Partnering
Partnering
Once registered, create your profile and start scheduling one-on-one meetings. Pre-scheduled partnering meetings are what make your time in Basel count.
One-on-one meetings
The Swiss Biotech Day is known for its pre-scheduled partnering meetings and its business-focused agenda. In 2026, more than 6,500 meetings took place during the event.
Every registered delegate has access to the partnering platform. Find the biotech companies, pharma leaders, global investors and service providers you want to meet with, send a request, and the system schedules the accepted meetings at a numbered table in the partnering area. Face-to-face, at a fixed time, without the chance encounter of a booth visit.
Biotech companies use it to meet investors and pharma business development teams. Investors screen the pipeline before the pitching sessions. Service providers meet the decision-makers they would otherwise never reach. And the international delegations of the Global Village bring their companies to the same tables.
From registration to follow-up
How partnering works, step by step
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Register for the conference
Registration opens on January 27, 2027.
Partnering is part of the conference pass. Every registered delegate receives a personal login for the partnering platform as soon as it opens.
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Complete your profile
Platform opens on March 10, 2027.
Review your personal and company profile, add your conference goals and the assets, products and services you want to talk about, and set the times you are available for meetings.
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Search and request meetings
Scheduling starts one week after the platform opens.
Search participants by company, asset or name, send meeting requests with a short message, and accept or decline the requests you receive. The system schedules the accepted meetings and assigns a table.
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Meet in person
April 26 and 27, 2027.
Print or download your agenda, or import it into your calendar. Meetings take place at numbered tables in the partnering area on level 1; the sessions and the exhibition are a few steps away.
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Follow up
Until about ten weeks after the conference
The portal stays open after the event so you can message the people you met. New contacts cannot be requested after the conference; add your contact details to messages, as the system does not share them automatically.
The platform
What you find on Partnering
Profile
Your personal and company profile, conference goals, assets, products and services.
Agenda
Your availability for one-on-one meetings and a printable or downloadable meeting schedule.
Search
Delegates and companies by name, assets or products, with a meeting request next to every result.
Messenger
Incoming requests to accept or decline, messages to other participants, colleagues added to a meeting.
Media center
Company presentations uploaded for other participants, and recordings of previous sessions.
Bookmarks
Companies, assets and delegates saved for later, and notification preferences for new requests.
Good to know
Four tips for a full agenda
- Be early
- Complete your profile the day the platform opens. Requests start the day scheduling opens, and a complete profile with clear goals receives more of them.
- Say why
- A request with one sentence on what you want to discuss is accepted far more often than a blank one. Name the asset, the indication or the service.
- Keep slots free
- Block the sessions and side events you want to attend before scheduling starts, so that the system does not fill them with meetings.
- Bring a colleague
- Meetings can be shared with colleagues from the same company. Split the schedule and cover more conversations.
Sponsorship
Your brand on every meeting
The partnering sponsor brands the online platform and the partnering area: the table numbers on both days, roll-ups in the partnering areas and the logo in the partnering system, plus three delegate admissions and a post-event report. In 2026, partnering was sponsored by BeOne Medicines.
Your meetings start with your registration
Partnering is included in every conference pass. Register, complete your profile when the platform opens, and fill your agenda before you travel.
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Register
Registration opens on January 27, 2027. Rates, what the pass includes and how to be notified.
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Program
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Start-ups pitch to investors, and investors and pharma pitch back.
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Side events
Investor pre-event, executive breakfasts, the general assembly and guided city tours around the two conference days.
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