Advisor, curator, community partnership expander and moderator
Our ambition and goal were to create high-quality, relevant content with concrete insights for founders, investors and, other stakeholders across the life science ecosystem. We explored challenges and opportunities facing the European life science ecosystem: from human and planetary health to the use of AI, quantum as an enabler, funding/investments, regulatory, collaboration and scaling across national borders in Europe, and fragmented health systems. We need to move from challenges to faster pace and speed to market. Therefore, every session was twisted with recommendations to the audience.
While placing the Nordics and Europe firmly at the centre of the conversation to continuously discuss how we can improve the landscape for life science actors in Europe.
Selected quotes and statements across over 20 sessions:
- Be in love with the problem, not the solution
- Go and talk to a stranger – maybe he or she is your next investor?
- Behind every successful founder stands a community to support
- Think regulatory from day one! Regulatory is teamwork
- AI: start early – most started too late
- Quantum in life science: begin now (or you will be too late in line with AI)
- Pick the right partner (if corporate)
- One Europe: Cultural differences exist – but Europe is small
- Go and talk to a stranger – maybe he or she is your next investor?
- Positioning: Position yourself differently to get traction (planetary health)
- Build a community of capabilities to solve a problem (DARPA approach)
- We need more risk taking in Europe and permission to fail!
…and more speed!
As stage advisor and curator (first time in this role for TechBBQ), my role included coordinating topics with our advisory board and helping transform them into a strong two-day programme. In close and seamless collaboration with the TechBBQ Life Science dream team and community partners. Additionally, moderator in two fireside sessions, one of them a Fireside Chat with CEO Britte Melby Jensen, Ambu.
I am proud of what we created together and deeply grateful to every speaker who generously shared their experience, knowledge, and perspectives on stage. And to the highly engaged audience who joined the discussions. A big thanks to Novo Nordisk Foundation for making this possible.
About TechBBQ: One of the largest tech events in the Nordics attracting more than 10,000 attendees from all over the world – have a look at TechBBQ Life Science x Deep Tech 2026.
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