PROFILE GENOMICS IN BUSINESS 2007

This information about the 2007 edition of the Genomics in Business conference may give you an impression about what the conference has to offer.

Topics

 Genomics Business Analysis of the Agro-Food Industry  New High Throughput Sequencing and Screening Technologies  Agro-Food Industry and Business Models  The Technology Frontier  Intellectual Property Management  Plant Based Economy  Traits for the future

Speakers

 Roger Beachy – President – Donald Danforth plant Science Center  Vanessa Bennett – Head of Program Genome Sequencing – Roche Diagnostics GmbH  Thierry Bogaert – CEO – DevGen  Eric Eisenstadt - Vice-President of Research – TIGR  Robert Frostad – CEO – Lingvitea AS  Oscar Godijn – Director Business Incubator – DSM  Allen Good – SembioSys Genetics Inc.  John Hammer – partner - Burill & Company  Johan Vanhemelrijck – Secretary General – EuropaBio  Adrian Huige – Limagrain  Rob Janssen – Managing Director – Niaba  Henk Joos – Plant Science & Director – D1 Oils  Pim Lindhout – Research Director – De Ruiter  Robbert Nutter – Application Manager High Throughput – Applied Biosytems  Omead Ostadan – Vice-President Marketing – Solexa  Milena Ouzunova – Head Maize/Oilseed Rape – KWS Saat AG  Wouter Pors - partner - Bird & Bird  Ana Rath – Director of Business Development – Ceres  Juergen Schweden – BASF Plant Science GmbH  Arjen van Tunen – CEO – Keygene N.V.  George Velarde – Senior director of Business Development – Illumina  Martin van Vaals - Deputy Head Food & Research and Advisory – Rabobank  Rye Wagner – Vice President Plant Biotechnology - Exelixis

Participants  Almost 150 participants from over 15 countries and from 4 continents  20 tabletop presentations

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Represented companies and organisations

ABC consortium Kempen & Co Add2X Biosciences BV Keygene Inc. Affymetrix Keygene N.V. Agri Information Partners KWS Saat AG Applied Biosystems LemnaTec Asia bioBusiness Pte. Ltd Limagrain Avestah gengraine Technologies PVT. Ltd. LingVitea AS BASF Plant Science GmbH LioniX B.V. Bayer BioScience N.V. Malaysian Biotechnology Corp Beo Zaden B.V. Malaysia Biotechnological Co. SDN bhd. BioSeeds B.V. Mibiton BIOTECanada Biotechnology Center of Georgia Montgomery County Department of Economic Bird & Bird Development Burill & Company Naktuinbouw Centre for BioSystems Genomics National Health Research Institutes Ceres Netherlands Genomics Initiative CropDesign N.V. Niaba Councel for Scientific and industrial Research Plant Research International Dekker Chrysanten B.V. PricewaterhouseCoopers N.V. D1 Oils Promega Benelux B.V. Donald Danford Plant Science Center Publimarket De Ruiter Seeds Rabobank Int’l DevGen Rijk Zwaan Doriane Roche Diagnostics GmbH DSM SemBiosys Genetics Inc Ekelmans & Meijer Lawyers ServiceXS Enza Zaden Solexa ETH Zurich EuropaBio Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Eversole Associates SW Exelixis The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs Exter Polak & Charlouis B.V. The Institute for Genomic Research Food Valley TraitGenetics GmbH Fundacion Corparación Technológica de Andalucia Unilever R&D Genome Laboratory – John Innes Centre United States Department of – Agricultural Genetwister Technologies Research Service George Mason University VIB Dep. of Plant Systems Biology – University of Ghent Ghent University Vilmorin et Cie IBEX Ltd. Wageningen Business Generator Illumina Wageningen University & research Center Japan Tobacco Inc. Zeraim Gedera Ltd.