Meet-4-Business
A Platform for Partnership – Not Just Conversation
Our Meet-4-Business format is designed to move beyond traditional conference models.
Rather than focusing on presentations and passive knowledge exchange, our Summits are built around active engagement, structured interaction and real-world outcomes. The objective is to create the conditions in which partnerships form, develop and deliver.
At its core is a passionate community of experts dedicated to realising a thriving bioeconomy. Participants are not simply attendees. They are active contributors to a shared agenda focused on implementation.
How Does it work?
Meet-4-Business at The WEX Global Bioeconomy Summit (WEX-BIO) is a programme designed to drive meaningful interaction at every level:
- Hundreds of pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings aligned to shared priorities
- Multiple rotational roundtables focused on real challenges and solutions
- Interactive working sessions to align stakeholders and explore delivery pathways
- Innovation forums that connect new technologies with commercial opportunity
- A varied programme of networking events designed to connect you with key decision makers in relaxed and productive environment
- Structured scheduling process that ensures every interaction is relevant, targeted and outcome driven.
The result is an environment where conversations become collaboration, and collaboration leads to tangible opportunities connecting the right people with the right challenges for delivery at scale.
“it’s the one where you meet the decision makers, it’s the one where you have those conversations that you’re always looking out to have but you never quite have at conferences – this is why you come to WEX”
Piers Clark, Chairman Isle Group
Attendees talk about their experience at WEX Global Summits
Long time attendee Richard Lancaster, Global Bioresources Director, AtkinsRealis
First time attendee Jason Askey-Wood, Managing Director, Firefly Green Fuels
Regular attendee Pavel Policar, Chairman of The Board, VaKHB
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All three days
Meet-4-Business at WEX-BIO
During WEX-BIO we typically schedule more than 700 individual business meetings. Before the event every attendee receives a link to a database where they can see important information about all WEX-BIO attendees. Everyone is invited to submit online a prioritized list of up to 20 people that they would like to meet. Our software will then compile an individual meeting schedule for every delegate based upon those choices, which is sent to you before you even depart for the summit.
Monday 2nd November
WEX-BIO Pre-Summit Forum
Details to follow soon
WEX-BIO Welcome Reception
Our first night cocktail reception is a great opportunity to greet old friends and meet new ones prior to the beginning of The WEX Global Bioeconomy Summit.
Tuesday 3rd November
WEX-BIO Round Table Exchange Working Lunch
An extended themed working lunch where water experts host a table of 10 on a variety of different water and energy related topics. Sign up to the discussion and table of your choice and spend the exchange lunch with fellow water professionals that share the same professional interests and challenges.
Gala Dinner and Innovation Awards Ceremony
The WEX Global Bioeconomy Summit Gala Dinner and Innovation Awards Ceremony will take place on the night of the 3rd of November.
Wednesday 4th November
WEX-BIO Round Table Utilities Session
Quick-fire intense session where utility leaders host tables of 10 delegates and present the most important challenges they currently face
- Choose a utility and join the table
- Meet the host and table guests
- Participate in an intensive discussion and rapid exchange of ideas
- After three table rotations, you’ll leave the session with a new set of contacts and an insight into the challenges facing 3 key utilities.
WEX-BIO Partnerships for Progress Round Tables
A unparalleled opportunity to engage directly with the people leading transformative bioeconomy projects around the world in a series of hosted round table disccussions.
Farewell Networking Lunch
The Summit closes with a sumptuous 2 hour networking lunch where new relationship can be cemented and those all important future business meetings confirmed before the departure for home.
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