Partners
Interested in becoming a conference partner?
Contact Miranda de Regt at miranda.de.regt@dutchlifesciences.com
or call +31 (0)252 75 5810 to discuss the possibilities.
Main partner

Health~Holland
Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland) works together with public and private parties to promote the economic opportunities of the societal theme Health & Care of the Dutch cabinet’s Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy. The coalition does this on the basis of the five Health & Care missions, formulated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The central mission is as follows: By 2040, all Dutch citizens will live at least five years longer in good health, while the health inequalities between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups will have decreased by 30%. There are four underlying missions that contribute to this central mission through changes to lifestyle and living environment, offering more care in the right place and better perspectives for people with chronic diseases, lifelong disabilities and dementia. With this approach, the Netherlands seeks to effectively tackle major societal challenges. Industry can optimally respond to the economic opportunities that these challenges bring.
Hosted by

Leiden Bio Science Park
Leiden Bio Science Park is the first, largest and most comprehensive Life Sciences and Health cluster in the Netherlands. Since its inception, the park has become a hub of innovation, fostering groundbreaking R&D, public-private partnerships, and a cosmopolitan business climate.
Today, the park is home to a dynamic community of 470 organisations, ranging from leading biotech companies and renowned knowledge institutes to innovative startups and even museums. As the meeting place for multidisciplinary talent and the home of groundbreaking discoveries, we are shaping the future of health by making treatments, medication, and solutions more personal, accessible, faster to develop, and quality-driven.
Program partners

Johnson & Johnson Innovation
At Johnson & Johnson Innovation, our mission is to curate and cultivate the world’s most promising, early-stage healthcare innovation wherever it originates. Through our global Johnson & Johnson Innovation network, we provide regional points of entry for life science and health technology innovators to access the breadth and depth of offerings that are unique to the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.
Through our regional teams –led out of Boston, London, San Francisco and Shanghai –we deeply and actively participate in the external, early innovation ecosystem around the world. Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s diverse team of science and technology experts helps life science startups thrive and fuels the global life science ecosystem through flexible, customized partnership models and collaborations; early-stage incubation, startup services and mentorship; and strategic venture capital investments.

Progress
Progress consultants, your experts in Life Sciences.
Progress provides project management, interim management and consultancy services in the field of Pharmaceutical and Bioprocess Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Technology Transfer, Regulatory Affairs, Validation, Lean Six Sigma / Operational Excellence and Quality Management (GxP, QA, QP/RP).
Progress holds a leading position in fast and effective support and has an excellent track record of ensuring customers reach their goals. Our consultants utilize and share their wide knowledge and broad experience to accelerate your projects. Our services are characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach, flexibility, added value and persistence. Continuously training, motivating, inspiring and challenging our employees is therefore a high priority for us.
We accelerate improvement!
Startup supporter

Pivot Park
Discover Europe’s foremost biopharmaceutical campus: Pivot Park
Pivot Park was founded in 2012 to provide the optimal European location for innovative pharmaceutical companies. Today, this advanced science campus helps early-phase entrepreneurs, fast-growth scale-ups and mature global leaders take their next steps in their ambition to improve global health care.
As home to 600 people working at over 60 companies, we make sure they have what they need to succeed. The park combines lab and office spaces with high-quality R&D facilities, two GMP-certified pilot plants, an Ultra-High-Throughput Screening Centre, on-site analytical support and a well-equipped Open Access Laboratory. This is backed up by having various companies at Pivot Park that provide a wide range of essential pharma support services. These include routes to specialist finance, shared gateways to knowledge and access to outstanding scientific and entrepreneurial expertise.
As a result, Pivot Park is now the hotspot for pharmaceutical innovation in Europe. And with ambitious plans for future growth, we are well on our way to creating the dynamic and uniquely pharma-based knowledge community of our dreams.
Pivot Park is located in Oss, the spiritual home of the Netherlands’ pharmaceutical industry. Besides offering a wonderful work-life balance, being located in Oss places Pivot Park at the heart of a vibrant ecosystem of universities, educational institutes, research institutes and centres of excellence that work in similar and related fields.
Learn more at www.pivotpark.com
Supporter

HollandBio
HollandBIO: the Dutch Biotech Industry Association
HollandBIO is the Dutch biotech industry association connecting, supporting, and representing over 274 medical, agro-food, and industrial biotech companies. Our members are active in all phases of research and development and include all company sizes: start-ups, SMEs, listed companies and multinationals. Together, we strive for a society taking full advantage of the power of biotechnology in health, food and sustainability.
URL: www.hollandbio.nl
E-mail: info@hollandbio.nl
Twitter: @hollandbio