Suwon Forging 'Advanced Bio City' Image, Hosts '2024 Gwanggyo Bio Week'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Chung Joon-sung] Suwon Special City, advancing as 'South Korea's representative advanced bio city,' will host the '2024 Gwanggyo Bio Week' at the Suwon Convention Center from the 22nd to 24th under the theme of 'Connection and Discovery.'

The 2024 Gwanggyo Bio Week, hosted by the Gwanggyo Bio Innovation Valley Promotion Council and organized by Suwon City and the Suwon Convention Center, will proceed with a vision declaration ceremony and the Gwanggyo Bio Open Innovation Forum.

The event will 'discover' investment companies through investment conferences, company IR sessions, and one-on-one consultations, while 'connecting' people and companies through medical device sector briefing sessions and the Gwanggyo Bio Innovation Lounge.

Through the Korean Preclinical Research Association workshop and the Gwanggyo Bio Open Innovation Forum, the event will 'connect' R&BD (business-linked technology development planning), and through a Suwon City-Ajou University Medical Center Research-centered Hospital Symposium, it will 'discover' biotech in everyday life.

The Gwanggyo Bio Week will begin with a vision declaration ceremony at noon on the 22nd.

It will introduce the current status and activation measures of Suwon's biotechnology industry and publicly announce the role and vision of the Promotion Council as the control tower for creating the Gwanggyo Bio Innovation Valley.

The vision declaration ceremony will proceed with achievement reports, a welcoming address from Suwon Mayor Lee Jae-joon, a vision declaration performance, and a special lecture by Professor Luke Lee from Harvard Medical School.

At 1:30 p.m. on the 22nd, the 'Suwon City-Ajou University Medical Center Research-centered Hospital Symposium' will be held. This symposium, themed 'The Role of Research-centered Hospitals in Digital Healthcare Innovation,' will explore ways to promote public health in the digital age and the hospital's role.

The symposium, which begins with remarks from Mayor Lee Jae-joon, will proceed with presentations on △The Age of AI: Challenges and Encouragement (Park Tae-woong, Chairman of Hanbit Media Board) △Digital Therapeutics Development Status (Hong Chang-hyung, Professor at Ajou University Hospital) △Managing Children's Smartphones and SNS (Cho Sun-mi, Professor at Ajou University Hospital) △Digital Success Strategy: Key Elements for Success (Shin Dong-il, Former Director of Hansung Automobile).

The 'Gwanggyo Bio Open Innovation Forum' will be held in two sessions—Part 1 (10:30 a.m. on the 22nd) and Part 2 (1:30 p.m. on the 22nd). From 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the 22nd, the 'Bio Leading Company Mentoring Investment Forum' will take place.

The Bio Leading Company Mentoring Investment Forum targets bio startups and venture companies (prospective founders) that possess specialized expertise but need support such as attracting investment. The Advanced Regenerative Medicine Industry Association will conduct lectures on how to utilize startup investment programs (TIPS and WINGS). After the lecture, a round-table discussion will be held to explore ways to develop Suwon City's advanced regenerative medicine industry.

In the afternoon on the 22nd, the Korea Conformity Laboratories (KCL) will give a lecture guiding medical device companies through licensing procedures including GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) on-site and documentation reviews. Additionally, Boree Co., Ltd., the sixth-largest pharmaceutical company in the country, plans to conduct biotech humanities lectures and a research and development forum to discuss research achievements and directions.

On the 23rd at 1 p.m., a workshop of the nationwide local government research institutes council will be held. The council, composed of 17 local government research institutes researching region-specific industries including agri-food biotech and energy, will present outstanding research cases at the workshop.

On the 24th, the '2024 Korean Preclinical Research Association 45th Workshop' will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Participants will be able to learn about various research achievements, physiology-based drug dynamics, and the latest trends in preclinical research and development.