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Is this the first time you’re attending BIO International Convention? This webinar is for you! We’ll cover all the basics of where to go and what to do - plus, you’ll get some insider tips from the BIO team on this year’s exciting event. 

If you haven't already registered, please learn more and register at convention.bio.org

BIO 2025 is around the corner—and with thousands of potential partners and limited time, preparation is everything. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a seasoned BIO veteran, this webinar will give you the tools and strategies to maximize your efforts—from communicating your objectives and optimizing your company profile to crafting compelling meeting requests and making the most of your time onsite. 

Hear directly from industry panelists as they share insights and real-world advice drawn from their own BIO experiences. Learn what works, what doesn’t, and how to position yourself for success. 

In this webinar, you'll learn: 

• Best practices for building a standout BIO Partnering™ profile 
• Tips for searching/identifying the right partners and prioritizing your outreach 
• Do’s and don’ts for effective in-person meetings at BIO 2025 
• What to expect onsite and how to follow up for long-term impact 
• Key BIO Convention updates including networking opportunities and key delegations

Visit convention.bio.org to register or learn more.

More than 400,000 meetings are requested in the weeks leading up to the BIO International Convention. View this insightful webinar designed to help service providers optimize their approach to business development meetings at the BIO International Convention and turn their meeting requests into productive meetings. Learn how to leverage the BIO Partnering™ system effectively to connect with the right prospects, craft compelling meeting requests, and maximize your networking opportunities. Our panelists share proven strategies, best practices, and insider tips to help you enhance your business development efforts and drive meaningful connections in the life sciences industry. 

This webinar is tailored to our attendees who represent service providers and vendors, but is open to anyone who believes they can benefit from hearing from experienced sales professionals. 

View this webinar for an in-depth exploration of today's complex global market landscape. This panel will address the challenges of launching new therapies in multiple countries, focusing on early decision points for risk mitigation and maximizing supply chain resiliency. Discover how Cencora's global capabilities and flexible solutions can strengthen supply chain resilience amidst evolving challenges.
 

Moderator: Sandra Anderson, Senior Vice President Commercialization, Cencora

Panelists:

• Glenn Pauly, Chief Commercial Officer, Alzheon
• Graham Goodrich, Chief Commercial Officer, Apnimed
• Leigh Shultz, PhD, Associate Vice President & International Head of Trade Channel Strategy & Enablement, Merck & Co.
• Kevin McDermott, Vice President International Commercialization, Cencora
• Tom Doyle, Head of U.S. Commercial Solutions, Cencora

BIO's new and improved partnering system — BIO Partnering™ — will open for the 2025 BIO International convention in early April. Join BIO's VP of Partnering, Mackensie Vernetti, for a webinar showcasing the new platform, complete with an in-depth live demo, as well as partnering tips and best practices. This webinar will provide the tools and guidance to maximize your experience at the event.

Key Takeaways:

• In-Depth Look at the Partnering System: Learn about features that streamline partnering discovery and make easy work of meeting management.
• What's New: See the newest system enhancements in action.
• Best Practices: Advice on how to search and find partners, send quality meeting requests and triage your messages.
• Quick Tips: Discover shortcuts and helpful tools to save you time.

Learn more about the BIO International Convention at

https://convention.bio.org/

The BIO International Convention is the largest and most comprehensive event for biotechnology, representing the full ecosystem of biotech with 20,000 industry leaders from across the globe.

In a time of remarkable discovery and progress, the biotechnology industry stands at the forefront of a revolution changing how we live, heal, and care.  View this webinar for a tour of the program's featured sessions, super sessions, and notable expert speakers, across the more than 140 sessions planned for BIO 2025 in Boston, June 16-19.   Also, this webinar will be your first look at several new program session types and event surprises in progress, including a BIO Storytelling Stage, new evening reception venues, and an expanded main stage experience that will debut this year.  The webinar includes advice on planning your calendar to maximize the value of attending.

Join Sydney Williams, BIO Senior Manager, Exhibit Sales & Systems, for a webinar to walk exhibitors through the tools needed to plan for the 2025 BIO International Convention. 

This webinar gives our exhibitors the resources to have an impactful presence in Boston. 

The following topics are discussed: 

• Exhibitor resource center
• Exhibitor tools and resources
• Tips to maximize your event experience in Boston

Through 2027, the FDA is conducting a Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) Development and Readiness Pilot (CDRP) Program to facilitate CMC development of selected products under investigational new drug applications with potential expedited clinical development timeframes. The pilot is a joint effort by both FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Selected drug development programs receive extra opportunities to discuss product-specific CMC concerns with the FDA reviewers through CMC-focused Type B meetings to help product development keep pace with their clinical development.

In combination with PhRMA and the FDA, BIO hosted a webinar to inform BIO and PhRMA's memberships about the CDRP: What sorts of products are eligible, what is needed to apply, and why an IND sponsor of a promising product with an expedited clinical development timeframe would want to enlist in this pilot. This webinar will provide additional insights into the CDRP application process, and the planned public workshop designed to promote innovation and understanding in product development.

More than $4B of deals between biopharma companies and AI specialists were announced last year. Similar to the massive quality leap from GPT-2 to GPT-4 and the record-breaking consumer adoption rates of AI tools, that same exponential progress and uptake is coming to biotech AI. 2024 may bring the first one-trillion-parameter protein language model. Companies are already using AI to program, as opposed to discover, antibodies. This level of opportunity and change brings with it urgency—— companies need to rethink from the ground up how their R&D should work to compete in a new era defined by the intersection of biology, data, and AI.

In this webinar, learn how companies are updating their approach to R&D, with a focus on:

1. AI-Ready Data: Improving generation of high-quality biomedical data to support AI model building and model tuning
2. AI-Enabled Scientists: Integrating the right models directly into scientists’ workflows for everyday use
3. Scalability: Making performance, speed, privacy, and cost tradeoffs for deployment of AI, and connecting the wet and dry labs