Manchester Health Series — HealthTech / MedTech

Empact Ventures brings healthtech and medtech founders, clinicians, corporates and investors together at No.1 Circle Square for a morning of panels, pitches, an expo and structured 'Super Connect' networking. The organiser's own calendar invite gives the runtime as 08:30 to 13:00, half an hour later than the end time shown here. Free 15-minute support clinics run alongside the programme with Novidian and CTO in Your Pocket, EBS, and Accelerate Associates. Free, registered through Eventbrite. The organiser's deadline for the Super Connect form, the printed photo wall and the one-to-one clinic bookings was 18:00 on Monday 12 October; the form still works afterwards, but connections then follow two to eight weeks later. Clinic places, one pitch slot and three expo slots were still available on request as of 12 October. Why go: one of the few Manchester rooms that deliberately matches clinicians, health founders and investors into scheduled conversations rather than leaving the networking to chance. Best for healthtech founders raising, or hunting a first NHS route in.