InnoVet Selects EBD Group to Power its Conference Partnering
Carlsbad, CA , October 09, 2007 – EBD Group, the leading partnering firm for the global biotechnology industry, today announced that it has been selected to run the partnering facility for InnoVet 2007, the premier international veterinary business conference and partnering event held this year in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, October 14-16, 2007. InnoVet will use EBD Group’s PartneringOne™ software and services to generate new business and networking meetings among attending senior business executives, veterinary product developers, financial institutions, early-stage companies and regulators from around the world.
PartneringOne is a complete conference partnering solution that combines the industry’s most trusted and intuitive web-based partnering system with best practice implementation services. PartneringOne enables conference delegates to efficiently and effectively identify partnering opportunities and pre-arrange private one-to-one meetings with targeted firms and representatives. Purpose-built, web-based and easy to use, PartneringOne provides a structured tool driven by powerful algorithms for facilitating partnering meetings, while at the same time presenting a user-friendly interface that masks the sophisticated processing behind the screen. PartneringOne today powers many of the world’s largest partnering conferences, including BIO-Europe Spring, ERBI’s BioPartnering Exchange and AdvaMed 2007.
“We are excited to work with InnoVet 2007 as the partnering engine for this highly respected conference,” said Carola Schropp, Managing Director, EBD Group. “Strategic partnering is the fuel that keeps any innovation-based industry healthy and growing. As the leading conference for the veterinary industry, InnoVet plays an important role in fostering new relationships and in the exchange of ideas. With PartneringOne, InnoVet 2007 will create new vistas of partnering opportunities for its many delegates.”
“We are excited to work with EBD Group to provide expert partnering for the InnoVet 2007 International Veterinary Business Conference. We investigated other partnering systems and PartneringOne was attractive to us in functionality, ease of use and customization to meet the unique needs of our veterinary business market,” Rose Fitzpatrick, Conference Manager, InnoVet 2007.
About InnoVet
INNOVET is the premiere North American based animal health industry conference. In a short span of 5 years, InnoVet has emerged as a “must attend” event for animal health strategic planners and executives. InnoVet focuses on topical issues important to the worldwide animal health industry, while providing a unique opportunity for networking between major industry players, regulators, service providers and life sciences research communities.
About EBD Group
EBD Group is the leading partnering firm for the global biotechnology industry. Since 1993, firms in the life sciences have leveraged EBD Group’s partnering conferences, technology and services to identify business opportunities and develop strategic relationships that drive their business.
EBD Group’s conferences (run in collaboration with leading industry partners and international trade associations such as BIO and Eucomed) include BIO-Europe, the world’s largest stand-alone life science partnering conference; BIO-Europe Spring; the investor conference, BioEquity Europe (co-organized with BioCentury Publications); and the convergent medical technology partnering conference, BioDevice Partnering. EBD’s novel, web-based, partnering software system is also used at numerous third-party events around the world. Outside of the conference format, EBD Group’s consultants can provide hands-on assistance for firms seeking to in- or out-license products and technologies.
EBD Group has offices in San Diego, Munich and London. For more information visit www.ebdgroup.com.
