This year marks the 10th anniversary of SABPA, and the 11 year mark of the annual SABPA flagship event - San Diego Bio-Pharma Conference. The last decade has seen unprecedented explosion in scientific discoveries and technology innovations, yet the drug discovery and biopharmaceutical industry seem to be hitting a bottle neck, which in turn calls for new strategies, new business models and new technology platforms. With the latest scientific advancements, the industry is poised to experience a rebirth, promising a new era of more precise medicine, easier access to the right patient populations, deeper and broader collaborations across the global market to help absorb the ever-increasing drug discovery cost. The theme of this year’s conference is “Surfing the New Wave - Pharmaceutical Innovation on a Global Scale”. This symposium showcases some of the most successful stories both from home and abroad, representing game-changing innovations and cutting-edge technologies from both academia and industry, with many distinguished speakers, some of them entrepreneurs with local SABPA roots who have been making new waves that can be felt across the Pacific Rim. Not only does it commemorate 10 years of fruitful SABPA history, but more importantly, it also sheds light on the new directions of biopharmaceutical development.