Steve Bates

Overview

UK life sciences policy leader shaping sector competitiveness, investment, and long-term industrial strategy for the government. Steve Bates identifies regulatory science as a unique government responsibility: enabling MHRA and equivalent bodies to keep pace with novel bioprocessing processes that industry and academia alone cannot fund. Bates argues that AI may fundamentally redefine the scientist's role by generating experimental hypotheses autonomously, shifting human skill needs well beyond routine monitoring and data collection. (Segment 3 (10:00-15:00))