While many consider Japan's economy to be on the track to recovery, trends in the U.S. economy and soaring oil prices may have an adverse effect on economic conditions both in Japan and overseas.
To ensure sustainable development in the future, it is essential for Japan to promote innovation so as to create competitive industries, cultivate social value, and generate jobs and profits, while forging partnerships with nations in Asia and other regions in the world.
The bioindustry is expected to become a driving force to help achieve these goals. Not only is the bio industry closely related to health, food, energy, the environment, and other aspects directly affecting people's quality of life, but it also plays a significant role in many other industries including pharmaceutical, food, chemical, machine, and IT industries. Moreover, the intricate integration of science and technology in the industry has stimulated business activity on a global scale.
In the field of healthcare, personalized medicine and preventative care have finally begun to take form and generated new businesses such as functional foods. Furthermore, the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit in 2008, which will most certainly focus on issues of global warming, will further accelerate utilization of biofuels and biomass plastics.In anticipation of this harvesting, we have adopted as the concept of BioJapan 2008 "Now Is the Harvest Time". BioJapan 2008, with the aim of contributing to development of the bio industry, will offer various programs integrating exhibitions and seminars, show the latest developments in the industry, and promote global business networking.
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Health Biotechnology: Personalized Medicine, Functional Foods, etc.
Ecology Biotechnology: Biofuel, Biomass Plastics, GMO, etc.
As a new attempt, the exhibition floor is going to be divided into several zones to make it easier for visitors to find the booths of their interest. We are also thinking of utilizing this zoning to create livelier traffic of visitors between the exhibition hall and the seminar rooms where many informative seminars are offered by the organizer.
The free floor map distributed at the venue will contain zone maps so that visitors can see at a glance what are exhibited by which exhibitor at which zone.
At BioJapan 2008, we are also considering "happy-hour" gathering after four o'clock during the event, during which volunteering exhibitors treat visitors with their local specialty liqueurs and snacks, so as to lead as many seminar participants as possible to the exhibition hall and promote their stay after the seminars. We invite all of you to see yourself this ever-evolving BioJapan.
| Date : |
Sep. 19th to 21th, 2007 |
| Venue: |
Pacifico Yokohama |
| Total number of visitors (for three days): |
16,330 |
| Total number of attendees visiting exhibition halls: |
8,826 |
| Total number of visitors attending seminars: |
5,527 |
| Total number of visitors attending keynote speech, workshop, etc: |
1,737 |
| Total number of attendees of one-on-one meetings: |
240 |
| Total number of exhibitors (including co-exhibitors): |
403 |
| Total number of overseas exhibitors(including co-exhibitors): |
169 |
| Total number of exhibiting booths: |
299 |
| Total number of overseas exhibitors: |
105 |
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