ESBB leadership is heavily involved in SMi’s 9th Annual Biobanking Conference London September 25^th and 26^th, 2019: Laurent Dollé, Chair of ESBB Working Group Patient Outreach and Jens K. Habermann, ESBB President, are chairman and speakers of day 1 and day 2 of that conference, respectively. Laurent Dollé will give a presentation on “Education and consciousness of end-users are key elements of the success stories of biobanks– Time for change with strategic thinking and End-users Outreach”. Jens K. Habermann will talk on “How biobanks and strategic partnerships can empower biosharing, by supporting precision medicine: a Lübeck and ESBB perspective”.  Both look forward to meeting their valued ESBB colleagues there and to network with the broader biobank community.