The exhibition hall at the Swiss Biotech Day 2026

Sponsorship & exhibitionWhy sponsoring

Why sponsor the Swiss Biotech Day

Sponsoring the Swiss Biotech Day offers investors, pharma companies and service providers a unique opportunity to gain strong visibility and maximize their impact within the global life sciences ecosystem.

3,500+
decision-makers from biotech, pharma, investment, services and academia
50+
countries
6,500+
partnering meetings
140+
exhibitors and country booths

Key benefits

Six reasons sponsors come back

Access to a high-value biotech audience

The Swiss Biotech Day attracted more than 3,500 decision-makers from biotech, pharma, investors, service providers and academia in 2026. Sponsorship puts your brand directly in front of C-suite executives and founders, business development and licensing leaders, and global investors and strategic partners. This is a hard-to-reach, high-influence audience.

Positioning in a top-tier biotech hub

Switzerland is one of the world's strongest biotech and pharma clusters. Sponsoring signals that your organization is serious about innovation and quality, belongs to the European life sciences ecosystem, and is aligned with Swiss standards of excellence and reliability. That reputational halo matters, especially for international companies.

Brand visibility beyond a standard booth

Sponsors benefit from prominent branding across conference materials and digital platforms, speaking opportunities, and visibility before, during and after the event. This creates sustained exposure, not just a day and a half on the exhibition floor.

Deal-making and partnering opportunities

The Swiss Biotech Day is known for its partnering meetings and business-focused agenda. Sponsorship helps drive traffic to your meetings, warm up conversations before outreach, and increase trust when initiating partnerships, licensing or investments.

Thought leadership and credibility

Sponsoring aligns your organization with innovation, science and entrepreneurship, with industry progress and collaboration, and with a neutral, respected platform for biotech dialogue. It is especially valuable if you want to be seen as an enabler.

Efficient return compared to the large international events

Compared to larger biotech conferences, the Swiss Biotech Day offers lower registration and sponsorship costs, a higher signal-to-noise ratio and easier access to senior stakeholders. That often results in a better return per conversation.

Sponsor matrix

What sponsoring delivers for your type of organization

Every sponsor type comes with its own objective. The program finder turns this into the three formats that fit your profile best.

Sponsor type Primary objective Strategic value Key outcomes
Biotech companies Visibility, fundraising, partnering Credibility within the biotech hub; enhanced trust and brand versus attending as a non-sponsor Investor interest, partnering or out-licensing meetings, brand lift
Global pharma Innovation sourcing, partnering, mentoring Efficient access to high-quality deal flow Business development leads, ecosystem leadership, talent sourcing, employer branding
Investors: VC, CVC, family offices, business angels Deal flow and presence, portfolio showcase Early access and signaling effect Founder engagement, new funding opportunities, co-investor connections
Service providers: CROs, CDMOs, business consulting, legal, finance Client acquisition Early-stage relationship building Long-term contracts, trusted-partner positioning
Clusters, translational academia, and international delegations Ecosystem promotion International exposure Spin-out visibility, partnerships, collaboration
  • Biotech companies

    Primary objective
    Visibility, fundraising, partnering
    Strategic value
    Credibility within the biotech hub; enhanced trust and brand versus attending as a non-sponsor
    Key outcomes
    Investor interest, partnering or out-licensing meetings, brand lift
  • Global pharma

    Primary objective
    Innovation sourcing, partnering, mentoring
    Strategic value
    Efficient access to high-quality deal flow
    Key outcomes
    Business development leads, ecosystem leadership, talent sourcing, employer branding
  • Investors: VC, CVC, family offices, business angels

    Primary objective
    Deal flow and presence, portfolio showcase
    Strategic value
    Early access and signaling effect
    Key outcomes
    Founder engagement, new funding opportunities, co-investor connections
  • Service providers: CROs, CDMOs, business consulting, legal, finance

    Primary objective
    Client acquisition
    Strategic value
    Early-stage relationship building
    Key outcomes
    Long-term contracts, trusted-partner positioning
  • Clusters, translational academia, and international delegations

    Primary objective
    Ecosystem promotion
    Strategic value
    International exposure
    Key outcomes
    Spin-out visibility, partnerships, collaboration

In good company

The main sponsors of 2026

In 2026, the Swiss Biotech Day welcomed 10 main sponsors, more than 220 sponsors and exhibitors, more than 30 international delegations, and representatives from more than 2,100 organizations.

  • Acumetis
  • Celonic
  • Citeline
  • Clinilabs
  • Cooley
  • Lonza
  • PSI CRO
  • Pureos
  • Tigermed
  • WUXI XDC

How to proceed

Three steps to your sponsorship

  1. Compare the options

    Exhibition, mentoring, Swiss cluster booths, presentations, panels, networking tables, posters and the individual sponsorship opportunities, with member and non-member rates.

    Corporate participation options

  2. Tell us your objectives

    By understanding your business objectives, we create a package tailored to your needs and budget: from a single booth to the welcome reception.

    Request sponsorship information

  3. Register your team

    Sponsoring packages do not include conference tickets. Members register one representative free of charge; further representatives pay the member rate.

    Registration and rates

Sponsorship contact: Christin Regner, +41 52 569 82 27, [email protected]. Sponsorship packages of the 2026 edition: sponsorship opportunities 2026.

Let's talk about your visibility in 2027

Tell us your objectives and we will send you the sponsorship information for the Swiss Biotech Day.