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Building an efficient ecosystem means building a pool of stakeholders who collaborate and create greater collective value. In order to be efficient they need to build an inclusive community, direct their focus from individual to collective, and strengthen their cooperation. They need to rapidly adopt new approaches and technologies and strive for innovation. Finally, exchange best practices with the international community, attract foreign knowledge and capital, efficiently detect current and future needs and goals and build new strategic business partnerships to successfully achieve them.

Welcome to the Conference

9:00 Welcome addresses

Maja Tomanič Vidovič, CEO of Slovenian Entreprise Fund

Alejandro Rivera Rojas, Industrial Development Officer, Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development, UNIDO

Tatjana Mlakar, General Director of ZZZS - Slovenian Health Insurance Fund, Slovenia

Slovenia – Birthplace of Biosimilar Drugs

9:15 Discussion with Mateja Urlep, leader of the project establishing the biosimilar drugs regulation, production and marketing: from idea, to project, to the European Parliament, to EMA, to the Congress of USA to FDA

Slovenian Biopharmaceutical Ecosystem - from Niche Experts to Global Strategic Market Players

9:40 Stephen Minger, Blue Sky Innovations: Slovenian Ecosystem through the eyes of an international expert - what makes Ljubljana more attractive than London?

9:55 Mojca Benčina, National Institute of Chemistry, The bridge between biomedical research on advanced treatments and its transfer to patients

10:05 Jure Vindišar, National Institute of Biology, From Research to Business in Life Sciences

Quick Presentations of Slovenian and Cuban Companies - Part 1 

10:15 Matjaž Peterka, COBIK, Slovenia

Urban Bezeljak, Sferogen, Slovenia

Hrvoje Ratkajec, Arctur, Slovenia

Raul de la Nuez Morales, ETI, Cuba

Break with coffee, dessert and fresh fruits, 10:45 to 11:15

 Round Table - Ecosystem

11:15     Everyone on their own or together as a team - what is the added value of an ecosystem?

Borut Čeh, Labena, Slovenia

Jana Erjavec, Biosistemika, Slovenia

Matevž Kmet, Acies Bio, Slovenia

Hermina Ogrič, COBIK, Slovenia

Blaž Zupan, LYNX farmacevtika, Slovenia

Quick Presentations of Slovenian and Cuban Companies - Part 2 

12:00    Luka Fajs, Bio-ReCell, Slovenia

Frenk Smrekar, Jafral, Slovenia

Eva Pirc, MPOR, Slovenia

Tamara Lobaina Rodríguez, Biocen, Cuba

Quick Presentations of Slovenian and Cuban Companies - Part 3

12:30    Metka Lotrič, Biosistemika, Slovenia

Renato Rjavec, Amplexor, Slovenia

Norkis Arteaga Morales, BioCubaPharm, Cuba

 Lunch, 13:00 to 14:00

 Round Table - Regulation

14:00     Regulation of Biopharmacueticals

Einard Blanco Garcia, CIMAB, Cuba

Slavica Čamer, Pha Farmed, Slovenia

Sunil Doshi, PharmSol, Dubai

Momir Radulović, JAZMP, Slovenia

Borut Štrukelj, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovenia

Case Studies of Regulatory Approval

14:45     Maja Čemažar, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, clinical study, Slovenia

14:50    Frenk Smrekar, Jafral, Slovenia

15:05     Borut Čeh, Labena, from CRO to CDMO

Round table - Advanced Therapies

15:20     All roads lead towards ... reimbursement and patients

Tadej Battelino, Pediatric clinic Ljubljana, Slovenia

Miomir Knežević, Educell, Slovenia

Damjan Osredkar, Pediatric clinic Ljubljana, Slovenia

Tanja Španić, Europa Donna, Slovenia

Quick Presentations of Slovenian and Cuban Companies - Part 4 

16:00   Alejandro Saúl Padrón Yaquis, CIDEM, Cuba

Lenart Girandon, Educell, Slovenia

Einard Blanco Garcia, CIMAB, Cuba

Round Table of Ministries 

16:30     "Health Is Our Biggest Treasure" - not just a proverb, it’s an opportunity also for the economy, technology, digitalisation and health

Dejan Židan, State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia

Aida Kamišalić Latifić, State Secretary, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Slovenia

 Wrap-up of the Conference

17:15 Maja Tomanič Vidovič, Slovenian Enterprise Fund, Slovenia, host – What comes after this conference?

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The program is co-financed by the Slovenian Enterprise Fund and the European Union, from the European Fund for Regional Development. It is implemented on the basis of the Substantive Support of Fund Recipients (SME) program from 2018 to 2023 within the framework of the Operational Program for the Implementation of the European Cohesion Policy from 2014 to 2020.