Join us every month on our Lunch and Learn Webinar Series
The BioPharmaChem Skillnet Lunch & Learn Webinar Series offers a monthly opportunity for professionals across the biopharma, chemical, and medtech sectors to engage in short, impactful learning sessions over lunch. Each webinar focuses on a different, timely topic — from digital tools and leadership strategies to personal effectiveness and industry trends.
Designed to support continuous professional development in a flexible format, all sessions are free to attend and open to anyone working in or with the BioPharmaChem industry.
What to Expect:
💡 Bite-sized learning: Upto 60 minute webinars, ideal for lunchtime schedules
🎯 Relevant topics: Including leadership, AI tools, workplace skills, and industry insights
👥 Expert speakers: Featuring voices from industry, consultancy, and training
🌐 Open access: Free registration, with no cost to attend
Upcoming Webinars
Demystifying the Grant Funding & R&D Tax Credit Landscape for Biopharma & Chemical Businesses
Date: 3rd June 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Webinar Overview
A practical webinar delivered in collaboration with BioPharmaChem Skillnet, providing a clear overview of the innovation funding supports available to businesses operating across the biopharma, pharmaceutical, chemical, life sciences, and industrial manufacturing sectors. The session will explore how companies investing in product development, process optimisation, scale-up activities, sustainability initiatives, digital transformation, and scientific innovation can access R&D Tax Credits, government grants, and wider innovation incentives to support commercial growth, operational efficiency, and long-term competitiveness.
Course Content
- Overview of the Irish innovation funding landscape
- R&D Tax Credits explained in practical terms
- What qualifies as R&D within biopharma, chemical, and life sciences businesses
- Funding opportunities supporting scientific innovation, scale-up, sustainability, and process improvement
- How grants and tax incentives can work together
- Common pitfalls and compliance considerations
- Real-world sector examples and case studies
- Live Q&A session
Who should attend this training
- Managing Directors & Business Owners
- CFOs & Finance Leaders
- R&D Leaders & Technical Directors
- Operations & Manufacturing Leaders
- Process Improvement & Engineering Teams
- Innovation & Sustainability Leads
Particularly relevant for organisations involved in:
- Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical development
- Chemical manufacturing and formulation
- Process optimisation and scale-up
- Sustainability and decarbonisation initiatives
- Advanced manufacturing technologies
- Laboratory and production innovation
- Automation and digital transformation projects
Introduction to Power BI
Date: 23rd June 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Honest Conversations Framework
Date: 7th July 2026
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM
Do you have Managers/Supervisors who are often experts in GMP, quality, compliance and operations — but avoid the people management aspect of the role until the issue has snowballed into a costly and disruptive escalation?
Avoided conversations can lead to disengagement, conflict, inconsistency and formal employee relations issues. This webinar introduces a preventative, practical approach that helps managers deal with issues earlier and more effectively. “A preventative approach to workplace issues — before they escalate where learners get the tools and confidence to “See it, Say it, Sort it”
This session will explores:
- The common reasons and patterns behind issue avoidance
- Practical tools to help managers address concerns early and respectfully
- How early intervention prevents bigger blow‑ups and formal processes
- The impact on relationships, morale, wellbeing and the attraction andretentionof key talent
- Why human skills like empathy and honest conversations are more important than ever, even in an AI-driven world
- A simple, actionable approach to move people from “issue avoidance” to “issue resolution”
Past Webinars
Topics we covered in the past
- AI in Excel using ChatGPT and Copilot
- EQ at Work: Build a Career AI Can’t Touch
- Habits for Highly Successful Leaders
- The People Bit: What Great Managers Get Right
- Supply Chain to Scope 3: Mastering Sustainability Across the BioPharma Value Chain
- Menopause and mental health
- AI for Irish BioPharmaChem: Unlocking Productivity with Copilot for Business
- Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Leading Impactful Teams – Achieving Low-Stress Success in Projects and Teams
- Joining the Dots in Early Careers – Gen Z and the Changing Workplace
- Best Practice Interviewer Training: Building Confidence, Consistency & Capability in Competency-Based Interviewing
- Barriers to Burnout and Bridges to Brilliance
- Quality Risk Management (QRM)
- Prompt Engineering 101: Write AI Prompts That Save You 5 Hours a Week
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