Supporting BIA events

Sam Care

Associate Director, Events and Programmes, BIA

What does your role at BIA involve?
Sam leads the events team at BIA, working on developing and expanding BIA's extensive events programme as well as evolving BIA's existing sector-leading events. Sam overseas the end-to-end event logistics, marketing strategy, planning and execution of the events programme and is also responsible for building exciting event supporter opportunities for BIA members. She also helped establish the Women in Biotech mentoring programme and is responsible for the smooth running of the scheme.

Previous experience & achievements
Sam has extensive experience in events and business development roles, having previously worked at the Chartered Governance Institute developing and delivering their event & training programme. She also worked on a joint project with Sport England helping to establish the Sports Governance Academy and has previously worked in recruitment. Sam has a degree in Business Studies from the University of Liverpool.

Heloise McCulla

Events Manager, BIA

What does your role at BIA involve?

Heloise oversees the planning, coordination, and delivery of a wide range of events, ensuring every event is well-planned, seamlessly executed, and valuable for attendees. Heloise manages all logistics, collaborates closely with partners and speakers, and focuses on crafting engaging experiences that support networking, learning, and industry connection.

Previous experience & achievements

Heloise brings extensive experience in planning and delivering events, having managed high-profile launches such as Goodwood Festival of Speed to major conferences and large-scale award shows. Heloise’s achievements include developing impactful event concepts, enhancing attendee experience, building strong relationships with media, partners, and stakeholders, and delivering seamless onsite management – consistently ensuring high-quality, well-executed events.

Anjali Joshi

Senior Events Executive, BIA

What does your role at BIA involve?
My role involves the planning and execution of the BIA Webinars, our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workshops, dinners/lunches, and some of our smaller-scale events at BIA. My role also involves helping my team with tasks leading up to the larger events, and to help with on-the-day-coordination at these conferences & exhibitions.

Previous experience & achievements
I have a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice law and criminology. I previously worked at British Airways Pensions where I was a part of the Committee Servies team and oversaw the Governance and Operations Committee. My role started to shift into overseeing the end-to-end event logistics for in-house corporate events at British Airways Pensions. In this role, I had the opportunity to liaise with large stakeholders in the business would work on various exciting projects with them throughout the year. I also have experience as a wedding event planner and would help with on-the-day-coordination for these events.

If you could invite any scientist or entrepreneur to dinner, who would it be and why?
I would invite Marie Curie as she was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only woman to receive two Nobel prizes. Marie Curie also has a huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer and has fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity.