, including Thomson Screening Solutions (Advisor), Xim (CTO, 2017–2021), and since 2022 he has been CEO of Crainio, a start-up medical device company spun out from City St George's, University of London with a breakthrough technology that will revolutionise the care of brain injury.
Dr Mark Scibor-Rylski
High Technology Venture Capitalist
Mark is a high technology venture capitalist with industrial, financial, scientific, and engineering skills, focusing on supporting new technology businesses.
He has worked at BAC, Xerox, the Kaye Organisation, Prutec, Charterhouse, managed Central European privatisations, and worked with the University of Exeter to create start-ups and build bridges to companies. Mark has raised and managed hands-on early-stage venture funds, investing in the UK, Europe and the US.
He now specialises in derisking early-stage investments and developing ways of accelerating growth, partnerships and exits for innovation-led companies.
He is a director of several technology companies, a graduate of Imperial College and City University, a Chartered Engineer and Physicist and is on the Committees of the IET’s Management of Innovation Technical Network and the IoP’s Business and Innovation Growth Group