Business Partnering is a complimentary service provided by BIO for full World Congress attendees. In an effort to allow participants to derive maximum benefit from the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, we are making private meeting areas available for attendees wishing to meet with other attendees to discuss potential partnering, collaboration activities, or joint ventures. These face to face meetings are designed as a completely voluntary and more formal method for initiating communication with other companies or scientists.

This year at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, BIO will feature a new and dynamic software system, BIO One-on-One Partnering, which will dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business partnering. With this new system, attendees will be able to quickly identify company targets, contact them directly, and set up meetings both in advance of the BIO World Congress and onsite.

The BIO One-on-One Partnering system features:

• Individual accounts for each attendee that can be used to search companies, schedule meetings, and send communications between companies
• Online interface that can be accessed anytime and anywhere there is an internet connection
• Detailed company profiles
• Search engine that can quickly identify potential meeting targets
• An intuitive online interface that makes the software easy to use
• A home page where attendees can quickly access schedules and company profiles
• A message center where attendees can search and view individual message threads

Registered attendees can login to the BIO One-on-One partnering system with their username and password at: http://oneononepartnering.bio.org/WorldCongress/Login.aspx

A tutorial on how to utilize the One-on-One partnering system is available here. If you have any questions, please contact us at (202) 280-1636, or wcpartnering@bio.org.