SABPA BioConnect 2026 Summer Picnic

SABPA’s BioConnect 2026 summer picnic is the Sino-American biomedical association’s outdoor member graph—Saturday, August 15, 2026, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM PDT at San Dieguito County Park, Picnic Area 3, 1628 Lomas Santa Fe Drive in Del Mar. The host bills a relaxed afternoon with fellow biotech professionals, food, and activities, plus free event parking. Advance regular tickets are $30; onsite regular is $50. Active members save $30 on the advance regular price (a $0 member advance ticket). Students save $15. A SABPA.org account is required to register; membership is optional. Cancel up to three days before: the fee is not refunded, but you may request credit toward a future SABPA event or membership via noreply@sabpa.org.

SABPA is San Diego’s long-running Sino-American biomedical and pharmaceutical professional association—the same host behind the 24th San Diego BioPharma Conference on September 26 at the Hilton San Diego/Del Mar. Chinese and broader Asian scientists, BD, and founders who actually staff Torrey Pines and Sorrento labs use this picnic as the informal summer room before conference season. It is not Asian Business Association San Diego (Convoy small-business chamber; August’s locked public date was a Hoppy Hour drinks social we did not ship) and not Biocom California’s trade-association calendar. Del Mar / Lomas Santa Fe is North County coastal park geography, not Kearny Mesa Convoy. If you only network in Gaslamp, you miss this graph.

Saturday, August 15, 2026, 11:00 AM–3:00 PM PDT, Picnic Area 3. Register on sabpa.org. I-5 / Lomas Santa Fe weekend traffic is real; leave buffer and follow park signs to Area 3. Bring ID matching your registration. SABPA’s listing shows zip 92104; the county park sits on Lomas Santa Fe in Del Mar (92014)—use the street address. Confirm live member and student onsite prices on the event page before you assume a door discount.

Treat the picnic as member-graph time, not a cold pitch blanket. The September 26 BioPharma Conference is the next SABPA floor—outside this scrape window, but the reason this picnic exists.

This picnic is right if you work Sino-American or broader Asian life sciences in San Diego County and want SABPA density without a conference badge. BVS at Alexandria on August 20 is the vendor lunch. ACG at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club that same Thursday is the dealmakers’ track.