BioAsia 2022 To Feature Insightful Session With Bill Gates
Hyderabad, Feb 18: BioAsia 2022, the largest annual global Biotechnology and Life Sciences convention of Asia, starting here on February 24, will feature an insightful session with Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The annual flagship event of the Government of Telangana, BioAsia 2022 has always featured participation from prominent leaders from the life sciences and healthcare industry over the past 18 editions.
The highlight of the 2022 edition will be a fireside chat between Telangana Minister for Industries & Commerce K T Rama Rao and Bill Gates, around a range of themes including the COVID-19 pandemic, learnings during the past two years, emerging healthcare trends, and what can be done to strengthen the global healthcare system going forward, a release here said on Friday.
Bill Gates is known for his incredible philanthropic contributions through his foundation, and for his keen interest in technology, sciences, and emerging challenges such as climate change. In addition to sharing lessons learnt from the pandemic, Gates will also talk about the milestones achieved by the global partnership and the road ahead.
With this year’s theme being ‘Future Ready’ the focus of the chat will be on the new approaches and capabilities that can equip the world to be prepared and what is the role of stakeholders including government, industry, etc. Going live on February 24 and 25, the 19th virtual edition will also witness a stellar lineup of speakers including Alex Gorsky, Executive Chairman of the world’s largest healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, who will deliver a keynote address during the event.
Gorsky was also serving as the CEO of the company until recently and under his leadership of over three decades, Johnson & Johnson was consistently recognized as one of the most innovative and best-managed companies in the world. He is also a member of the board of iconic global organizations including Apple and IBM, as well as the Wharton School of Business and will share his perspectives around topics of importance for the life sciences industry like impact of the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, innovation ecosystem and start-ups, role of new technologies within healthcare such as AI, ML, Deep Learning etc., among others.
Another prominent leader Geoffrey S. Martha, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic will also deliver keynote address in this year’s event. Medtronic is the world’s leading medical technology company, with USD 29 billion in annual revenue, more than 90,000 employees, and operations reaching more than 150 countries worldwide. Mr. Martha will address BioAsia attendees around the global trends in the medtech sector including the role India and Asia can play in the global efforts to accelerate the medtech growth, the release added.
