February 13, 2009 – Business Partnerships (Center for the Business of Life Sciences)

Business Partnerships

February 13, 2009

Location: Downtown Indianapolis

Eli Lilly and Company Headquarters

Sponsors: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

BioCrossroads

Eli Lilly and Company

Overview: No single organization has all of the expertise required to produce innovative solutions; therefore, an intregal part of the industry’s strategy should be to seek partnerships with other organizations across the value chain.  So how do you transform a company, and an industry through partnering?  What does it take to move to a fully networked “virtual” company?  How can those companies looking to partner with pharmaceutical companies like Lilly serve the industry’s changing needs?  What tools and techniques does it take to effectively build lasting and successful relationships between these partners?

Program
7:30-8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Lilly Center Auditorium Foyer

(tour of Heritage Hall)

8:30-8:45am

Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Jim Ward, VP & Chief Procurement Officer, Eli Lilly and Company

8:45-10:00am

Keynote Speaker- From Radical Innovation to Radical Collaboration, an Industry in Consolidation, Integration & Discontinuity

Dr. Jia Chen, Program Executive, Strategic Alliances, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, IBM Systems & Technology Group

10:00-10:20am

BREAK

10:20-11:05am

Cracking the Code of Collaboration- Counterintuitive Principles for Successful Partnerships

Jonathan Hughes, Partner & Director, Vantage Partners

11:05-11:55

Developing & Implementing Collaborative Governance and Effective Decision-Making

David S. Thompson, Director, Office of Alliance Management, Eli Lilly and Company

12:05-1:00pm

LUNCH- Business Dining Room

1:10-1:40pm

BioCrossroads Update- Comments and Introduction of Guest Speaker

David Johnson, President & CEO, BioCrossroads

Perspective: Transforming Through Partnering

Gino Santini, Senior VP, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Eli Lilly and Company

1:40-3:00pm

Panel Discussion: Practical Considerations of Partnering

Moderator: Marcus Chandler, Partner & Chair Entrepreneurial Services Group & Global Services Practice Group, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

Panelists: 

Alisa Wright, CEO, BioConvergence, LLC

John Hanak, Statewide Director, Purdue Technology Centers

Bradford G. Addison, Partner & Co-Chair, Life Sciences Practice Group, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Raul Zavaleta, Partner, Volatus Advisors, LLC

3:00-3:15pm

Closing Remarks

Marcus Chandler, Partner & Chair, Entrepreneurial Services Group & Global Services Practice Group, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

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