● Who should speak?

We are currently recruiting speakers from both academic institutions and biotechnology industries to speak at the congress.

● Why speak?

⊙ Network and exchange ideas with other professionals
⊙ Work with a targeted audience
⊙ Raise your profile as a professional in the biotechnology and investment fields
⊙ Influence the future trends of biotechnology through sharing your unique ideas and perspective
⊙ Have the unique opportunity to seal your corporate and academic presence
⊙ Build your comprehensive network

Speakers are carefully selected to represent range of experience, personalities, ideologies, and views. These speakers will be experts who have demonstrated innovative research and have achieved success in their field. If you would like to submit a proposal to give a presentation or display a poster at the conference, please send an abstract and a brief 3-5 sentence summary of your proposed topic by email tofrank@bitlifesciences.com.

● Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers present during the first session of the forum and receive the highest billing in all event marketing. Their role is to open the forum with an influential speech that sets the tone for the whole event.

● Chair

A chair’s role is to make opening remarks at the start of the session or symposium, to introduce each speaker, field questions from the audience (asking a few of their own if there are none from the floor), and keeping the session on time. Chairmen will be asked to make announcements to delegates and to remain on or near the stage throughout the day.

● Session speaker

Individual speakers are required to prepare a 20-25 minute presentation with slides. They will be introduced by the chair, and then allowed to speak for the allocated time slot, allowing 5-10 minutes for questions from the audience at the end of their time.

● Panelist

Panel speakers are not required to provide PowerPoint slides for their session. They may provide papers for the delegates to read, which will be inserted into the forum proceedings. They will be introduced by the panel moderator and asked a few questions. They will then be involved in an interactive debate with the moderator, other panel members, and the audience.

● Moderator

Panel moderators are required to introduce each panelist, and ask them a series of prepared questions. They must also encourage participation from the audience, and field questions from the floor. They are responsible for keeping the discussion within the allocated time slot.

● Sponsor

Sponsor speakers can be either session speakers or panelists. They are encouraged to keep to the topic suggested by the forum organizer and not to lapse into sales pitches in order to keep the attention of the audience.