Agenda 2025

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BayOConnect Program

 

Conference Guide BayOConnect 2025

Agenda 2025

1 July 2025

 

9:00 Registration & Networking

10:00 Welcome to BayOConnect

  • Ralf Huss, BioM Biotech Cluster Development

 

10:10 Opening Impulse: 

What Makes Biotech Innovation Unique - and Why Is Germany Struggling? 

  • Francis de Véricourt, Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP)

 

10:30 The Future of Global Biotech: Collaboration, Investment and Policy in a Volatile World

  • Moderator: Han Steutel, vfa
  • Laura Matz, Merck KGaA
  • Kevin Peters, MSD
  • Francis de Véricourt, Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP)

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break, Poster Presentations

 

13:30 Mind the Gap: Aligning Academia, Biotech and Pharma

  • Moderator: Stefan Oschmann, Amira
  • Mareike Albert, Noselab
  • Christoph Hüls, Max-Planck-Innovation
  • Francesco Mazzotta, CDL-Berlin
  • Julia Neugebauer, Vivoryon

 

Exhibitor Pitch: Codetta Bio

 

15:00-16:00 Networking Break, Poster Presentations

 

16:00 Smart Tools & Strong Networks for Innovation

  • Moderator: Gerd Maass, Roche
  • Stefan Engelhardt, TUM School of Medicine and Health
  • Anke Fuchs, SaxoCell Cluster4Future
  • Bernard Mulder, RegMed XB
  • Richard Reschen, MSD
  • Wolfgang Wurst, Helmholtz Munich

 

17:30 Evening Impuls: From Regenerative Medicine to Organ-on-a-Chip and Beyond: Connect with the Netherlands – Europe’s life sciences & health metropolis

  • Sarah Jakob, Netherlands Innovation Network
  • Bernard Mulder, RegMed XB
  • Laura Windt, Health Holland

 

Exhibitor Pitch: nNano

 

Exhibitor Pitch: Grund IP Group

 

18:00-21:00 Networking with BBQ

2 July 2025

 

8:30 Registration & Networking

 

9:00 Opening Remarks

  • Ralf Huss, BioM Biotech Cluster Development

 

9:10 Opening Impulse: AI to Accelerate, Enhance and Innovate Drug Discovery

  • Caroline Gubser Keller, Novartis

 

9:35 Smart Science: A(I)ccelerating Life Sciences

  • Moderator: Andreas Schmidt, Springboard Health Angels
  • Steven Ford, AWS
  • Annalisa Pawloski, Google
  • Christof Nitsche, Fraunhofer IPA
  • Isabel Wilkinson, NVIDIA
  • Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich
  • Rona Stewart, The Exploration Company
  • Stephen Ho, Isomorphic Labs

 

Exhibitor Pitch: Collaborative Drug Discovery

 

11:00-11:30 Networking Break, Poster Presentations

 

11:30 Start-Up Pitches - Creating New Success Stories

Moderation: BioM Biotech Cluster Development & TUM Venture Labs

  • BioExoTec
  • 2NA FISH
  • Varolis Apimed
  • Leopard Biosciences
  • Toleris Biotherapeutics
  • Tuari Therapeutics
  • xFOREST
  • Alithea Biotechnology
  • MarkHerz
  • Berking Theranostics

 

12:30 Dealing with Infectious Diseases - Strategies to Prevent Future Outbreaks

  • Moderator: Percy Knolle, TUM School of Medicine and Health
  • Hubertus Hochrein, Bavarian Nordic
  • Michael Hölscher LMU Hospital Munich
  • Ulrike Protzer, TUM School of Medicine and Health
  • Julia Riedlinger, Roche Diagnostics
  • Thomas Taapken, InflaRx

 

13:45-15:00 Late Lunch Break, Poster Presentations

 

15:00 Exhibitor Pitch: Gemeinde Hallbergmoos, WIFÖ
 

15:10 Value-Driven by Design: Aligning Scientific Vision with Investor Expectations

  • Moderator: Enno Spillner, Formycon
  • Anne Burger, CatalYm
  • Thomas Meins, Crelux, a WuXi AppTec company
  • Karl Nägler, Sofinnova Partners

 

16:00 BayOConnect Start-up Award

  • Santa Munro, EBD Group

 

16:10-16:30 Networking Break, Poster Presentations

 

Following Event:

 

16:30-18:00 m4 Award Ceremony

  • Presentation m4 Award & Introduction MAxL
  • Award ceremony for 5 teams with 
  • Tobias Gotthardt, State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy

 

18:00-20:00 m4 Award Get-together