The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) will hold its CEO & Investor Conference February 6-9, 2023 to bring biotech companies together with investors and industry partners. Media are invited to attend in-person meetings in New York, February 6-7.

WHAT: The CEO & Investor Conference focuses on emerging biotech companies—both private and public—that will drive the next generation of biotech breakthroughs. Hear from senior biotechnology executives, institutional investors, and industry analysts who will shape the future investment landscape of the biotechnology industry.

Panel topics include: 

• Policy Outlook: Understanding the Effects of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
• Fireside Chat: Kathy Fernando, PhD, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Partner of Choice Organization, Pfizer
• Market Outlook— Convincing Hesitant Investors for IPOs versus SPAC Deals and Other Capital Alternatives 
• CRISPR’s Impact on Next Generation Gene Therapies
• Strategies for Raising Venture Capital or Securing Additional Financing: Tips for Biotech Executives
• Unlocking Solid Tumors’ Barriers in Immuno-oncology
• Recalculating Risk vs. Opportunity in China Deal-Making
• Resetting the innovation landscape for pain and addiction therapeutics

WHO:        Speakers will include institutional investors, industry analysts and senior biotechnology executives.

• Hernan Bazan, CEO and Founder, South Rampart Pharma
• David Berry, Founder and CEO, Valo Health
• Emily Caporello, Program Director, National Institutes of Health
• Grace Colón, Advisor, InCarda Therapeutics Inc.
• Meenakshi Datta, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
• Kathy Fernando, PhD, Senior Vice President and Global Head of the Partner of Choice Organization, Pfizer Inc.
• Chris Garabedian, CEO, Xontogeny
• Jonathan Norris, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
• Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, CEO and Director of Scientific Affairs, Cancer Research Institute
• Richard Pops, Chairman and CEO, Alkermes, Inc.
• Alan Sandler, Chief Medical Officer, Mirati
• Michael Ward, Vice President of Public Policy and Government Relations, Alliance for Aging Research

WHEN:      February 6-7, 2023

WHERE:   New York Marriott Marquis