The 40th IMP Conference are now out, important dates: Submission of abstracts: 26 January 2024 Notification of acceptance: 16 February 2024 Full paper submission: 19 April 2024 Confirmation of acceptance: 31 May 2024 Registration: early bird closes 28 June 2024 Main conference: from 12pm on 28 August 2024 to 2pm on 30 August 2024 Special tracks: 1. Business Networks in Market Shaping 2. Resilience in Business Networks 3. Business networks and biodiversity preservation 4. Business Ecosystems in Industrial Contexts 5. Digital and technological innovations reshaping business relationships and networks 6. Human side of business relationships, business networks and their (un)sustainability 7. Place-based research on business networks and markets 8. Strategizing for Strong Sustainability in Business Networks

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See you next three days in Urbino. Open to talk about #Caldic products and services related with #extracellularvesicles #ev #purification #culture #biopharma #diagnostic #exosomes #microvesicles #research #therapy #cellculture #chromatography

So looking forward to the Purpose Conference over the next two days. If there are any members from the Leaders for IMPACT Network and The Sustainability Leaders Network attending let me know and I will see you there. To other leaders attending this event, if you would like to catch up say Hi, please let me know. #purpose #leadership #businessforgood

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC)Spring Scientific was a great meeting. Here are some thoughts: 1- The next breakthroughs in IO will come from areas that have been under studied and had received not much commercial attention such as immunometabolism and microbiome. The science is maturing and these areas will have a broad impact on all things IO, cell therapy, cancer vaccines, bi-specifics, etc. 2- The possibility of re-programming terminally exhausted T-cell through metabolic interventions is quite intriguing. Remember these cells live and chang out in the tumor and they don't respond to checkpoint inhibitors. We just need to get them going and Greg Delgoffe is working on exciting interventions to get these cells going. 3- If you get dendritic cells in a tumor their right kind of food (glutamine) then they can jump start anti-tumor immunity. 3- Avoid artificial sweeteners. Bad for your T-cells. 4- Bacterial based therapies can turn cold tumors hot. 5- You can find oral bacterial genomic material in brain tumors and brain metastasis most likely got their by immune cells. 6- We need to understand tumor supporting and immune supporting diets. 7- We need more metabolism and microbiome intervention trials. You can learn more from treating one patient than many observational and mouse studies. Ultimately our goal is to treat humans not mice.

If you are interested in learning about the challenges and obstacles in recruitment and opportunities to progress your career in the life science sector, tune into this webinar with Steven Fuller from Race in STEM who will provide invaluable insights and advice.

Have a read of our 6 takeaways from last month's MGI Conference

Happy to share that on 24 November I will present "Make Tomorrow Work: a taxonomy of futureproofing" during the WAOP conference at the University of Groningen. (Block 2/leadership styles and topics) In this presentation I will highlight how we can become more resilient by integrating knowledge from, and collaborating between various research fields. Will you be there to discuss this topic? Input during or after the presentation will be highly appreciated. After all, that's what collaboration is about. Special thanks to Bas Karsten Timo Mascini India Boerma Yannick Zwiep Wahad Yousuf Jagoba Suso Ruiz de Oña Elena Petrunina Rosalie van Berckel Sven Dalinghaus Why? ➡️ Last year Wendelien Van Eerde, me and above mentioned students of the University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Business School collaborated to disentangle the concept of futureproofing. We gave the students complete freedom in choosing their thesis topic and approach as long as they could explain why it was relevant to the future of work. We trusted the process and were very curious what would happen. We were delighted what they came up with. Some were trying to find out if and how future orientated leadership styles are different from other leadership styles. Others researched actual futureproofing practices of leaders in various Dutch organisations. We had a lot of fun supervising them and they all graduated. Well, almost all 😇 The resulting collection of research findings was very helpful to scope the next phase of my PhD research - which will be presented on the 24th. See you there! #futureofwork #futurize #futureproofing #responsibleleadership #resilience

Includes the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) Session!