20th November 2025
Join The Lord Leycester for monthly Smart Talks – a series of talks by learned academics, non-academics, and smart people across a variety of topics.
Tickets cost £30 per head which includes the presentation, supper and a drink.
November Smart Talk
Clive Buckberry, ‘Lessons from Innovating a Life-Changing Kidney Dialysis Machine from an Orange Juice Dispenser’
This smart talk will describe the journey of bringing a revolutionary kidney dialysis machine to market from a crazy idea based on an orange juice dispensing machine in Alcester to a world class development facility in Warwick with globally sourced manufacturing.
The high and lows of developing a complex life-saving medical device, the global search for venture capital and the clinical reality will be described together with a live physical demonstration of the machine and some of the physics involved…