Mark Oakes will give a speech at the Med-Tech Innovation Expo in his role as the Department for Business and Trade’s Head of Life Sciences. Mark is responsible for his Department’s support for MedTech companies to internationalise their innovations, access new markets, and to draw in global investment in the sector, helping to realise the UK Government’s ambitions for growth in Life Sciences. He will articulate the Department’s range of levers to support a thriving UK MedTech sector in the coming years, and examples of opportunities to export to key markets such as the USA. He will also speak to how the sector is evolving and the potential the UK has to advance its leading position in research and innovation.