Directors' Forum: Managing expectations - university management

13:30 - 14:00    Bus transfer

There will be a bus avaialble to take you from the Hotel to the Site Visit location. Meet us at the lobby of the Cavalieri Hotel.

14:00 - 16:00    Site Visit: Sustainable Living Complex, University of Malta

Get a full tour of the Complex, which includes technologies related to solar power, heating, ventilation, and water management facilities. The technology will include sensors that will help researchers understand how they are used in the real world with the aim that the complex will be a living, breathing laboratory.

16:00 - 17:00    In Conversation With: Anton Bartolo, Director for Corporate Research and Knowledge Transfer, University of Malta

In this session, Anton will share his experience of setting up a small KTO for the first time at a university in a small country with little industry partners and few investors, and how engaged the consulting arm of Oxford University to learn and establish best practices.

17:00 - 17:30    Transfer back to hotel

19:00 - 22:30    Welcome reception and networking dinner

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet your peers for dinner and networking.

09:00 - 09:30    Welcome coffee

Kick off the morning with welcome coffee and networking in Babylon Suite (7th floor) with scenic views of St Julian's Bay. 

09:30 - 10:30    Hot topics - Rapid fire roundtable

Facilitator: Tom Flanagan, Director for Enterprise and Commercialisation, University College Dublin

To get our juices flowing, this is an opportunity for each of us to bring one or two questions about leading a KTO into the future that we would like to get advice from the group on. No presentations, no long-winded answers just quick useful insights and advice from fellow experts.

10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00    Managing the expectations of university management

Keynote: Silvia Lenaerts, Rector Magnificus, Eindhoven University of Technology, former Vice Rector of Valorisation & Development of the University of Antwerp

Facilitator: Karen Laigaard, Head of Technology Transfer at Technology Transfer Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen

12:00 - 13:00    Discussion session

13:00 - 14:00    Lunch

14:00 - 15:30    Best practices: management and governance of a KTO

Topics on the agenda:

• What should be the mandate of a KTO ?
• What are the range of activities?
• What decision making rests with the KTO?
• What should the governance for a KTO be?
  
• What policies are needed for research and innovation?
• Which policies should be owned by the KTO and which policies owned by others?

15:30 - 16:00    Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00    Wrap up roundtable discussion

• What are the contentious issues that need to be addressed by each of the policies?
• Key insights from the day, tips on running a KTO successfully.

17:00 - 17:30    Closing reception