Hyderabad: Telangana is all set to stake claim to pole position as a global techbio hub with BioAsia 2026, which kicks off on Tuesday with a speaker line-up that includes Amgen’s chief scientific officer and SVP of global research Dr Howard Y Chang, Google DeepMind’s VP of Science Pushmeet Kohli, CAR-T cell therapy pioneer Prof Bruce Levine of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sanofi’s EVP and head of business operations Madeleine Roach.
The two-day conclave, touted as Asia’s largest platform for the life sciences sector, is being held on the theme, ‘TechBio Unleashed: AI, Automation and the Biology Revolution’, and will be inaugurated by chief minister A Revanth Reddy and industries minister D Sridhar Babu.
This year’s BioAsia builds on the next-gen life sciences policy unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos that prioritises sustainability, precision medicine, digital health, and supply chain diversification, according to the Telangana govt.
The conclave is set to grow bigger, with participation expected to jump nearly 25% to 4,000 delegates (up from around 3,000 last year) and over 500 companies participating, according to the Telangana govt.