CHAMPIONING SUSTAINABILITY AT CELL & GENE THERAPY MANUFACTURING & COMMERICALIZATION US

Our event guide will be delivered in a 100% digital format this year, significantly reducing our usage of paper products during the live experience.  We'll have QR codes onsite that attendees can easily scan with their smartphone to pull up the agenda on their mobile devices.

We will be using a TerraCycle Zero Waste Box to recycle used lanyards and nametags after the event.

The BCEC is committed to sourcing food locally, but you may also notice that all of our plates and utensils are compostable! The BCEC is certified LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally adopted “green building” rating system, which evaluates a building’s environmental footprint in terms of its resource consumption, waste management practices, and overall operational efficiency. Watch out for recycle bins and make sure you do your part!

Any unserved food from Biotech Week Boston is being couriered by volunteer food rescuers from Rescuing Leftover Cuisine a national 501(c)3 non-profit, to over different service organizations within the city of Boston EVERY DAY. Last year they provided 509,218 meals to people in the Boston community in need.

The beautiful conference bags are gifts for you from our sponsors Polypeptide and Halo Labs. These snazzy totes are made from recycled materials and meant to be reused as a grocery tote. Too many totes already? Feel free to tote your tote around BWB and return it to registration at the end of the event – we will sanitize your bag and then donate it to the Greater Boston Food Bank to help food bank visitors bring donations home. With plastic bags a thing of the past – food banks are in need sturdy bags to give to visitors!

Did you know that Biotech Week Boston is on our 3rd year of partnering with Life Science Care to provide an activity for our attendees to give back to local youth in the Boston Community? This year we will build 1000 hygiene kits with handwritten “Well Wish” notes for children ages 3-9. These kits will be given to children entering foster care or living in shelters.

Stay physically fit during the live event week by joining members of the Biotech Week Boston event team on a 5k run (3.1 miles) at a casual jogging pace around the city as the sun rises!  Anyone is welcome to participate, just meet in the lobby of the BCEC at 6:30am on Wednesday Sept 22.

CGT US is proud to participate in the Global Learning Scholarship Program (GLSP), providing opportunities for scientists, researchers, pharmaceutical, and medical device professionals from low- and middle-income countries to access the latest ideas, science, technology and partnerships to make a positive impact on fighting global disease.

Through our commitment to the evolution of the exhibitions industry, we aim to ensure that we are delivering the best possible experience for our customers. We believe that by moving away from the use of disposable exhibition booths we will improve the ease, quality, safety and sustainability of the exhibitor experience at our events.

We aim to further minimize exhibition waste by removing carpet in our aisles, using digital signage options as much as possible or using eco cardboard. Finally encouraging our exhibitors to minimize handouts by utilizing our digital download QR code technology at their booths

As well as ensuring our venue is using energy efficient lighting, this year our event will also be fully powered by Renewable Energy.

Our aim for the future is to achieve a fully carbon neutral event. This year we will be offsetting the carbon of all our attendee’s hotel stays.

Informa supports a number of projects around the world through our offset specialist Natural Capital Partners, that have been independently Gold Standard certified as successfully reducing carbon.