The 10th edition of Bangalore India Bio 2010, India's premier biotechnology event concluded on a positive note, according to the organizers.
The key highlights of the three-day event held between June 2 and 5, 2010 included the multi-track conference comprising 25 sessions attended by 738 delegates from across the globe. There were 21 podium presentations and over 135 international and national speakers. There were 5,000 business visitors who attended the event.
The Bio-Partnering initiative received 705 business meetings with 355 delegates attending this session only. The participation from 23 countries included Germany, Europe, Canada, UK, USA, Australia, South America and South East Asia.
The Exhibition attracted 154 National and International organizations to show case their innovation. The Bio – Excellence award instituted by the department of IT-BT & ST, Govt. of Karnataka were given to Biocon for excellence in the Healthcare sector, Metahelix Life Sciences for excellence in the Agri-biotech sector, Advanced Enzymes in the Industrial Biotech sector and Jubiliant Biosys in the Biotech Services sector.
The poster session attracted 68 Young Researchers who presented their innovation. For the first time the department of IT-BT & ST, Govt. of Karnataka gave a Laptop, a Notebook and a blackberry to the winner of Best Poster, 1st runner-up and the second runner-up respectively. The winners were Soumik Siddhanta from JNCASR, Dr Vasudheva Reddy Akepati from Weizmann Institute if Science, Israel (first runner-up) and Dr Shivaraj S M from TERI University, New Delhi (second runner-up).
For the Bio-Quiz, which was introduced for this edition had 64 colleges across Karnataka and 128 students participated.
Bangalore Bio event is annually organized by the Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka, Vision Group on Biotechnology and MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications. This year’s theme was ‘Biotech for a better tomorrow’.
According to Ashok Kumar C Manoli, Karnataka Principal Secretary for information technology, biotechnology and Science & Technology this year event was one of the best editions because it played a definitive role in attracting attention for partnerships.
The event has further reiterated that Karnataka and India are the Biotech hubs for domestic and global organizations. With the response that Bangalore INDIA Bio 2010 received, it is only obvious that the event is here to stay and will be a greater success in 2011, he added.
According to Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairperson, Karnataka’s Vision Group on Biotechnology & CMD Biocon, the 10th edition was a successful business event and it has truly evolved into a B2B platform.
“We will continue to support the event which has evolved from Bangalore Bio to Bangalore INDIA Bio. We will work towards getting more participants from China, as we want India and China to work together rather than competing with each other”, said Dr. Vijay Chandru - Chairman and CEO, Strand Life Sciences and President, ABLE.