08:00 Registration And Refreshments Registration And Refreshments

08:50 Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks Chairperson’s Welcome And Opening Remarks

09:00 Opening Keynote Address: Innovate To Succeed: Now Is The Time To Optimise Your Pipeline Ensuring survival through the crisis through an innovation drive Emerging from the crisis as “winners” by ensuring a flowing pipeline of new therapies and products What is the innovation agenda in a post-recession climate?

09:35 Case Study Showcase Featuring the leading alliances from the past 12 months

10:10 Power Panel Discussion: Are There Sufficient Partnering Opportunities In Today’s Environment? Are too many partnerships taking place, leaving very few opportunities behind? Are there really insufficient opportunities or is it just a perception? Will the pharma industry need to take greater risks by focusing on less obvious opportunities?

10:50 Morning Refreshments And Networking Morning Refreshments And Networking

11:20 Case Study Showcase One-to-One Networking Featuring the leading alliances from the past 12 months

11:55 Biotech Strategy Panel: Circumventing The Impact Of Economic Trends To Ensure Funding One-to-One Networking Securing funding by adapting expectations to a given climate Assessing the funding outlook from venture capitalists and angel investors Developing a perfect pitch for partnerships with the big pharma community

12:30 Networking Luncheon Networking Luncheon

13:45 Looking To Emerging Economies To Drive Growth One-to-One Networking Assessing the landscape of developing markets to drive growth Targeting new disease areas in emerging regions to develop pipelines Gaining a foothold in untapped markets by acquiring companies in those areas

14:20 Case Study Showcase One-to-One Networking Featuring the leading alliances from the past 12 months

15:00 What is Big Pharma Looking For Over The Next 5 Years? One-to-One Networking Identifying the key disease areas that the big pharma community are striving to bring to their pipelines The white space – where are pharma players looking over the next 5 years? What impact has the recent wave of M&A activity had on pharma strategy?

15:35 Afternoon Refreshments And Networking Afternoon Refreshments And Networking

16:05 Peer-to-Peer Roundtable Discussions Engage with like-minded peers in a bespoke, dialogue-driven environment

17:05 Closing Panel Discussion: How Can The Industry Make The Most Out Of Relationships With Academia? One-to-One Networking Is the academic world an untapped resource? Bridging the gap between biotechs, pharma and academia to enhance R&D What role do Technology Transfer Offices play? Do they work?

17:45 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And Close Of Day One Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And Close Of Day One

BioBusiness Drinks Reception BioBusiness Drinks Reception

19:00 BioBusiness 2011 Networking Dinner BioBusiness 2011 Networking Dinner