See You at “Building Biotechs to Last” This Afternoon in SF

The Xconomy team is getting ready to head over to Genentech Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus this afternoon for “Building Biotechs to Last.” Almost 200 people are registered for this event, but we still have a few tickets remaining at the door.

Registration and networking starts at 1 pm. The program, which consists of a series of fast-paced interviews with people dedicated to long-term company building, will run from 2 pm to 5:30 pm. There will be a half-hour break in the middle, and more time for networking at the end, as usual at Xconomy events.

You can check the speaker lineup and agenda here. We have steep discount tickets available for students, for postdocs, and for employees of startups.

For those of you who can’t be there in person, you can be a voyeur on Twitter. The searchable hash tag for the event is #xconSFbio. I may try to capture some of the live commentary on Twitter myself @ldtimmerman, at least during parts where I’m not conducting the interviews. See you there at UCSF this afternoon.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.