Events

Past Events

A look back at CBA's annual conferences, workshops, hikes, and community gatherings over the years.

Past Annual Conferences

Since 2009, CBA has hosted an annual conference connecting industry leaders, scientists, and entrepreneurs across the life sciences.

Note: Photos are available for conferences hosted on the current cbasf.org site (2019, 2021–2025).

Past Events

Browse past CBA events, workshops, and gatherings.

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Annual Picnic — BATBA × CBA Summer BBQ

29 August 2026 (Saturday), 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM PDT

Mitchell Park, 600 E Meadow Dr, Palo Alto, CA 94303

CBA SF and the Bay Area Taiwanese Biotechnology Association (BATBA) co-hosted a summer barbecue at Mitchell Park, and friends and colleagues from across the biotech and pharma community joined us for the afternoon. It was a chance to reunite with familiar faces and meet new ones over the grill, the fruit table, and plenty of conversation. A big thank you to all the volunteers who planned and ran the event — you made the afternoon genuinely fun for everyone. We look forward to more joint BATBA and CBA events, giving Bay Area friends more opportunities to connect, share, and build community. See you on 3 October at the BioBridge Breakthrough Summit, our annual conference!

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2026 Fireside Chat with Dr. Sherry Xian

8 August 2026 (Saturday), 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Stanford Lokey Stem Cell Research Building, 265 Campus Drive Room G1002 (Stanford, CA)

CBA hosted a fireside chat at Stanford with Dr. Sherry Xian (鲜翾), Chief AI Officer at TYK Medicines (TongYuanKang). Dr. Xian traced an unusual path — a PhD in psychology from the University of Chicago, a neurobiology postdoc at Stanford, and a decade at Cornell, before moving to China to lead data and AI at iCarbonX, then GenSci Pharmaceutical, and now TYK. She spoke candidly about her move from neuroscience to data science to AI drug discovery, building AI drug discovery teams at GenSci and TYK, and the AI drug discovery landscape across China's pharma industry.

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CBA Spring Hike

16 May 2026 (Saturday), 9:30 AM

Don Edwards

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2026 Career Development Workshop

4 April 2026 (Saturday), 2:00 – 4:30 PM

Stanford Lokey Stem Cell Research Building

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2026 Chinese New Year Social

7 February 2026 (Saturday), 5:00 – 9:00 PM

Startup Island Taiwan, Silicon Valley

$20 (dinner included), discounts available

A Lunar New Year celebration co-hosted with TAITA Silicon Valley, bringing the CBA community together for dinner and networking.

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2025 Annual Conference

4 October 2025 (Saturday), 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Crowne Plaza Hotel (Foster City, CA)

$20 discount for members

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Summer Picnic

23 August 2025 (Saturday), 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Mitchell Park in Palo Alto

Free for members, $15 for non-members

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Hike with CBA feat. BATBA

14 June 2025 (Saturday), 9:30 AM

Crystal Springs

Free for members and non-members

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CBA & TAITA-SV Spring Hike

13 April 2025 (Sunday), 9:30 AM

Don Edwards

Free, dog-friendly

Career Development Workshop

15 March 2025 (Saturday), 2:00 – 4:30 PM

Stanford Lokey Stem Research Building, 265 Campus Drive Room G1002 (Stanford, CA)

Free for members and non-members

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2024 Annual Conference

28 September 2024 (Saturday), 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Crowne Plaza Hotel (Foster City)

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Summer Picnic

24 August 2024 (Saturday), 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM

Mitchell Park (Pine Grove Picnic Area)

Networking Happy Hour

28 June 2024 (Friday), 4:00 – 6:00 PM

Blue Line Pizza (Burlingame)

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Career Development Workshop

4 May 2024 (Saturday), 2:00 – 4:00 PM

Q Bay Center (San Jose)

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2023 Annual Conference

30 September 2023 (Saturday), 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM PT

Crowne Plaza Hotel Foster City

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20222 events

Advancing the Sciences at Any Given Moment: The Latest in Alzheimer's Research

10 December 2022 (Saturday), 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM PT

Virtual

Presented in partnership with Alzheimer's Association.

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2022 Annual Conference

8 October 2022 (Saturday), 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM PT

Crowne Plaza Hotel Foster City

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20211 event

The Story of Remdesivir

23 January 2021 (Saturday), 3:00 – 4:30 PM PDT

Online

Free for CBA members

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20206 events

Hsinchu Science Park 40 Years Anniversary

15 December 2020

Online

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From Hendra to Wuhan: Emerging Zoonotic Viruses of Bat Origin

19 September 2020 (Saturday), 4:30 – 6:00 PM PST

Zoom meeting

August Special Forum — Career Journey from Professor to Entrepreneur

22 August 2020 (Saturday), 4:30 – 6:00 PM PST

Online

July Special Forum — Bioscience & Technology: Accelerating the Future

25 July 2020 (Saturday), 1:30 – 3:00 PM

Online

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PBSS Symposium — Preclinical Models to Guide Therapeutic Development in Oncology

9 March 2020 (Monday)

Crowne Plaza Foster City (1221 Chess Dr, Foster City, CA 94404)

2020 CBA San Francisco Meeting — Technology Commercialization in Biopharma and Healthcare

12 January 2020 (Sunday)

Jones Day San Francisco Office (555 California St #26, San Francisco)

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201910 events

CBA End of Year Event

16 December 2019 (Saturday), 5:30 – 9:00 PM

Old Mill Community Club (Mountain View, CA 94040)

CBA Workshop Series IV — Innovative Medtech Shaping the Medical Industry

16 November 2019 (Saturday), 1:30 – 4:30 PM

Jones Day Silicon Valley Office (1755 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303)

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CBA Seminar — Chinese Biotech Investment, Trade Secret Protection and Compliance

6 November 2019 (Wednesday), 9:00 – 11:30 AM

Jones Day Silicon Valley Office (1755 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303)

2019 Annual Conference

12 October 2019 (Saturday), 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Crowne Plaza Hotel (1221 Chess Dr, Foster City, CA 94404)

22nd CBA Annual Conference. Theme: From Disruptive Innovations to Real-World Applications.

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Summer Picnic

24 August 2019 (Saturday), 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Mitchell Park, Redwood Group Area (Palo Alto, CA 94306)

CBA Workshop Series III — Artificial Intelligence Accelerating Bioscience

27 July 2019 (Saturday), 1:30 – 5:30 PM

Jones Day Silicon Valley Office (1755 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303)

Forum — Bio-village Investment and Business Development

23 June 2019 (Sunday), 12:00 – 2:00 PM

Crowne Plaza Hotel (1221 Chess Dr, Foster City, CA 94404)

CBA Workshop Series II — Career Development

18 May 2019 (Saturday), 2:00 – 5:00 PM

Stanford University, Graduate Community Center, Havana Room (750 Escondido Road, Palo Alto, CA 94305)

CBA Seminar — Patenting in the Life Sciences & Capital Markets

20 April 2019 (Saturday), 1:30 – 5:00 PM

Jones Day Silicon Valley Office (1755 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303)

Patenting in the life sciences – considerations for China and US; capital markets – updates in China, US and Hong Kong.

CBA Workshop Series I — CNS Drug Discovery

17 March 2019 (Sunday), 1:30 – 5:00 PM

Stanford University, Graduate Community Center, Havana Room (750 Escondido Road, Palo Alto, CA 94305)