The 1st ever Global Bio-Herbs Economic Forum (GBHEF) has been held since year 2007 in Dalian China, followed by the 2nd GBHEF in PICC, Malaysia. For year 2009, the 3rd Global Bio-Herbs Economic Forum will be held in Malaysia from 11th - 13th December 2009 at Palace of the Golden Horses Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

Align with the government’s aspirations of harnessing the country’s abundant natural biodiversity to create a viable biotechnology industry. Thus Global Bio-Herbs Economic Forum Council (GBHEFC) taking a great leap in organizing the 3rd Global Bio-Herbs Economic Forum 2009. The Global Bio-Herbs Economic Forum (GBHEF) was founded with high spirits to address and unearth the wealth of the 21st century – bio-herbs. Since year 2007, GBHEFC has position itself to be the platform and a key global biotechnology player for the year to come. The forum’s center of attention for year 2009 will be “Herbs Mysteries, Infinite Opportunities”.

With the establishment of GBHEF, we aim to bring together herbalpreneurs and scientists from all over the world to reveal the enormous value and potential of the bio-herbs industry. The forum highlights are to establish Malaysia as a “Global Herbal Hub” for building a platform, to pool all key players in this industry to share their expertise and knowledge, researching possible business linkages via global networking and business strategies toward creating a global trade market for bio-herbal products. With a dedicated and committed herbalpreneurs and scientists team from diverse backgrounds, Asian  strive for continuous excellence to surpass the Asia’s expectations in order to achieve even greater height in contributing to nation health as well as wealth. Asian able to fully exploit a growing market in Asia and abroad with a strong competitive advantage. Together, let us strengthen our efforts and commitments towards making the current foundational phase a resounding success. We strongly believe that our event will continue to grace Malaysia and Asia to be a main hub for bio-technology research and development in the world.

The trend of increased healthcare spending and technology advancements, and the unmet medical needs for cures and treatments will continue to provide the biotechnology sector with growth and advancements, as well as lucrative investment opportunities. The industry is attracting more and more private investments in wake of immense growth opportunities and vast untapped biotechnology markets. Identifying the future growth potential of the industry, the governments of different countries in the Asia are taking up various initiatives to promote research in the region. Overall, the Asia biotechnology market is expected to spur future growth in the global biotechnology market. According to our new research report, “Asia Pacific Biotechnology Market (2008-2012)”, the Asia-Pacific biotechnology market is projected to grow at a CAGR of around 14% during 2010-2012. Now is the time to invest. InvestBio believes that biotechnology has the potential to create unprecedented wealth for its investors, and that the market will soon be flooded with biotechnology products. Biotech pipelines are deep, and there is a large aging population with the need for new and effective medicine in treating today diseases.  And while the industry is experiencing an increasing swell in talent as well as impressive revenue growth. GBHEFC will become a key plank of Asia’s evolution as a knowledge economy. We are able to emerge Asia as a catalyst in the area of biotechnology for the betterment of the world’s society, thus bringing Asia biotechnology to a greater pinnacle.

Further elaborating on our previous GBHEF 2007 that took place last year in Dalian, China and GBHEF 2008 held in Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) Malaysia; we had an astonishing 3,500 delegates and prominence speakers from all around the world who shared their knowledge and expertise. The success of the forums has convinced the GBHEFC to play the role in hosting the forthcoming 3rd GBHEF. We expect an encouraging participant from China, United States, Philippine, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai, Guangzhou and South Africa. We are sincerely committed to present you and the world a highly advantageous and impeccable Forum.

This dedicated forum will be accompanied with a conference programme featuring many distinguished international and local speakers sharing their ideas and opinions on the latest scientific technologies, businesses and investments emerging in the herbal industry. At the same time, aspiring herbalpreneurs can take advantage of this opportunity to further explore strategic business partnering opportunities. In addition to that, local and international exhibitors will be participating in the GBHEF exhibition, we sincerely belief that this serves as an excellent business platform for all herbalpreneurs to showcase and promote their latest products through this exhibition.