Accelerate Licensing & Co-Development Across Oncology & Autoimmune Disease

Advance Best- or First- in Class Candidates, Demonstrate Differentiation & Validate Technologies

Within these hyper-competitive landscapes, differentiating assets targeting proven targets, balancing efficacy with worsening toxicity, or securing minimum evidence to validate a platform are all avenues for biotech to pursue to align with pharma and investor expectations.

For biotech across ADCs, TCEs, BsAbs, TPD, and in vivo CAR-T, competing to align earlier clinical proof-of-concept data with pharma expectations, the Oncology & Immunology Innovation Partnering & Licensing Summit shares modality-specific decision-making, longer, and less competitive networking, and insights into how peers are pitching.

Ensuring relevance, favorable pharma-to-biotech ratios, and synergy across attendee interests, this high-impact forum is strategically timed between BIO and JPM as a targeted touch point.

Who Attends This Differentiated Business Development Initiative?

  • Large Pharma: Heads of Business Development, Search & Evaluation, and Asset Scouting for Oncology & Immunology - comparing pipelines and enabling technologies to fuel future innovation.
  • Innovative Biotech: C-level executives and BD leaders across TPD, ADCS, BsABs, TCEs, and in vivo CAR-Ts - seeking feedback, validation, and an understanding of partnership expectations with pharma and investors.
  • Investors & Venture Capital: Leaders focused on disruptive investments with a higher risk appetite or looking for more validated, clinical data, looking for an opportunity to engage with peers in a relaxed environment.

Marrying collaboration across shared interests whilst delivering modality-specific depth. Pharma assesses related programs without dilution; biotech gets more efficient, higher-yielding networking.

I enjoyed the opportunity to engage with peer pharma via a fun panel, as well as the close-knit setting allowing me to engage in partnering discussions with multiple small biotech.

Head of Search & Evaluation, Novartis

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We had 5 meetings at this conference, and each of those was far more valuable than 30 meetings I would have at a larger forum.

Chief Executive Officer, Drug Delivery Biotech

We were able to have 30-minute time slots with several companies of interest to us in a relaxed environment.

Chief Executive Officer, CNS Biotech

Explore the Full Event Guide

  • 1 to 5 ratio of biotech to pharma and investors
  • 24%+ acceptance rate on meeting platform
  • Pharma and investors present in >40% of meetings
  • Two formal structured networking sessions, one informal drinks reception
  • Refine your strategy, strengthen your pitch, nurture your relationships to stay front-of-mind after BIO and before JPM
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Statistics from the Neuroscience Innovation Partnering & Licensing Summit, April 2026:

230+

meetings through the partnering portal, with 50% of meetings involving pharma representatives

31%

meeting acceptance rate versus 11% industry standard

100-120

attendees from 80-100 companies: 20+ from pharma and investment, giving a 1:5 ratio of buyers to biotech

100%

Director or above ensuring you are connecting with the decision-maker, each time

Attending Companies Include

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Audience at Oncology & Immunology Innovation Partnering

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Confidently evaluate if this targeted networking opportunity aligns with your partnering objectives. Review the format, speaker faculty, and remaining presentation sessions in the full event guide.

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Bridging the gap between innovative R&D and partnership conversations: deliberately timed between BIO and JPM. Register for early-bird discounts, secure a presentation opportunity whilst they last, and share your company logo with us to advertise your attendance on this website.