Standing Room Only

Today's Super Session, "Biotech Investing: What Has and Has Not Worked in the Past Two Decades?" - Complete with boxed lunches, started out with standing room only.

Where can I sit? A BIO conference goer, holding his boxed lunch, looks around the crowded room for a seat.

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"Are we still selling the dream?" asked the moderator. "I would say that more than ever there are a number of companies are based on selling the dream, but the dream is becoming more refined."

The hour-long lunch time session was planned to address questions such as: What are current strategies for keeping biotech companies capital efficient; and has the regulatory landscape become more difficult to deal with?

"We knew this would be popular because it was one of the top sessions selected in myBIO," says Margaret Core, BIO's director of sales and marketing, for conventions. myBIO is BIO's new online scheduling tool for meeting attendees. "It intelligently mines the 2007 BIO International Convention community and finds the knowledge, people, and products most closely matched to meeting an attendee's objectives," adds Core.