'BIOPROM: Industry and Technology for Humans': the First Results Are In

October 8 marks the final day of the first International Forum 'BIOPROM: Industry and Technology for Humans”. Attended by 3,500 visitors, the Forum was being held at the 'Gelendzhik Arena' culture and business center. The forum was supported by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, and facilitated by international exhibition planning provider 'Business Event', LLC.

It was the Main Forecast Session: 'Living to 120: Technologies for Humans' that kicked off the Forum and its events. The Session featured an array of top-tier experts including Denis Manturov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Anton Alikhanov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Oksana Lut, Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, Andrei Fursenko, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, Inna Svyatenko, Deputy Chair of the Federation Council, Hans Hyun, Senior Partner at 'Emerging Asia Capital' Partners, Daniel Balaban, Director and Representative of the UN WFP Centre of Excellence against Hunger, Mikhail Fonarev, Director of 'Endopharm', Vikram Punia, President of the Pharmasyntez Group, Vladislav Romantsev, Strategic Development Director of 'EFKO', and Anna Meleshina, Managing Director of 'Magnit'.

Denis Manturov continued with reading out the greetings from the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin celebrating the Forum's opening. The President noted the importance of the issues discussed at BIOPROM: the ubiquitous widespread introduction of innovative technologies into the medical drugs manufacturing, food industry, and agriculture. These are the spheres that can ensure better health, higher quality of life, and well-being of people as well as a significantly improved environmental situation in the country.

Speakers of the Forecast Session discussed the key current technologies aimed at increasing longevity and improving life quality of the population. The development of bioeconomics and biotechnology, cross-disciplinary in nature, was explored with particular interest. Denis Manturov shared how 2025 is the year that Russia will witness the planned launch of a new national project on bioeconomics development.

The 'BIOTECHMED' thematic track on national projects for the healthcare technological sovereignty featured Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov as the keynote speaker at its Main Plenary Session. This event has also included Mikhail Murashko, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Sergey Tsyb, State Secretary at the Rostec State Corporation, Alexander Braverman, First Deputy Chairman of 'VEB.RF', Dmitry Zaitsev, CEO of 'Pharmstandard', and Ilya Bardin-Denisov, CEO of 'Promomed'.

Anton Alikhanov spoke about industrial block implementation for the National Project Cutting-edge Technologies for Health Preservation'. The Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia emphasized that the domestic pharmaceutical industry is now quite self-sufficient. For 10 years, over 600 billion rubles of private and public funds have been invested into the industry allowing it to form a solid foundation and help the domestic market leaders to grow.

The total area of the exhibition amounted to over 7,000 square meters, and 105 companies and organizations presented their innovative products at the Forum's 'Gelendzhik Arena'. In addition, the Forum featured 10 companies, the winners of a startup competition. The forum was attended by numerous equipment manufacturers, new technological solutions for production, packaging and product labeling developers, representatives of retail and HoReCa sphere, and manufacturers of medical equipment and technologies, among others.

Some of the largest exhibitors of this year's Forum included Rostec Group, Pharmasyntez Group, Sechenov University, Arnest Group, SIBUR Holding PJSC, CITO JSC, Nacimbio JSC, Endopharm, EFKO Group, Magnit PJSC, Roskhim JSC, Gazprombank JSC. The Krasnodar Krai became the partner region to the Forum and presented its largest exposition, including stands on the Kuban Science Foundation and the Krasnodar Region Innovation Development Fund.

As part of the Forum's Business Program, participants attended 30 events divided into 4 thematic tracks: BIOTECHMED, INNOFOOD, COSMETIC COMPONENT, ECOBIO. The tracks featured conversations on innovations in pharma, retail and wine production, medical industry development, investments into biotech, solutions for bioeconomics development, global obesity problems, commercializing scientific developments, and human resources potential.

“The first 'BIOPROM: technologies for the quality of human life' Forum opened its doors at the beautiful and ever-young city of Gelendzhik. Joining efforts with leading researchers and manufacturers, we will work to make diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and many other ominous and threatening terms a thing of the past forever. People thriving and living healthy and happy lives up until the age of 120: let that be the goal of the 21st century. I personally have no doubts whatsoever that it has the potential of becoming the healthy standard for the 22nd century,” pointed out Anton Atrashkin, Program Director of the BIOPROM Forum.