BIOSPAIN 2008 - International Presentation Platform For Spanish Biotechnology

Main Category: Conferences
Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry
Article Date: 17 Jun 2008 - 2:00 PDT

email to a friend   printer friendly   view / write opinions   rate article

BIOSPAIN 2008, the greatest event held to date in the biotechnology sector in Spain, will be taking place in Granada from 17th to 19th September 2008. This international presentation platform for Spanish biotechnology will bring together researchers, business executives, investors, public agents and specialised media around five large activities: The BIOTEC 2008 Science Congress, an Investors' Forum, a Partnering event, a Trade Show and a series of Plenary Sessions under the heading, "Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy".

The attendance of Ms. Garmendia is a demonstration of the support this industry, with excellent future prospects, receives from Spain's public institutions.

G. Steven Burrill, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Kenneth P. Morse will be the speakers in the lecture series which will explore the various links that exist between biotechnology, sustainable development and economic competitiveness.

G. Steven Burrill is considered to be the leader of biotech development in the United States, the driving force behind this industry and a sector focal point for over 4 decades. Year-on-year, he presents the well-known Annual Biotechnology Industrial Report, which has reached its 22nd edition in 2008. His lecture in BIOSPAIN will broach one of the prickly points for this industry: Finance. This issue is one of the biotech industry's greatest concerns.

BIOTEC 2008 will be a reference point for researchers and the business world, its comprehensive programme will approach different aspects of the biotech environment, such as health care, foodstuffs, the environment, industry and energy and it will enjoy the participation of some of the most acclaimed national and international researchers on these subjects.

Over 100 biotech exhibitor companies and around 2,000 professionals will be attending a hitherto unprecedented business gathering to forge alliances, present projects, attract capital, develop business and explore new opportunities thanks to the Trade Show, the Investors Forum and the Partnering event, where all those registered in BIOSPAIN will have their own personalised interview schedule.

About Biospain 2008.

Granada will be hosting the fourth edition of the International Biotechnology Convention, BIOSPAIN 2008, from 17th to 19th September 2008, in its Congress and Exhibition Centre. The official inauguration of BIOSPAIN is scheduled to take place on 17th September at 12 o'clock, midday.

BIOSPAIN 2008 is the international presentation platform for the Spanish biotechnology sector and it is intended to satisfy the sector's commercial and informative demands, providing the necessary tools to take informed decisions and thus be able to address the market's every increasing requirements.

BIOSPAIN is directed at companies, academics, researchers, financiers and entities related to the Spanish and the international biotech sectors, and it comprises a broad programme spread over three days that aims to link up the main aspects of the biotech environment:

-- SCIENCE through the BIOTEC 2008 congress, where renowned scientists and well-known personalities will share a pluri-disciplinary convention in BIOSPAIN. The objective is one of exchanging best practice, making contacts, creating synergies, attracting customers and investors and presenting innovations that pave the way to accessing a sector with excellent growth prospects, under its different working areas, whereby it will foster approaching positions between SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and ENTERPRISE.

-- POLITICS and SOCIETY, thanks to a full Plenary Session programme, which will offer an opportunity to discover the most up-to-date viewpoints of scientists, the business community and politicians, to generate a debate that will foster support policies for the sector. It will be a meeting point for all professionals in the sector and will act as an observatory for all those social, business and political indicators that help to promote the development of biotechnology as an economic activity and its capacity to lever innovation into the various user sectors.

-- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT through the Partnering event, the international business development encounter, will enable one-to-one meetings between technology suppliers and potential clients, academics and businesspeople, investors and scientists who wish to find out the latest advances in the sector, entering a space with unlimited opportunities during the three days that the activity will last. Prior to visiting BIOSPAIN, all registered participants will be able to organise a personalised agenda of contacts, thanks to an individual work tool which will allow them to learn at all times who will be attending and the interest the event is producing. This will enable meetings to be set up in advance in advance and people to prepare and focus their visit with a greater probability of success and make effective use of the time available.

-- FINANCE by attracting capital in the Investors' Forum. The international investors' forum will promote the presentation of new projects, facilitating and motivating access to finance offering continuity to research and business projects. Public and private researchers will present their lines of work before a national and international audience comprising public and private investors, venture capital entities and other related agents. This forum aims to encourage researchers and businesses seeking finance to undertake their projects, and

-- TRADE PROMOTION reflected in a dual Trade Show (companies and institutions). The trade show will host companies and institutions that will share with the visiting public Scientific community, universities and technology centres, (biotechnology, health sciences, environment, agricultural sciences, nutrition, etc.), university students, businesspeople (from all the areas of the biotech sector), Local, Regional and National Authorities which foster, develop or apply biotechnology, economic agents, finance and venture capital entities, legal firms and information and communications media) the presentation of technical and scientific innovations, in addition to the analysis and observation of the latest projects in the Spanish and international biotech sector.

BIOSPAIN 2008 will open exclusively to professionals from this sector on 17th and 18th September, from 09.00 to 18.00 hours and on 19th September from 09.00 to 16.00 hours. The times of the BIOTEC 2008 Scientific Congress can be viewed at http://www.biospain2008.org

Contact details for further information:

Belén Livianos / Begoña González
Tel: +34 923 267 292
e-mail: secretaria@biospain2008.org
http://www.biospain2008.org