Program to date
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Buffet Dinner
The residence of H.E. U.S. Ambassador Michael M. Wood
Welcoming remarks by Ms Barbro C. Ehnbom, Chairman SALSS
8:30 am
Registration
9:00 am
Setting the stage: Moderator, Udayan Gupta,
WSJ Journalist and Author
View biografy about Udayan Gupta
9:10 am
Introductory remarks: To be announced
9:30 am
Keynote address: Dr. William Haseltine,
Chairman, Haseltine Global Health
Founder, Human Genome Science
10:00 am
Break
10:10 am
Panel: Commercialization – From research to business
Moderator: Udayan Gupta
Introduction by Professor Mathias Uhlén
Panel:
Perspective- Institute of higher learning
Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, VD Karolinska Institutet
The Accelerated growth perspective
Dr. Yuval Binur, General Partner, Oxford BioScience
From Bench to Profit
Cynthia Ekberg Tsai, Managing Director,
Madelin Fund, MD Anderson
The Investors Perspective
Mikael Brönnegård, Director, HealthCare, InnKap
11.40 am
Break
12:00 pm
The Swedish landscape – Company presentations
Medivir, Neuronova, Swedish Orphan
12:30 pm
Future outlook – what lies ahead
1:00 pm
Lunch
Welcome: Charlotte Erkhammar, CEO, Kreab Group
Lunch speaker: Tony Svensson, Director ISA, New York
2.30 pm
Global Investment Trends 2006
3:00 pm
A Swedish success story
Laurent Leksell, Founder and Director, Elekta
3.30 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Panel: Internationalization – Success Stories
Moderator: Udayan Gupta
Panel:
Biacore GE Strategy
Peter von Ehrenheim, CEO, GE Healthcare Life Science
International Venture Capital Perspective
William Gedale, Managing Partner, NGN BioMed, L.P.
The I.P. Perspective
Dimitrios Drivas, White & Case
Analyst's Perspective, the LifeScience Market in Scandinavia
Benjamin Nordin, Head Analyst, Kaupthing bank
Reverse Merging
Dr. Robin L. Smith, Chairman, Neocell
Equity into Early Stage
Jay Lobell, President, Paramount BioCapital
5.30 pm
Concluding remarks by moderator
7.30 - 10:30 pm
Dinner Cruise around Stockholm
8.45 am
Coffee reception
9:00 am
Keynote speaker:
Professor Hans Wigzell, Scientific Advisor to the Swedish Government
9.30 am
The Swedish landscape – Company presentations
ActiveBiotech, LinkMed, Biolipox
10:00 am
Focus: This years topic - Life Science and the Developing World, from Bird Flu and the vaccines to the market potential in India and China
Moderator: Udayan Gupta
Panel:
Swedish Venture Capital Perspective
Magnus Persson, HealthCap
Big corporate perspective
Niklas Prager, President of Pfizer in Sweden
Global overview
Head of Ernst & Young. Life Science Practice
From antiterrorism to cancer
Dr. Yakov Kogan, Chairman Cleveland BioLabs
Antiviral treatments of emerging pandemics
Dr. Johnson Lau, Managing Partner, Roth Capital
The Indian Connection
Parag Saxena, Vedanta Capital
11.30 am
Company presentations
In separate presentation rooms: Bionovo (U.S.), NeoCell (U.S)
12.00 pm
Final Remarks - Moderator
1:00 pm
Lunch at Grand Hotel
Hosted by Robert Charpentier, VD, Kaupthing Bank
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