Events

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The King's Fund, 11-13 Cavendish Square
London, United Kingdom

Anyone looking to invest in medical technology should attend this event. Investment firms and private investors can meet over 35 medtech SME’s looking for investment funding for their new innovations. There is also the opportunity to hear valuable keynote presentations and participate in interactive roundtable discussions addressing the major issues facing the medical technology industry today.

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Marriott Boston Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue
Boston, USA

BioPharm America™ is where biotech industry partnerships get started. Meet face-to-face with biotech and pharma executives from around the world to identify and enter strategic relationships.

This partnering event will will host some of the biggest names in biotech business who will tackle many of the key issues on the minds of industry executives around the world.

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Bella Center
Copenhagen, Denmark

This year’s most important dating service – BioTech Forum Partnering Event, Northern Europe's main networking forum, where top executives from around the world come to meet the leading players in Scandinavia's life science industry. The event is a major arena for investors and innovators to broker deals, to form strategic alliances and secure venture capital.

New for 2010: Move your company to the top of everyone's mind!
Life Science, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are invited to present products, technologies and corporate missions to potential investors and innovators in 15-minute presentations. Apply today!

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Baluarte Conference Centre, Plaza del Baluarte
Pamplona, Spain

BIOSPAIN 2010 is the International Meeting on Biotechnology to be held in Pamplona from the 29th of September to the 1st of October 2010. Since its first edition, launched back in the year 2003, it has become one of the leading biotechnology events in Europe.

BIOSPAIN 2010 will feature a trade exhibition, partnering event, investment forum, scientific congress, top level seminars & conferences and a career fair with a well-balanced mixture of local and international private companies, universities, overseas clusters, research institutes and governmental bodies.

The past edition, held in Granada in September 2008, attracted over 1.100 visitors/daily from 26 countries and displayed over 120 exhibitors. BIOSPAIN 2010 expects to increase substantially this figures!

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Paris , Salons Hoche , 9 avenue Hoche 75008
Paris, France

Innovation Days is a new event aimed at connecting industry stakeholders and biotech companies and stimulating collaborative projects in the life sciences sector. Academics, public & private laboratory managers, together with investors and practitioners in intellectual property and technology transfer will share best practices, know-how and will explore strategic orientations in the healthcare marketplace.

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Hilton Park Lane, London, UK
London, United Kingdom

Better access to medicines in a changing regulatory environment
Organised in conjunction with Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom.

This important annual Symposium is now recognised as a key event in the European calendar of all those working in the health care regulatory affairs arena.

Aim
This annual Symposium is for all those involved within regulatory affairs and brings together representatives of industry and the regulatory agencies and the European Commission to discuss and understand today’s regulatory issues and debate the future plans for regulation. This is the key annual European regulatory forum for all those involved in the pharmaceutical sector
and aims to bring you all the latest information and importantly what is coming over the horizon. There will also be ample time to network in the breaks and also view services from exhibitors in the industry and the regulatory bodies.

Who should attend
All those working in the industry, consultants, individuals working within health care regulatory such as patient groups, pharmacists, academia and regulatory authorities and those in the pharmaceutical industry who have medical devices or use devices in combination with their medical products.

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Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa Edinburgh, 1 Festival Square
Edinburgh, UK

After the success of previous two years, EFIB 2010, the leading European industrial biotechnology event, will take place on 19 - 21 October at the Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa Edinburgh.

Following the well-established model from previous years, the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology 2010 will commence with 2 pre-conference workshops, followed by a 2 day conference comprising 2 plenary sessions and 3 parallel tracks focusing on:
- Feedstock
- Policy, Business and Financing
- Innovation

EFIB 2010 will include contributions from Akzo Nobel, Austrian Economic Ministry, BP Biofuels, DSM, DuPont, European Commission, Genencor, Goodyear, Novozymes, OECD ...plus many others!

Over 50 comprehensive presentations will be complemented by many panel debates, many networking events and an exhibition featuring over 30 companies.

EFIB 2010 brings together the elite in the industrial biotechnology industry, therefore providing an excellent networking platform. Social events at EFIB 2010 will include a locally themed drinks reception, a site visit, various brokerage events and much more!

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Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel
Zurich, Switzerland

By attending this course, you will:

1 Grasp the entire process of deal-making within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and learn the language, the concepts and tools from a practitioner’s point of view.
2 Know how to profile the most suitable products for your company’s profile, and where to search for the opportunities.
3 Grasp the principles of valuation and know what works best for which purpose.
4 Get expert advice on negotiation strategy and tools, and on how to best conduct the interactions.
5 Learn what makes up a good term sheet and how to assess those from other parties.
6 Know how to best manage the contract phase and how to avoid the financial and legal pitfalls that can break a deal.
7 Capitalize on Martin Austin’s vast experience in concluding and financing successful deals in the pharma and life science biotech industries.

Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel
Brussels, Belgium

By attending this course, you will:

1 Know what determines the value of life science biotechs and emerging pharma companies.

2 Gain a thorough understanding of key valuation terms, concepts, tools & techniques.

3 Learn and practice how to:
Use a model that assesses the soft factors of a biotech company prior to its valuation.
Calculate the value of a biotech company.
Calculate the value of a development compound with an excel tool you can take home and use for any other pharmaceutical product in development.
Structure licensing deals between pharma and biotech, covering issues such as milestones and royalty payments.

4 Gain expert insight and advice from Patrik Frei who has assessed and valued numerous products and companies in the life sciences industry.

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Munich, Germany

BIO-Europe is Europe's largest partnering conference, serving the global biotechnology industry. The conference annually attracts leading dealmakers from biotech, pharma and finance along with the most exciting emerging companies. Produced with the support of BIO, it is regarded as a “must attend” event for the biotech industry.

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Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel
Brussels, Belgium

By attending this course, you will:

1 Understand the key factors leading to a successful out-licensing deal within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
2 Learn how to profile your product and prepare product information to maximize its attractiveness to third parties.
3 Understand the key factors leading to valuing your product and how to set up a spreadsheet to optimise the commercial structure of the deal.
4 Find out how to target potential partners - and the best way to make successful contacts.
5 Learn what to include in a term sheet, as well as in CDAs and MTAs, and which issues to watch out for during negotiations.
6 Understand the due diligence process and what will be expected from you.
7 Get expert advice on negotiation strategy and on managing a deal post-signature.

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Sheraton Brussels Airport Hotel
Brussels, Belgium

By attending this course, you will:

1 Grasp the entire process of deal-making within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and learn the language, the concepts and tools from a practitioner’s point of view.
2 Know how to profile the most suitable products for your company’s profile, and where to search for the opportunities.
3 Grasp the principles of valuation and know what works best for which purpose.
4 Get expert advice on negotiation strategy and tools, and on how to best conduct the interactions.
5 Learn what makes up a good term sheet and how to assess those from other parties.
6 Know how to best manage the contract phase and how to avoid the financial and legal pitfalls that can break a deal.
7 Capitalize on Martin Austin’s vast experience in concluding and financing successful deals in the pharma and life science biotech industries.