Program Schedule
Optional Pre-Event: BIO SPARK Showcase Event on Monday, October 19, 1:00-6:30 PM, RSVP required
| Tuesday, October 20, 2015 | ||
| 6:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Registration Desk Open | 4th Floor |
| 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Partnering Desk Open | Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Floor |
| 7:00 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. | Networking Breakfast | Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Floor |
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. | One-on-One PartneringTM Meetings | 5th and 6th Floors |
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:25 p.m. | Company Presentations | 4th Floor: Balboa, Davidson, Fillmore, Hearst Rooms |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:55 a.m. | Digital Health Spotlight —Investment Landscape and CEO Interview with Jeffrey Brewer, CEO, Bigfoot Biomedical | 4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Therapeutic Panel Precision Medicine: Leveraging National Genomic Databases for Therapy Development (US, UK, Iceland) |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. | Therapeutic Panel Report from the Frontier: Emerging Oncology Trends Bridging ASCO to ASH |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. | Opening Plenary Luncheon | 4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. | Welcome & Fireside Chat with James Noble, CEO, Adaptimmune | 4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. | Business Panel Policy Outlook—Valuation Model Implications of 21st Century Cures, IP Reform, TPP, and PDUFA VI |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 3:15 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. | Digital Health Spotlight—The Road to Health 2.0 and Beyond | 4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:25 p.m. | Business Roundtable Investor Management Lessons of Fierce 15 Alumni CEOs |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. | Reception—Celebration of New Fierce 15 CEOs for 2015 | 2nd Floor, Cable 55 |
| Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | ||
| 7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Registration Desk Open | 4th Floor |
| 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Partnering Desk Open | Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Floor |
| 7:00 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. | Networking Breakfast | Cyril Magnin Foyer, 4th Floor |
| 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | One-on-One PartneringTM Meetings | 5th and 6th Floors |
| 8:00 a.m. - 4:25 p.m. | Company Presentations | 4th Floor: Balboa, Davidson, Fillmore, Hearst Rooms |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Business Panel Venture Capital Funding Trends: BIO Analysis of Ten Years of Investment and the Gaps that Appear |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Therapeutic Panel Stretching Your Dollar: Methods and Tools for Increasing the Productivity of Clinical Trials |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. | Plenary Luncheon | 4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:25 p.m. | Fireside Chat with Robert T. Nelsen, Co-Founder and Managing Director, ARCH Venture Partners | 4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:55 p.m. | Business Panel BioCentury Presents: Courting Crossover Investors |
4th Floor, Mission Room |
| 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Closing Plenary Panel Market Outlook—Status of the IPO Appetite, M&A, Foreign Shocks, and Higher Interest Rates? |
4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
| 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | Closing Happy Hour | 4th Floor, Cyril Magnin Ballroom |
Program subject to change.