BioAgenda Institute


Summit Why Attend

Why You Should Attend

As scientific discovery moves at a breathless pace, with profound implications for the future, it is imperative for the leadership and prime movers in biotech and life sciences and other major players to stop for a nanosecond to contemplate and discuss crucial issues and policy.

Gathering leaders, thinkers, and key figures from science, politics, medicine, economics, ethics, the arts, and society, the BioAgenda summit is a retreat to consider critical topics and fascinating offerings. To interact with peers in your own field and in others you may seldom come into contact with; to hear fresh ideas, opinions, analysis, and challenges. And, of course, to have fun on the high desert in December.

Whether you are a busy CEO, a top scientist plunging into the genetics of the brain, a policy-maker sorting through the vagaries of drug pricing or the ethics of stem cell research, a conservative critic of life extension and therapeutic cloning, or a liberal critic of GMO foods wanting to learn more about other points of view, BioAgenda embraces your opinions and comments, and asks you to listen to others; to interact, debate and learn – and to contribute to reports, analysis and policy-papers that will be prepared by BioAgenda writers and experts to be disseminated to the public.

Join us in the cause of creating a forum for moving forward in a vigorous and open intellectual dialogue – with follow-through in educational materials and policy initiatives. Join us in a peer-to-peer, informal environment on the stage, at lunch, in art exhibits, in the halls and on the La Quinta grounds. And join us for a fantastic show, with theater, original art, readings and surprises that will titillate and entertain, and make you think.

If you are a leader in biotech and cutting edge life sciences, either as a scientist, entrepreneur, or investor; or as a policy maker, critic, philosopher, ethicist, or artist, come and join us at this critical moment in history at the BioAgenda Summit. Help shape the future, and challenge yourself to learn and to go home with new points of view, understanding, and new colleagues in the cause to move forward with clarity and conscientiously with the powerful new tools at our disposal.

We know of nothing like this project, with a potent concentration of experts and leaders dedicated to illuminating critical issues and trends.

Special Note: The final Discover Magazine Roundtable on December 7th was open to the general public. The topic was: "The politics of biotech: How best should leading-edge science move forward in an age of political polarization?" Discover Magazine will publish an article and edited transcript of this Roundtable in its February 2006 issue.