Hyderabad, Feb. 16 -- Hyderabad will host the 23rd edition of BioAsia, Asia's largest life sciences forum, on February 17 and 18, with Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy set to inaugurate the two-day summit.

The event at HITEX Exhibition Centre, organised under the theme "TechBio Unleashed - AI, Automation and the Biology Revolution," is expected to draw over 4,000 delegates and more than 500 companies from across the globe, which is a jump from last year's 3,000 participants.

Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu will be present at the inaugural session, while keynote addresses will be delivered by Prof Bruce L Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine and Dr Howard Y Chang, Chief Scientific Officer of Amgen. Pushmeet Kohli from Google DeepMi...