Williams Lounge

This is a fantastic breakout area sold alongside the Henry Wellcome Auditorium. It provides an ideal setting for completing delegate registration, housing sponsor stands, and serving food and drink throughout the day.

Within the space there are two smaller glass offices, which can be used as an organisers' office, speakers' room, exhibitors' green room or cloakroom space as your event needs.

The area has completely flexible seating, allowing for a café-style set-up or, with the use of poser tables, a post-event reception.

The Lounge is named after Dr Peter Williams.

Audiovisual specifications

There is no specific equipment built into this space.

Accessibility

• Assistance-dog friendly
• Narrowest door width: 1480mm
• Staff are disability-awareness trained
• Lift access
• Accessible parking bay - please pre-book with venue team
• Menus available in large print
• Accessible toilets

Schedule

• Full session: 08.00-17.00
• Half session: 08.00-12.00, 13.00-17.00, 18.00-22.00

Food and drink

Floor plan

How to book

For current rates or to make a booking, please telephone 020 7611 2200 or email conferencecentre@wellcome.ac.uk . Alternatively, complete an online enquiry form .

Dr Peter Williams - a brief biography

Peter Williams, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, left the practice of medicine to work as a medical officer on the headquarters staff of the Medical Research Council between 1955 and 1960. He joined the Wellcome Trust in 1960 and was its Director/Secretary, holding this position from 1966 to 1991. Between 1981 and 1983 he was also Director of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine.

Williams shaped the Trust into the organisation that set the standards for what it is today. He believed that the administration of science funding should be led by staff with an understanding of clinical and laboratory science, so that they are able to converse with research workers about their work and ambitions. One of his most significant contributions was the Trust’s programme in medicine in the tropics, for which he had great affection because of his birth and schooling in Trinidad. He took a keen interest in the history of medicine and was instrumental in the creation of the Wellcome Centre for Medical Science, which set up the public engagement activities that the Trust continues to manage and develop.