The third annual forum on biotechnologies, BioTechMed, will take place in 2018 in Gelendzhik with support from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Health of Russia, the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, and Rostec, a government company.

BioTechMed is the main platform for discussion of current problems in biomedicine and for dialogue between government and business, which defines the future development of the field. This event unites the professional networking and discussion of a scientific forum with the event space of an exposition.

Digital healthcare will be the main theme of this forum. Namely, the two major trends in the field: digitalisation and personification of medicine. The key topics of discussion will include the export of pharmaceutical products, the advantages of digital medicine and issues of standardisation of digital health services, the development of telemedicine technologies and the readiness of technical infrastructure for the new format, as well as the interactions between government and business during implementation of digital medical technologies.