Stockholm International Fairs Selects EBD Group's partneringONETM as the Partnering Platform for BioTech Forum 2009

Zurich, Switzerland and Stockholm, Sweden,February 92009 - EBD Group, the leading partnering firm for the global biotechnology industry, and Stockholm International Fairs, the leading exhibition center in Scandinavia, today announced that EBD Group's partneringONETM will be the partnering platform for BioTech Forum 2009 held in Stockholm, Sweden, November 25-27. Utilizing partneringONE ensures that BioTech Forum maintains its position as the top Scandinavian partnering event by providing delegates with state-of-the-art functionality, usability and on-site services.

BioTech Forum, along with ScanLab, is widely recognized as the primary exhibition and conference platform for companies and professionals involved in biotechnology, medical technology, diagnostics and the laboratory equipment market in Scandinavia. Alternating between Stockholm and Copenhagen, BioTech Forum regularly attracts hundreds of investors, biotech, pharma and medtech companies and service companies eager to participate in one-to-one meetings. Scanlab, held concurrently with BioTech Forum, features upwards of 140 exhibiting companies. For 2009, The Annual General Meeting for doctors organised by the Swedish Society of Medicine will also be held concurrently, and is expected to attract over 10,000 visitors.

"In the biotech and medtech industries, EBD Group is synonymous with partnering. As the producers of the world's largest and most respected dedicated partnering conferences, EBD Group are the internationally recognized experts in facilitating connections among individuals and organizations in the life sciences," said Kim Lindhe, Event Manager for Stockholm International Fairs. "By using EBD Group's partneringONE professional partnering service to host the BioTech Forum partnering we are raising the profile of our event internationally and giving our attendees a proven platform for efficient and effective networking."

"We are delighted to be working with Stockholm International Fairs to bring the power of partneringONE to all visitors of BioTech Forum 2009. Using EBD Group's widely recognized partnering service, BioTech Forum 2009 gains a partnering facility that supports its excellent reputation and the partnering needs of its delegates," said Carola Schropp, President of EBD Group.

partneringONE is regarded as the leading conference partnering service for the life science industry, enabling delegates to efficiently meet and do business. Combining the industry's most advanced collaboration software with best practices implementation, partneringONE transforms conferences into world-class partnering events. Currently the partnering engine for over 14 life science conferences, partneringONE generates over 30,000 partnering meetings annually and has become an important catalyst for the growth of the bio-economy.

About Stockholm International Fairs:
Stockholm International Fairs is one of the world's leading and most flexible organisers of meetings. We offer the perfect meeting place for everything from international summits to broad public fairs. Together with exhibitors and organisers we create well-organised meetings which offer the visitor inspiration, knowledge and business opportunities. As the leading organiser in the Baltic Sea Region, we organise some 60 industry-leading exhibitions as well as around 100 national and international congresses, conferences and events annually. Every year we welcome 10,000 exhibitors, 1.5 million visitors and more than 8,000 journalists from all over the world.

We can handle events of many various sizes and the combined space in our single location of 56,500 square meters is plenty of room for even really large events. The venue is home to a wide array of restaurants, cafés, fast food outlets and lounges. Just a few steps from the main exhibition entrance there is a 19 floor hotel. It has 248 international standard rooms and suites, conference facilities, a penthouse on the top floor and the usual restaurants, lounges and recreational facilities that a first class hotel provides."

About BioTech Forum:
When it was inaugurated, BioTech Forum attracted 82 companies and 1,000 visitors. In following years, the event has multiplied dramatically and when BioTech Forum merged with ScanLab, in 2007, statistics recorded over 350 companies and 7,400 visitors.
Partnering statistics of BioTech Forum verify that its growth in size is significant. In 2004, 70 people generated 200 meetings. The following year, the number rose to 115 with over 250 meetings, and by 2007, 160 executives registered and over 400 meetings were held.

About EBD Group
EBD Group is the leading partnering firm for the global life science industry. Since 1993, biotech, pharma and medical device companies have leveraged EBD Group's partnering conferences, technology and services to identify business opportunities and develop strategic relationships essential to their success.
EBD Group's conferences are run with the support of leading corporations and international trade associations and include:
•BIO-Europe and BIO-Europe Spring®, the world's largest stand-alone life science partnering conferences, supported by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
•BioPharm AmericaTM, EBD Group's North American partnering event
•EuroMedtechTM, EBD Group's new partnering event for the innovative medical technology industry
•BioEquity Europe, the investor conference co-organized with BioCentury Publications and BIO
EBD Group's sophisticated web-based partnering service, partneringONETM, is used as the partnering engine at numerous third-party events around the world. Outside of the conference format, EBD Group's consultants provide hands-on assistance for firms seeking to in- or out-license products and technologies.

EBD Group has offices in the USA and Europe.
For more information please visit www.ebdgroup.com

Contact EBD Group:
Constantine Theodoropulos
+1 617 292 7319
ctheodoropulos@ebdgroup.com

Contact Stockholm International Fairs:
Kim Lindhe
+46 8 749 4396
kim.lindhe@stofair.se

Stockholm International Fairs is the leading organiser in the Baltic Sea Region and organise some 60 industry-leading exhibitions as well as around 100 national and international congresses, conferences and events annually. Every year we welcome 10 000 exhibitors, 1.5 million visitors and more than 8 000 journalists from all over the world.