Research with Purpose 2027 & NFMRI’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
2027 NFMRI Conference | 23-25 November 2027 | Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour NSW
About the Conference
The Conference will explore strategies and solutions to help build, support and grow the biomedical
innovation sector in Australia by attracting investments and creating collaborations that help
advance innovations – ultimately leading to better health outcomes for the community.
The unique networking, educational and thought leadership event brings together experts and key
decision makers from various relevant sectors to help up-skill delegates and explore how financial
and social investments in medical research, together with different strategies and bold actions, can
lead to the advancement of innovations.
The program focuses on building a culture, support and funding ecosystem where industry, government, academia, venture capital and philanthropy converge to support research from beginning to end.
This year will also mark the Foundation’s 50th Anniversary, where we will celebrate this milestone
by awarding the successful research applicant from our $1m grant round.
Who Should Attend?
Management and executives from the following groups will benefit from attending the conference:
- Philanthropists
- Private and Social Investors
- Government
- Business and Industry Leaders
- Researchers and Knowledge Commercialisation Specialists
- Financial and Investment Services
- Universities and Medical Research Institutes
- Trusts & Foundations
Conference Program
Our draft conference program will be published here once available.
The speakers listed are accurate at the time of publishing, but as always are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances or last minute changes in availability.
Conference Registrations
Our early bird registrations will open in early 2027 and will close at 6pm AEDT on 11 October 2027.
Conference Objectives
1. Provide an overview of the current medical research ecosystem and funding strategies used by various key players to support research translation;
2. Help delegates better understand the role they each play and how to establish and foster a successful collaboration or partnership;
3. Network and identify where partners intersect so they can best achieve successful collaborations or partnerships;
4. Explore opportunities and strategies to help strengthen and grow the biomedical innovation sector in Australia to better help establish sovereign capability;
5. Showcase examples of innovators who have successfully commercialised their research and dissect the strategies they used that led to those results;
6. Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement by enabling open discussion across leaders from confluent sectors or backgrounds;
7. Brainstorm the ideal vision of success for the sector and set out approaches that ‘think outside of the box’ and could pave the way towards positive change; and
8. Participate in an open forum to inform delegates developing strategies and policy that seek to address current and forthcoming challenges that deliver community benefits, advance the biomedical research and innovation sector to deliver socioeconomic outcomes and growth.
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