Thank you to everyone who attended in 2023

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Driving the commercialisation of the bioeconomy

1-2-1 MEETINGS | CONFERENCE | NETWORKING

World Bio Markets is the leading international business event for the global bioeconomy community.

We connect over 450 industry leaders with a 2 day programme of pre-arranged 1-2-1 commercial meetings, knowledge exchange, and networking in order to accelerate the transition to a fossil-free economy.

The event connects and generates deal flow between bio developers and producers, global brands and buyers, investors and financiers, community enablers and suppliers.

Let us help you commercialise, scale your business and tap into growing markets as the world goes through the biggest transformation and re-allocation of capital and jobs in its history.

What happened at World Bio Markets 2023?

In 2023 the event returned to its spiritual home in The Netherlands and facilitated over 700 pre-arranged 1-2-1 commercial deal flow meetings and inspired hundreds of additional informal connections.

The energy in the room was incredible as 350 bio-pioneers, from 36 countries, came together to drive the growth of the sector through unity and collaboration.

Where technical meets business

For 17 years World Bio Markets has been uniting and connecting the bioeconomy value chain from lab to market and driving change through commercially viable innovation.

Here is a small sample of some of the companies who participated in 2023. You can find the full list of attendees here.

World Bio Markets efficiently connects the bioeconomy value chain. From feedstocks to biotech to consumer brands and retail and everything in between. I believe that this event will grow year on year and cement its position as the ‘must attend’ event for the bioeconomy.

Benjamin Hansen
Director – Responsible Materials

Why attend?

We connect and generate deal flow between bio developers and producers, global brands and buyers, investors and financiers, suppliers and community enablers.

Companies invest in World Bio Markets to:

Meet potential new customers and partners
Grow their new business development pipeline
Build relationships with global brands
Find investment
Position themselves as and industry pioneer and
thought leader

World Bio Markets provides us with a unique opportunity to understand what stage of development organisations are in and who we should be partnering with. We are in the process of changing the world wide economy and events like this are imperative if we are to do it at the speed required. We will be back in 2024 with the whole team.

Catherine Roggero-Lovisi

CEO

Register your interest in 2024

What to expect

A highly valuable and inspiring two days where:

Pioneering developers and producers of bio based solutions present their latest innovations
Consumer facing brands and buyers learn from and meet with the solution providers who can help them achieve their complex sustainability goals
Investors and financiers source new investment opportunities
Community enablers highlight how they can accelerate the growth of the sector
Suppliers present how they can improve the efficiency of the manufacturing process

I've been attending for many years and it's great that World Bio Markets is back. The event provides an excellent platform to tell the industry about developments at Avantium, to learn about advancements at other companies and to meet with potential partners and customers."

Tom van Aken, Chief Executive Officer, Avantium NV

350+

Attendees

1,000's

of 1-2-1 commercial meetings

50

Conference sessions

75+

World class speakers

2023 Sponsors

1-2-1 Meetings

We believe that highly targeted and pre-arranged 1-2-1 commercial meetings are key to accelerating the growth of the sector and the transition to a bio-based economy.

Our pre-arranged meetings format removes the element of luck from traditional networking and provides the most cost and time efficient way of connecting with potential new customers and partners.

In the run up to the event all attendees can view each other’s profile and pre-arrange 30 minute meetings via our online planner.

You will also be presented with a list of people who meet the criteria you provided, and who you would benefit from meeting.

Meetings with sponsors are held in their branded and private meeting space and delegate to delegate meetings are held in a dedicated area.

I have had two days of back to back meetings in order to discover companies and technologies that can help us achieve our 2030 sustainability goals. I was particularly interested in discovering new feedstocks to help us reach our 100% renewable or recycled materials targets. The event has been very helpful.

Catarina Vannfält, Material Innovation Developer, IKEA

Conference

The conference blends technical innovations with market driven dialogue and real world commercial reality.

Improve your competitive advantage by staying ahead of the knowledge curve – keep up to date with the latest trends, thinking and market developments and take actionable insights back to the office to help you and your team make better decisions.

Hear from the bio pioneers who are bringing ground breaking sustainable solutions to the market, investors funding the acceleration, consumer facing brands who are integrating bio within their wider sustainability strategy and the community enablers who can supercharge scalability and commercialisation.

The programme addresses every part of the bioeconomy ecosystem from farmer to consumer and everything in between.

Top line issues being discussed include:

The role of bio in the race to carbon negativity
Re thinking how we make things with bio based materials, ingredients and chemicals
Investment strategies and how to secure funding
Macroeconomic and geopolitical influences impacting the growth of the bioeconomy
Scaling up, commercialisation and collaboration
Biomass and waste stream feedstocks and their impact on the wider value chain
Inside the minds of the retailers, clothing and footwear, cosmetics, food and drink and household brands
Trends from around the world and how to access international markets
Using certification to communicate with consistency, clarity and confidence

WBM is a high-quality event and a great opportunity for us to meet existing and new partners from across the bio-material and bio-tech value chain. We intend to return in future years.

Laurie Points, Beauty and Personal Care Research Manager – Materials & Automation, Unilever

Why attend

… and if you are still unsure of the benefits of attending, here are the top 5 from our 2022 attendees.

1.

Meet potential new customers and partners and scale your business

2.

Grow your new business development pipeline

3.

Source technologies that can help you achieve your sustainability goals

4.

Keep up to date with the latest thinking

5.

Network with your peers and increase your sphere of influence