The 14th edition of Bangalore India Bio will be held at The Lalit Ashok in Bengaluru from February 10 to 12, 2014. The theme of the event is 'Biotech for a Better Tomorrow'. The event will be organised jointly by the Department of Information Technology, Bio-Technology and Science & Technology, Vision Group on Biotechnology and MM Activ Sci-Tech Communications.
The event will be inaugurated on February 10 by the Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in the presence of Professor Sir John Gurdon, Nobel Laureate for the year 2012 in Medicine. Emeritus Prof. Dr. Marc Van Montagu, who is the winner of 2013 World Food prize, will also be present.
Minister for Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology; Planning and Statistics, Government of Karnataka, S.R. Patil, Ian Felton - Deputy High Commissioner, UK, Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan - Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw - Chairperson, Karnataka´s Vision Group on Biotechnology and CMD, Biocon Ltd., Kaushik Mukherjee, Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka and Srivatsa Krishna, Secretary to Government, Department of IT, BT and S&T and DPAR (e-Governance) Government of Karnataka will also be present.
The 14th edition of Bangalore India Bio will feature conferences, business meetings and an international exhibition that focuses on the core theme where global trends and innovative solutions in the biotech sector will be which will be deliberated along with agri-biotech and stem cell regeneration and biosimilars. There is also a dedicated event on bio IT covering large data informatics for next generation healthcare, agriculture and life sciences research. The conference track also covers on bio services. Topics like on how to help India gain the lost ground in clinical trials and investment and entrepreneurial finance for bio business along with intellectual property strategy will be deliberated.