Take special note of the first listing — the Playground event is hosted by Index Ventures with support from Nature Biotechnology. It follows on from the successful Playground event held last year in October and should be every bit as entertaining and informative as the first. We recently blogged about it.

• Playground 
October 9, The Brewery, East London
http://playground.indexventures.com/

• 15th Annual NIH SBIR/STTR Conference
October 28–30, Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
http://www.cvent.com/events/15th-annual-nih-sbir-sttr-conference/event-summary-e3b54e583f6243619768cd147acca0d9.aspx

• Bio-Europe 2013 19th Annual International Partnering Conference
November 4–6, Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna
http://www.ebdgroup.com/bioeurope/index.php

• 15th Anniversary Southeast BIO Investor and Partnering Forum
November 5–7, The Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, Virginia
http://southeastbio.org/investorforum/2013/

• BIO IP Counsels Committee Conference
November 6–8, The Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC
http://www.bio.org/events/conferences/ip-counsels-committee-conference-overview

• BIO Convention in China
November 11–13, China National Convention Center, Beijing
http://www.bio.org/events/conferences/bio-convention-china

• BioBasics: Biotech for the Non-Scientist
November 14 & 15, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fremont, California
http://baybio.org/biobasics-2013-11-14/

• BioSafe Europe
November 18 & 19, Bayer Pharma AG, Berlin
http://www.bio.org/events/conferences/biosafe-meetings

• Therapeutic Area Partnerships
November 18–20, The Hyatt Regency, Boston
http://www.elsevierbi.com/mkt/Conf/TAP2013/TAP2013

• Drug Development Boot Camp 2013
November 20 & 21, Harvard Club, Boston
http://www.massbio.org/events/calendar/2096-drug_development_boot_camp_2013/event_detail