Effectively Promoting Your Company As The Partner Of Choice

Featured Speaker Of The Week

Alex Scott
Vice President, Business Development
Eisai Corporation of North America

Successfully Integrating Partner Companies After An Acquisition To Ensure Continued Productivity

SMALL BIOTECHS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING BIONETWORK 2008
Please inquire about discounted rates at bionetwork@wbresearch.com


Key Benefits Of Attending BioNetwork 2008 Include:

  • Network with senior decision makers from top pharmaceuticals and innovative biotechs
  • Informal and relaxed atmosphere at BioNetwork’s engaging social networking events provides an excellent opportunity to build strong relationships with your targeted partners
  • Therapeutic focus partnering primers maximizes your time away from the office, outlining partnering opportunities in specific therapeutic areas of interest
  • The excellent ratio of pharmaceuticals to biotechs ensures that attendees can meet with the right partners for their company’s growth strategy


1. BioNetwork is attended by leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies as well as cutting-edge research institutions. If you think about skipping it, you may just miss the next breakthrough partnership.

2. It’s an exclusive forum where you can spend quality time identifying and meeting the right partner, without the craziness of a huge trade show.

3. The R&D and life sciences partnering opportunities in North America abound. Key players in emerging markets are also part of BioNetwork. Why travel further away from the U.S. when your potential partners are already participating and waiting to meet you at Laguna Niguel?

4. Expect real, honest discussions during BioNetwork’s panel sessions, round table discussions and open Q&A forums. Plus, you walk away with practical advice and new business development strategies from recognized and experienced industry leaders.

What’s New For 2008

  • Focus On Specialty Pharma: With the traditional pharma paradigm being challenged by today’s economic realities, many executives are looking to incorporate the successes of specialty pharma into their own model. Join specialty pharma thought leaders as we evaluate how to join the best of both worlds into a plan of action for years to come.
  • Card Swap Breakfasts: Start the day with an opportunity to meet some of your peers over breakfast. Each morning will foster discussions and spark ideas to be explored throughout the day’s sessions.
  • Therapeutic Focus Partnering Primers: Enabling small biotechs to present their compounds/technologies available for partnering, these 10 minute presentations will provide innovative companies the opportunity to demonstrate their value in sessions focused on their therapeutic area of interest. Therapeutic areas to be presented include:

    • Metabolic Diseases
    • Central Nervous System
    • Inflammatory Diseases
    • Infectious Diseases

Networking Activities At BioNetwork 2008 Include:

  • Card Swap Breakfasts on October 6-8
  • Roundtables focused on specific therapeutic areas on October 6
  • Roundtables addressing current business issues on October 7
  • Receptions on October 6-7
  • Golf Scramble on October 7
  • Hands-on interactive workshops on October 8
  • Private one-on-one meeting rooms throughout all 3 days!

Senior-Level Executives You Will Hear From Include:

Markus Goebel
Managing Director
Novartis Venture Funds
Jag Dosanjh
VP adult vaccines
GlaxoSmithKline
Jeff Southerton
Executive Director, Pfizer Global R&D, WW Business Development
Pfizer
Michael Leonetti
Head of Healthcare Partnerships
Boehringer Ingelheim

Mark Barbato
Vice President Alliance Management
Eli Lilly and Company

  Shabnam Kazmi
Vice President Business Development
Sanofi-Aventis
Jim Schaeffer
Executive Director, Licensing And External Research Merck Research Laboratories, West Coast
Merck
Gayle Kirkpatrick
Divisional Vice President, Scientific Assessment & Licensing Global Pharmaceutical Licensing & New Business Development
Abbott





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