Industry Forums bring together invited Industry partners with academic and PWLE representatives from MHP and DATAMIND, along with other invested parties. These events are opportunities to prime new and exciting industry-academic collaborations and support co-creation of future projects.
In-person Forum meetings are held each year, under three themes:
- Pharma and BioTech
- Data, Digital and AI
- Health and Wellbeing
Industry Forum meetings (one per theme) will bring together a diverse range of members of the Alliance.
Each Forum meeting will profile at least two of the six Mental Health Platform hubs, relevant to the challenge(s) being discussed. More information about these hubs can be found via the Mental Health Platform website.
There will be structured talks, but the focus is on networking, workshops and collaborative conversations.
Forum meetings will operate under the Chatham House Rule to encourage inclusive and open dialogue.
Attendance is invite-only, and is managed between MHP, DATAMIND and MDC.
Forum attendance is likely to be limited, so we may prioritise our invitations to industry members most closely aligned to the aims of the meeting. Thereafter, we will accept invitations in order of their submission until capacity is met. We may use a waiting list if demand is high.
Find out more about previous forums
Pharma and BioTech: Researchers blog
Dr Marcos del Pozo Baños, DATAMIND FAIR Curated Data Lead & Senior Researcher, attended the Pharma and BioTech May 2025 Industry Forum. In this blog he shares his experience .
Pharma and BioTech: Lived experience blog
Lisa, McPin peer researcher and one of the members from our MHP Steering Group, attended the Pharma and BioTech May 2025 Industry Forum online. In this blog she shares some of her own personal reflections from the day.
Data, Digital and AI: Forum Summary
In November 2025, researchers and people with lived experience from DATAMIND and Hub for Metabolic Psychiatry met with Industry professionals at the AI for Complex Health Datasets Industry Forum.
Health and Wellbeing: Researcher reflections
Justin, an MHP Cross-Hub Research Fellow attended , the Industry Alliance Health and Wellbeing Forum in May 2026. This event brought together researchers and individuals with lived experience from DATAMIND, Social Health and Complex Emotions with industry leaders.
Health and Wellbeing: in conversation
Following the May 2026 Forum, two lived experience experts from the Social Health Hub/McPin met with two representatives from industry and research to discuss the topics covered on the day.
Medicines Discovery Catapult
MDC supports our Industry Alliance and is an active participant in our Industry Forums. Sara Imariso, Strategy Leader, and Ekta Patel, Senior Partnership Manager, tell us more about the work they do at MDC and how it could help shape future collaborations.
Working with Industry: reflections
In March 2026, the MHP invited Boehringer Ingelheim to meet online and hear more about the research across the Hubs.
Industry Data Guidelines
DATAMIND's guide for Industry partners to accessing and using Mental Health Data, useful for signposting industry researchers to existing resources.
DATAMIND TRE
A secure virtual workspace designed for industry-grade analytics & high-quality research. Provides secure access to high-value mental health and linked datasets to support ethically approved research for public benefit.