Registration is now open for the Rocky Mountain Region’s Premier Bioscience Conference and Expo, BioWest 2006. More than 750 participants are expected at this year’s event, August 23-24, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. America’s “Cowboy Poet” Baxter Black and NPR Science Friday® host Ira Flatow are the headliners for Biowest 2006, along with the presentation, “Where Innovation Happens” from Federal Reserve Executive Michael Orlando.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) June 6, 2006 -- Registration is now open for the Rocky Mountain Region’s Premier Bioscience Conference and Expo, BioWest 2006 – http://www.BioWestConference.com . More than 750 participants are expected at this year’s event, August 23-24, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. America’s “Cowboy Poet” Baxter Black and NPR Science Friday® host Ira Flatow are the headliners for BioWest 2006, along with the presentation, “Where Innovation Happens” from Federal Reserve Executive Michael Orlando.


The announcement is made by Denise Brown, Executive Director of the Colorado BioScience Association, who says Ira Flatow, the host of NPR Science Friday ( http://www.sciencefriday.com ) will keynote the luncheon on August 23 and will share the trials and tribulations of presenting science to the public. Baxter Black ( http://www.baxterblack.com ), also of NPR fame and noted cowboy, poet and humorist, will keynote the August 24 CBSA Annual Awards Dinner – tickets may be purchased on the BioWest website.

Also on the August 24 program is Michael Orlando, Vice President, Branch Executive and Economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Denver Branch who will present his research on Where Innovation Happens. “You might be surprised what locations are high on the list,” says Brown. The complete BioWest 2006 program schedule is found at http://www.biowestconference.com/programschedule.htm .

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