A place where life science community from Europe meets

During BioForum, its participants will have a possibility to attend lectures and panel discussions conducted by recognizable world-class experts, including a Nobel Prize laureate. Apart from that, they will have an opportunity to take part in BioPartnering – a pre scheduled face-to-face business meetings arranged to fit the specific requirements of their participants. The exhibition space provides BioForum attendants with the possibility to present novelties from the company's portfolio and to strengthen its brand, as well as meet new people that might be interested in their products or services.

Why CEE?

Life science sector from CEE has a great potential. There are currently over 450 pharmaceutical and about 70 biotechnological companies operating in Poland – a country of origin of BioForum. In Hungary, when this event was conducted in 2013, there are approximately 60 core biotech companies, 70 non-core biotech ones and 50 related to medical technology. Czech Republic – neighbor of two aforementioned countries and host of BioForum's 2012 edition – can boast over a 100 biotechnology-oriented enterprises. This list goes on... It can be generally said that life science sector in CEE region is focused on innovations and is frequently related to cutting‑edge R&D projects. Small developing enterprises are predominant.

Ernő Duda (President of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association) and Tadeusz Pietrucha (President of Polish Biotech Association) singning the cooperation agreement during BioForum 2013

Unique opportunities

Despite the fact, that BioForum is dedicated to enterprises operating in CEE region, also entities from other regions are present there every year. That is because many CEE companies and researchers may benefit from cooperation with them, therefore their presence makes BioForum the place where new business opportunities arise. Especially for 2014 edition, organizers established cooperation with large Brazilian organization Bio‑Rio. The presence of Brazilian companies on this event will open unique business cooperation opportunities for CEE enterprises.

One of the keynote speakers during BioForum 2014 will be Prof. Ada Yonath from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She was awarded with Nobel Prize in 2009 for her work on the structure of the ribosome. Attendants will have a unique opportunity to meet this remarkable researcher in person.

What makes BioForum unique?

World-class speakers, individually tailored BioPartnering, known exhibitors and presence of business‑oriented people looking for cooperation opportunities – this is what makes BioForum stand out in CEE region.

Participants about BioForum

Hanna Zdanowska, Mayor of the City of Lodz: “BioForum is an exceptional, the only event in Central Europe, aimed to promote the achievements of rapidly growing biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. It is a unique opportunity for innovative companies and research teams to present their activities and projects, whose clients can be representatives of many sectors including health care, cosmetology, food production and biofuels. Lodz event is the forum for meeting a broad range of professionals and an excellent opportunity to establish business contacts.”

Ernő Duda, President of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association: “The success of the event signals that there is great potential in the region which is being more and more exploited by the fast developing biotech industries of the affected countries. Despite the economic crisis the industry answered with only a slower but still continuously growing numbers, there are always new achievements and discoveries that keep biobusiness going.”

Jiří Hudeček, CEO of South Moravian Innovation Centre (Czech Republic): “BioForum is definitely one of the most important biotechnology events in Central Europe presenting the potential of the biotechnology and life science sector in this area. Both sectors have been identified as one of the four priority research fields and industrial sectors in the South Moravian region. (...) It is a great chance of how to highlight this dynamically developing sector and attract both academia and industry.”

BioForum 2014 will take place on 28-th and 29-th of May in Poland. For more details, visit its official website: http://cebioforum.com/

by Tomasz Domagała