Bucks HSC Ventures is seeking entrepreneurs who are looking to tackle health and social care challenges with the focus on the topic of Best Start in Life.

Join our Human Centred Design and Lean Strategyzer Workshops this summer to help bring your idea to life*.

Best Start in Life:

Children's earliest experiences are the key to their success as adults. Help us lay the foundations for a healthier future. Best start in life focuses on innovations that will enable parents and children, from pregnancy through to adolescence, to have a healthy lifespan.

Workshop 1: Human Centred Design Workshop

Date: Tuesday 25th June

Time: 9:30am-5pm

Location: The Room, Buckinghamshire New University, Queen Alexandra Road, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2JZ

This full day workshop focuses on how to develop innovations with a human-centred approach and strategies that anyone can learn to use to create solutions that will naturally resonate with people.

• Our workshops provide an immersive and stimulating experience for participants: Practical and hands-on with a focus on learning by doing, using several different practice exercises that combine individual work with small group collaboration.

• Facilitated and taught by experienced interdisciplinary practitioners with diverse professional and cultural backgrounds working in experience, product and service design.

• Flexible framework and toolkit relevant to different industries and design challenges, including digital products, physical products, services, processes and policies, and applicable across the entire development cycle (“front end” to “back end”).

Workshop 2: Lean Strategyzer Workshop

Date: Thursday 27th June

Time: 9:30am-1:30pm

Location: The Room, Buckinghamshire New University, Queen Alexandra Road, Buckinghamshire, HP11 2JZ

This four-hour workshop is based on the Lean Startup methodology and uses the Strategyzer toolset to help participants use the approach with the minimum need to understand business jargon.

The methodologies we will look at during the workshop have been adopted across the world, particularly in the setting of business incubators and accelerators – physical or virtual spaces where entrepreneurs can seek advice, funding and mentoring to develop their ideas into businesses.

The aims of the workshop are as follows:

• To introduce the Value Proposition Canvas and Business Model Canvas

• To introduce Test & Learn Cards

• Through examples let groups work through both canvasses

• Begin to outline assumptions you’ve made in the process

• Give time to look at your innovation and develop a 3-step action plan

*To be able to attend these workshops you must be a UK registered business with a innovative idea within the given area.