Attendee & Education Session Registration

Be part of the largest biotech / pharmacuetical conference in the area. Highlights include: 

• 75 exhibitors
• over 500 attendees expected
• Amazing education topics with top level industry experts
• Raffles to raise money for our charity Zaching Against Cancer
• After Party with music and live entertainment

You don't want to miss this opportunity and it's FREE to attend the exhibit hall and After Party if you register before March 11th.  Don't delay!

Agenda:

12:30pm - 2:00pm Keynote Lunch

2:00pm - 6:00pm Showcase Open

Education Sessions                                                                                                                                            (You may sign up for 2 education sessions, but please note the times of the sessions when registering.)

2:15 pm - 3:45pm 

                Education #1 - Recruiting and developing talent in the Biohealth Capital Region                                                                   How to compete with other markets and not with each other.                                 Panelists: 

• Shiva Fritsch, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, RegenxBIO 
• Antonio Moreira, Ph.D, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, UMBC 
• Bret Schreiber, Senior Director, Office of BioHealth & Life Sciences, Maryland Commerce
• Craig Malzahn, VP, Site Director at GSK BioPharm  

Moderator: Chris Frew, CEO, Workforce Genetics; President, BioBuzz Media.

                   Education #2 - Single Use Technology presentation by AstraZeneca.                                       Single Use technology has been used successfully for decades to improve the flexibility of existing stainless steel manufacturing plants.  More recently, entire production facilities are being designed with single use flow paths. AstraZeneca’s Director-level process and manufacturing team leaders will discuss AZ’s journey from the introduction of single use through current production strategies and the establishment of a single use management system.  
AZ will discuss the challenges encountered on initial single use technology application and how AZ teams have addressed major issues along the way.  AZ will chart where the company is headed to ensure reliability and security of supply. Finally, AZ will discuss our participation in BioPhorum, a consortium who has a working group charged with the goal to make single use technologies as reliable and understood as stainless steel.

Speakers:  Matt Rittler, Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca and Steve Grainger, Biotech Process Engineer, AstraZeneca

 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm   

Education #3 - State of the Market: The Role of BioManufacturing In Becoming Top 3.

Panelists: 

• Margo Connor, Chief Executive Officer of RoosterBio Inc.   
• Marco A. Chacón, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President of Industry Alliances at the University of Maryland, Baltimore  
• Pat Larrabee, President, Facility Logix
• Matt Brady, Senior Vice President, Scheer Partners

Moderator: Judy Costello, BioHealth Innovation

Education #4 - BIO 101: Overview of upstream & downstream BIO processing + cGMPS    Whether you are entirely new to the industry and trying to figure out how terms like process development, mammalian cell lines, and protein purification apply to what your company does, or you’re currently working in a GMP environment and looking for a way to grow your skills and knowledge to advance your career, this program is for you.  

Speaker: Kevin Knapstein, Manager, Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility. UMD Biotechnology Research and Education Program and David Fein, AstraZeneca.

6:00pm - 7:30pm After Party - Food, drinks, live music by The Fluid Guy and magic by Andrew Lees, Fina Biosolutions.

No refunds.

Thank you to our Event Sponsors: