Agenda 2025

 

1 July 2025

9:00Registration & Networking
10:00Welcome to BayOConnect
Ralf Huss, BioM Biotech Cluster Development
10:10Opening Impulse: What Makes Biotech Innovation Unique - and Why Is Germany Struggling?
Francis de Véricourt, Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP)
10:30The 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)
12:00-13:30Lunch Break, Poster Presentations
13:30Mind 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
15:00-16:00Networking Break, Poster Presentations
16:00Smart 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
17:30Evening 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
18:00-21:00Networking with BBQ

 

2 July 2025

8:30Registration & Networking
9:00Opening Remarks
Ralf Huss, BioM Biotech Cluster Development
9:10Opening 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
11:00-11:30Networking Break, Poster Presentations
11:30Start-Up Pitches - Creating New Success Stories
Moderation:
BioM Biotech Cluster Development & TUM Venture Labs
  1. BioExoTec
  2. 2NA FISH
  3. Varolis Apimed
  4. Leopard Biosciences
  5. Toleris Biotherapeutics
  6. Tuari Therapeutics
  7. xFOREST
  8. Alithea Biotechnology
  9. MarkHerz
  10. Berking Theranostics
12:30Dealing 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
13:45-15:00Late Lunch Break, Poster Presentations
15:00Exhibitor Pitch: Gemeinde Hallbergmoos, WIFÖ
15:10Value-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
16:00BayOConnect Start-up Award 
Santa Munro, EBD Group
16:10-16:30Networking Break, Poster Presentations

Following
Event:

16:30-18:00m4 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
18:00-20:00m4 Award Get-together



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