Session 1A: Build great companies – Not just great products or services
Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 |
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM |
Details
To significantly grow Australia’s profile in the global biopharmaceutical industry, designing more great products and services is not nearly enough. To achieve this goal, what Australia needs the most is more great companies that win the race to bring the promise of great products and services to fruition as part of highly successful and profitable business enterprises. There are countless great products and services in Australia that will never reach the scale they were intended to, because they are not part of a great business that knows how to take them the distance. Going the distance is about organisation-building and leadership. In this dynamic fireside chat, learn about powerful business-building and leading concepts such as “excellence as innovation strategy”, “behave as-if”, “constructive intolerance of variances to your vision”, and much more. Whether you’re from a research group, an innovator, a start-up, or an established company, you’ll be able to take away valuable lessons and insights from this session.
Speaker
Kathy Connell
AICD, Non-Executive Director, Avecho, BioNSW
Opthea & Proto Axiom
Speaker
Mr Mark Womack
Chief Executive Officer
BioCina
Speaker
