Sponsors

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) Life Sciences and Health Care (LSHC) Industry Group. The DTTL LSHC Industry Group, made up of the LSHC specialists from DTTL Member Firms, is comprised of more than 5000 professional in over 50 countries. Their understanding of the industry's challenges and their ability to quickly respond with integrated, comprehensive services put the DTTL Member Firms in a unique position to help clients. The DTTL LSHC Industry Group professionals work with their clients to help them shape the evolution of the industry. These professionals can help companies in their efforts to bring discoveries to life and improve the quality of care while they create and sustain long-term, bottom-line profitability. DTTL Member Firms provide professional services to 82 percent of the life sciences and health care companies in the Fortune Global 500. For more information about the DTTL LSHC Industry Group, email dttlshc@deloitte.com or visit the website www.deloitte.com/lifesciences.

Oracle is a leading strategic software solutions provider to the health sciences industry, helping pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organizations become the most successful in the world by offering the most innovative products and services that deliver the most compelling customer and shareholder value. Oracle's comprehensive industry solutions include clinical trial management and analysis, electronic data capture, adverse event reporting and pharmacovigilance, and healthcare interoperability. Oracle partners with health sciences industry leaders - including 20 of the top 20 life sciences companies and 14 of the top 14 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations - to prevent and cure disease, enhance quality of life, and accelerate insights for better health.

Linklaters is one of the world's leading global business law firms. We specialise in managing and implementing highly complex, cross-border projects for the world's largest organisations. They include leading multi-national corporates, banks, private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds.

We have offices in all of the world's leading financial and business centres, and expertise in all key legal practice areas - including M&A, finance, anti-trust, tax, intellectual property, litigation (including anti-bribery & corruption), pensions, employee incentives and environment. We supplement these key capabilities with healthcare sector-specific expertise and experience. Our sector clients include many of the world's major healthcare companies, their financial advisors and their investors.

We apply our values in everything we do, combining a commitment to excellence, imagination, teamwork, determination, commercial judgment and integrity to help our clients meet the most demanding challenges they face - working together to achieve their commercial objectives.

Aderly is one of the first economic development agencies created in France. Already France's top biotech region, the Lyon area is one of Europe's top 5 biotechnology clusters with world leaders like bioMérieux, Sanofi Pasteur, Genzyme, Merck and others. Does your firm have plans for development or partnerships in the biotechnology field? Aderly provides you customized service with a dedicated project leader to meet your needs. This free service - the only one of its kind in Europe - brings together all of the expertise required to help you succeed.