We had a jammed-packed, illuminating afternoon yesterday, with more than 200 people streaming into Biogen Idec’s headquarters in Kendall Square for our latest Xconomy Forum: Tomorrow’s Biotech–Innovators and Innovations. Luke posted a writeup earlier today, and will have more next week. But meanwhile, we’d also like to give a big shout out to our sponsors, who made it all possible.
A heartfelt special thank you to Biogen Idec for hosting this tremendous event, and for welcoming the entire community into its home. It was a perfect venue, with plenty of great food and drink, and Biogen was a fantastic host.
We also had a suite of other great sponsors: the law firms of Fish & Richardson and Proskauer Rose, certified public accounting and business advisory firm CCR, and Schwartz Communications.
We’d also like to thank our other underwriters, who support everything we do: Alexandria Real Estate Equities, EMC, Invest Northern Ireland, Jones Lang LaSalle, J. Robert Scott, the Science & Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, UK Trade & Investment, and WilmerHale.
Finally, thanks to our event partners, the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, and MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge.
It was a great day—and we couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you!
And thanks to all our speakers and attendees—we couldn’t have done it without you, either!
Author: Robert Buderi
Bob is Xconomy's founder and chairman. He is one of the country's foremost journalists covering business and technology. As a noted author and magazine editor, he is a sought-after commentator on innovation and global competitiveness. Before taking his most recent position as a research fellow in MIT's Center for International Studies, Bob served as Editor in Chief of MIT's Technology Review, then a 10-times-a-year publication with a circulation of 315,000. Bob led the magazine to numerous editorial and design awards and oversaw its expansion into three foreign editions, electronic newsletters, and highly successful conferences. As BusinessWeek's technology editor, he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for The Quality Imperative.
Bob is the author of four books about technology and innovation. Naval Innovation for the 21st Century (2013) is a post-Cold War account of the Office of Naval Research. Guanxi (2006) focuses on Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. Engines of Tomorrow (2000) describes the evolution of corporate research. The Invention That Changed the World (1996) covered a secret lab at MIT during WWII. Bob served on the Council on Competitiveness-sponsored National Innovation Initiative and is an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee. He has been a regular guest of CNBC's Strategy Session and has spoken about innovation at many venues, including the Business Council, Amazon, eBay, Google, IBM, and Microsoft.
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