Events & conferences in the Life Sciences industry

Lille Grand Palais
Lille France

Held on the 25th and 26th of June 2019 in Lille – France, and gathering 700 international participants from over 25 countries, MedFIT is the leading European business convention dedicated to innovation partnerships in the fields of medical technology, diagnostic and digital health. MedFIT is your opportunity to connect with international key innovators in the MedTech, diagnostic and digital health sectors. As a leading European partnering event, MedFIT provides the ideal environment to build partnerships for all public and private actors, to source innovative and competitive early-stage R&D projects, to facilitate the emergence of collaborative projects, to increase licensing opportunities, to obtain funding and to facilitate market access.

Corn Exchange & Guildhalls
Cambridge UK

Health Horizons is a high caliber, two-day conference focusing on the future of the healthcare industry. Over the previous 20 years we have seen a significant change in the healthcare industry. Small molecules have been pushed out of the blockbuster limelight by biologics. Decreasing sequencing cost has allowed more targeted R&D and the use of increasingly interdisciplinary data to influence prognosis has become standard practice. All of this points to a healthcare future with an increasingly personalized approach. But how will this future come together?

Inn Style
Maarssen The Netherlands

HollandBIO’s annual Dutch Biotech Event will return to Maarssen on Friday June 28. Whether you’re working at a biotech startup, scale-up, runner-up or an established multinational, you do not want to miss out on this event. Be inspired by biotech’s bright innovation perspective, learn from leading biotech entrepreneurs, meet experts to boost your company’s performance, and upgrade your personal and professional skills during one of the hands-on workshops.

Boston USA

The DDF Summit brings industry and academia’s brightest minds together to discuss shared drug delivery and formulation challenges. It’s all about providing a quality, useful experience for pharmaceutical development leaders.

Malmo Copenhagen

Nordic Life Science Days is the largest Nordic partnering conference dedicated to the life science industry. Since its inception in 2013, the event has nurtured a community of people from the world of life science, and created a unique place to do business. Most attendees express their delight in the informal atmosphere, combined with an organised approach to meeting highly relevant people. Return visitors come back because they feel they belong to our growing community. We hope to welcome you, too. We create a space for meaningful encounters, with one-on-one meetings being one of the main features of NLSDays. Additionally, the high quality of topics and presenters provide insight into the most recent trends in science and business. NLSDays attracts leading decision makers from biotech, pharma and medtech as well as finance, research, policy and regulatory authorities.

The Westin Copley Place
Boston USA

Life Science Nation runs the Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) Conference series to accelerate opportunities for you. RESI is an established and ongoing conference series that provides an international venue for early-stage life science companies across Drugs, Devices, Diagnostics, and Digital Health, to source investors from around the globe, create relationships, and potentially, secure funding. The RESI Boston Conference will be held on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 and will expand to include the earliest stage companies from the discovery stage through venture stage: companies seeking grants, seed, angel, series A, and series B funding.

Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC)
Boston USA

BioPharm America™ is a unique partnering event that forms the nexus of discovery and realization. Startup companies, established biotech and entrepreneurs from academia attend in search of finance, pharma and development partners. The event format highlights innovation and promotes new business relationships by bringing dealmakers from the life science ecosystem together to engage and de-risk the enormous task of drug development. Life science executives from around the world gather to identify, meet and to enter into strategic relationships facilitated by partneringONE®, the world’s leading web-based partnering system. BioPharm America is the only event in North America based on the same reputable formula as EBD Group’s acclaimed European events BIO-Europe® and BIO-Europe Spring®. BioPharm America annually attracts 800+ delegates from over 500 companies who participated in 2,300+ scheduled one-to-one meetings. BioPharm America is now part of Biotech Week Boston, and together they draw a total of over 4,500 life science leaders, scientists and innovators.

Dusseldorf Germany

Welcome to the 5th anniversary edition of the Pre-Filled Syringes & Injectables Summit on September 18-19, 2019, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The demand for efficient and convenient-to-use drug delivery devices and improving patient experience are key factors for the market growth advancing the technology. This event has been designed for industry leaders to disclose new horizons and developments in pre-filled syringes (PFS) and injectable devices. Attending this event will provide a broad overview of current and upcoming EU MDR regulatory requirements, innovative technologies, the impact of digitalisation, market trends and device needs. We will discuss the benefits of PFS and injection devices as the main factor for dosage accuracy, convenience and safe treatment for patients. We are excited to be hosting the 5th edition of our Pre-Filled Syringes & Injectables Summit and look forward to meeting you in Düsseldorf in September!

BITEC
Bangkok Thailand

Bio Investment Asia 2019 - 6th International Tradeshow for BIO Business & Investment in Asia - is an international exhibition and partnering conference with a goal to stimulate bio-businesses and bio-investment in Thailand and Asia. The event creates business opportunity for researcher to meet with investor and allows for knowledge sharing through exclusive conferences. Exibitors are grouped in four categories: 1) Health, Medical Devices, Medical Cosmetology, Cosmetics, Diagnostics and Medicine 2) Agriculture, Food and Animal & Plant Breeding 3) Environment and Energy 4) Research, Intellectual Property, Patent, Legal, Packaging and Logistic Service

Congress Centre Basel
Basel Switzerland

The 19th Annual Biotech in Europe Forum is recognised as the leading international stage for those interested in investing and partnering in the biotech and life science industry. This highly transactional event draws together an exciting cross-section of early-stage/pre-IPO, late-stage and public companies with leading investors, analysts, money managers and pharma licensing executives. Supported and designed by leading figures within Europe’s pharmaceutical and biotech industry, this event will once again be covered by our regular media partners. We expect over 700 delegates and over 100 presenting companies, and 20+ pitches by seed companies. The #Sachs_BEF19 forum will be held for the sixth time in Basel to be close to the largest biopharma hub in Europe and the Congress Center provides meeting space capable of handling several thousand one-to-one meetings as well as significant exhibition space. The Programme will feature twelve plenary panels/workshops covering BD & Licensing in the main therapeutic areas. The Forum will provide a number of networking opportunities via our online One-2-One meeting system which allows you to pre-book meetings with all the attendees with dedicated meeting facilities. We expect more than 2000 meetings to take place throughout the 2 days.

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)
Heidelberg Germany

EBDC is a high class event with familiar atmosphere (150 attendees) and the perfect platform to liaise with Central Europe’s biotech industry. There will be a sophisticated line-up of speakers with spotlight talks on unmet medical needs, presentations of drug developing companies, and pitches of pre-seed start-ups. The conference is a great networking opportunity; besides the networking reception and dinner, there are slots for speed meetings as well as lots of time for conventional meetings.

Vienna Austria

Brief event description: Curtis & Wyss Group is pleased to invite you to the Biosensors and Biodetection Summit in Healthcare scheduled for September 26 - 27, 2019 in Vienna, Austria. By joining this summit, you will discuss and learn about the current issues on Biosensors/Biodectors in healthcare, examine the latest advancements in research and integration and will provide attendees with state-of-the-art sensors/detectors development for medical applications. This is an opportunity for leaders from device development and manufacturers, technologists, academia, marketing and the wider service community to discuss progress and share insight on strategies. The low cost of materials and advances in nano and micro fabrication techniques within the manufacturing process have led to significant increases in the commercialization of sensors and Biodetectors for healthcare applications. Therefore, we look forward to welcoming you at the Biosensors and Biodectors in Healthcare Summit, scheduled on September 26 - 27 in Vienna, Austria!

Valencia Spain

Hilaris Conferences is going to host its premier World Biotechnology Congress 2019 during October 01-02, 2019 in Valencia, Spain. The event aims to create a bridge between academia and industry by providing vast learning opportunities in multidisciplinary sectors and applied fields of Biotechnology. The Congress in Spain will gather all the stakeholders of the emerging Biotechnology sector and will offer the best platform to exchange knowledge and network. Hilaris Conferences welcomes you to be a part of this Biotechnology 2019 World Congress.

Rome Italy

Welcome to the 5th anniversary edition of the of Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Summit on October 2-4, 2019, in Rome, Italy. This event provides its participants access to other industry leaders and an environment to discuss process innovation and technology and safety perspectives for both highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredient (HPAPI) manufacturers and outsourcers. This Summit will focus on current market trends for HPAPIs, including process development and scale-up, cost-effective production, containment innovations and best manufacturing practices as well as regulatory updates. This year’s instalment includes the 2-day summit and a 1-day workshop session, sponsored by FPS Food and Pharma Systems srl. We are excited to be hosting the 5th Annual Highly Potent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Summit and we look forward to meeting you in Rome!

Brussels Belgium

Understand the structure of the pharma business development process – Grasp the terminology, challenges, concepts & tools in each step, from analysis and planning... up to closing and following-up a deal – Be prepared for the financial and legal pitfalls.

London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
London United Kingdom

Designed for experts in pharma and academia, this conference will explore the latest advances in antibody-based therapeutics in oncology. Talks will review the recent developments in bi-specific antibody technology, as well as exploring the potential of new antibody and antibody-mimicking formats. A dedicated checkpoint blockades session will also examine new approaches in neutralising cancer cell immune blockades, including advances in PD1, PD-L1 and CTLA4 targeting therapeutics, and the discovery and targeting of new biomarkers.

London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
London United Kingdom

This conference offers experts working in the pharmaceutical industry as well as academia the opportunity to explore the latest developments in CAR-T cell therapies, and the up-and-coming field of T Cell Receptor therapies. Presentations will explore design and development strategies for the modification of patient and donor t-cells, receptor engineering and target selection, and will review the advantages and challenges remaining in their use.

London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
London United Kingdom

This conference will explore the latest research on the tumour mutation burden and its potential for demonstrating the viability of immunotherapeutic treatment, as well as the development of other predictive biomarkers. A dedicated session will also examine the growing potential of neoantigens as novel targets for precision medicine.

London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
London United Kingdom

This conference offers experts working in the biopharmaceutical industry as well as academia the opportunity to examine the latest developments in the field with dedicated congress presentations, panel discussions and roundtables that study novel methods, research techniques, advances and discoveries in the field, through research applications utilizing technologies such as qPCR, Digital PCR and NGS.

London Heathrow Marriott Hotel
London United Kingdom

As a vital tool for providing quantifiable data on cell characteristics, flow cytometry is an integral part of diagnostics and the assessment of therapeutic efficacy. The meeting will examine the latest technological developments in the field of flow cytometry, as well as provide case studies of its application on cellular analysis and in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Brussels Belgium

Learn and practice in role plays the whole armamentarium of winning strategies, tools, dos & don’ts, tricks & tips in each step of the pharma licensing negotiation process: planning – internal negotiations – making the first contact – term sheet assumptions – face-to-face meetings – resolving issues – contract closure.

Berlin Germany

We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd Annual Microbiome: Regulatory, Quality Developments and Commercialization Summit scheduled for October 16-17, 2019, in Berlin, Germany. This premier B2B event provides you with an appropriate platform to engage with and discuss ideas with your fellow peers while facilitating a professional atmosphere and environment for excellent company representation and development. The Summit will shed light on current challenges, best practices and inside views of the future of microbiome-based products in relation to quality, safety and efficiency. We will discuss key findings, critical insights and recommendations for driving efficient strategies within the microbiome landscape. It is an honour and privilege to invite you to participate in this Summit. We look forward to welcoming you in Berlin in October!

Couvent des Jacobins
Rennes France

NutrEvent is the leading European partnering event dedicated to innovation in Food, Feed, Nutrition and Health. It aims at identifying industrial, scientific, commercial and financial partners for your innovation projects. NutrEvent gathers 600+ international actors: ingredient suppliers and distributors, finished food product and food supplement industries, academic institutions, technology transfer organisations, research institutes, R&D services and consulting firms and investors.

San Francisco USA

An investor forum to explore investment trends and opportunities in life sciences, with a focus on venture-stage growth and emerging public companies as well as those poised to join the growth “watch list” in 2019. Because our mission is to support industry-wide success, we strive to present a broad and unbiased view of investment opportunities. The BIO Investor Forum delivers a rich program that features corporate presentations and panel debates on the sweet spots and growth challenges facing the industry. The BIO Investor Forum features public and venture-stage company presentations, expert-led panel discussions on the latest market and investment opportunities with emphasis on drug and technology development, BIO One-on-One Partnering™ meetings between biopharma executives and investors; and premier opportunity to network with industry executives and investors focused exclusively on life sciences.

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
Melbourne Australia

AusBiotech 2019 is the premier annual conference for Australia’s Life Sciences sector. AusBiotech 2019 will bring together Australian and international biotech leaders and stakeholders to Melbourne for three days of education, skills building, and networking. The conference will create a forum to reflect on the sector’s achievements and exchange ideas on a range of topics to further advance the sector’s standing both nationally and globally.

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
Melbourne Australia

Australian life science companies are invited to express their interest to present at Australia Biotech Invest & Partnering, Australia’s life science investment event, to be held on Friday 1 November in Melbourne. Raising capital and rising above the notorious “valley of death” is a persistent challenge for life science companies. With this challenge in mind, this year’s Australia Biotech Invest & Partnering is committed to providing investment-seeking companies an opportunity to take centre-stage and make a meaningful connections with the investment community. The event will include a full-day program of featuring over 30 company presentations, which will showcase the potential of life science companies to an anticipated 350 investors, including representatives from major global pharmaceutical companies.

Hamburg Germany

Bio-Europe is the largest partnering conference for the life sciences industry on the European continent.

Austria Vienna

Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Inhalation & Respiratory Drug Products Summit on November 14-15, 2019, in Vienna, Austria. This Summit brings together experts from pharmaceutical and biotech industries, as well as manufacturers, academia and regulatory agencies, with the highest level of expertise in the respiratory field. Besides sharing best practices, this event offers a valuable opportunity for network¬ing and partnering with businesses of diverse sizes and types. The conference covers a wide spectrum of topics including an overview and emerging trends of inhalation and respiratory drug products, formulation of inhaled therapies, nasal drug delivery, inhalation devices and respiratory drug products analytics and tools. We look forward to welcoming you this November in Vienna!

Maritim Hotel
Duesseldorf Germany

On November 18th, 2019, parallel to the first day of MEDICA®, the world forum for medicine, the DxPx Conference will bring together stakeholders, industry representatives, founders and investors in the Dx space to a rendezvous at the Maritim Hotel, Duesseldorf, Germany. The Maritim Hotel has excellent traffic connections and is situated at Duesseldorf International Airport, just 10 minutes by car from the MEDICA® exhibition halls. By bringing together startup entrepreneurs, creative minds, visionaries, movers, decision-makers and financiers, the DxPx Conference will initiate a dialogue.

London United Kingdom

Learn and practice in role plays the whole armamentarium of winning strategies, tools, dos & don’ts, tricks & tips in each step of the pharma licensing negotiation process: planning – internal negotiations – making the first contact – term sheet assumptions – face-to-face meetings – resolving issues – contract closure.

London United Kingdom

Understand the valuation concepts and techniques that are commonly applied in the pharma and biotech world – Know how to assess and calculate the value of a biotech company – Learn how to calculate the value of a pharmaceutical in development and how to structure a licensing deal.

London United Kingdom

Be able to decide on the best deal type for products in R&D – Know what to include in CDAs, MTAs and term sheets – Learn how to prepare product information and how to find potential partners – Know how to calculate the value of your product and optimise the deal structure.

Parc Chanot
Marseille France

With more than 1,300 international actors from 35+ countries, such as big pharma, emerging and small biotech, diagnostic companies, pre-seed / seed / Series A investors, as well as professionals from tech transfer, academia and research institutions, BioFIT is the leading partnering event in Europe for technology transfer, academia-industry collaborations and early-stage innovations in the field of Life Sciences. BioFIT is also the European marketplace for pre-seed, seed and Series A investment in Life Sciences.

London United Kingdom

Understand the structure of the pharma business development process – Grasp the terminology, challenges, concepts & tools in each step, from analysis and planning... up to closing and following-up a deal – Be prepared for the financial and legal pitfalls.

QEII Centre
London UK

Building on the evolution of the past 18 years, Genesis 2019 will assemble senior executives and decision makers from across the Life Science, Healthcare and Technology field to present, discuss and demonstrate their collective insight and thought leadership for the sector, themselves and their stakeholders.

Palais des congrès et des expositions
Nice France

AgeingFit is the first European partnering event dedicated to innovation partnerships in the healthy ageing sector, gathering all actors in the innovation cycle from research to market, along with the key players in regulation and evaluation with the objective to identify tomorrow’s market needs and promote today’s innovative products and services for the Senior Market.

Austria Vienna

We are pleased to invite you to the Freeze-Drying Technology Summit, scheduled for February 13th and 14th 2020, in Vienna, Austria. This event provides the appropriate platform for industry leaders to discuss process innovation and technical aspects in lyophilization for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as food and cosmetics manufacturers, regulatory agencies, and academia. The summit will be focused on practical considerations for freeze-dried formulation development, process optimization, validation, and control. We will discuss the advancing concepts and regulatory considerations for lyophilized biologics, vaccines, expedition and emergency food, new-wave of cosmetic ingredients, and highly potent products. We are looking forward to your participation in this engaging Summit in Vienna this coming February!

Affiliated With The 4th Annual Antibody Drug Conjugates Summit We are pleased to invite you to the Biologics: Quality Developments & Manufacturing Summit, scheduled for May 14-15, 2020. This premier B2B event provides the appropriate platform to engage and discuss ideas with your fellow peers, while facilitating a professional atmosphere and environment for good company representation and development. The Summit will shed light on the delivery of cost and quality efficient process development and manufacturing of biologics, including novel modalities. It is an honour and privilege to invite you to participate in this Summit. We look forward to welcoming you in May!