November 9–10, 2026 | Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska, Minnesota

For four billion years, life has run the longest R&D program on the planet, and it has never once externalized a cost it couldn’t pay back. Biomimetics International gathers the people translating that work into industry.

Biomimetics26 runs the industry strategy symposium as a working conference, engaging members and attendees as contributors. Across two days we move through Dreams, Designs, Developments, and Deployments of tools, models, materials, and constructs: a convening where the institutions doing the foundational work connect with the founders commercializing it; a lab-to-market platform where startups and capital find each other; and a working session where teams carry real BiosVerse-Compatible data center scenarios out onto that floor to find their partners before they leave.