Open Day/Visit to CPI
Thu, 23 Apr 2026
Event Details
We’d be delighted to welcome you to tour CPI’s open-access scale up facilities and gain insights from our excellent teams on how to scale your process efficiently and cost effectively.
On the tour, you’ll get the opportunity to meet our upstream, downstream, biomanufacturing and process engineering colleagues who are on hand to discuss how we may collaborate, introduce you to the types of projects we’ve done and what we’ve delivered for our customers.
You’ll also visit our gas fermentation labs, our dedicated food-grade lab, our scale down DSP lab as well as tour our food-grade pilot facility and our pilot (1000L) and demo (10,000L) plant.
Agenda
1030 – 1100 | Arrival & Networking | |
1100 – 1200 | Welcome & Introduction to CPI | Kris Wadrop — Managing Director, Materials |
Introduction to the Pilot4U platform | Mika Härkönen, VTT | |
Plan for the day | Alex Smith — Director of Biotechnology | |
Talk 1 – Scaling for Success | Reza Ranjbar — Head of Technology Strategy, Biotechnology | |
Talk 2 – Unlocking the Upstream | Jo Neary — Manager – Fermentation | |
Talk 3 – DSP – the key to everything | Steve Wright — Head of DSP, Biotechnology | |
Talk 4 — Process Engineering – understanding economics | Michael Hughes — Head of Process Engineering, Biotechnology | |
| Talk 5 – Key considerations in Biomanufacturing | Ros Hay — Head of Biomanufacturing | |
1200 – 1330 | Networking Lunch | Groups 1 & 2 |
1200 – 1330 | Tours | Groups 3 & 4 |
1330 – 1500 | Networking Lunch | Groups 3 & 4 |
1330 – 1500 | Tours | Groups 1 & 2 |
1500 – 1600 | Close & Networking | All |
Target audience
SME’s, start-up’s, spin-out’s, large corporates, investors, accelerators & stakeholders from across the bioeconomy.
Registration
This event is free of charge but registration is mandatory as places are limited.
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