Preliminary Program

The Program Committee is pleased to announce confirmed presentations and speakers for the PIUG Biotech and PhMTI 2025 Biotech Conference. Watch this page for further speaker announcements and a detailed agenda.

The format of the 2025 conference is different than previous Biotech Conferences -- workshops are not on a separate day but part of the 2-day program.  We recommend that you consider coming early for the Tuesday program and staying through until the end on Wednesday afternoon.  For those traveling, you might want to book a room through Wednesday night and plan on traveling out on Thursday morning.  Just a thought!

Tuesday. 25 February:

8:00 - 8:45 am: Breakfast & Registration

8:45 am - 5:00 pm: Conference Welcome, Plenary talks, workshops, networking & exhibit breaks, and lunch

Wednesday, 26 February:

8:00 - 8:45 am: Breakfast & Registration

8:45 am - 4:30 pm: Plenary talks, workshops, networking & exhibit breaks, and lunch

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Conference wrap-up

• How the fusion of IP and CI search and analysis is driving the future of biotech innovation: A "Fireside Chat" (members of the PIUG and PhMTI community)
• A multifaceted approach to utilize patent analytics and competitive intelligence to guide strategic decision making from a head of IP's perspective (Bo Peng, Wave Life Sciences)
• Frontiers in Chemically Modified Biosequence Data - Combing Competitive Intelligence, Patent Intelligence and LLMs (Sam Winders, PatSnap)
• From Search to Strategic Decisions: Accelerate Your Path to Biotech Industry Insights with Data-Centric Reports and Visualizations (John Willmore, BizInt Solutions)
• Bridging the Gap between Biotech Patent Intelligence and Business Solutions (Andrew Klein, Minesoft )
• Resisting AI: Maybe it's not a good solution for Biotech CI and IP? (Diane Webb, BizInt Solutions)
• Practical Tips for Using Excel in Biosequence Patent Reports: Maximizing Efficiency and Accuracy (Anne-Marie Clark, CAS IP Services)
• The use of the CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform to enhance and optimize your life science research (Gary Gustafson, Chemical Abstract Services)
• Plus, additional workshops from Aptean Genome Quest and Clarivate